2018
LaJeunesse TC, Parkinson JE, Jeong HJ, Reimer JD, Voolstra CR, Santos SR (2018) Systematic revision of Symbiodiniaceae highlights the antiquity and diversity of coral endosymbionts. Current Biology. Open Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218309072
Parkinson JE, Bartels E, Devlin-Durante MK, Lustic C, Nedimyer K, Schopmeyer S, Lirman D, LaJeunesse TC, Baums IB (2018) Extensive transcriptional variation poses a challenge to thermal stress biomarker development for endangered corals. Molecular Ecology in press
2017
Diaz-Almeyda EM, Prada C, Ohdera AH, Moran H, Civitello DJ, Iglesias-Prieto R, Carlo TA, LaJeunesse TC, Medina M (2017) Intraspecific and interspecific variation in thermotolerance and photoacclimation in Symbiodinium dinoflagellates. Proceedings of the Royal Society Lond B, 284: 20171767
LaJeunesse TC (2017) Validation and description of Symbiodinium microadriaticum, the type species of Symbiodinium (Dinophyta). Journal of Phycology 53:1109-1114.
Ramsby BD, Hill MS, Thornhill DJ, Steenhuizen SF, Achlatis M, Lewis AM, LaJeunesse TC (2017) Sibling species of mutualistic Symbiodinium Clade G from bioeroding sponges in the western Pacific and western Atlantic Oceans. Journal of Phycology 53:951-960.
Wham DC, Ning G, LaJeunesse, TC (2017). Symbiodinium glynnii sp. nov., a species of stress tolerant symbiotic dinoflagellates from pocilloporid and montiporid corals in the Pacific Ocean. Phycologia 56:396-409.
Ziegler M, Arif C, Burt JA, Dobretsov S, Roder C, LaJeunesse TC., Voolstra CR (2017). Biogeography and molecular diversity of coral symbionts in the genus Symbiodinium around the Arabian Peninsula. Journal of Biogeography.
2016
Aranda M, Li Y, Liew YJ, Baumgarten S, Simakov O, Wilson MC, Piel J, Ashoor H, Bougouffa S, Bajic VB, Ryu T, Ravasi T, Bayer T, Micklem G, Kim H, Bhak J, LaJeunesse TC, Voolstra CR (2016). Genomes of coral dinoflagellate symbionts highlight evolutionary adaptations conducive to a symbiotic lifestyle. Sci Rep 6:39734
Wham D, LaJeunesse TC (2016) Symbiodinium population genetics: Testing for cryptic species and analyzing samples with mixed genotypes. Molecular Ecology 25:2699-2712. pdf
Russell, BJ; Dierssen, HM; LaJeunesse, TC; Hoadley, KE; Warner, ME; Kemp, DW; Bateman, TG. (2016). Spectral Reflectance of Palauan Reef-Building Coral with Different Symbionts in Response to Elevated Temperature. Remote Sensing. 8:164
Parkinson JP, Baumgarten S, Craig M, Baums I, LaJeunesse TC, Voolstra C (2016) Gene expression variation resolves species and individual strains among coral-associated dinoflagellates within the genus Symbiodinium. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8:665-680. pdf
Lee MJ, Jeong HJ, Jang S, Lee S, Kang N, Lee KH, Kim HS, Wham DC, LaJeunesse TC (2016) Most low-abundance background Symbiodinium spp. are transitory and may have minimal ecological significance for symbiotic corals. Microbial Ecology. 71:771-783. (cover image of issue). pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Zac H. Forsman, Drew C. Wham (2016) An Indo-West Pacific zooxanthella invasive to the western Atlantic finds its way to the Eastern Pacific via an introduced Caribbean coral. Coral Reefs. 35:577-582.pdf
2015
Parkinson JP, Banaszak A, Altman N, LaJeunesse TC, Baums IB (2015) Intraspecific diversity among partners drives functional variation in coral symbioses. Scientific Reports. 5:15667. pdf
Parkinson JE, Coffroth MA, LaJeunesse TC (2015) New species of Clade B Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) from the greater Caribbean belong to different functional guilds: S. aenigmaticum sp. nov., S. antillogorgiumsp. nov., S. endomadracis sp. nov., and S. pseudominutum sp. nov. Journal of Phycology 51: 850-858. (cover image of issue)pdf
Pettay DT, Wham DC, Smith RT, Iglesias-Prieto R, LaJeunesse TC (2015) Microbial invasion of the Caribbean by an Indo-Pacific coral zooxanthella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 112: 7513-7518pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Lee SY, Gil-Agudelo DL, Knowlton N, Jeong HJ (2015) Symbiodinium necroappetens sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), an opportunist zooxanthellae found in bleached and diseased tissues of Caribbean reef corals. European Journal of Phycology. 50: 223-238pdf
Lee SY, Jeong HJ, Kang NS, Jang TY, Jang SH, LaJeunesse TC (2015) Symbiodinium tridacidorum sp. nov., a dinoflagellate common to Indo-Pacific giant clams, and a revised morphological description of Symbiodinium microadriaticum Freudenthal, emended Trench et Blank. European Journal of Phycology. 50: 155-172pdf
