Faculty Publications:
  Michael B. Morgan

Publications:

Edge, Sara E.,  Michael B. Morgan, and Terry W. Snell.  2008. Temporal Analysis of Gene Expression in a Field Population of the Scleractinian Coral Montastraea faveolata. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 355: 114-124.   (Read Abstract)

Morgan, M. B., and T. W. Snell.  2006.  Expression of a ceruloplasmin homolog in corals: An informative biomarker of stress.  Proceedings of the 10^th International Coral Reef Symposium.  p.822-830.  (Read Abstract)

Morgan, M. B., S. E. Edge, and T. W. Snell.  2005.  Profiling differential gene expression of corals along a transect of waters adjacent to the Bermuda municipal dump.  Marine Pollution Bulletin 51: 524-533.  (Read Abstract)

Brogdon, S. E., M. B. Morgan, D. Gleason, and T. W. Snell. 2005. Development of a cDNA array to examine gene expression profiles in Monstastraea faveolata exposed to environmental stress. Marine Pollution Bulletin 51: 507-523. (Read Abstract)

Snell, T. W., S. E. Brogdon, and M. B. Morgan. 2003. Gene Expression Profiling in Ecotoxicology. Ecotoxicology 12: 475-483. (Read Abstract)

Morgan, M. B., and T. W. Snell. 2002. Characterizing stress gene expression in reef-building corals exposed to the mosquitoside dibrom. Marine Pollution Bulletin . 44(11): 1204-1216
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Morgan, M. B., D. L. Vogelien, T. W. Snell. 2001. Assessing coral stress responses using molecular biomarkers of gene transcription. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 20(3): 537-543
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Morgan, M.. B., and D. L. Cowles. 1996. The effects of temperature on the behaviour and physiology of Phataria unifascialis (Gray) (Echinodermata, Asteroidea): Implications for the species' distribution in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 208:13-27

Published abstracts:  (* -denotes student coauthor)

Morgan, Michael, Sara Edge, Alexander Venn, and Ross Jones.  “Using a Stressed-Focused Microarray to Characterize Coral Responses to Copper.”  Abstracts of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 7-11, 2008: 41.  (Abstract)

Edge, Sara, Michael Morgan, Joshua Voss, and Terry Snell.  “Microarray Characterization of Gene Expression in montastraea Cavernosa through Space and Time.”  Abstracts of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 7-11, 2008: 41.  (Abstract)

Anderson, Amy*, Alexander VENN, Ross Jones, and Michael Morgan.  “Characterizing Bleaching Responses in Corals Exposed to Dcmu, Copper, and Elevated Temperature Using Pam Fluorimetry and Gene Expression Profiling.”  Abstracts of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 7-11, 2008: 37.  (Abstract)

Poole, Angela*, Sara Edge, Amy Lane, Joshua Voss, and Michael Morgan.  “Differential Gene Expression Displayed by pocillopora Damicornis in Response to Infection by vibrio Coralliilyticus.  Abstracts of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 7-11, 2008: 51.  (Abstract)

Parker, Ginny, and Michael B. Morgan. 2004 Characterizing Differentially Expressed Genes in the Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium Rosenbergii. Georgia Journal of Science 62(1): 43.

Morgan, M. B., and T. W. Snell. 1999. Assessing coral stress responses at the level of gene expression. American Zoologist 39(5):122A

Morgan, M. B., and D. L. Cowles. 1990. Observations on the distribution and physiology of Phataria unifascialis (Echinodermata, Asteroidea): Temperature as a limiting factor? American Zoologist 30(4): 131A