Publications
Books:
Carrier, T., Reitzel, A.M. and Heyland, A., (Eds.). (2018). Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae. Oxford University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications: [Google Scholar Profile here , Google is much faster than me at updates]
Ketchum R.N., E.G. Smith, M.B. DeBiasse, G.O. Vaughan, D. McParland, W.B. Leach, N. Al-Mansoori, J.F. Ryan, J.A. Burt, and A.M. Reitzel. 2020. Population genomic analyses of the sea urchin Echinometra sp. EZ across an extreme environmental gradient. Genome Biology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa150
Carrier, T.J., H.A. Lessios, and A.M. Reitzel. 2020. Eggs of echinoids separated by the Isthmus of Panama harbor divergent microbiota. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 648:169-177
Sachkova, M.Y., J. Macrander, J.M. Surm, R. Aharoni, S.S. Menard-Harvey, A. Klock, W.B. Leach, A.M. Reitzel, and Y. Moran Y. 2020. Some like it hot: population-specific adaptations in venom production to abiotic stressors in a widely distributed cnidarian. BMC Biology. 18(1):1-3.
Clompen, A.M.L., J. Macrander, A.M. Reitzel, and S. Stampar. 2020. Transcriptomic analysis of four cerianthid (Cnidaria, Ceriantharia) venoms. Marine Drugs. 18, 413.
Leach, W.B. and A.M. Reitzel. 2020. Decoupling behavioral and transcriptional responses to color in an eyeless cnidarian. BMC Genomics. 21:, 1-15
Schuh, N.W., T.J. Carrier, C.S. Schrankel, A.M. Reitzel, A. Heyland, and J.P. Rast. 2020. Bacterial exposure mediates developmental plasticity and resistance to lethal Vibrio lentus infection in Purple Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) larvae. Frontiers in Immunology. 10, 3014.
Knighton, L.E., D. Wolfgeher, A.M. Reitzel, and A.W. Truman. 2019. Dataset of Nematostella vectensis Hsp70 isoform interactomes upon heat shock. Data in Brief. 27, p.104580.
Carrier, T. J. and A.M. Reitzel. 2019. Shift in bacterial taxa precedes morphological plasticity in a larval echinoid. Marine Biology, 166(12), 164
Sachkova, M.Y., S.A. Singer, J. Macrander, A.M. Reitzel, S. Peigneur, J. Tytgat, and Y. Moran. 2019. The birth and death of toxins with distinct functions: a case study in the sea anemone Nematostella. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36: 2001–2012
Ul-Hasan, S., E. Rodríguez-Román, A.M. Reitzel, R.M.M. Adams, V. Herzig, C.J. Nobile, A.J. Saviola, S.A. Trim, E.E. Stiers, S.A. Moschos, C.N. Keiser, D. Petras, Y. Moran, and T.J. Colston. 2019. The emerging field of venom-microbiomics for exploring venom as a microenvironment, and the corresponding Initiative for Venom Associated Microbes and Parasites (iVAMP). Toxicon: X. 4: 100016.
Leach, W.B. and A.M. Reitzel. 2019. Transcriptional remodelling upon light removal in a model cnidarian: Losses and gains in gene expression. Molecular Ecology. 28: 3413-3426
Leach, W.B., T.J. Carrier, and A.M. Reitzel. 2019. Diel patterning in the bacterial community associated with the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Ecology and Evolution. 9:9935–9947
Carrier, T.J., S. Dupont, and A.M. Reitzel. 2019. Geographic location and food availability offer differing levels of influence on the bacterial communities associated with larval sea urchins. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 95: 103
Knighton, L.E., S.J. Waller, O. Strom, D. Wolfgeher, A.M. Reitzel, and A.W. Truman. 2019. Dynamic remodeling of the interactomes of Nematostella vectensis Hsp70 isoforms under heat shock. Journal of Proteomics. 206: 103416
Stampar, S. N., M.B. Broe, J. Macrander, A.M. Reitzel, M.R. Brugler, and M. Daly. 2019. Linear mitochondrial genome in Anthozoa (Cnidaria): A case study in Ceriantharia. Scientific Reports, 9(1): 6094.