2014
Arif C, Daniels C, Bayer T, Banguera-Hinestroza E, Barbrook A, Howe CJ, LaJeunesse TC, Voolstra CR (2014) Assessing Symbiodinium diversity in scleractinian corals via next generation sequencing-based genotyping of the ITS2 rDNA region. Molecular Ecology 23: 4418-4433.pdf
Baums IB, Devlin-Durante MK, LaJeunesse TC (2014) From the Cover. New insights into the dynamics between reef corals and their associated dinoflagellate endosymbionts from population genetic studies. Molecular Ecology 23: 4203-4215. (cover image of issue)pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Wham DC, Pettay DT, Parkinson JE, Keshavmurthy S, Chen CA (2014) Ecologically differentiated stress tolerant endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium Clade D are different species. Phycologia 53:305-319. (cover image of issue; awarded best paper of the year)pdf
Tonk L, Sampayo E, LaJeunesse TC, Schrameyer V, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2014) Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) diversity in reef-invertebrates along an offshore to inshore reef gradient near lizard island, Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Phycology. 50: 552-563.pdf
Thornhill DJ, Lewis A, Wham DC, LaJeunesse TC (2014) Host-specialist lineages dominate the adaptive radiation of reef coral endosymbionts. Evolution 68: 352-267. pdf
Jeong HJ, Lee SY, Kang NS, Yoo YD, Lim AS, Lee MJ, Kim HS, Yih W, Yamashita H, LaJeunesse TC (2014) Genetics and Morphology Characterize the Dinoflagellate Symbiodinium voratum, n. sp. , (Dinophyceae) as the sole representative of Symbiodinium clade E. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 61: 75-94. (cover image of the issue)pdf
Wham DC, Carmichael M, LaJeunesse TC (2014) Microsatellite loci for Symbiodinium goreaui and other clade C Symbiodinium. Conservation Genetics Resources. 6:127-129.pdf
2013
Pettay DT, LaJeunesse TC (2013) Long-range dispersal and high-latitude environments influence the population structure of a stress-tolerant dinoflagellate endosymbiont. PLoS One 8:e79208 pdf
Pinzón JH, Sampayo E, Cox E, Chauka L, Chen CA, Voolstra C, LaJeunesse TC (2013) Blind to morphology: genetics identify several widespread ecologically common species and few endemics among Indo-Pacific cauliflower corals (Pocillopora, Scleractinia). J Biogeography 40:1595-1608 pdf
Wham DC, Carmichael M, Reimer JD, LaJeunesse TC (2013) Eight polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Indo-Pacific-wide zoanthid, Zoanthus sansibaricus. Marine Biodiversity 43:247-250. pdf
2012
LaJeunesse TC, Parkinson JE, Reimer JD (2012) A genetics-based description of Symbiodinium minutum sp. nov. and S. psygmophilum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), two dinoflagellates symbiotic with Cnidaria. Journal of Phycology 48:1380-1391.
McGinley MP, Aschaffenburg MD, Pettay DT, Smith RT, LaJeunesse TC, Warner ME (2012) Feature article: Symbiodinium spp. in colonies of eastern Pacific Pocillopora spp. are highly stable despite the prevalence of low-abundance background populations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 462:1-7. pdf
McGinley MP, Aschaffenburg MD, Smith RT, Pettay DT, LaJeunesse TC, and Warner ME (2012) Transcriptional response of two core photosystem genes in Symbiodinium spp. exposed to thermal stress. PLoSOne 7:e50439. pdf
Pinzón JH, Baums IB, Reyes-Bonilla H, LaJeunesse TC (2012) Contrasting clonal structure among Pocillopora (Scleractinia) communities at two environmentally distinct sites in the Gulf of California. Coral Reefs 31:765-777. pdf
2011
LaJeunesse TC, Thornhill DJ (2011) Improved resolution of reef-coral endosymbiont (Symbiodinium) species diversity, ecology, and evolution through psbA non-coding region genotyping. PloSOne e29013. pdf
Pettay DT, Wham DC, Pinzón JH, LaJeunesse TC (2011) Genotypic diversity and spatial-temporal distribution of Symbiodinium clones in an abundant reef coral. Molecular Ecology 20: 5197-5212.pdf
Pinzón JH, LaJeunesse TC (2011) Species delimitation of common reef corals in the genus Pocilloporausing nucleotide sequence phylogenies, population genetics and symbiosis ecology. Molecular Ecology 20: 311-325. pdf
Silverstein RN, Correa AM, LaJeunesse TC, Baker AC (2011) Novel algal symbiont (Symbiodinium spp.) diversity in reef corals of Western Australia. Mar Ecol Prog Ser422:63-75. pdf
Wham DC, Pettay DT, LaJeunesse TC (2011) Microsatellite loci for the host-generalist "zooxanthella" Symbiodinium trenchi and other Clade D Symbiodinium. Conservation Genetic Resources 3:541-544. pdf
