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in prep/in review
Bolnick DI, Fuess LE, Graham AL, Khan I, Steinel NC, Vaziri GJ. in review. Evolutionary Immunology. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Hu J, Weber JN, Fuess LE, Steinel NC, Bolnick DI, Wang M. in revision. A spectral framework to map QTLs affecting joint differential networks of gene co-expression. PLoS Computational Biology. bioRxiv
Rodgers ML, Subramanian S, Fuess LE, He W, Scarpino SV, Roth-Monzon A, Jeffries D, Seignon M, Milligan-McClellan K, Carrier R, Steinel NC, Bolnick DI. in prep. Rates of evolution differ between cell types identified by single-cell RNAseq in threespine stickleback. bioRxiv
Flanagan BA, Fuess LE, Vrtilek M, Roth-Monzon A, Bolnick DI. in prep. Macroevolutionary changes in gene expression response to an immune stimulus across the diversity of fishes. bioRxiv
2024
Emery MA, Gutierrez-Andrade D, Changsut IC, Swain H, Fuess LE, Myldarz LD. Immune System Components in Cnidarians. In: Reference Module in Life Sciences. Elsevier Ltd. pdf
Changsut IV, Borbee EM, Womack HR, Shickle A, Sharp KH, Fuess LE. Photosymbiont density is correlated with constitutive and induced immunity in the facultatively symbiotic coral, Astrangia poculata. Integrative & Comparative Biology. icae036. pdf
Diaz de Villegas SC, Borbee E, Abeldaki P, Fuess LE. Prior heat stress affects pathogen susceptibility in the model cnidarian, Exaiptasia diaphana. Communications Biology. 7:1328. pdf
2023
Villafranca N, Changsut I, Diaz de Villegas SC, Womack HR, Fuess LE. Characterization of trade-offs between immunity and reproduction in Astrangia poculata. PeerJ. 11:e16586.pdf
Davies S. et al. Building Consensus around the Assessment and Interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae Diversity. PeerJ. 11:e15023. pdf
Fuess LE & Bolnick DI. Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals micro-evolution of the stickleback immune system. Genome Biology & Evolution. 15:evad053. pdf
2022
Changsut I, Womack H, Shickle A, Sharp K, Fuess LE. Variation in symbiont density affects constitutive immune phenotypes in the facultatively symbiotic coral, Astrangia poculata. Biology Letters. 18. pdf
Hund AK, Fuess LE, Kenney ML, Maciejewski MF, Marini JM, Shim KC, Bolnick DI. Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response. Evoultion Letters. 6:162-177. pdf
Weber JN, Steinel NC, Peng F, Shim KC, Lohman BK, Fuess LE, De Lisle S, Bolnick DI. Evolution of a costly immunity to cestode parasites is a pyrrhic victory. Science. 377:1206-1211. pdf
2021
Fuess LE, den Haan S, Ling F, Weber JN, Steinel NC, Bolnick DI. Immune gene expression covaries with gut microbiome composition in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). mBio. 12:e00145-21. pdf
MacKnight N, Cobleigh K, Lasseign, D, Chaves-Fonnegra A, Gutting A, Dimos BA, Antoine J, Fuess LE, Ricci CA, Butler CC, Muller EM, Mydlarz LD, Brandt, ME. Microbial dysbiosis reflects disease resistance in diverse coral species. Comm Bio. 4:679. pdf
Fuess LE, Weber JN, den Haan S, Steinel NC, Shim KC, Bolnick DI. in press. A test of the Baldwin Effect: Differences in both constitutive expression and inducible responses to parasites underlie variation in host response to a parasite. Mol Ecol. 30:6791–6805. pdf
2020
Fuess LE, Butler CC, Brandt ME, Mydlarz LD. Investigating the roles of transforming growth factor-beta in immune response of Orbicella faveolata, a scleractinian coral. Dev Comp Immunol. 107:103639. pdf
Fuess LE, Palacio – Castro AM, Butler CC, Baker AC and Mydlarz LD. Increased algal symbiont density reduces host immunity in a threatened caribbean coral species, Orbicella faveolata. Front Ecol Evol. 8:572942.
2019
Ricci CA, Kamal AHM, Chakrabarty JK, Fuess LE, Mann, WT, Jinks LR, Brinkhuis V, Chowdhury SM, Mydlarz LD. Proteomic investigation of a diseased gorgonian coral indicated disruption of essential cell function and investment in inflammatory and immune processes. Integr Comp Bio. icz107. pdf
Dimos BA, Mahmud SA, Fuess LE, Mydlarz LD, Pellegrino MW. Uncovering a mitochondrial unfolded protein response in corals and its role in adapting to a change world. Proc Royal Soc B. 286: 1905. pdf
2018
Williams LM, Fuess LE, et al. Characterization of Toll-like receptor-to-NF-κB signaling pathway components in the endangered coral Orbicella faveolata. Dev Comp Immunol. 79: 128-136. pdf
Fuess LE, Mann WT, Jinks LR, Brinkhuis V, Mydlarz LD. Transcriptional analyses provide new insight into the late stage immune response of a Caribbean coral to disease. R Soc Open Sci. 5: 172062. pdf
2017
Fuess LE, Pinzon JC, Weil E, Mydlarz LD. (2017). Life or death: Disease resistant coral species activate autophagy following immune challenge. Proc Royal Soc B. 284: 20170771. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0771. pdf
2016
Mydlarz LD, Fuess LE, Mann WT, Pinzon JC, and Gochfeld, DJ. (2016). Cnidarian immunity: from genomes to phenomes. In: The Cnidaria, past, present and future. The world of Medusa and her sisters. Editors: S. Goffredo and Z. Dubinsky. Springer.
Fuess LE, Pinzon JC, Weil E, Mydlarz LD. (2016) Associations between transcriptional changes and protein phenotypes provide insights into immune regulation in corals. Dev Comp Immunol. 62: 17-28. pdf
2015
Fuess LE, Eisenlord ME, Closek CJ, Tracy AM, Mauntz R, Gignoux-Wolfsohn S, et al. (2015) Up in Arms: Immune and Nervous System Response to Sea Star Wasting Disease. PLoS ONE 10: e0133053. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133053. pdf