Ruth D. Gates – PUBLICATIONS
Chan, Y. L., Pochon, X., Fisher, M., Daniel Wagner, D., Concepcion, G. T., Kahng, S., Toonen, R. J. and
Gates, R. D. (Accepted). Host genotypes and endosymbiotic dinoflagellate diversity in the coral
Leptoseris sampled between 60-100 meter depths. BMC Ecology.
Yancey, P. H., Heppenstall, M., Ly, S., Raymond, M., Andrell, R. M, Gates R. D., Carter, V. L. and
Hagedorn M. (In press). Betaines and dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) as major osmolytes in
Cnidaria with endosymbiotic dinoflagellates. Physiological and Biochemica Zoology.
Hédouin, L., Reichelt-Brushett, A. J. and Gates R. D. (In press). Assessment of Metals and a Metalloid in
Sediments from Hawaiian Coral Reef Ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin.
Lesser, M. P., Slattery, M, Stat, M., Ojimi M., Gates, R. D. and Grottoli, A. (In press).
Photoacclimatization by the Coral Montastraea cavernosa in the Mesophotic Zone: Light, Food,
and Genetics. Ecology.
Pochon, X., Stat, M., Takabayashi, M., Logan, D., Chasqui, L., Jones, L. and Gates R. D. (In Press).
Comparison of endosymbiotic and free-living Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) diversity in a
Hawaiian reef environment. Journal of Phycology.
Stat, M., Pochon, X., Cowie, R.O. M. and Gates, R. D. 2009, Specificity in communities of
Symbiodinium in corals from Johnston Atoll. Marine Ecology Progress Series 386: 83-96.
Fitt, W. K., Gates, R. D. Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Bythell, J., Jatkar A., Grottoli , A. G., , Gomez, M. Fisher,
P., LaJeunesse, T. Pantos, O. Iglesias-Prieto, Franklin, D. J., R., Rodrigues, L. J., Torregiani, J.
M. van Woesik, R. and Lesser, M. P. 2009. Response of Two Species of Indo-Pacific Corals,
Porites cylindrica and Stylophora pistillata, to Thermal Stress: The host does matter in
determining the tolerance of corals to bleaching. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and
Ecology 373 (2): 102-110.
Olson, N. D., Ainsworth, T. D., Gates, R. D. and Takabayashi, M. 2009. Diversity, Abundance, and
Distribution of Diazotrophic Symbionts in Hawaiian Montipora Corals. Journal of Experimental
Marine Biology and Ecology 371(2): 140-146.
Palmer C. V., Roth, M. S. and Gates, R. D. 2009. Red fluorescent protein responsible for pigmentation in
trematode infected Porites compressa tissues. Biological Bulletin 216: 68-74.
Mayfield, A. B., Hirst, M. B. and Gates, R. D. 2009. Real-time PCR-based gene expression analysis in
the anthozoan-dinoflagellate endosymbiosis. Molecular Ecology Resources 9(2): 462- 470.
van Oppen, M. J. H., Leong, J. A. and Gates, R. D. 2009. Coral-virus interactions: a double-edged
sword? Symbiosis 47: 1-8.
Stat, M., Morris, E. and Gates, R. D. 2008. Functional diversity in coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 105(27): 9256-9261.
Manning, M. M. and Gates, R. D. 2008. Diversity in populations of free-living Symbiodinium from a
Caribbean and Pacific reef. Limnology and Oceanography 53(5): 1853-1861.
Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2008. Acclimatization in tropical reefs corals. Marine Ecological
Progress Series 361: 307-310.
Stat, M. and Gates, R. D. 2008. Vectored introductions of marine endosymbiotic dinoflagellates into
Hawaii. Biological Invasions 10(4): 579-583.
Leggat, W., Ainsworth, T. A., Bythell, J. C., Dove, S., Gates, R. D., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Iglesias-Prieto,
R., Yellowlees D. 2007. Communication arising from Rosenberg et al (2007). Nature Reviews
Microbiology DOI:10.1038/nrmicro1635C1.
Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Muller-Parker, G., Cook, C. B., Gates, R. D., Gladfelter, E., Trench, R. K and Weis,
V. 2007. Len Muscatine (1932-2007) and his contributions to the understanding of algalinvertebrate endosymbiosis. Coral Reefs 26(4): 731-739.
Lesser, M. P., Bythell, J. C., Gates, R. D., Johnstone, R. W., Hoegh Guldberg, O. 2007. Are infectious
diseases really killing corals? Alternative Interpretations of the Experimental and Ecological
Data. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 346: 36–44.
Apprill, A. M., Bidigare, R. R. and Gates, R. D. 2007. Visibly healthy corals exhibit variable pigment
concentrations and symbiont phenotypes. Coral Reefs 26: 387-397.
Mayfield, A. B. and Gates, R. D. 2007. Osmoregulation and osmotic stress in coral dinoflagellate
symbiosis: Role in coral bleaching. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 147 (1): 1-10.
Biel, K. Y., Gates R. D. and Muscatine L. 2007. Effects of free amino acids on the photosynthetic
carbon metabolism of symbiotic dinoflagellates. Russian Journal Of Plant Physiology 54 (2):
171-183.
