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Sarah W. Davies

Boston University · US
Area of research
Ecology · Oceanography
Research interest
Research interests include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and coastal plant biology, Marine and fisheries research, and Marine Sponges and Natural Products.
h-index
32
citations
4,089
works
166
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Rapid Evolution in a Coral Population Following a Mass Mortality Event
Evolutionary Applications 2026cited by 0position: middledoi
Cryptic coral diversity is associated with symbioses, physiology, and response to thermal challenge
Science Advances 2025cited by 13position: lastdoi
Proactive assisted gene flow for Caribbean corals in an era of rapid coral reef decline
Science 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
The Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event: Where do we go from here?
Coral Reefs 2024cited by 184position: middledoi
Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis and conservation
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2024cited by 56position: lastdoi
Starvation differentially affects gene expression, immunity and pathogen susceptibility across symbiotic states in a model cnidarian
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2024cited by 16position: lastdoi
Gene expression plasticity facilitates acclimatization of a long-lived Caribbean coral across divergent reef environments
Scientific Reports 2024cited by 13position: lastdoi
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages
Global Change Biology 2024cited by 11position: lastdoi
Symbiosis modulates gene expression of symbionts, but not coral hosts, under thermal challenge
Molecular Ecology 2024cited by 10position: lastdoi
Photosymbiosis reduces the environmental stress response under a heat challenge in a facultatively symbiotic coral
Scientific Reports 2024cited by 8position: lastdoi
Genomic signatures of coral adaptation and recovery following a mass mortality event
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2024cited by 1position: middledoi
Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity
PeerJ 2023cited by 90position: firstdoi
Marine heatwaves threaten cryptic coral diversity and erode associations among coevolving partners
Science Advances 2023cited by 51position: middledoi
Exposure to global change and microplastics elicits an immune response in an endangered coral
Frontiers in Marine Science 2023cited by 28position: lastdoi
Microbiome Structuring Within a Coral Colony and Along a Sedimentation Gradient
Frontiers in Marine Science 2022cited by 31position: lastdoi
Help Me, Symbionts, You're My Only Hope: Approaches to Accelerate our Understanding of Coral Holobiont Interactions
Integrative and Comparative Biology 2022cited by 28position: lastdoi
Reef environments shape microbial partners in a highly connected coral population
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2022cited by 22position: lastdoi
Building Consensus around the Assessment and Interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae Diversity
Preprints.org 2022cited by 21position: firstdoi
Global change differentially modulates Caribbean coral physiology
PLoS ONE 2022cited by 20position: middledoi
A framework for understanding gene expression plasticity and its influence on stress tolerance
Molecular Ecology 2021cited by 175position: lastdoi
Symbiosis maintenance in the facultative coral, Oculina arbuscula, relies on nitrogen cycling, cell cycle modulation, and immunity
Scientific Reports 2021cited by 55position: lastdoi
Genetic divergence and range expansion in a western North Pacific coral
The Science of The Total Environment 2021cited by 52position: lastdoi
Consensus Guidelines for Advancing Coral Holobiont Genome and Specimen Voucher Deposition
Frontiers in Marine Science 2021cited by 51position: middledoi
Characterizing environmental stress responses of aposymbiotic<i>Astrangia poculata</i>to divergent thermal challenges
Molecular Ecology 2021cited by 33position: lastdoi
On a Reef Far, Far Away: Anthropogenic Impacts Following Extreme Storms Affect Sponge Health and Bacterial Communities
Frontiers in Marine Science 2021cited by 21position: middledoi
Expanding coral reproductive knowledge using remotely operated vehicles (ROV): broadcast-spawning observations of mesophotic corals at the Flower Garden Banks
Marine Biodiversity 2021cited by 5position: lastdoi
<i>Cladocopium</i> community divergence in two <i>Acropora</i> coral hosts across multiple spatial scales
Molecular Ecology 2020cited by 31position: firstdoi
Considerations for maximizing the adaptive potential of restored coral populations in the western Atlantic
Ecological Applications 2019cited by 290position: middledoi
Recruit symbiosis establishment and Symbiodiniaceae composition influenced by adult corals and reef sediment
Coral Reefs 2019cited by 71position: lastdoi
Molecular tools for coral reef restoration: Beyond biomarker discovery
Conservation Letters 2019cited by 71position: middledoi

Grants

The role of diel thermal variability on coral performance
NSF2402528$1,083,1652024–2027PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: How do selection, plasticity, and dispersal interact to determine coral success in warmer and more variable environments?
NSF2048589$516,7572021–2025PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Building consensus around the quantification and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity
NSF2127506$82,2302021–2023PIRePORTER
RAPID: Collaborative Research: Impact of freshwater runoff from Hurricane Harvey on coral reef benthic organisms and associated microbial communities
NSF1800904$32,2482017–2019PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Hannah E. Aichelman · Boston University9 papers (2017–2025) · 9 papers (2017–2025)James E. Fifer · Boston University8 papers (2021–2025)Mikhail V. Matz · The University of Texas at Austin7 papers (2017–2025)Nicola G. Kriefall · Boston University7 papers (2018–2025)Colleen B. Bove · Boston University7 papers (2019–2025)Justin B. Ries · Scripps Institution of Oceanography4 papers (2018–2024)John P. Rippe · The University of Texas at Austin4 papers (2017–2025)Carly D. Kenkel · University of Southern California4 papers (2019–2025)Annabel M. Hughes · Boston University4 papers (2023–2025)Daniel M. Wuitchik · Tufts University4 papers (2021–2024)Andrew C. Baker · University of Miami4 papers (2019–2025)Justin H. Baumann · The Ohio State University3 papers (2017–2025)John Everett Parkinson · Pennsylvania State University3 papers (2019–2025)Sheila A. Kitchen · California Institute of Technology3 papers (2019–2025)Marie E. Strader · Texas A&M University3 papers (2021–2026)Iliana B. Baums · Pennsylvania State University3 papers (2019–2025)Andrew A. Shantz · University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa3 papers (2019–2025)Margaret W. Miller · Florida International University3 papers (2019–2025)Alexa K. Huzar · Boston University3 papers (2023–2024)