*corresponding author       **mentee

Aoki R, Nishihara H, Sakamoto T, Sato Y, Kuramoto T, Fukuda M, Matsunaga T, Uehara A, Slane D, Kawanishi Y, Mori S, Nagaoka D, Hirakawa M, Gao H, Maijima D, Suto Y, Ishii K, Anthony CJ, Ishiyama S, Kato S, Inui Y, Wada N, Mogi Y, Yoshida Y, Matsuzaki M, Suzuki T, Kuroiwa T, Ohkawa Y, Ikawa T, Lister R, Maruyama S, Kimura S, Matsunaga S. Epigenetic gatekeeping enables genome-scale horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic cells. Nature Communications, in review.

Anthony CJ*, Lock C, Johnson SM, Maruyama S, Raymundo LJ. (2026). Endangered Species Act changes threaten reefs. Science. 391, 667. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aee4748

In brief. Here we link recent coral losses in Florida and the Pacific to emerging policy changes, arguing that expanded regulatory exemptions under the U.S. Endangered Species Act place structurally complex reef systems at risk, thus serving as a primary reference for the interface between diverse, sensitive ecosystems and effective conservation policy.

Lock C*, Miller T, Anthony CJ, Rouzé H, Fifer J, McDermott G, Tramonte CA, Davies SW, Raymundo LJ, Bentlage B. (2025). Symbiodiniaceae and bacterial microbioime dynamics differentially impact the survival of dominant reef-flat Porites corals. Environmental Microbiology. 27, e70175. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70175

Wagner MA*, Wang Z, Anthony CJ, Rivera EA, Strader ME. (2025). iNaturalist data suggests a recent northward expansion of the upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea. Science of the Total Environment. 992, 179948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179948

Church S*, Abedon RB, Ahuja N, Anthony CJ, Destanović D, Ramirez DA, Rojas LM, Albinsson ME, Álvarez Trasobares I, Bergemann RE, Bogdanovic O, Burdick DR, Cunha  TJ, Damian-Serrano A, D'Elifa G, Dion KB, Doyle TK, Gonçalves JM, Gonzalez Rajal A, Helm RR, Le Gouvello D, Lewis ZR, Magalhães BIMM, Mańko MK, Mayorga Adame CG, de Mendoza A, Moura CJ, Munro C, Nel R, Oguchi K, Perelman JN, Prieto L, Pitt KA, Roughan M, Schaeffer A, Schmidt AL, Sallanes J, Wilson NG, Yamamoto G, Lazo-Wasem EA, Simon C, Decker MB, Coughlan JM, Dunn CW. (2025). Global genomics of man-o'-war (Physalia) reveals ocean surface biodiversity. Current Biology. 35, 3556-3569.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.066 

​​​In brief. This global collaboration used a combination of genomics and citizen science to reveal clear population structure in a globally distributed neustonic siphonophore, demonstrating that even sailing, open-ocean organisms not only speciate, but also maintain persistent regional subpopulations.

Anthony CJ*, Lemer S, Raymundo LJ, Rouzé HL*. (2025). Restoration innovation: Fusing microbial memories to engineer coral resilience. One Earth. 8, 101193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101193

​​​In brief. This paper proposed a coral restoration framework that integrates colony fusion, symbiont diversity, and environmental memory to enhance resilience, while emphasizing that such interventions remain constrained by basic biological knowledge.

Anthony CJ*, Lock C, Pérez-Rosales G, Rouzé HL, Paulino Jr. L**, Raymundo LJ, Bentlage B. (2024). Symbiodiniaceae phenotypic traits as bioindicators of acclimatization after coral transplantation. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 209, 117250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117250

In brief. This was a foundational attempt to develop phenotypic traits of photo-endosymbionts as coral stress bioindicators. Using a personally developed flow cytometry protocol [1.3] we discovered two things. 1) Symbiodiniaceae cells increase in roughness after transplantation. 2) Coral paling does not necessarily reflect the Symbiodiniaceae assemblage. 

Salas R**, Anthony CJ*, Bentlage B. (2024). Light exposure induces phenotypic plasticity of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea sp. and its endosymbiotic dinoflagellates. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 581, 152068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2024.152068 

Morejón-Arrojo RD*, Anthony CJ, Rodríguez-Viera L. (2024). Asymmetrical bleaching of upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea during high water temperatures in Cuba. Marine Biodiversity, 54, 41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01434-8

Anthony CJ*. (2024). Beachside banquet: Ants’ appetite for shipwrecked siphonophores. Food Webs, 38:e00332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2023.e00332

Anthony CJ, Bentlage B, Helm RR*. (2024). Animal evolution at the ocean’s water-air interface. Current Biology, 34:196-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.013

​In brief. We tested a 66-year-old assumption that animals living on the ocean’s surface evolved from seafloor ancestors. Phylogeny and ancestral reconstruction reveal that surface animals largely evolved from substrate-attached ancestors, although not necessarily from the seafloor. This transition was likely facilitated by modifications of attachment structures and revised long-standing assumptions about the origins of life at the ocean surface

Anthony CJ*, McDermott G, Lock C, Miller T, Bentlage B, Raymundo LJ. (2024). Depth independent phenotypic variation of massive Porites coral color morphs. Marine Ecology, e12788. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12788

Anthony CJ*, Lock C, Taylor BM, Bentlage B. (2023). Cellular plasticity facilitates phenotypic change in a dominant coral’s Symbiodiniaceae assemblage. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11:1288596. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1288596 

Anthony CJ*, Lock C, Bentlage B. (2023). Rapid, high-throughput phenotypic profiling of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae) using benchtop flow cytometry. PLoS One, 18:e0290649. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290649

​In brief. We developed a simple protocol that collects information on cell autofluorescence, shape, and size to generate phenotypic profiles for entire communities of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates. Integration of our protocol into existing workflows allows researchers to acquire a new level of resolution for studies examining the acclimation and adaptation strategies of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates and has been personally applied to multiple studies since its conceptualization [4, 9, 10].

Anthony CJ*, Tan KC**, Pitt K, Bentlage B, Ames CL. (2023). Leveraging public data to predict global niches and distributions of rhizostome jellyfishes. Animals, 13:1591. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13101591

Anthony CJ, Heagy M, Bentlage B*. (2022). Phenotypic plasticity in Cassiopea ornata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) suggests environmentally driven morphology. Zoomorphology, 141:115–131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-022-00558-4