Select Publications

Manuscripts in Revision

Ohdera AH, Darymple J, Avila-Magaña V, Sharp V, Watson K, McCauley M, Steinworth B, Diaz-Almeyda EM, Kitchen SA, Poole AZ, Bellantuono A, Haridas S, Grigoriev IV, Goentoro L, Vallen E, Baker DM, LaJeunesse TC, Loesgen S, Martindale MQ, DeGennaro M, Fitt WK, Medina M. (In Revision) Symbiosis driven development in an early branching metazoan. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.21.500558

Abrams M, Francis DA, Chen H, Zeigler H, Hsu CY, Ohdera AH, Harland RM. (In Revision) Conserved cholinergic regulation of sleep in the jellyfish Cassiopea.

Peer Reviewed Manuscripts

Ohdera AH, Mansbridge M, Wang M, Naydenkov P, Kamel B, Goentoro L. (2024) The microbiome of a Pacific moon jellyfish Aurelia coerulea. PLOS ONE. 19(4), e0298002. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298002

Ohdera AH, Attarwala K, Wu V, Henry R, Laird H, Hofmann DK, Fitt WK, Medina M. (2023) Comparative genomic insights into bacterial induction of larval settlement and metamorphosis in the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea. mSphere. 8(3), e00315-22. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00315-22

Ohdera AH, Ames CL, Dikow RB, Kayal E, Chiodin M, Busby B, La S, Pirro S, Collins AG, Medina M, Ryan JF. (2019) Box, stalked and upside down? Draft genomes from diverse jellyfish (Cnidaria, Acraspeda) lineages: Alatina alata (Cubooa), Calvadosia cruxmelitensis (Staurozoa), and Cassiopea xamachana (Scyphozoa). GigaScience. 8 (7), doi:10.1093/gigascience/giz069

Ohdera AH, Abrams MJ, Ames CL, Baker DM, Suescún-Bolívar LP, Collins AG, Freeman CJ, Gamero-Mora E, Goulet TL, Hofmann DK, Jaimes-Becerra A, Long PF, Marques AC, Miller LA, Mydlarz LD, Morandini AC, Newkirk CR, Putri SP, Samson JE, Stampar SN, Steinworth B, Templeman M, Thomé PE, Vlok M, Woodley CM, Wong JCY, Martindale MQ, Fitt W, Medina M. (2018) Upside-down but headed in the right direction: Review of the highly versatile Cassiopea xamachana system. Frontiers Ecology and Evolution. 6(35), doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00035

Kayal E, Bentlage B, Sabrina Pankey M, Ohdera AH, Medina M, Plachetzki DC, Collins A, Ryan JF (2018). Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18(1). doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1142-0

Díaz-Almeyda EM, Prada C, Ohdera AH, Moran H, Civitello DJ, Iglesias-Prieto R, Carlo TA, LaJeunesse TC, Medina M (2017) Intraspecific and interspecific variation in thermotolerance and photoacclimation in Symbiodinium dinoflagellates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284, 20171767

Book Chapters

Wada N, Ohdera AH, Mano N. (2018) Coral Disease in Japan. In Iguchi A & Hongo C (Eds), Coral Reef Studies of Japan (Vol. 13, p41-62). Springer. Singapore: Springer Nature