Carrier, T. J. and A.M. Reitzel. 2019. Bacterial community dynamics during embryonic and larval development of three confamilial echinoids. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 611: 179-188.
Carrier, T.J., K. Wolfe, K. Lopez, M. Gall, D.A. Janies, M. Byrne, and A.M. Reitzel. 2018. Diet-induced shifts in the crown-of-thorns (Acanthaster sp.) larval microbiome. Marine Biology 165: 157
Ketchum R.N., M.B. Debiasse, J.F. Ryan, J.A. Burt, and A.M. Reitzel. 2018. The complete mitochondrial genome of the sea urchin, Echinometra sp. EZ. Mitochondrial DNA: Resources. 3(2), 1225-1227. doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1532335
Leach, W. B., J. Macrander, R. Peres, and A. M. Reitzel. 2018. Transcriptome-wide analysis of differential gene expression in response to light: dark cycles in a model cnidarian."Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics 26 (2018): 40-49.
Carrier, T.J., and A. M. Reitzel. 2018. Convergent shifts in host-associated microbial communities across environmentally elicited phenotypes. Nature Communications 9, no. 1 (2018): 952.
Reitzel, A.M., Macrander, J., Mane-Padros, D., Fang, B., Sladek, F.M. and Tarrant, A.M., 2018. Conservation of DNA and Ligand Binding Properties of Retinoid X Receptor from the Placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens to human. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Columbus-Shenkar, Y.Y., Sachkova, M.Y., Macrander, J., Fridrich, A., Modepalli, V., Reitzel, A.M., Sunagar, K. and Moran, Y., (2018). Dynamics of venom composition across a complex life cycle. eLife, 7, p.e35014.
Tarrant, A.M., Payton, S.L., Reitzel, A.M., Porter, D.T. and Jenny, M.J., (2018). Ultraviolet radiation significantly enhances the molecular response to dispersant and sweet crude oil exposure in Nematostella vectensis. Marine Environmental Research. 134: 96-108.
Macrander, J.C., Dimond, J.L., Bingham, B.L. and Reitzel, A.M. (2017). Transcriptome sequencing and characterization of Symbiodinium muscatinei and Elliptochloris marina, symbionts found within the aggregating sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima. Marine Genomics.
Carrier, T.J. and Reitzel, A.M. (2017). The Hologenome Across Environments and the Implications of a Host-Associated Microbial Repertoire. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, p.802.
Tarrant, A.M., T.D. Gilmore, A.M. Reitzel, O. Levy, U. Technau, and M.Q. Martindale. 2015. Current directions and future perspectives from the third Nematostella research conference. Zoology. 118(2):135-140.
Har, J.Y., T. Helbig, J.H. Lim, S.C. Fernando, A.M. Reitzel, K. Penn, and J.R. Thompson. 2015. Microbial diversity and activity in the Nematostella vectensis holobiont: insights from 16S rRNA gene sequencing, isolate genomes, and a pilot-scale survey of gene expression. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00818.
Mortzfeld, B.M., S. Urbanski, A.M. Reitzel, S. Kuenzel, U. Technau, and S. Fraune. 2015. Response of bacterial colonization in Nematostella vectensis to development, environment, and biogeography. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12926.
Traylor-Knowles, N.G., E.G. Kane, V. Sombatsaphay, J.R. Finnerty, and A.M. Reitzel. 2015. Sex-specific and developmental expression of Dmrt genes in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. EvoDevo. 6:13.
Peres, R., A.M. Reitzel, Y.J. Passamaneck, S.C. Afeche, J. Cipolia-Neto, A.C. Marques, and M.Q. Martindale. 2014. Developmental and light-entrained expression of melatonin and it relationship to the circadian clock in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. EvoDevo. 5:26.
Reitzel, A.M., S.I. Karchner, D.G. Franks, B.R. Evans, D. Nacci, D. Champlin, V.M. Vierira, and M.E. Hahn. 2014. Genetic variation at aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) loci in populations of Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) inhabiting polluted and reference habitats. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14:6.
