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Daniel J. Thornhill

Postdoctoral Fellow

Auburn University

Department of Biological Sciences

Auburn, AL 36849

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

FAX: (334) 844-1645

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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.J., K.T. Fielman, S.R. Santos, K.M. Halanych. (in press) Siboglinid-bacteria endosymbiosis: A model system for studying symbiotic mechanisms Communicative & Integrative Biology.  Request PDF reprint

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Thornhill, D.J., T.G. Dahlgren, K.M. Halanych. (in press) The evolution and ecology of Ophryotrocha (Dorvilleidae, Eunicida). In Annelids in Modern Biology. D Shane, Ed. John Wiley & Sons. Indianapolis, IN.   Request PDF reprint

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Thornhill, D.J., D.W. Kemp, B.U. Bruns, W.K. Fitt, G.W. Schmidt. (in press) Correspondence between cold tolerance and temperate biogeography in a western Atlantic Symbiodinium (Dinophyta) lineage. J. Phycol.   Request PDF reprint

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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. Biol. Bull. 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. Mol. Ecol. 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. JEMBE. 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. Mar. Biol. 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 and 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

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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