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Discovery of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in coralsMichael P Lesser
Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Science 305:997-1000. 2004..The presence of this prokaryotic symbiont in a nitrogen-limited zooxanthellate coral suggests that nitrogen fixation may be an important source of this limiting element for the symbiotic association...
Coral reef bleaching and global climate change: can corals survive the next century?Michael P Lesser
Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:5259-60. 2007
Physiological response of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis to differences in food and temperature in the Gulf of MaineMichael P Lesser
Department of Molecular, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 156:541-51. 2010....- Sea urchin tube feet are photosensory organs that express a rhabdomeric-like opsin and PAX6Michael P Lesser
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Proc Biol Sci 278:3371-9. 2011.... - Photoacclimatization by the coral Montastraea cavernosa in the mesophotic zone: light, food, and geneticsMichael P Lesser
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
Ecology 91:990-1003. 2010..cavernosa are occurring... - Depth-dependent effects of ultraviolet radiation on survivorship, oxidative stress and DNA damage in sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) embryos from the Gulf of MaineMichael P Lesser
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Photochem Photobiol 86:382-8. 2010..DNA damage and survivorship of green sea urchin embryos in the GOM was directly related to the optical properties of the water column and the differential attenuation of UVB and UVA wavelengths... - Oxidative stress in marine environments: biochemistry and physiological ecologyMichael P Lesser
Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Annu Rev Physiol 68:253-78. 2006..This review brings together the voluminous literature on the biochemistry and physiology of oxidative stress from the clinical and plant physiology disciplines with the fast-increasing interest in oxidative stress in marine environments... - Exposure to ultraviolet radiation causes apoptosis in developing sea urchin embryosMichael P Lesser
Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
J Exp Biol 206:4097-103. 2003..Cellular death, and a decrease in sea urchin embryo survivorship, are caused by the indirect and direct effects of exposure to UVR that leads to apoptosis in these laboratory experiments... - Solving cryptogenic histories using host and parasite molecular genetics: the resolution of Littorina littorea's North American originApril M H Blakeslee
Department of Zoology, University of New Hampshire, 46 College Road, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Mol Ecol 17:3684-96. 2008..Our study therefore resolves not only a specific cryptogenic history, but it also demonstrates the success of our approach generally and could be used in resolving difficult invasion histories worldwide... - Nitrogen fixation and nitrogen transformations in marine symbiosesCara L Fiore
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Trends Microbiol 18:455-63. 2010..We review the current state of knowledge of these symbioses and highlight important avenues for future studies... - Seasonal temperature compensation in the horse mussel, Modiolus modiolus: metabolic enzymes, oxidative stress and heat shock proteinsMichael P Lesser
Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 137:495-504. 2004..Lastly, the significantly greater concentrations of HSP70 in winter samples suggests that protein chaperone functions must be maintained while other seasonal adjustments to cold temperatures are occurring... - Nutritive phagocyte incubation chambers provide a structural and nutritive microenvironment for germ cells of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, the green sea urchinCharles W Walker
Department of Zoology, Marine Biomedical Research Group, Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
Biol Bull 209:31-48. 2005..purpuratus, the closely related purple sea urchin... - Quenching of superoxide radicals by green fluorescent proteinFadi Bou-Abdallah
Department of Chemistry, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Biochim Biophys Acta 1760:1690-5. 2006..Because of the distribution of fluorescent proteins in both the epithelial and gastrodermal cells of reef-forming corals we propose that GFP, and possibly other fluorescent proteins, can provide supplementary antioxidant protection... - DNA photorepair in echinoid embryos: effects of temperature on repair rate in Antarctic and non-Antarctic speciesMiles D Lamare
Department of Marine Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
J Exp Biol 209:5017-28. 2006..The low level of temperature compensation in photoreactivation may be one explanation for the relatively high sensitivity of Antarctic embryos to UV-R in comparison with non-Antarctic equivalents... - Long-term changes in the chlorophyll fluorescence of bleached and recovering corals from HawaiiLisa J Rodrigues
Department of Geography and the Environment, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA
J Exp Biol 211:2502-9. 2008..capitata. Fv/Fm fully recovered 6.5 months earlier in P. compressa than M. capitata, suggesting that the zooxanthellae of P. compressa were more resilient to bleaching stress...