Pinzón JH, Devlin-Durante MK, Weber XM, Baums IB, LaJeunesse TC (2011) Microsatellite loci for Symbiodinium A3 (S. fitti) a common algal symbiont among Caribbean Acropora (stony corals) and Indo-Pacific giant clams (Tridacna). Conservation Genetic Resources 3: 45-47. pdf
2010
Finney JC, Pettay T,Sampayo EM, Warner ME, Oxenford H, LaJeunesse TC (2010) The relative significance of host-habitat, depth, and geography on the ecology, endemism and speciation of coral endosymbionts. Microbial Ecology 60: 250-263. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Pettay T, Phongsuwan N, Brown B, Obura D, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Fitt WK (2010) Special Paper: Long-standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host-symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium. J Biogeography 37: 785-800. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Smith R, Walther M, Pinzón JH, Pettay T, McGinley M, Aschaffenburg M, Medina-Rosas P, Cupul-Magana AL, Perez A L, Reyes-Bonilla H, Warner ME (2010) Host-symbiont recombination vs. natural selection in the response of coral-dinoflagellate symbioses to environmental disturbance. Proc Roy Soc Lond B 277: 2925-2934. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Fitt WK, Schmidt GW (2010) The reticulated chloroplasts of zooxanthellae (Symbiodinium) and differences in chlorophyll localization among life cycle stages. Coral Reefs 29: 627. pdf
2009
LaJeunesse TC, Finney JC, Smith R, Oxenford H (2009) Outbreak and persistence of opportunistic symbiotic dinoflagellates during the 2005 Caribbean mass coral "bleaching" event. Proc Roy Soc Lond B276: 4139-4148. pdf
Stat M, Loh WKW, LaJeunesse TC, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Carter DA (2009) Coral-endosymbiont stability following a natural bleaching event. Coral Reefs 28:709-713.pdf
Smith R, Pinzón JH, LaJeunesse TC (2009) Symbiodinium (Dinophyta) diversity and stability in aquarium corals. J. Phycol. 45: 1030-1036. pdf
Sampayo E, Dove S, LaJeunesse TC. (2009) Cohesive molecular genetic data delineate species diversity in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium. Mol Ecol 18: 500-519.pdf
Pettay T, LaJeunesse TC (2009) Microsatellite loci for assessing genetic diversity, dispersal and clonality of coral symbionts in the 'stress-tolerant' Symbiodinium clade D. Mol Ecol Resources 9: 1022-1025. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Loh W, Trench RK (2009) Do introduced endosymbiotic dinoflagellates 'take' to new hosts? Biol Invasions 11: 995-1003. pdf
2008
Goulet TL, LaJeunesse TC, Fabricius K (2008) Symbiont specificity and bleaching susceptibility among soft corals during the 1998 GBR mass coral bleaching event. Mar Biol 154: 795-804. pdf | supplement
LaJeunesse TC, Reyes-Bonilla H, Warner ME, Wills M, Schmidt GW, Fitt WK (2008) Specificity and stability in high latitude eastern Pacific coral-algal symbioses. Limnol Oceanog 53: 719-727. pdf
2007
Barneah O, Brickner I, Hooge M, Weis VM, LaJeunesse TC, Benayahu Y (2007) Three party symbiosis: acoelomorph worms, corals and unicellular algal symbionts in Eilat (Red Sea). Mar Bio 151:1215-1223. pdf
Hunter RL, LaJeunesse TC, Santos SR (2007) Structure and evolution of the rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region 2 in the symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta). J. of Phycol 43:120-128. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Pinzón JH (2007) Screening intragenomic rDNA for dominant variants can provide a consistant retrieval of evolutionarily persistent ITS (rDNA) sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45:417-422. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Reyes-Bonilla H, Warner ME (2007) Spring "bleaching" among Pocillopora in the Sea of Cortez, Eastern Pacific. Coral Reefs 26:265-270. pdf
Pettay T, LaJeunesse TC (2007) Microsatellites from clade B Symbiodinium spp. specialized for Caribbean corals in the Genus Madracis. Mol Ecol Notes 7:1271-1274. pdf
Thornhill DJ, LaJeunesse TC, Santos SR (2007) Measuring rDNA diversity in eukaryotic microbial systems: How intragenomic variation, pseudogenes, and PCR artifacts confound biodiversity estimates. Mol Ecol16:5326-5340. pdf | supplement
2006
Banaszak AT, Santos MGB, LaJeunesse TC, Lesser MP (2006) The distribution of mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) and the phylogenetic identity of symbiotic dinoflagellates in cnidarian hosts from the Mexican Caribbean. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 337:131-146. pdf
