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Craig Nelson
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
3,845 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Preprint Author 105
Reviewer 105
Editor 3,500

Contributions by subject area

Ecology
Marine Biology
Microbiology
Biochemistry
Ecosystem Science
Environmental Sciences
Aquatic and Marine Chemistry
Biological Oceanography
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Biodiversity
Environmental Impacts
Plant Science
Food Science and Technology
Molecular Biology
Zoology
Freshwater Biology
Ecohydrology
Biosphere Interactions
Climate Change Biology
Atmospheric Chemistry
Biogeochemistry
Histology
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Conservation Biology
Evolutionary Studies
Taxonomy
Agricultural Science
Genomics
Virology
Natural Resource Management
Developmental Biology
Entomology
Biogeography

Craig E Nelson

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

I am a microbial systems biologist specializing in the structure and function of natural bacterial communities in aquatic habitats such as coral reefs, lakes, streams, and the open ocean. My research broadly seeks to identify novel bacteria and understand their role in ecosystem processes and biogeochemical transformations. Much of my work centers around culture-independent phylogenetic and metagenomic characterization of natural microbial communities and measurement of biogeochemical processes and chemical constituents in the surrounding environment which regulate and are regulated by these microbes. I maintain ancillary projects understanding the microbiomes of eukarya (corals, humans, amphibians, macroalgae) and studying bacterial pathogens in natural waters in the context of water quality.

Aquatic & Marine Chemistry Bioinformatics Biological Oceanography Biosphere Interactions Climate Change Biology Ecology Ecosystem Science Freshwater Biology Marine Biology Microbiology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Work details

Assistant Researcher

University of Hawai'i
August 2013
Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE)

Staff Research Associate

University of California, Santa Barbara
April 2008 - July 2013
Marine Science Insitute

Websites

  • Google Scholar
  • ORCID

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Preprints 2
  • Edited 27
  • Reviewed 3
  • Answers 1
July 16, 2013
Influence of coral and algal exudates on microbially mediated reef metabolism
Andreas F. Haas, Craig E. Nelson, Forest Rohwer, Linda Wegley-Kelly, Steven D. Quistad, Craig A. Carlson, James J. Leichter, Mark Hatay, Jennifer E. Smith
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.108 PubMed 23882445
October 25, 2017 - Version: 1
Fluorescent organic exudates of corals and algae in tropical reefs are compositionally distinct and increase with nutrient enrichment
Zachary A Quinlan, Kristina Remple, Michael D Fox, Nyssa J Silbiger, Thomas A Oliver, Hollie M Putnam, Linda W Kelly, Craig A Carlson, Megan J Donahue, Craig E Nelson
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3372v1
May 23, 2017 - Version: 2
Exploring the occurrence of and explanations for nighttime spikes in dissolved oxygen across coral reef environments
Sandi K. Calhoun, Andreas F. Haas, Yui Takeshita, Maggie D. Johnson, Michael D. Fox, Emily L. A. Kelly, Benjamin Mueller, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Linda W. Kelly, Craig E. Nelson, Nichole N. Price, Ty N. F. Roach, Forest L. Rohwer, Jennifer E. Smith
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2935v2