Stefanik, D.J. T.J. Lubinski, B.R. Granger, A.L. Byrd, A.M.Reitzel, L. DeFilippo, A. Lorenc and J.R. Finnerty. 2014. Production of a reference transcriptome and transcriptomic database (EdwardsiellaBase) for the lined sea anemone, Edwardsiella lineata, a parasitic cnidarian. 15:71. (Link to Database)
Tarrant, A.M., A.M. Reitzel, C.K. Kwok, and M.J. Jenny. 2014. Activation of the cnidarian oxidative stress response by ultraviolet light, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and crude oil. Journal of Experimental Biology. doi:10.1242/jeb.093690.
Reitzel, A.M., Y.J. Passamaneck, S.I. Karchner, D.G. Franks, M.Q. Martindale, A.M. Tarrant, and M.E. Hahn. Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis: comparative expression, protein interactions, and ligand binding. 2014. Development, Genes and Evolution. doi: 10.1007/s00427-013-0458-4.
Tarrant, A.M. and A.M. Reitzel. 2013. Introduction to the symposium--keeping time during evolution: conservation and innovation of the circadian clock. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53(1): 89-92.
Reitzel, A.M*. , A.M. Tarrant*, and O. Levy. 2013. Circadian clocks in the Cnidaria: Environmental entrainment, molecular regulation, and organismal outputs. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53(1): 118-30.
Reitzel, A.M., T. Chu, S. Edquist, C. Genovese, C. Church, A.M. Tarrant, and J.R. Finnerty. 2013. Physiological and developmental responses to temperature by the estuarine sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 484: 115-130.
Reitzel, A.M.*, S. Herrera*, M.J. Layden, M.Q. Martindale, and T.M. Shank. 2013. Going where traditional markers have not gone before: utility of and promise for RAD sequencing in marine invertebrate phylogeography and population genomics. Molecular Ecology. 22(11): 2953-70.
Schnitzler, C.E., K. Pang, M.L. Powers, A.M. Reitzel, J.F. Ryan, D. Simmons, T. Tada, M. Park, J. Gupta, S.Y. Brooks, R.W. Blakesley, S. Yokoyama, S.H.D. Haddock, M.Q. Martindale and A.D. Baxevanis. 2012. Genomic organization, evolution, and expression of photoprotein and opsin genes in Mnemiopsis leidyi: a new view of ctenophore photocytes. BMC Biology. 10:107.
Whalen, K., A.M. Reitzel, and A. Hamdoun. 2012. Actin polymerization controls the activation of multidrug efflux at fertilization by translocation and fine-scale positioning of ABCB1a on microvilli. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 23: 3663-3672.
Barzilai, M.G., A.M. Reitzel, J.E.M. Kraus, D. Gordon, U. Technau, M. Gurevitz, and Y. Moran. 2012. Convergent evolution of sodium ion selectivity in metazoan neuronal signaling. Cell Reports. 2: 242- 248.
Reitzel, A.M., J.F. Ryan, and A.M. Tarrant. 2012. Establishing a model organism: a report from the first annual Nematostella meeting. BioEssays. 34: 158-161.
Arellano, S.M., A.M. Reitzel, and C. Button. 2012. Variation in vertical distribution of sand dollar larvae relative to haloclines, food, and fish cues. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 414-415: 28-37.
Reitzel, A.M., K. Pang, J.F. Ryan, J.C. Mullikin, M.Q. Martindale, A.D. Baxevanis, and A.M. Tarrant. 2011. Nuclear receptors from the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi lack a zinc-finger DNA-binding domain: lineage-specific loss or ancestral condition in the emergence of the nuclear receptor superfamily? EvoDevo. 2(1):3.
Aruda, A.M., M.F. Baumgartner, A.M. Reitzel, and A.M. Tarrant. 2011. Heat shock protein expression during stress and diapause in the marine copepod Calanusfinmarchicus. Journal of Insect Physiology. 57: 665-675.
Reitzel, A.M., L. Behrendt, and A.M. Tarrant. 2010. Light entrained rhythmic gene expression in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis: the evolution of the animal circadian clock. PLoS ONE. 5(9): e12805.
Reitzel, A.M. and A.M. Tarrant. 2010. Correlated evolution of androgen receptor and aromatase revisited. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(10):2211-2215.