Kemp DW, Cook CB, LaJeunesse TC, Brooks WR (2006) A comparison of the thermal bleaching responses of the zoanthid Palythoa caribaeorum from three geographically different regions in south Florida. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 335:226-276. pdf
Thornhill DJ, LaJeunesse TC, Kemp DW, Fitt WK, and GW Schmidt (2006a) Multi-year, seasonal genotypic surveys of coral-algal symbioses reveal prevalent stability or post-bleaching reversion. Mar Biol 148:711-722. pdf
Thornhill DJ, Daniel MW, LaJeunesse TC, Schmidt GW, Fitt WK (2006b) Natural infections of aposymbiotic Cassiopea xamachana scyphistomae from environmental pools of Symbiodinium. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol338:50-56. pdf
Warner ME, LaJeunesse TC, Robison JD, Thur RM (2006) The ecological distribution and comparative photobiology of symbiotic dinoflagellates from reef corals in Belize: Potential implications for coral bleaching. Limnol Oceanog 51:1887-1897. pdf
2005 and earlier
LaJeunesse TC, Lambert G, Andersen RA, Coffroth MA, Galbraith DW (2005) Symbiodinium (Pyrrhophyta) genome sizes (DNA content) are smallest among dinoflagellates. Journal of Phycology 41:880-886. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Lee S, Bush S, Bruno JF (2005) Persistence of non-Caribbean algal symbionts in Indo-Pacific mushroom corals released to Jamaica 35 years ago. Coral Reefs 24:157-159. pdf
LaJeunesse TC (2005) "Species" radiations of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific since the Miocene-Pliocene transition. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:570-581. pdf | supplement
LaJeunesse TC, Bhagooli R, Hidaka M, Done T, deVantier L., Schmidt GW, Fitt WK, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2004) Closely-related Symbiodinium spp. differ in relative dominance within coral reef host communities across environmental, latitudinal, and biogeographic gradients. Marine Ecology Progress Series 284:147-161. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Thornhill DJ, Cox E, Stanton F, Fitt WK, Schmidt GW (2004) High diversity and host specificity observed among symbiotic dinoflagellates in reef coral communities from Hawaii. Coral Reefs23:596-603. pdf
Pochon X, LaJeunesse TC, Pawlowski J (2004) Biogeographic partitioning and host specialization among foraminiferan dinoflagellate symbionts (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta). Mar Biol 146:17-27. pdf
Iglesias-Prieto R, Beltrán VH, LaJeunesse TC, Reyes-Bonilla H, Thomé PE (2004) Different algal symbionts explain the vertical distribution of dominant reef corals in the eastern Pacific. Proc R Soc Lond B 271:1757-1763. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Loh WKW, van Woesik R, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Schmidt GW, Fitt WK (2003) Low symbiont diversity in southern Great Barrier Reef corals relative to those of the Caribbean. Limnology and Oceanography 48:2046-2054. pdf | supplement
LaJeunesse TC (2002) Diversity and community structure of symbiotic dinoflagellates from Caribbean coral reefs. Marine Biology 141:387-400. pdf
LaJeunesse TC (2001) Investigating the biodiversity, ecology, and phylogeny of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium using the ITS region: In search of a "species" level marker. Journal of Phycology 37:866-880. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Trench RK (2000) The biogeography of two species of Symbiodinium (Freudenthal) inhabiting the intertidal sea anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima (Brandt). Biological Bulletin 199:126-134.pdf
Banaszak AT, LaJeunesse TC, Trench RK (2000) Synthesis of MAA by symbiotic dinoflagellates in culture. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 249: 219-233. pdf
Andersen RA, Van de Peer Y., Potter D, Sexton JP, Kawachi M, LaJeunesse TC (1999) Phylogenetic analysis of the SSU rRNA from members of the Chrysophyceae. Protist 150:71-84.
Potter D, LaJeunesse TC, Saunders GW, Anderson RA (1997) Convergent evolution masks extensive biodiversity among marine coccoid picoplankton. Biodiversity and Conservation 6:99-107. pdf
Bucklin A, LaJeunesse TC, Curry E, Wallinga J, Garrison K (1996) Molecular diversity of the copepod, Nannocalanus minor: genetic evidence of species and population structure in the North Atlantic ocean. J Mar Res 54: 285-310.
Bucklin A, LaJeunesse TC (1994) Molecular genetic variation of Calanus pacificus (Copepoda: Calanoida): Preliminary evaluation of genetic structure and subspecific differentiation based on mtDNA sequences. Calif Coop Ocean Fish Invest Rep 35:45-51.
