James S. Evans
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
14 Papers
4 Citations
James S. Evans is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications.
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A meta-analysis of the stony coral tissue loss disease microbiome finds key bacteria in unaffected and lesion tissue in diseased colonies
Stephanie M. Rosales,Lindsay K. Huebner,James S. Evans,Amy Apprill,Andrew J. Baker,Cynthia Becker,Anthony J. Bellantuono,M. Brandt,Abigail S. Clark,Javier del Campo,Caroline E. Dennison,Katherine R Eaton,Naomi Huntley,Christina A. Kellogg,Mónica Medina,Julie L. Meyer,Erinn M. Muller,Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty,Jennifer L. Salerno,William B. Schill,Erin N. Shilling,Julia Marie Stewart,Joshua D. Voss +22 more
TL;DR: The authors conducted a meta-analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA gene datasets generated by 16 field and laboratory SCTLD studies to find consistent bacteria associated with Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) across disease zones (vulnerable, endemic, and epidemic), coral species, coral compartments (mucus, tissue, and skeleton), and colony health states (apparently healthy colony tissue (AH), and unaffected (DU) and lesion (DL) tissue from diseased colonies).
A comparison of prokaryotic symbiont communities in nonnative and native ascidians from reef and harbor habitats.
TL;DR: It is suggested that nonnative species possess stable microbial symbiont communities that may allow them to thrive in a wide range of habitats, while native species rely on the restructuring of their microbial communities with specific symbionts (e.g. Chelativorans) to survive under particular environmental conditions such as increased pollution.
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Comparing Two Common DNA Extraction Kits for the Characterization of Symbiotic Microbial Communities from Ascidian Tissue.
TL;DR: The microbiomes of two ascidian species were characterized using two common DNA extraction kits, the DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit and the PowerSoil DNA Isolation Kit, followed by next-generation sequencing of partial 16S rRNA genes.
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Biofilms as potential reservoirs of stony coral tissue loss disease
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated whether bacteria shed by healthy and SCTLD-diseased corals would form distinct biofilms, and whether a stony coral tissue loss disease signal would be detectable within biofilm bacterial communities.
Combining tangential flow filtration and size fractionation of mesocosm water as a method for the investigation of waterborne coral diseases.
TL;DR: In this paper , a combination of coral mesocosms, tangential flow filtration, and size fractionation was used to detect differences between diseased and healthy coral colonies.