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Ph.D., Ecology, University of Georgia at Athens. Thesis title: "Establishment and Maintenance of Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbioses."
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B.Sc., Zoology and Environmental Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
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National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, Ecology - University of Georgia at Athens.
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2000-05
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Presidential Graduate Fellowship - University of Georgia at Athens.
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2002
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Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Pauley Program Fellow.
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1997-99
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Barry M. Goldwater Fellowship.
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1998
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National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Fellow.
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LaJeunesse T.C., D.J. Thornhill. (2011) Improved resolution of reef-coral endosymbiont (Symbiodinium) species diversity, ecology, and evolution through psbA non-coding region genotyping. PLoS One. 6:e29013. Request Reprint
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Thornhill D.J., R.D. Rotjan, B.D. Todd, G.C. Chilcoat, R. Iglesias-Prieto, D.W. Kemp, T.C. LaJeunesse, J. McCabe-Reynolds, G.W. Schmidt, T. Shannon, M.E. Warner, W.K. Fitt. (2011) A connection between colony biomass and death in Caribbean reef-building corals. PLoS One. 6:e29535. Request Reprint
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Kemp D.W., C.A. Oakely, D.J. Thornhill, L.A. Newcomb, G.W. Schmidt, W.K. Fitt. (2011) Catastrophic mortality on inshore coral reefs of the Florida Keys due to severe low-temperature stress. Global Change Biology. 17:3468-3477. Request Reprint
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Roopin, M., D.J. Thornhill, S.R. Santos, N.E. Chadwick. 2011. Ammonia flux, physiological parameters, and Symbiodinium diversity in the anemonefish symbiosis on Red Sea coral reefs. Symbiosis. DOI 10.1007/s13199-011-0110-x. Request Reprint
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Hilário A., M. Capa, T.G. Dahlgren, K.M. Halanych, C.T.S. Little, D.J. Thornhill, C. Verna, A.G. Glover. New perspectives on the ecology and evolution of siboglinid tubeworms. PLoS One. 6:e16309. Request Reprint
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Thornhill, D.J., K. Doubleday, D.W. Kemp, S.R. Santos. 2010. Host hybridization alters specificity of cnidarian-dinoflagellate associations. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 420:113-123. Request Reprint
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Thornhill, D.J., J.B. Lord. 2010. Secondary structure models for the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region 1 from symbiotic dinoflagellates. Protist. 161:434-451. Request Reprint
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Thornhill, D.J., D.W. Kemp, E.M. Sampayo, G.W. Schmidt. 2010. Comparative analyses of amplicon migration behavior in differing denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) systems. Coral Reefs. 29:83-91. Request Reprint
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Mahon, A.R., D.J. Thornhill, J.L. Norenburg, K.M. Halanych. 2010. DNA discovers missing Antarctic nemerteans and exposes a decades-old cold case of asymmetric inventory. Polar Biology. 33:193-202. Request Reprint
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Thornhill, D.J., Y. Xiang, W.K. Fitt, S.R. Santos. 2009. Reef endemism, host specificity and temporal stability in populations of symbiotic dinoflagellates from two ecologically dominant Caribbean corals. PLoS One. 4:e6262. Featured Weekly Image in EveryOne, the PLoS One Community Blog Download article directly from PLoS One website
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Simon, C., D.J. Thornhill, F. Oyarzun, K.M. Halanych. 2009. Genetic similarity between Boccardia proboscidea from western North American and the cultured abalone, Haliotis midae, in South Africa. Aquaculture. 294:18-24. Request Reprint
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Thornhill, D.J., T.G. Dahlgren, K.M. Halanych. 2009. The evolution and ecology of Ophryotrocha (Dorvilleidae, Eunicida). Chapter 13; Pp. 242-256, In: Shain, D.H., Ed., Annelids as Model Systems in the Biological Sciences. John Wiley & Son. Request Reprint
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Correa, A.M.S., M.E. Brandt, T.B. Smith, D.J. Thornhill, A.C. Baker. 2009. Symbiodinium associations within diseased and healthy corals. Coral Reefs. 28:437-448. Request Reprint
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Thornhill, D.J., A.R. Mahon, J.L. Norenburg, K.M. Halanych. 2008. Open-ocean barriers to dispersal: a test case with the Antarctic Polar Front and the ribbon worm Parborlasia corrugatus (Nemertea: Lineidae). Molecular Ecology. 17:5104-5117. PDF Supplementary Materials
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Thornhill, D.J., K.T. Fielman, S.R. Santos, K.M. Halanych. 2008. Siboglinid-bacteria endosymbiosis: A model system for studying symbiotic mechanisms. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 1:1-4. PDF