LaJeunesse TC, Parkinson JE, Jeong HJ, Reimer JD, Voolstra CR, Santos SR (2018) Systematic revision of Symbiodiniaceae highlights the antiquity and diversity of coral endosymbionts. Current Biology. Open Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218309072
Parkinson JE, Bartels E, Devlin-Durante MK, Lustic C, Nedimyer K, Schopmeyer S, Lirman D, LaJeunesse TC, Baums IB (2018) Extensive transcriptional variation poses a challenge to thermal stress biomarker development for endangered corals. Molecular Ecology in press
2017
Diaz-Almeyda EM, Prada C, Ohdera AH, Moran H, Civitello DJ, Iglesias-Prieto R, Carlo TA, LaJeunesse TC, Medina M (2017) Intraspecific and interspecific variation in thermotolerance and photoacclimation in Symbiodinium dinoflagellates. Proceedings of the Royal Society Lond B, 284: 20171767
LaJeunesse TC (2017) Validation and description of Symbiodinium microadriaticum, the type species of Symbiodinium (Dinophyta). Journal of Phycology 53:1109-1114.
Ramsby BD, Hill MS, Thornhill DJ, Steenhuizen SF, Achlatis M, Lewis AM, LaJeunesse TC (2017) Sibling species of mutualistic Symbiodinium Clade G from bioeroding sponges in the western Pacific and western Atlantic Oceans. Journal of Phycology 53:951-960.
Wham DC, Ning G, LaJeunesse, TC (2017). Symbiodinium glynnii sp. nov., a species of stress tolerant symbiotic dinoflagellates from pocilloporid and montiporid corals in the Pacific Ocean. Phycologia 56:396-409.
Ziegler M, Arif C, Burt JA, Dobretsov S, Roder C, LaJeunesse TC., Voolstra CR (2017). Biogeography and molecular diversity of coral symbionts in the genus Symbiodinium around the Arabian Peninsula. Journal of Biogeography.
2016
Aranda M, Li Y, Liew YJ, Baumgarten S, Simakov O, Wilson MC, Piel J, Ashoor H, Bougouffa S, Bajic VB, Ryu T, Ravasi T, Bayer T, Micklem G, Kim H, Bhak J, LaJeunesse TC, Voolstra CR (2016). Genomes of coral dinoflagellate symbionts highlight evolutionary adaptations conducive to a symbiotic lifestyle. Sci Rep 6:39734
Wham D, LaJeunesse TC (2016) Symbiodinium population genetics: Testing for cryptic species and analyzing samples with mixed genotypes. Molecular Ecology 25:2699-2712. pdf
Russell, BJ; Dierssen, HM; LaJeunesse, TC; Hoadley, KE; Warner, ME; Kemp, DW; Bateman, TG. (2016). Spectral Reflectance of Palauan Reef-Building Coral with Different Symbionts in Response to Elevated Temperature. Remote Sensing. 8:164
Parkinson JP, Baumgarten S, Craig M, Baums I, LaJeunesse TC, Voolstra C (2016) Gene expression variation resolves species and individual strains among coral-associated dinoflagellates within the genus Symbiodinium. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8:665-680. pdf
Lee MJ, Jeong HJ, Jang S, Lee S, Kang N, Lee KH, Kim HS, Wham DC, LaJeunesse TC (2016) Most low-abundance background Symbiodinium spp. are transitory and may have minimal ecological significance for symbiotic corals. Microbial Ecology. 71:771-783. (cover image of issue). pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Zac H. Forsman, Drew C. Wham (2016) An Indo-West Pacific zooxanthella invasive to the western Atlantic finds its way to the Eastern Pacific via an introduced Caribbean coral. Coral Reefs. 35:577-582.pdf
2015
Parkinson JP, Banaszak A, Altman N, LaJeunesse TC, Baums IB (2015) Intraspecific diversity among partners drives functional variation in coral symbioses. Scientific Reports. 5:15667. pdf
Parkinson JE, Coffroth MA, LaJeunesse TC (2015) New species of Clade B Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) from the greater Caribbean belong to different functional guilds: S. aenigmaticum sp. nov., S. antillogorgiumsp. nov., S. endomadracis sp. nov., and S. pseudominutum sp. nov. Journal of Phycology 51: 850-858. (cover image of issue)pdf
Pettay DT, Wham DC, Smith RT, Iglesias-Prieto R, LaJeunesse TC (2015) Microbial invasion of the Caribbean by an Indo-Pacific coral zooxanthella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 112: 7513-7518pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Lee SY, Gil-Agudelo DL, Knowlton N, Jeong HJ (2015) Symbiodinium necroappetens sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), an opportunist zooxanthellae found in bleached and diseased tissues of Caribbean reef corals. European Journal of Phycology. 50: 223-238pdf
Lee SY, Jeong HJ, Kang NS, Jang TY, Jang SH, LaJeunesse TC (2015) Symbiodinium tridacidorum sp. nov., a dinoflagellate common to Indo-Pacific giant clams, and a revised morphological description of Symbiodinium microadriaticum Freudenthal, emended Trench et Blank. European Journal of Phycology. 50: 155-172pdf
