Todd C. LaJeunesse

Pennsylvania State University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies(113), Marine and coastal plant biology(67), Marine Biology and Ecology Research(44), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics(33), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology(13)

Publications132 total

Resolving widespread and endemic dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae) mutualistic with Indo‐Pacific octocorals reveals differences in specificity based on host phylogeny
Journal of Phycology·2026Open Access
Closing the Coral Life Cycle: A service blueprint to overcome the coral recruitment crisis through research, restoration, and innovation
2025Open Access
Limited persistence of the heat-tolerant zooxanthella, Durusdinium trenchii, in corals transplanted to a barrier reef where it is rare among natal colonies
Coral Reefs·2025· 5 cited
Influence of reef habitat on coral microbial associations
Environmental Microbiology Reports·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
The genome of a giant clam zooxanthella (Cladocopium infistulum) offers few clues to adaptation as an extracellular symbiont with high thermotolerance
BMC Genomics·2024Open Access
Morphological and genetic characterization of <i>Stylophora madagascarensis</i> , <i>Pocillopora acuta</i> , and <i>Pocillopora verrucosa</i> in Mauritius and their thermal photophysiological stress responses
Bulletin of Marine Science·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
The diversity, distribution, and temporal stability of coral ‘zooxanthellae’ on a pacific reef: from the scale of individual colonies to across the host community
Coral Reefs·2024· 10 cited
The genome of a giant clam zooxanthella (Cladocopium infistulum) offers few clues to adaptation as an extracellular symbiont with high thermotolerance
Research Square (Research Square)·2024Open Access
Host–symbiont plasticity in the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana: strobilation across symbiont genera
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Scott Ross Santos (1972–2024): A Force of Good in the Exploration of Ecology and Evolution
Biological Bulletin·2023
Thermotolerant coral–algal mutualisms maintain high rates of nutrient transfer while exposed to heat stress
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 25 citedOpen Access
High physiological function for corals with thermally tolerant, host-adapted symbionts
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 28 citedOpen Access
Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity
PeerJ·2023· 80 citedOpen Access
Formal recognition of host‐generalist species of dinoflagellate (<i>Cladocopium</i>, Symbiodiniaceae) mutualistic with <scp>Indo‐Pacific</scp> reef corals
Journal of Phycology·2023· 54 citedOpen Access
Similarities in biomass and energy reserves among coral colonies from contrasting reef environments
Scientific Reports·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
Acclimatization of a coral-dinoflagellate mutualism at a CO2 vent
Communications Biology·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Tracer metadata from Thermotolerant coral–algal mutualisms maintain high rates of nutrient transfer while exposed to heat stress
Figshare·2023Open Access
Mutualistic dinoflagellates with big disparities in ribosomal DNA variation may confound estimates of symbiont diversity and ecology in the jellyfish Cotylorhiza tuberculata
Symbiosis·2022· 12 cited
Peer Review #3 of "Diversity and distribution of Symbiodiniaceae detected on coral reefs of Lombok, Indonesia using environmental DNA metabarcoding (v0.1)"
2022Open Access
Symbiosis-driven development in an early branching metazoan
2022· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Christian R. Voolstra(8), Mark E. Warner(8), John Everett Parkinson(7), D. Tye Pettay(6), Drew C. Wham(6), William K. Fitt(5), Daniel J. Thornhill(5), Eugenia M. Sampayo(5), Hae Jin Jeong(4), Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg(4), Gregory W. Schmidt(4), Dustin W. Kemp(4), Robin T. Smith(4), Iliana B. Baums(4), Anastazia T. Banaszak(4), James Davis Reimer(3), Scott R. Santos(3), Roberto Iglesias‐Prieto(3), Héctor Reyes‐Bonilla(3), Jorge H. Pinzón(3)