Apprill, A. M. and Gates, R. D. 2007. Recognizing diversity in coral symbiotic dinoflagellate
communities. Molecular Ecology (16): 1127-1134.
van Oppen, M. J. H. and Gates R. D. 2006. Understanding the resilience of reef corals: the roles of
molecular biology and genetics. Invited Review. Molecular Ecology 15 (13): 3863-3883.
Ridgway, T. and Gates, R. D. 2006. Why are there so few genetic markers available for coral population
analyses? Symbiosis 41: 1-7.
Gleason, D. F., Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2006. Ultraviolet radiation effects on the behavior and
recruitment of larvae from the reef coral Porites astreoides. Marine Biology 148: 503–512.
Edmunds, P. J., Gates, R. D., Leggat, W. and Hoegh-Guldberg, O. 2005. The effect of temperature on
the size and population density of dinoflagellates in larvae from the reef coral Porites astreoides.
Invertebrate Biology 124 (3): 185-193.
Bebenek, I. G., Gates R. D., Morris, J., Hartenstein, V., Jacobs, D. K. 2004. sine oculis in the Basal
Metazoa. Development, Genes and Evolution 214 (7): 342-351.
Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2004. Size-dependent differences in the photophysiology of the reef
coral Porites astreoides. Biological Bulletin 206: 61-64.
Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2003. Has coral bleaching delayed our understanding of fundamental
aspects of coral-dinoflagellate symbioses? BioScience 53(10): 976-980.
Jacobs, D. J. and Gates, R. D. 2003. Developmental Genes and the Reconstruction of Metazoan
Evolution – Implications of Evolutionary Loss, Limits on Inference of Ancestry and Type 2
Errors. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43: 11-18.
Lee, S. E., Gates, R. D. and Jacobs, D. K. 2003. Gene fishing: the use of a simple protocol to isolate
multiple homeodomain classes from diverse invertebrate taxa. Journal of Molecular Evolution
56: 509-516.
Edmunds, P. J., Gates, R. D. and Gleason, D. F. 2003. Tissue composition of Montastraea franksi during
and eleven months after a natural bleaching event. Coral Reefs 22: 54-62.
Gates, R. D., Hadrys, T., Arenas-Mena, C. and Jacobs, D. K. 2002. Determining spatial and temporal
patterns of developmental gene expression in vertebrates and invertebrates using in situ
hybridization techniques. In: Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine: Techniques in
Molecular Evolution and Systematics (Eds. DeSalle, R., Giribet, G. and Wheeler, W.). Birkhauser
Pp. 365-399.
Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2002. Normalizing physiological data for scleractinian corals. Coral
Reefs 21 (2): 193-197.
Nallur, R. B., Gates, R. D., Ladurner, P., Jacobs, D. K. and Hartenstein, V. 2002. Neurogenesis in the
primitive bilaterian Neochildea I. Normal development and isolation of genes controlling neural
fate. Development, Genes and Evolution 212 (2): 55-69.
Lee, S. E., Gates, R. D. and Jacobs, D. K. 2001. The isolation of a Distal-less gene fragment from two
molluscs. Development, Genes and Evolution 211: 506-508.
Edmunds, P. J., Gates, R. D. and Gleason, D. F. 2001. The biology of planulae freshly released from the
reef coral Porites astreoides and their response to temperature disturbances. Marine Biology 139:
981-989.
Jacobs, D. K., Wray, C. G., Wedeen, C. J., Kostriken, R., DeSalle, R., Staton, J. L., Gates, R. D. and
Lindberg, D. L. 2000. Molluscan engrailed expression, serial organization, and shell evolution.
Evolution and Development 2(6): 340-347.
Gates, R. D. and Edmunds, P. J. 1999. The physiological mechanisms of acclimatization in tropical reef
corals. American Zoologist 39(1): 30-43.
Gates, R. D., Bil, K. Y. and Muscatine L. 1999. The influence of an anthozoan "host factor" on the
physiology of a symbiotic dinoflagellate. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
232(2): 241-259.
Muscatine, L.; Ferrier-Pages, C.; Blackburn, A.; Gates, R. D.; Baghdasarian, G. and Allemand, D. 1998.
Cell-specific density of symbiotic dinoflagellates in tropical anthozoans. Coral Reefs 17(4): 329337.
Gates, R. D., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., McFall Ngai, M., Bil, K. Y. and Muscatine, L. 1995. Free amino
exhibit anthozoan “host factor” activity: They induce the release of photosynthate from symbiotic
dinoflagellates in vitro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 92 (16): 74307434.
Muscatine, L., Gates, R. D. and LaFontaine, I. 1994. Do symbiotic dinoflagellates secrete lipid droplets?
Limnology and Oceanography 39 (4): 925-929.
Gates, R. D., Baghdasarian, G. and Muscatine, L. 1992. Temperature stress causes host cell detachment
in symbiotic cnidarians: implications for coral bleaching. Biological Bulletin 182: 324-332.
Gates, R. D. and Muscatine, L. 1992. Three methods for isolating viable anthozoan endoderm cells with
their intracellular symbiotic dinoflagellates. Coral Reefs 11: 143-145.
Bean, B., Fogle, T. and Gates, R. D. 1991. Rapid Hoechst staining for the sperm penetration assay.
Fertility and Sterility 55 (1): 214-216.
Gates, R. D. 1990. Seawater temperature and sublethal coral bleaching in Jamaica. Coral Reefs 8: 193197.