2014
Arif C, Daniels C, Bayer T, Banguera-Hinestroza E, Barbrook A, Howe CJ, LaJeunesse TC, Voolstra CR (2014) Assessing Symbiodinium diversity in scleractinian corals via next generation sequencing-based genotyping of the ITS2 rDNA region. Molecular Ecology 23: 4418-4433.pdf
Baums IB, Devlin-Durante MK, LaJeunesse TC (2014) From the Cover. New insights into the dynamics between reef corals and their associated dinoflagellate endosymbionts from population genetic studies. Molecular Ecology 23: 4203-4215. (cover image of issue)pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Wham DC, Pettay DT, Parkinson JE, Keshavmurthy S, Chen CA (2014) Ecologically differentiated stress tolerant endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium Clade D are different species. Phycologia 53:305-319. (cover image of issue; awarded best paper of the year)pdf
Tonk L, Sampayo E, LaJeunesse TC, Schrameyer V, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2014) Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) diversity in reef-invertebrates along an offshore to inshore reef gradient near lizard island, Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Phycology. 50: 552-563.pdf
Thornhill DJ, Lewis A, Wham DC, LaJeunesse TC (2014) Host-specialist lineages dominate the adaptive radiation of reef coral endosymbionts. Evolution 68: 352-267. pdf
Jeong HJ, Lee SY, Kang NS, Yoo YD, Lim AS, Lee MJ, Kim HS, Yih W, Yamashita H, LaJeunesse TC (2014) Genetics and Morphology Characterize the Dinoflagellate Symbiodinium voratum, n. sp. , (Dinophyceae) as the sole representative of Symbiodinium clade E. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 61: 75-94. (cover image of the issue)pdf
Wham DC, Carmichael M, LaJeunesse TC (2014) Microsatellite loci for Symbiodinium goreaui and other clade C Symbiodinium. Conservation Genetics Resources. 6:127-129.pdf
2013
Pettay DT, LaJeunesse TC (2013) Long-range dispersal and high-latitude environments influence the population structure of a stress-tolerant dinoflagellate endosymbiont. PLoS One 8:e79208 pdf
Pinzón JH, Sampayo E, Cox E, Chauka L, Chen CA, Voolstra C, LaJeunesse TC (2013) Blind to morphology: genetics identify several widespread ecologically common species and few endemics among Indo-Pacific cauliflower corals (Pocillopora, Scleractinia). J Biogeography 40:1595-1608 pdf
Wham DC, Carmichael M, Reimer JD, LaJeunesse TC (2013) Eight polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Indo-Pacific-wide zoanthid, Zoanthus sansibaricus. Marine Biodiversity 43:247-250. pdf
2012
LaJeunesse TC, Parkinson JE, Reimer JD (2012) A genetics-based description of Symbiodinium minutum sp. nov. and S. psygmophilum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), two dinoflagellates symbiotic with Cnidaria. Journal of Phycology 48:1380-1391.
McGinley MP, Aschaffenburg MD, Pettay DT, Smith RT, LaJeunesse TC, Warner ME (2012) Feature article: Symbiodinium spp. in colonies of eastern Pacific Pocillopora spp. are highly stable despite the prevalence of low-abundance background populations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 462:1-7. pdf
McGinley MP, Aschaffenburg MD, Smith RT, Pettay DT, LaJeunesse TC, and Warner ME (2012) Transcriptional response of two core photosystem genes in Symbiodinium spp. exposed to thermal stress. PLoSOne 7:e50439. pdf
Pinzón JH, Baums IB, Reyes-Bonilla H, LaJeunesse TC (2012) Contrasting clonal structure among Pocillopora (Scleractinia) communities at two environmentally distinct sites in the Gulf of California. Coral Reefs 31:765-777. pdf
2011
LaJeunesse TC, Thornhill DJ (2011) Improved resolution of reef-coral endosymbiont (Symbiodinium) species diversity, ecology, and evolution through psbA non-coding region genotyping. PloSOne e29013. pdf
Pettay DT, Wham DC, Pinzón JH, LaJeunesse TC (2011) Genotypic diversity and spatial-temporal distribution of Symbiodinium clones in an abundant reef coral. Molecular Ecology 20: 5197-5212.pdf
Pinzón JH, LaJeunesse TC (2011) Species delimitation of common reef corals in the genus Pocilloporausing nucleotide sequence phylogenies, population genetics and symbiosis ecology. Molecular Ecology 20: 311-325. pdf
Silverstein RN, Correa AM, LaJeunesse TC, Baker AC (2011) Novel algal symbiont (Symbiodinium spp.) diversity in reef corals of Western Australia. Mar Ecol Prog Ser422:63-75. pdf
Wham DC, Pettay DT, LaJeunesse TC (2011) Microsatellite loci for the host-generalist "zooxanthella" Symbiodinium trenchi and other Clade D Symbiodinium. Conservation Genetic Resources 3:541-544. pdf