*Mazza, M.E., K. Pang*, A.M. Reitzel*, M.Q. Martindale, and J.R. Finnerty. 2010. A conserved cluster of three Paired-class homeobox genes (homeobrain, rx, and orthopedia) in the Cnidaria and Protostomia. EvoDevo. 1:3.
Reitzel, A.M., J.C. Sullivan, and J.R. Finnerty. 2010. Discovering SNPs in protein coding regions with StellaSNP: illustrating the characterization and geographic distribution of polymorphisms in the estuarine anemone Nematostella vectensis. Estuaries and Coasts. 33: 930-943.
Sullivan, J.C., F.S. Wolenski, A.M. Reitzel, C.E. French, T.D. Gilmore, and J.R. Finnerty. 2009. Two alleles encoding transcription factor NF-κB in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis are widely distributed in natural populations and encode proteins with distinct DNA-binding and transactivation activities. PLos ONE. 4(10): e7311.
Reitzel, A.M. and A.M. Tarrant. 2009. The nuclear receptor complement of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis: phylogenetic identity and developmental expression. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9:230.
Darling, J.A., A. Kuenzi, and A.M. Reitzel. 2009. Human mediated transport determines the nonnative distribution of a dispersal limited estuarine invertebrate. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 380: 137- 146.
Tarrant, A.M., A.M. Reitzel, C.H. Blomquist, F. Haller, J. Tokarz, and J. Adamski. 2009. Steroid metabolism in cnidarians: insights from Nematostella vectensis. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 301: 27-36.
Reitzel, A.M., M. Daly, J.C. Sullivan, and J.R. Finnerty. 2009. Comparative anatomy and histology of developmental and parasitic stages in the life history of the lined sea-anemone Edwardsiella lineata. Journal of Parasitology. 95: 100-112.
Reitzel, A.M., J.A. Darling, J.C. Sullivan, and J.R. Finnerty. 2008. Global population genetic structure of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis: multiple introductions and conservation policy. Biological Invasions. 10: 1197-1213.
Moran, Y., H. Weinberger, J.C. Sullivan, A.M. Reitzel, J.R. Finnerty, and M. Gurevitz. 2008. Concerted evolution of sea anemone neurotoxin genes is revealed through analysis of the Nematostella vectensis genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25: 737-747.
*Reitzel, A.M., J.C. Sullivan*, N. Traylor-Knowles*, and J.R. Finnerty*. 2008. A genomic survey of chemical and biological stress-response genes of the estuarine anemone Nematostella vectensis. Biological Bulletin. 214: 233-254.
Moran, Y., H. Weinberger, A.M. Reitzel, J.C. Sullivan, R. Khan, D. Gordon, J.R. Finnerty, and M. Gurevitz. 2008. Intron retention as a post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism of neurotoxin expression at early life stages of the starlet anemone Nematostella vectensis. Journal of Molecular Biology. 380: 437-443.
Sullivan, J.C., D. Sher, M. Eisenstein, K. Shigesada, A.M. Reitzel, H. Marlow, D. Levanon, Y. Groner, J.R. Finnerty, and U. Gat. 2008. The evolutionary origin of the Runx/CBFβ transcription factors and clues to their function – studies of the most basal metazoans. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8: 228.
Reitzel, A.M. and A. Heyland. 2007. Reduction in morphological plasticity in echinoid larvae: relationship of plasticity with maternal investment and food availability. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 9: 109-121.
Reitzel, A.M., P. Burton, C. Krone, and J.R. Finnerty. 2007. Comparison of developmental trajectories in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Stephenson): embryogenesis, regeneration, and two forms of asexual fission. Invertebrate Biology. 126: 99-112.
Sullivan, J.C., A.M. Reitzel, and J.R. Finnerty. 2007. Upgrades to StellaBase facilitate medical and genetic studies on the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(Database issue): D607–D611.
Reitzel, A.M. and B.G. Miner. 2007. Reduced planktotrophy in larvae of Clypeaster rosaceus (Echinodermata, Echinoidea). Marine Biology. 151: 1525-1534.
