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Robert J. Toonen
Researcher at University of Hawaii
Publications - 252
Citations - 13867
Robert J. Toonen is an academic researcher from University of Hawaii. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Coral reef. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 231 publications receiving 12000 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert J. Toonen include University of North Carolina at Wilmington & University of California, Davis.
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There's no place like home: crown-of-thorns outbreaks in the central pacific are regionally derived and independent events.
TL;DR: Molecular techniques evaluate the spatial scale at which A. planci outbreaks can propagate via larval dispersal in the central Pacific Ocean by inferring the location and severity of gene flow restrictions from the analysis of mtDNA control region sequence and found no evidence that outbreaks were a rogue genetic subset of a greater population.
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Gateways to Hawai‘i: Genetic Population Structure of the Tropical Sea Cucumber Holothuria atra
TL;DR: Migrate analyses along with haplotype networks and patterns of haplotype diversity suggest that Hawai’i and Kingman reef are important centers of the genetic diversity in the region rather than an evolutionary dead-end for migrants from the Indo-Pacific.
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Coral calcification mechanisms facilitate adaptive responses to ocean acidification
TL;DR: It is suggested that high pH upregulation combined with moderate levels of DIC upregulation promote resistance and adaptive responses of coral calcification to OA, and all corals elevated both pH and DIC significantly over seawater values, even under OA.
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Coral hybridization or phenotypic variation? Genomic data reveal gene flow between Porites lobata and P. Compressa
Zac H. Forsman,Ingrid S. Knapp,Kaho H. Tisthammer,Deren A. R. Eaton,Mahdi Belcaid,Robert J. Toonen +5 more
TL;DR: Examination of coral holobiont ezRAD libraries from Hawai'i suggests that either branching morphology is a polymorphic trait, or that these species frequently hybridize, while providing insights into the nature of coral variability.
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Large-scale introduction of the Indo-Pacific damselfish Abudefduf vaigiensis into Hawai'i promotes genetic swamping of the endemic congener A. abdominalis
Richard R. Coleman,Michelle R. Gaither,Michelle R. Gaither,Bethany K. Kimokeo,Frank G. Stanton,Brian W. Bowen,Robert J. Toonen +6 more
TL;DR: The finding of later generation hybrids throughout the archipelago invokes the possibility of genetic swamping of the endemic species, contradicting the generalization that the rarity of one species promotes interspecific mating.