Pinzón JH, Devlin-Durante MK, Weber XM, Baums IB, LaJeunesse TC (2011) Microsatellite loci for Symbiodinium A3 (S. fitti) a common algal symbiont among Caribbean Acropora (stony corals) and Indo-Pacific giant clams (Tridacna). Conservation Genetic Resources 3: 45-47. pdf
2010
Finney JC, Pettay T,Sampayo EM, Warner ME, Oxenford H, LaJeunesse TC (2010) The relative significance of host-habitat, depth, and geography on the ecology, endemism and speciation of coral endosymbionts. Microbial Ecology 60: 250-263. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Pettay T, Phongsuwan N, Brown B, Obura D, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Fitt WK (2010) Special Paper: Long-standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host-symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium. J Biogeography 37: 785-800. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Smith R, Walther M, Pinzón JH, Pettay T, McGinley M, Aschaffenburg M, Medina-Rosas P, Cupul-Magana AL, Perez A L, Reyes-Bonilla H, Warner ME (2010) Host-symbiont recombination vs. natural selection in the response of coral-dinoflagellate symbioses to environmental disturbance. Proc Roy Soc Lond B 277: 2925-2934. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Fitt WK, Schmidt GW (2010) The reticulated chloroplasts of zooxanthellae (Symbiodinium) and differences in chlorophyll localization among life cycle stages. Coral Reefs 29: 627. pdf
2009
LaJeunesse TC, Finney JC, Smith R, Oxenford H (2009) Outbreak and persistence of opportunistic symbiotic dinoflagellates during the 2005 Caribbean mass coral "bleaching" event. Proc Roy Soc Lond B276: 4139-4148. pdf
Stat M, Loh WKW, LaJeunesse TC, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Carter DA (2009) Coral-endosymbiont stability following a natural bleaching event. Coral Reefs 28:709-713.pdf
Smith R, Pinzón JH, LaJeunesse TC (2009) Symbiodinium (Dinophyta) diversity and stability in aquarium corals. J. Phycol. 45: 1030-1036. pdf
Sampayo E, Dove S, LaJeunesse TC. (2009) Cohesive molecular genetic data delineate species diversity in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium. Mol Ecol 18: 500-519.pdf
Pettay T, LaJeunesse TC (2009) Microsatellite loci for assessing genetic diversity, dispersal and clonality of coral symbionts in the 'stress-tolerant' Symbiodinium clade D. Mol Ecol Resources 9: 1022-1025. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Loh W, Trench RK (2009) Do introduced endosymbiotic dinoflagellates 'take' to new hosts? Biol Invasions 11: 995-1003. pdf
2008
Goulet TL, LaJeunesse TC, Fabricius K (2008) Symbiont specificity and bleaching susceptibility among soft corals during the 1998 GBR mass coral bleaching event. Mar Biol 154: 795-804. pdf | supplement
LaJeunesse TC, Reyes-Bonilla H, Warner ME, Wills M, Schmidt GW, Fitt WK (2008) Specificity and stability in high latitude eastern Pacific coral-algal symbioses. Limnol Oceanog 53: 719-727. pdf
2007
Barneah O, Brickner I, Hooge M, Weis VM, LaJeunesse TC, Benayahu Y (2007) Three party symbiosis: acoelomorph worms, corals and unicellular algal symbionts in Eilat (Red Sea). Mar Bio 151:1215-1223. pdf
Hunter RL, LaJeunesse TC, Santos SR (2007) Structure and evolution of the rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region 2 in the symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta). J. of Phycol 43:120-128. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Pinzón JH (2007) Screening intragenomic rDNA for dominant variants can provide a consistant retrieval of evolutionarily persistent ITS (rDNA) sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45:417-422. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Reyes-Bonilla H, Warner ME (2007) Spring "bleaching" among Pocillopora in the Sea of Cortez, Eastern Pacific. Coral Reefs 26:265-270. pdf
Pettay T, LaJeunesse TC (2007) Microsatellites from clade B Symbiodinium spp. specialized for Caribbean corals in the Genus Madracis. Mol Ecol Notes 7:1271-1274. pdf
Thornhill DJ, LaJeunesse TC, Santos SR (2007) Measuring rDNA diversity in eukaryotic microbial systems: How intragenomic variation, pseudogenes, and PCR artifacts confound biodiversity estimates. Mol Ecol16:5326-5340. pdf | supplement
2006
Banaszak AT, Santos MGB, LaJeunesse TC, Lesser MP (2006) The distribution of mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) and the phylogenetic identity of symbiotic dinoflagellates in cnidarian hosts from the Mexican Caribbean. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 337:131-146. pdf
