2025

Benkwitt CE, Bistolas KSI, DeVore JL, Ducatez S, Prado Gómez J, Wright R, Zubia M, Harnay P, Beguet T, Wedding LM, Burkepile DE, Murphy F, Graham NAJ, Vega Thurber R, Epstein HE (2025). Re-connecting ecosystems: Integrating coral reefs into monitoring of island restoration. Ecological Indicators. 170, 113042. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.113042. Click here to view.

Epstein HE, Brown T, Akinrinade AO, McMinds R, Pollock JF, Sonnett D, Smith S, Bourne DG, Carpenter CS, Knight R, Willis BL, Medina M, Lamb J, Vega Thurber, Zaneveld JR (2025). Evidence for microbially-mediated tradeoffs between growth and defense throughout coral evolution. Animal Microbiome. 7, 1. DOI: 10.1186/s42523-024-00370-z. Click here to view.

2024

Maire J, Tsang Min Chin SJ, Damjanovic K, Epstein HE, Judd LM, Blackall LL, van Oppen MJH (2024). Tissue-associated and vertically transmitted bacterial symbiont in the coral Pocillopora acuta. The ISME Journal. DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrad027. Click here to view.

Vompe AD, Epstein HE, Speare KE, Schmeltzer ER, Adam TC, Burkepile DE, Sharpton TJ, Vega Thurber RL (2024). Microbiome ecological memory and responses to repeated marine heatwaves clarify variation in coral bleaching and mortality. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17088. Click here to view.

2023

Silva DP, Epstein HE, Vega Thurber R (2023). Best practices for generating and analyzing 16S rRNA amplicon data to track coral microbiome dynamics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1007877. Click here to view.

2022

Maher RL, Epstein HE, Vega Thurber R (2022). Dynamics of bacterial communities on coral reefs: Implications for conservation. In: van Oppen MJH & Aranda Lastra M (eds) Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age. Coral Reefs of the World, vol 15. Springer, Cham. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-07055-6_7. Click here to view.

David MM, Tataru C, Pope Q, Baker LJ, English MK, Epstein HE, Hammer A, Kent M, Sieler MJ, Mueller RS, Sharpton TJ, Tomas F, Vega Thurber R, Fern XZ (2022). Revealing general patterns of microbiomes that transcend systems: Potential and challenges of deep transfer learning. mSystems. 7:1, e01058-21. DOI:10.1128/msystems.01058-21. Click here to view.

2021

Epstein HE, Hernandez-Agreda A, Starko S, Baum JK, Vega Thurber R (2021). Inconsistent patterns of microbial diversity and composition between highly similar sequencing protocols: A case study with reef-building corals. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2:740932. DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2021.740932. Click here to view.

Bessell-Browne P, Epstein HE, Hall N, Buerger P, Berry K (2021). Severe heat stress resulted in high coral mortality on Maldivian reefs following the 2015-2016 El Niño event. Oceans. 2, 14. DOI:10.3390/oceans2010014. Click here to view.

2020

Claar DC, Starko S, Tietjen KL, Epstein HE, Cunning R, Cobb KM, Baker AC, Gates RD, Baum JK (2020). Dynamic symbioses reveal pathways to coral survival through prolonged heatwaves. Nature Communications. 11, 6097. DOI:10.1038/s41467-020-19169-y. Click here to view.

2019

Berry KLE, Epstein HE, Lewis PJ, Hall NM & Negri AP (2019). Microplastic contamination has limited effects on coral fertilisation and larvae. Diversity. 11, 228. DOI:10.3390/d11120228. Click here to view.

Epstein HE, Smith HA, Cantin NE, Mocellin VJL, Torda G & van Oppen MJH (2019). Temporal variation in the microbiome of Acropora coral species does not reflect seasonality. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10:1775. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01775. Click here to view.

Epstein HE, Torda G, Munday PL & van Oppen MJH (2019). Parental and early life stage environments drive establishment of bacterial and dinoflagellate communities in a common coral. The ISME Journal. 13:1635–1638. DOI:10.1038/s41396-019-0358-3. Click here to view.

Epstein HE, Smith HA, Torda G & van Oppen MJH (2019). Microbiome engineering: Enhancing climate resilience in coral. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 17(2): 100-108. DOI: 10.1002/fee.2001. Click here to view.

Epstein HE, Torda G & van Oppen MJH (2019). Relative stability of the Pocillopora acuta microbiome throughout a thermal stress event. Coral Reefs. 38(2): 373-386. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-019-01783-y. Click here to view.

Epstein HE, Kingsford MJ (2019). Are soft coral habitats unfavourable? A closer look at the association between reef fishes and their habitat. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 102(3): 479-497. DOI:10.1007/s10641-019-0845-4. Click here to view.

2018

Epstein HE, Hallas JM, Johnson RF, Lopez A & Gosliner TM (2018). Reading between the lines: revealing cryptic species diversity and colour patterns in Hypselodoris nudibranchs (Mollusca: Heterobranchia: Chromodorididae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zly048. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly048. Click here to view.

2017

Smith HA, Epstein HE & Torda G (2017). The molecular basis of differential morphology and bleaching thresholds in two morphs of the coral Pocillopora acuta. Scientific Reports, 7: 10066. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10560-2. Click here to view.

van Oppen MJH, Gates R, Blackall LL, Cantin N, Chakravarti LJ, Chan WY, Cormick C, Crean, A, Damjanovic K, Epstein H, Harrison PL, Jones TA, Miller M, Pears RJ, Peplow LM, Raftos DA, Schaffelke B, Stewart K, Torda G, Wachenfeld D, Weeks AR, Putnam HM (2017). Shifting paradigms in restoration of the world’s reefs. Global Change Biology, 23(9): 3437-3448. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13647. Click here to view.

2016

Epstein HE, Templeman MA, Kingsford MJ (2016). Fine-scale detection of pollutants by a benthic marine jellyfish. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 107(1): 340-346. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.03. Click here to view.