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W. Fitt

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h-index: 52
Works: 111
Citations: 11K

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Coral bleaching: interpretation of thermal tolerance limits and thermal thresholds in tropical corals
W. Fitt, B. Brown, M. Warner, R. Dunne
2001Coral reefs828 citations Open access
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Damage to photosystem II in symbiotic dinoflagellates: a determinant of coral bleaching.
M. Warner, W. Fitt, G. Schmidt
1999Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America809 citations Open access
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Seasonal patterns of tissue biomass and densities of symbiotic dinoflagellates in reef corals and relation to coral bleaching
W. Fitt, F. McFarland, M. Warner, G. Chilcoat
2000610 citations Open access
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The effects of elevated temperature on the photosynthetic efficiency of zooxanthellae in hospite from four different species of reef coral: a novel approach
M. Warner, W. Fitt, G. Schmidt
1996478 citations
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Low symbiont diversity in southern Great Barrier Reef corals, relative to those of the Caribbean
T. Lajeunesse, W. Loh, R. van Woesik, O. Hoegh-Guldberg +2 more
2003460 citations
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Multi-year, seasonal genotypic surveys of coral-algal symbioses reveal prevalent stability or post-bleaching reversion
D. Thornhill, T. Lajeunesse, D. Kemp, W. Fitt +1 more
2006415 citations
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Long‐standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host–symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium
T. Lajeunesse, Daniel T. Pettay, E. Sampayo, N. Phongsuwan +4 more
2010394 citations
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Closely related Symbiodinium spp. differ in relative dominance in coral reef host communities across environmental, latitudinal and biogeographic gradients
T. Lajeunesse, R. Bhagooli, M. Hidaka, L. Devantier +4 more
2004367 citations Open access
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Bleaching Patterns of Four Species of Caribbean Reef Corals.
W. Fitt, M. Warner
1995The Biological Bulletin327 citations Open access
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High diversity and host specificity observed among symbiotic dinoflagellates in reef coral communities from Hawaii
T. Lajeunesse, D. Thornhill, E. Cox, F. Stanton +2 more
2004Coral reefs294 citations
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Diurnal changes in photochemical efficiency and xanthophyll concentrations in shallow water reef corals : evidence for photoinhibition and photoprotection
B. Brown, I. Ambarsari, M. Warner, W. Fitt +3 more
1999Coral reefs285 citations
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Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers
C. Wild, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, M. Naumann, M. F. Colombo-Pallotta +8 more
2011280 citations Open access
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Bleaching in reef corals: Physiological and stable isotopic responses.
J. Porter, W. Fitt, H. Spero, C. Rogers +1 more
1989Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America276 citations Open access
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Response of two species of Indo-Pacific corals, Porites cylindrica and Stylophora pistillata, to short-term thermal stress: The host does matter in determining the tolerance of corals to bleaching
W. Fitt, R. Gates, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, J. Bythell +12 more
2009260 citations
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Seasonal fluctuations in the photosynthetic capacity of photosystem II in symbiotic dinoflagellates in the Caribbean reef-building coral Montastraea
M. Warner, G. Chilcoat, F. McFarland, W. Fitt
2002212 citations
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The Zooxanthellal Tubular System in the Giant Clam.
John H. Norton, Malcolm A. Shepherd, Helen M. Long, W. Fitt
1992The Biological Bulletin202 citations Open access
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Recovery of the coral Montastrea annularis in the Florida Keys after the 1987 Caribbean “bleaching event”
W. Fitt, H. Spero, J. Halás, M. White +1 more
1993Coral reefs167 citations
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Enhanced photoprotection pathways in symbiotic dinoflagellates of shallow-water corals and other cnidarians
Jennifer McCabe Reynolds, B. Bruns, W. Fitt, G. Schmidt
2008Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America159 citations Open access
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Community dynamics and physiology of Symbiodinium spp. before, during, and after a coral bleaching event
D. Kemp, Xavier Hernández-Pech, R. Iglesias-Prieto, W. Fitt +1 more
2014153 citations
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Specificity and stability in high latitude eastern Pacific coral‐algal symbioses
T. Lajeunesse, H. R. Bonilla, M. Warner, M. Wills +2 more
2008151 citations
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A Connection between Colony Biomass and Death in Caribbean Reef-Building Corals
D. Thornhill, R. Rotjan, B. D. Todd, G. Chilcoat +8 more
2011PLoS ONE146 citations Open access
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Highly stable symbioses among western Atlantic brooding corals
D. Thornhill, W. Fitt, G. Schmidt
2006Coral reefs143 citations
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Settlement behavior and metamorphosis of oyster larvae (Crassostrea gigas) in response to bacterial supernatants
W. Fitt, S. Coon, M. Walch, R. M. Weiner +2 more
1990143 citations
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Reef Endemism, Host Specificity and Temporal Stability in Populations of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates from Two Ecologically Dominant Caribbean Corals
D. Thornhill, Y. Xiang, W. Fitt, S. R. Santos
2009PLoS ONE141 citations Open access
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Competence and delay of metamorphosis in the Pacific oysterCrassostrea gigas
S. Coon, W. Fitt, D. Bonar
1990132 citations
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Upside-Down but Headed in the Right Direction: Review of the Highly Versatile Cassiopea xamachana System
A. Ohdera, M. Abrams, C. Ames, D. M. Baker +25 more
2018Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution129 citations Open access
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Catastrophic mortality on inshore coral reefs of the Florida Keys due to severe low‐temperature stress
D. Kemp, C. Oakley, D. Thornhill, L. Newcomb +2 more
2011129 citations
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CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN COLD TOLERANCE AND TEMPERATE BIOGEOGRAPHY IN A WESTERN ATLANTIC SYMBIODINIUM (DINOPHYTA) LINEAGE 1
D. Thornhill, D. Kemp, B. Bruns, W. Fitt +1 more
2008Journal of Phycology125 citations
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Checkpoints in the life-cycle of Cassiopea spp.: control of metagenesis and metamorphosis in a tropical jellyfish.