Kemp DW, Cook CB, LaJeunesse TC, Brooks WR (2006) A comparison of the thermal bleaching responses of the zoanthid Palythoa caribaeorum from three geographically different regions in south Florida. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 335:226-276. pdf
Thornhill DJ, LaJeunesse TC, Kemp DW, Fitt WK, and GW Schmidt (2006a) Multi-year, seasonal genotypic surveys of coral-algal symbioses reveal prevalent stability or post-bleaching reversion. Mar Biol 148:711-722. pdf
Thornhill DJ, Daniel MW, LaJeunesse TC, Schmidt GW, Fitt WK (2006b) Natural infections of aposymbiotic Cassiopea xamachana scyphistomae from environmental pools of Symbiodinium. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol338:50-56. pdf
Warner ME, LaJeunesse TC, Robison JD, Thur RM (2006) The ecological distribution and comparative photobiology of symbiotic dinoflagellates from reef corals in Belize: Potential implications for coral bleaching. Limnol Oceanog 51:1887-1897. pdf
2005 and earlier
LaJeunesse TC, Lambert G, Andersen RA, Coffroth MA, Galbraith DW (2005) Symbiodinium (Pyrrhophyta) genome sizes (DNA content) are smallest among dinoflagellates. Journal of Phycology 41:880-886. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Lee S, Bush S, Bruno JF (2005) Persistence of non-Caribbean algal symbionts in Indo-Pacific mushroom corals released to Jamaica 35 years ago. Coral Reefs 24:157-159. pdf
LaJeunesse TC (2005) "Species" radiations of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific since the Miocene-Pliocene transition. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:570-581. pdf | supplement
LaJeunesse TC, Bhagooli R, Hidaka M, Done T, deVantier L., Schmidt GW, Fitt WK, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2004) Closely-related Symbiodinium spp. differ in relative dominance within coral reef host communities across environmental, latitudinal, and biogeographic gradients. Marine Ecology Progress Series 284:147-161. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Thornhill DJ, Cox E, Stanton F, Fitt WK, Schmidt GW (2004) High diversity and host specificity observed among symbiotic dinoflagellates in reef coral communities from Hawaii. Coral Reefs23:596-603. pdf
Pochon X, LaJeunesse TC, Pawlowski J (2004) Biogeographic partitioning and host specialization among foraminiferan dinoflagellate symbionts (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta). Mar Biol 146:17-27. pdf
Iglesias-Prieto R, Beltrán VH, LaJeunesse TC, Reyes-Bonilla H, Thomé PE (2004) Different algal symbionts explain the vertical distribution of dominant reef corals in the eastern Pacific. Proc R Soc Lond B 271:1757-1763. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Loh WKW, van Woesik R, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Schmidt GW, Fitt WK (2003) Low symbiont diversity in southern Great Barrier Reef corals relative to those of the Caribbean. Limnology and Oceanography 48:2046-2054. pdf | supplement
LaJeunesse TC (2002) Diversity and community structure of symbiotic dinoflagellates from Caribbean coral reefs. Marine Biology 141:387-400. pdf
LaJeunesse TC (2001) Investigating the biodiversity, ecology, and phylogeny of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium using the ITS region: In search of a "species" level marker. Journal of Phycology 37:866-880. pdf
LaJeunesse TC, Trench RK (2000) The biogeography of two species of Symbiodinium (Freudenthal) inhabiting the intertidal sea anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima (Brandt). Biological Bulletin 199:126-134.pdf
Banaszak AT, LaJeunesse TC, Trench RK (2000) Synthesis of MAA by symbiotic dinoflagellates in culture. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 249: 219-233. pdf
Andersen RA, Van de Peer Y., Potter D, Sexton JP, Kawachi M, LaJeunesse TC (1999) Phylogenetic analysis of the SSU rRNA from members of the Chrysophyceae. Protist 150:71-84.
Potter D, LaJeunesse TC, Saunders GW, Anderson RA (1997) Convergent evolution masks extensive biodiversity among marine coccoid picoplankton. Biodiversity and Conservation 6:99-107. pdf
Bucklin A, LaJeunesse TC, Curry E, Wallinga J, Garrison K (1996) Molecular diversity of the copepod, Nannocalanus minor: genetic evidence of species and population structure in the North Atlantic ocean. J Mar Res 54: 285-310.
Bucklin A, LaJeunesse TC (1994) Molecular genetic variation of Calanus pacificus (Copepoda: Calanoida): Preliminary evaluation of genetic structure and subspecific differentiation based on mtDNA sequences. Calif Coop Ocean Fish Invest Rep 35:45-51.
