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I am a Senior Research Fellow studying meta-organism response to environmental stressors, host-microbe interactions, and symbioses in the marine environment. My research aims to determine how host-microbe interactions influence organism physiology, adaptation and acclimation, and responses to climate change.

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

	The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts | article Ainsworth TD, Krause L, Bridge T, Torda G, Raina J-B, Zakrzewski M, Gates RD, Padilla-Gamiño JL, Spalding HL, Smith C, Woolsey ES, Bourne DG, Bongaerts P, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Leggat W (2015) ISME J 9:2261-2274
	The Microbial Signature Provides Insight into the Mechanistic Basis of Coral Success across Reef Habitats | article Hernandez-Agreda A, Leggat W, Bongaerts P, Ainsworth TD (2016) mBio 7:e00560-16
	Rethinking the Coral Microbiome: Simplicity Exists within a Diverse Microbial Biosphere | article Hernandez-Agreda A, Leggat W, Bongaerts P, Herrera C, Ainsworth TD (2018) mBio 9:e00812-18
	The Mesophotic Coral Microbial Biosphere | chapter Leggat W, Gierz S, Hernandez-Agreda A, Ainsworth TD (2019) in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL