Todd C. LaJeunesse

15.6k citations

108 papers · 11.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 52

Oceanography top 0.02%
- Marine and coastal plant biology 64
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research 33
Ecology top 0.05%
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies 94
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics 32
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 11
Biotechnology top 0.2%
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products 9
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Marine and fisheries research 8
Environmental Chemistry top 2%
Molecular Biology
- Protist diversity and phylogeny 6

Co-authors: John Everett Parkinson Daniel J. Thornhill Christian R. Voolstra D. Tye Pettay Scott R. Santos James Davis Reimer William K. Fitt Hae Jin Jeong
Cited by: Oceanography Ecology Biotechnology
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1 paper)SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología (1 paper)PLoS ONE (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia Mexico

In The Last Decade

Todd C. LaJeunesse

106 papers receiving 10.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Molecular Ecology Resources
2018 Current Biology
2002 Marine Biology
2001 Journal of Phycology

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1	Limited persistence of the heat-tolerant zooxanthella, Durusdinium trenchii, in corals transplanted to a barrier reef where it is rare among natal colonies Coral Reefs ·Kira E. Turnham,Allison M. Lewis,Dustin W. Kemp,Mark E. Warner,Drew F. Wham,Robin T. Smith,Kenneth D. Hoadley,Patrick L. Colin,Yimnang Golbuu,Todd C. LaJeunesse	2025	0
2	Influence of reef habitat on coral microbial associations Environmental Microbiology Reports ·Shelby E. Gantt,Keri M. Kemp,Patrick L. Colin,Kenneth D. Hoadley,Todd C. LaJeunesse,Mark E. Warner,Dustin W. Kemp	2024	2
3	Thermotolerant coral–algal mutualisms maintain high rates of nutrient transfer while exposed to heat stress Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Dustin W. Kemp,Kenneth D. Hoadley,Allison M. Lewis,Drew C. Wham,Robin T. Smith,Mark E. Warner,Todd C. LaJeunesse	2023	16
4	Acclimatization of a coral-dinoflagellate mutualism at a CO2 vent Communications Biology ·Fiorella Prada,Silvia Franzellitti,Erik Caroselli,Itay Cohen,Mauro Marini,Alessandra Campanelli,Lorenzo Sana,Arianna Mancuso,Chiara Marchini,Alessia Puglisi,Marco Candela,Tali Mass,Franco Tassi,Todd C. LaJeunesse,Zvy Dubinsky,Giuseppe Falini,Stefano Goffredo	2023	8
5	Similarities in biomass and energy reserves among coral colonies from contrasting reef environments Scientific Reports ·Elise F. Keister,Shelby E. Gantt,Hannah Reich,Kira E. Turnham,Timothy G. Bateman,Todd C. LaJeunesse,Mark E. Warner,Dustin W. Kemp	2023	11
6	Different functional traits among closely related algal symbionts dictate stress endurance for vital Indo‐Pacific reef‐building corals Global Change Biology ·Kenneth D. Hoadley,D. Tye Pettay,Allison M. Lewis,Drew C. Wham,Chris Grasso,Robin T. Smith,Dustin W. Kemp,Todd C. LaJeunesse,Mark E. Warner	2021	37
7	Zooxanthellae Current Biology ·Todd C. LaJeunesse	2020	23
8	New Species of Closely Related Endosymbiotic Dinoflagellates in the Greater Caribbean have Niches Corresponding to Host Coral Phylogeny Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology ·Allison M. Lewis,Andrea N. Chan,Todd C. LaJeunesse	2018	33
9	Gene Expression Variation Resolves Species and Individual Strains among Coral-Associated Dinoflagellates within the GenusSymbiodinium Genome Biology and Evolution ·John Everett Parkinson,Sebastian Baumgarten,Craig Michell,Iliana B. Baums,Todd C. LaJeunesse,Christian R. Voolstra	2016	80
10	New species of Clade B Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) from the greater Caribbean belong to different functional guilds: S. aenigmaticum sp. nov., S. antillogorgium sp. nov., S. endomadracis sp. nov., and S. pseudominutum sp. nov. Journal of Phycology ·John Everett Parkinson,Mary Alice Coffroth,Todd C. LaJeunesse	2015	46
11	Assessing Symbiodinium diversity in scleractinian corals via next‐generation sequencing‐based genotyping of the ITS2 rDNA region Molecular Ecology ·Chatchanit Arif,Camille Daniels,Till Bayer,Eulalia Banguera‐Hinestroza,Adrian C. Barbrook,Christopher J. Howe,Todd C. LaJeunesse,Christian R. Voolstra	2014	180
12	Long-Range Dispersal and High-Latitude Environments Influence the Population Structure of a “Stress-Tolerant” Dinoflagellate Endosymbiont PLoS ONE ·D. Tye Pettay,Todd C. LaJeunesse	2013	45
13	A genetics‐based description of Symbiodinium minutum sp. nov. and S. psygmophilum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), two dinoflagellates symbiotic with cnidaria Journal of Phycology ·Todd C. LaJeunesse,John Everett Parkinson,James Davis Reimer	2012	156
14	A Connection between Colony Biomass and Death in Caribbean Reef-Building Corals PLoS ONE ·Daniel J. Thornhill,Randi Rotjan,Brian D. Todd,Geoff C. Chilcoat,Roberto Iglesias-Prieto,Dustin W. Kemp,Todd C. LaJeunesse,Jennifer McCabe Reynolds,Gregory W. Schmidt,Thomas P. Shannon,Mark E. Warner,William K. Fitt	2011	106
15	Genotypic diversity and spatial–temporal distribution of Symbiodinium clones in an abundant reef coral Molecular Ecology ·D. Tye Pettay,Drew C. Wham,Jorge H. Pinzón,Todd C. LaJeunesse	2011	59
16	SYMBIODINIUM (DINOPHYTA) DIVERSITY AND STABILITY IN AQUARIUM CORALS¹ Journal of Phycology ·Robin T. Smith,Jorge H. Pinzón,Todd C. LaJeunesse	2009	17
17	Microsatellites from clade B Symbiodinium spp. specialized for Caribbean corals in the genus Madracis Molecular Ecology Notes ·D. Tye Pettay,Todd C. LaJeunesse	2007	55
18	Measuring rDNA diversity in eukaryotic microbial systems: how intragenomic variation, pseudogenes, and PCR artifacts confound biodiversity estimates Molecular Ecology ·Daniel J. Thornhill,Todd C. LaJeunesse,Scott R. Santos	2007	252
19	Screening intragenomic rDNA for dominant variants can provide a consistent retrieval of evolutionarily persistent ITS (rDNA) sequences Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Todd C. LaJeunesse,Jorge H. Pinzón	2007	40
20	Diversity and community structure of symbiotic dinoflagellates from Caribbean coral reefsbreakdown → Marine Biology ·Todd C. LaJeunesse	2002	565

About Todd C. LaJeunesse

Todd C. LaJeunesse is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Biotechnology, having authored 108 papers that have together received 11.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (94 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (64 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (33 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (32 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (9 papers), Marine and fisheries research (8 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (8.0k citations), Ecology (10.4k citations) and Biotechnology (961 citations). Todd C. LaJeunesse has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Mexico. Frequent co-authors include John Everett Parkinson, Daniel J. Thornhill, Christian R. Voolstra, D. Tye Pettay, Scott R. Santos, James Davis Reimer, William K. Fitt, Hae Jin Jeong, Drew C. Wham and Mark E. Warner. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

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