Academic Editor on

June 21, 2023
Concordance of microbial and visual health indicators of white-band disease in nursery reared Caribbean coral Acropora cervicornis
Monica D. Schul, Dagny-Elise Anastasious, Lindsay J. Spiers, Julie L. Meyer, Thomas K. Frazer, Anya L. Brown
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15170 PubMed 37361046
March 8, 2023
Dictyota defense: Developing effective chemical protection against intense fish predation for outplanted massive corals
Cailin Harrell, Diego Lirman
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14995 PubMed 36915655
September 23, 2022
Hidden interactions in the intertidal rocky shore: variation in pedal mucus microbiota among marine grazers that feed on epilithic biofilm communities
Clara Arboleda-Baena, Claudia Belén Pareja, Isadora Pla, Ramiro Logares, Rodrigo De la Iglesia, Sergio Andrés Navarrete
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13642 PubMed 36172502
September 16, 2022
Shifts in water column microbial composition associated to lakes with different trophic conditions: “Lagunas de Montebello” National Park, Chiapas, México
Alfredo Yanez-Montalvo, Bernardo Aguila, Elizabeth Selene Gómez-Acata, Miriam Guerrero-Jacinto, Luis A. Oseguera, Luisa I. Falcón, Javier Alcocer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13999 PubMed 36132223
May 13, 2022
The Microphenotron: a novel method for screening plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
Asif Raheem, Basharat Ali
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13438 PubMed 35586133
February 2, 2021
Local dynamics of a white syndrome outbreak and changes in the microbial community associated with colonies of the scleractinian brain coral Pseudodiploria strigosa
Patricia E. Thome, Jacqueline Rivera-Ortega, Jenny C. Rodríguez-Villalobos, Daniel Cerqueda-García, Edgar O. Guzmán-Urieta, José Q. García-Maldonado, Natalia Carabantes, Eric Jordán-Dahlgren
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10695 PubMed 33604172
February 2, 2021
Taxonomic, functional and expression analysis of viral communities associated with marine sponges
Mary Nguyen, Bernd Wemheuer, Patrick W. Laffy, Nicole S. Webster, Torsten Thomas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10715 PubMed 33604175
December 18, 2020
Use of next generation sequencing to compare simple habitat and species level differences in the gut microbiota of an invasive and native freshwater fish species
Benjamin D. Gallo, John M. Farrell, Brian Leydet
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10237 PubMed 33384896
December 1, 2020
Tracking the dynamics of individual gut microbiome of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus during gut regeneration
Yohei Yamazaki, Yuichi Sakai, Juanwen Yu, Sayaka Mino, Tomoo Sawabe
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10260 PubMed 33344070
October 27, 2020
Optimised biomolecular extraction for metagenomic analysis of microbial biofilms from high-mountain streams
Susheel Bhanu Busi, Paraskevi Pramateftaki, Jade Brandani, Stilianos Fodelianakis, Hannes Peter, Rashi Halder, Paul Wilmes, Tom J. Battin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9973 PubMed 33194372
September 29, 2020
Coral reefs as a source of climate-active aerosols
Rebecca L. Jackson, Albert J. Gabric, Roger Cropp
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10023 PubMed 33062438
July 21, 2020
Microbial and chemical dynamics of a toxic dinoflagellate bloom
Nastassia V. Patin, Emily Brown, Gabriella Chebli, Claire Garfield, Julia Kubanek, Frank J. Stewart
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9493 PubMed 33240577
July 1, 2020
Effects of microbial evolution dominate those of experimental host-mediated indirect selection
Jigyasa Arora, Margaret A. Mars Brisbin, Alexander S. Mikheyev
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9350 PubMed 32676220
February 19, 2020
Invasive vegetation affects amphibian skin microbiota and body condition
Obed Hernández-Gómez, Allison Q. Byrne, Alex R. Gunderson, Thomas S. Jenkinson, Clay F. Noss, Andrew P. Rothstein, Molly C. Womack, Erica B. Rosenblum
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8549 PubMed 32117625
November 26, 2019
A rapid spread of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak in the Mexican Caribbean
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Nuria Estrada-Saldívar, Esmeralda Pérez-Cervantes, Ana Molina-Hernández, Francisco J. González-Barrios
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8069 PubMed 31788355
November 15, 2019
Different nitrogen sources speed recovery from corallivory and uniquely alter the microbiome of a reef-building coral
Mallory M. Rice, Rebecca L. Maher, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Deron E. Burkepile
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8056 PubMed 31741802
September 17, 2019
Ecological networks reveal contrasting patterns of bacterial and fungal communities in glacier-fed streams in Central Asia
Ze Ren, Hongkai Gao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7715 PubMed 31576247
August 6, 2019
Ultraviolet disinfection impacts the microbial community composition and function of treated wastewater effluent and the receiving urban river
Imrose Kauser, Mark Ciesielski, Rachel S. Poretsky
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7455 PubMed 31403004
May 13, 2019
The interactive effect of herbivory, nutrient enrichment and mucilage on shallow rocky macroalgal communities
Sarah Caronni, Chiara Calabretti, Sandra Citterio, Maria Anna Delaria, Rodolfo Gentili, Giovanni Macri, Chiara Montagnani, Augusto Navone, Pieraugusto Panzalis, Giulia Piazza, Giulia Ceccherelli
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6908 PubMed 31139504
April 29, 2019
Effects of thermal stress on amount, composition, and antibacterial properties of coral mucus
Rachel M. Wright, Marie E. Strader, Heather M. Genuise, Mikhail Matz
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6849 PubMed 31106065
April 25, 2019
Long-read viral metagenomics captures abundant and microdiverse viral populations and their niche-defining genomic islands
Joanna Warwick-Dugdale, Natalie Solonenko, Karen Moore, Lauren Chittick, Ann C. Gregory, Michael J. Allen, Matthew B. Sullivan, Ben Temperton
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6800 PubMed 31086738
March 13, 2019
Coral-algal interactions at Weizhou Island in the northern South China Sea: variations by taxa and the exacerbating impact of sediments trapped in turf algae
Zhiheng Liao, Kefu Yu, Yinghui Wang, Xueyong Huang, Lijia Xu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6590 PubMed 30886777
December 5, 2018
Bacterial diversity and community in Qula from the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau in China
Yan Zhu, Yingying Cao, Min Yang, Pengchen Wen, Lei Cao, Jiang Ma, Zhongmin Zhang, Weibing Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6044 PubMed 30568858
December 3, 2018
Exploring mechanisms that affect coral cooperation: symbiont transmission mode, cell density and community composition
Carly D. Kenkel, Line K. Bay
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6047 PubMed 30533318
December 3, 2018
In-situ incubation of a coral patch for community-scale assessment of metabolic and chemical processes on a reef slope
Steven M.A.C. van Heuven, Alice E. Webb, Didier M. de Bakker, Erik Meesters, Fleur C. van Duyl, Gert-Jan Reichart, Lennart J. de Nooijer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5966 PubMed 30533295
June 15, 2018
Relationship between Acropora millepora juvenile fluorescence and composition of newly established Symbiodinium assemblage
Kate M. Quigley, Marie E. Strader, Mikhail V. Matz
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5022 PubMed 29922515
May 7, 2018
Small tropical islands with dense human population: differences in water quality of near-shore waters are associated with distinct bacterial communities
Hauke F. Kegler, Christiane Hassenrück, Pia Kegler, Tim C. Jennerjahn, Muhammad Lukman, Jamaluddin Jompa, Astrid Gärdes
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4555 PubMed 29761035

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February 5, 2018
Sea cucumbers reduce chromophoric dissolved organic matter in aquaculture tanks
Seyed Mohammad Sadeghi-Nassaj, Teresa S. Catalá, Pedro A. Álvarez, Isabel Reche
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4344 PubMed 29423348
June 12, 2017
DOC concentrations across a depth-dependent light gradient on a Caribbean coral reef
Benjamin Mueller, Erik H. Meesters, Fleur C. van Duyl
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3456 PubMed 28626617
January 11, 2017
Sponge exhalent seawater contains a unique chemical profile of dissolved organic matter
Cara L. Fiore, Christopher J. Freeman, Elizabeth B. Kujawinski
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2870 PubMed 28097070

1 Answer

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What is the current thinking about DOC release by corals via mucus?