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Thornhill, D.J., D.W. Kemp, B.U. Bruns, W.K. Fitt, G.W. Schmidt. 2008. Correspondence between cold tolerance and temperate biogeography in a western Atlantic Symbiodinium (Dinophyta) lineage. Journal of Phycology. 44:1126-1135. PDF
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Thornhill, D.J., A.A. Wiley, A.L. Campbell, F.F. Bartol, A. Teske, K.M. Halanych. 2008. Endosymbionts of Siboglinum fiordicum and the phylogeny of Siboglinidae (Annelida) endosymbionts. The Biological Bulletin. 214:135-144. PDF
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Thornhill, D.J., T.C. LaJeunesse, S.R. Santos. 2007. Measuring rDNA diversity in eukaryotic microbial systems: How intragenomic variation, pseudogenes, and PCR artifacts confound biodiversity estimates. Molecular Ecology. 16:5326-5340. PDF Supplementary Materials Download datasets
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Thornhill, D.J., W.K. Fitt, G.W. Schmidt. 2006. Highly stable symbioses among western Atlantic brooding corals. Coral Reefs. 25:515-519. PDF
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Thornhill, D.J., M.W. Daniel, T.C. LaJeunesse, W.K. Fitt, G.W. Schmidt. 2006. Natural infections of aposymbiotic Cassiopea xamachana from environmental pools of Symbiodinium. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 338:50-56. PDF
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Thornhill, D.J., T.C. LaJeunesse, D.W. Kemp, W.K. Fitt, G.W. Schmidt. 2006. Multi-year, seasonal genotypic surveys of coral-algal symbioses reveal prevalent stability or post-bleaching reversion. Marine Biology. 148:711-722. PDF
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Rotjan, R.D., J.L. Dimond, D.J. Thornhill, D.W. Kemp, B. Helmuth, J. Leichter, S.M. Lewis. 2006. Chronic fish grazing slows recovery after bleaching. Coral Reefs. 25:361-368. PDF
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Dove, S., J.C. Ortiz, S. Enriquez, M. Fine, P. Fisher, R. Igelsias-Prieto, D.J. Thornhill, O. Hoegh-Guldberg. 2006. Response of holosymbiont pigments from the scleractinian coral Montipora monasteriata to short term heat stress. Limnology & Oceanography. 51:1149-1158. PDF
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Todd, B.D., D.J. Thornhill, W.K. Fitt. 2006. Patterns of inorganic phosphate uptake in Cassiopea xamachana: a bioindicator species. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 52:515-521. PDF
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LaJeunesse, T.C., D.J. Thornhill, E.F. Cox, F.G. Stanton, W.K. Fitt, G.W. Schmidt. 2004. High diversity and host specificity observed among symbiotic dinoflagellates in reef coral communities from Hawaii. Coral Reefs. 23:596-603. PDF
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Valone, T.J., D.J. Thornhill. 2001. Mesquite establishment in arid grasslands: an experimental investigation of the role of kangaroo rats. Journal of Arid Environments. 48:281-288. PDF
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Thornhill, D.J., S.R. Santos. Population genetic structure of symbiotic dinoflagellates associated with Caribbean reef-building corals, Montastraea annularis and M. faveolata. Talk: 2009 SICB Meetings (Boston, MA). PDF (Abstract)
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Levin, L.A., W. Ziebis, G. Mendoza, D.J. Thornhill, K.M. Halanych, R. Lee, T. Washington, A. Thurber. Dorvilleidae at methane seeps: a model for understanding diversity on the continental margin. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA.
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Santos, S.R., R.L. Hunter, D.J. Thornhill. Invited Talk: The ecology and evolution of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta) on tropical coral reefs. 60th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Branch - American Society for Microbiology. Auburn, Alabama. PDF (Slides)
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2007
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Thornhill, D.J., A.A. Wiley, A.L. Campbell, F.F. Bartol, A. Testke, K.M. Halanych. Endosymbionts of Siboglinum fiordicum and the Phylogeny Bacterial Endosymbionts in Siboglinidae (Annelida). 60th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, Auburn, AL, USA.
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2004
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Thornhill D.J., T.C. LaJeunesse, G.W. Schmidt, W.K. Fitt. Change and Stability of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in Reef Building Corals. 10th Int. Coral Reef Symp., Okinawa, Japan.
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2003
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Thornhill, D.J., T.C. LaJeunesse, W.K. Fitt, G.W. Schmidt. Change and Stability of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in Reef Building Corals. 7th Int. Conf. on Coelenterate Biol., Lawrence, KS, USA.
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2003
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Thornhill, D.J., T.C. LaJeunesse, G. Chilcoat, T. Shannon, W.K. Fitt. Physiological attributes of coral tissue over time: seasons and years. 7th Int. Conf. on Coelenterate Biol., Lawrence, KS, USA.
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