Recent Publications

Duque-Alarcón A, Santiago-Vázquez LZ, Kerr RG. A microbial community analysis of the octocoral Eunicea fusca Accepted for publication in 2012.
 
Lopez JV, Ledger A,Santiago-Vázquez LZ, Pop M, Ranzer LK, Feldman RA, Kerr RG. Partial transcriptome profiles of soft corals via suppression subtractive hybridization PCR.Electronic Journal of Biotechnology (2011) 13(5): http://dx.doi.org/10.2225/vol14-issue1-fulltext-3 | PDF
 
Santiago-Vázquez LZ, Brück TB, Brück WM, Duque-Alarcón AP, McCarthy PJ, Kerr RG. The diversity of the bacterial communities associated with the azooxanthellate deep water octocoral Cirrhipathes lutkeni. International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal (2007) 1: 654-659. PDF
 
Brück TB, Brück WM, Santiago-Vázquez LZ, McCarthy P, Kerr RG. Diversity of the bacterial communities associated with the azooxanthellate deep water octocorals Leptogorgia minimata, Iciligorgia schrammi and Swiftia exertia. Marine Biotechnology (2007) 9(5): 561-576. PDF
Santiago-Vázquez LZ, Newberger NC, Kerr RG. Cryopreservation of the dinoflagellate symbiont of the octocoral Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae as a source of the pseudopterosins. Marine Biology (2007) 152(3): 549-556. PDF
 
Santiago-Vázquez LZ, Ranzer LK, Kerr RG. Comparison of two total RNA extraction protocols using the marine gorgonian coral Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae and its symbiont Symbiodinium sp. Electronic Journal of Biotechnology (2006), 9(5): 598-603. PDF
 
Ross C, Santiago-Vázquez LZ, Paul V. Toxin secretion in response to oxidative stress and programmed cell death in the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa from the St. Lucie River, Florida. Aquatic Toxicology (2006), 78: 66-73. Link
 
Boehnlein JD, Santiago-Vázquez LZ, Kerr RG. Diterpene biosynthesis by the dinoflagellate symbiont of the Caribbean gorgonian Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata. Marine Ecology Progress Series (2005), 303: 105-111. PDF