*Reitzel, A.M., J.C. Sullivan*, B.K. Brown, D.W. Chin, E.K. Cira, S.K. Edquist, B.M. Genco, O.C. Joseph, C.A. Kaufman, K. Kovitvongsa, M.M. Muñoz, T.L. Negri, J.R. Taffel, R.T. Zuehlke, and J.R Finnerty. 2007. Ecological and developmental dynamics of a host-parasite system involving a sea anemone and two ctenophores. Journal of Parasitology. 93(6): 1392-1402.
Heyland, A., A.M. Reitzel, D. Price, and L.L. Moroz. 2006. Endogenous thyroid hormone synthesis in facultative planktotrophic larvae of the sand dollar Clypeaster rosaceus: implications for the evolutionary loss of larval feeding. Evolution and Development. 8: 568-579.
Sullivan J.C., A.M. Reitzel, and J.R. Finnerty. 2006. A high percentage of introns in human genes were present early in animal evolution: evidence from the basal metazoan Nematostella vectensis. Genome Informatics. 17: 219-229.
Darling, J.A., A.M. Reitzel, and J.R. Finnerty. 2006. Characterization of microsatellite loci in the widely introduced estuarine anemone Nematostella vectensis. Molecular Ecology Notes. 6: 803-805.
Reitzel, A.M., J.C. Sullivan, and J.R. Finnerty. 2006. Qualitative shift to indirect development in the parasitic sea anemone Edwardsiella lineata. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46: 827-837.
*Bishop, C. et al. (A.M. Reitzel*, 11th of 14 co-authors). 2006. What is metamorphosis? Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46: 655-661.
Reitzel, A.M. and B. Chockley. 2005. Influences of habitat distribution and maternal investment on settlement of lecithotrophic larvae: modeling an ecological transition. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 7: 183-201.
*Darling, J.A., A.M. Reitzel*, P. Burton, M. Mazza, J. Ryan and J.R. Finnerty. 2005. A starlet in the mud: the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. BioEssays. 27: 211-221.
*Heyland, A., J. Hodin*, and A.M. Reitzel*. 2005. Hormone signaling in evolution and development: a non-model systems approach. BioEssays. 26: 1-12.
Reitzel, A.M., C.M. Miles, A. Heyland, J.D. Cowart, and L.R. McEdward. 2005. The effect of the facultative feeding period on echinoid larval development and size at metamorphosis: a comparative approach. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 317: 189-201.
Heyland, A., A.M. Reitzel, and J. Hodin. 2004. Thyroxine induces facultative feeding in an obligatorily feeding sand dollar larva. Evolution and Development. 6 (6): 382-392.
Reitzel, A.M., B.G. Miner, and L.R. McEdward. 2004. Relationships between spawning date and larval development time for benthic marine invertebrates: a modeling approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 280: 13-23.
Darling, J.A., A.M. Reitzel, and J.R. Finnerty. 2004. Regional population structure of a widely introduced estuarine invertebrate: Nematostella vectensis Stephenson in New England. Molecular Ecology. 13: 2969-2981.
Reitzel, A.M., J. Webb, and S. Arellano. 2004. Growth, development, and condition of larvae of Dendraster excentricus reared on laboratory and natural diets. Journal of Plankton Research. 26: 901-908.
Bingham, B.L. and A.M. Reitzel. 2000. Solar damage to the solitary ascidian, Corella inflata. Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 80: 515-521.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters:
Reitzel, A.M., D. Stefanik, and J.R. Finnerty. 2011. Asexual reproduction in Cnidaria: comparative developmental processes and candidate mechanisms. In: Mechanisms of Life History Evolution The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs (eds. A. Heyland and T. Flatt). Oxford University Press.
Heyland, A., A.M. Reitzel, and S. Degnan. 2011. Emerging patterns in the regulation and evolution of marine invertebrate settlement and metamorphosis. In: Mechanisms of Life History Evolution The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs (eds. A. Heyland and T. Flatt). Oxford University Press.
*Howeth, J.G., A.M. Derry*, and A.M. Reitzel*. 2010. Metacommunity biology as an eco-evolutionary framework for understanding exotic invasion in aquatic ecosystems. Eco-DAS VIII Symposium Proceedings. Waco, TX: American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. p. 93-109.