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Daniel J. Thornhill

Doherty Marine Biology Postdoctoral Scholar

Bowdoin College

Biology Department

6500 College Station

Brunswick, ME 04011

Thornhill[dot]Dan[at]gmail[dot]com

PH: (207) 798-4310

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2005

Ph.D., Ecology, University of Georgia at Athens. Thesis title: "Establishment and Maintenance of Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbioses."

1999

B.Sc., Zoology and Environmental Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

 2001-05

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, Ecology - University of Georgia at Athens.

 2000-05

Presidential Graduate Fellowship - University of Georgia at Athens.

 2002

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Pauley Program Fellow.

 1997-99

Barry M. Goldwater Fellowship.

 1998

National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Fellow.

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Thornhill, D.W. Kemp, E.M. Sampayo, G.W. Schmidt. Comparative analyses of amplicon migration behavior in differing denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) systems. Coral Reefs. (in press) 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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Mahon, A.R., D.J. Thornhill, J.L. Norenburg, K.M. Halanych. DNA discovers missing Antarctic nemerteans and exposes a decades-old cold case of asymmetric inventory. Polar Biology. (in press) Request Reprint

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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

2009

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)

2008

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.

2007

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)

2007

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.

2004

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.

2003

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.

2003

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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