D. K. Hofmann, W. Fitt, J. Fleck
1996International Journal of Developmental Biology105 citations
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Ammonia Induces Settlement Behavior in Oyster Larvae.
S. Coon, M. Walch, W. Fitt, R. M. Weiner +1 more
1990The Biological Bulletin87 citations Open access
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Influence of UV radiation on the survival of larvae from broadcast-spawning reef corals
G. Wellington, W. Fitt
200380 citations
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Damage and recovery of Photosystem II during a manipulative field experiment on solar bleaching in the coral Goniastrea aspera
B. Brown, R. Dunne, M. Warner, I. Ambarsari +3 more
200080 citations Open access
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The role of temperature in survival of the polyp stage of the tropical rhizostome jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana
W. Fitt, K. Costley
199880 citations
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Contribution of the symbiotic dinoflagellate Symbiodinium microadriaticum to the nutrition, growth and survival of larval and juvenile tridacnid clams
W. Fitt, C. Fisher, R. Trench
198673 citations
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Cellular growth of host and symbiont in a cnidarian-zooxanthellar symbiosis.
W. Fitt
2000The Biological Bulletin69 citations Open access
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Natural infections of aposymbiotic Cassiopea xamachana scyphistomae from environmental pools of Symbiodinium
D. Thornhill, Michael Daniel, T. Lajeunesse, G. Schmidt +1 more
200666 citations
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The effects of feeding or addition of dissolved inorganic nutrients in maintaining the symbiosis between dinoflagellates and a tropical marine cnidarian
W. Fitt, C. Cook
200166 citations
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Degrading mangrove leaves of Rhizophora mangle Linne provide a natural cue for settlement and metamorphosis of the upside down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana Bigelow
J. Fleck, W. Fitt
199961 citations
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Formal recognition of host‐generalist species of dinoflagellate (Cladocopium, Symbiodiniaceae) mutualistic with Indo‐Pacific reef corals
Caleb C. Butler, Kira E. Turnham, A. Lewis, M. Nitschke +6 more
2023Journal of Phycology60 citations Open access
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Evidence for Ammonia as a Natural Cue for Recruitment of Oyster Larvae to Oyster Beds in a Georgia Salt Marsh.
W. Fitt, S. Coon
1992The Biological Bulletin59 citations Open access
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A microsampling method for genotyping coral symbionts
D. Kemp, W. Fitt, G. W. Schmidt
2008Coral reefs58 citations
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Effect of Ammonium-supplemented Seawater on Glutamine Synthetase and Glutamate Dehydrogenase Activities in Host Tissue and Zooxanthellae of Pocillopora damicornis and on Ammonium Uptake Rates of the Zooxanthellae
D. Yellowlees, T. Rees, W. Fitt
199456 citations
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Spatially distinct and regionally endemic Symbiodinium assemblages in the threatened Caribbean reef-building coral Orbicella faveolata
D. Kemp, D. Thornhill, R. Rotjan, R. Iglesias-Prieto +2 more
2015Coral reefs55 citations
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Nitrogen flux in giant clams: size-dependency and relationship to zooxanthellae density and clam biomass in the uptake of dissolved inorganic nitrogen
W. Fitt, T. Rees, R. Braley, John S. Lucas +1 more
1993Marine Biology52 citations
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The Domestication of Reef-dwelling Clams
G. Heslinga, W. Fitt
198752 citations
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Variation in symbiont uptake in the early ontogeny of the upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea spp.
R. E. Mellas, S. McIlroy, W. Fitt, M. Coffroth
201446 citations
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Life after cold death: reef coral and coral reef responses to the 2010 cold water anomaly in the Florida Keys
D. Kemp, M. Colella, L. Bartlett, R. Ruzicka +2 more
201645 citations Open access
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Use of antibiotics in the mariculture of giant clams (F. Tridacnidae)
W. Fitt, G. Heslinga, T. C. Watson
199244 citations
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CHEMOSENSORY RESPONSES OF THE SYMBIOTIC DINOFLAGELLATE SYMBIODINIUM MICROADRIATICUM (DINOPHYCEAE) 1
W. Fitt
198544 citations
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Fieldable Environmental DNA Sequencing to Assess Jellyfish Biodiversity in Nearshore Waters of the Florida Keys, United States
C. Ames, A. Ohdera, S. Colston, A. Collins +4 more
2021Frontiers in Marine Science43 citations Open access
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