Publications
2021
Takeda, N., Kashima, M., Odani, S., Uchiyama, Y., Kamidaira, Y., Mitarai, S. Identification of coral spawn source areas around Sekisei Lagoon for recovery and poleward habitat migration by using a particle-tracking model. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86167-5
Chuang, P.-S., Ishikawa, K., Mitarai S., Morphological and genetic recovery of coral polyps after bail-out. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.609287
2020
Brisbin, M. M., Conover, A. E., Mitarai, S. Influence of Regional Oceanography and Hydrothermal Activity on Protist Diversity and Community Structure in the Okinawa Trough. Microbial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01583-w
Chuang, P-S., Mitarai, S., Signaling pathways in the coral polyp bail-out response. Coral Reefs. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01983-x
Paired high-throughput, in-situ imaging and high-throughput sequencing illuminate acantharian abundance and vertical distribution. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11567
Wepfer, P. H., Nakajima, Y., Sutthacheep, M., Radice, V. Z., Richards, Z., Ang, P., Terraneo, T., Sudek, M., Fujimura, A., Toonen, R. J., Mikheyev, A. S., Economo, E. P., Mitarai, S. Evolutionary biogeography of the reef-building coral genus Galaxea across the Indo-Pacific ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106905
Le Gal, M., Mitarai, S., Reef influence quantification in light of the 1771 Meiwa tsunami. Ocean & Coastal Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105248
Levin, L. A., Wei, C. L., Dunn, D. C., Amon, D. J., Ashford, O. S., Cheung, W. W. L., Colaco, A., Dominiguez-Carrio, C., Escober E. G., Harden-Davies, H. R., Drazen, J., Ismail, K., Jones, D. O. B., Johnson, D.E., Le, J. T., Lejzerowicz, F., Mitarai, S., Morato, T., Mulsow, S., Snelgrove, P. V. R., Sweetman, A.K., Yasuhara, M., Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15223
Ares, A*., Brisbin. M. M*., Sato, K. N, Martin J. P., Iinuma, Y., Mitarai, S., Extreme storms cause rapid but short-lived shifts in nearshore subtropical bacterial communities. Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15178 * equal contribution
Wepfer, P. H., Nakajima, Y., Hui, F. K. C., Mitarai, S., Economo, E. P. Metacommunity ecology of Symbiodiniaceae hosted by the coral Galaxea fascicularis. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13177
Price, N. N., Muko, S., Legendre, L., Steneck, R., van Oppen, M. J. H., Albright, R., Ang Jr., P., Carpenter, R. C., Chui, A. P. Y., Fan, T.-Y., Gates, R. D., Harii, S., Kitano, H., Kurihara, H., Mitarai, S., Padilla-Gamiño, J. L., Sakai, K., Suzuki, G., Edmunds, P. J. Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical increase. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12980
2019
Brisbin, M. M. and Mitarai, S. Differential Gene Expression Supports a Resource-Intensive, Defensive Role for Colony Production in the Bloom-Forming Haptophyte, Phaeocystis globosa. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12727
Gavelis, G. S., Herranz, M., Wakeman, K. C., Ripken, C., Mitarai, S., Gile, G. H., Keeling, P. J., Leander, B. S. Dinoflagellate nucleus contains an extensive endomembrane network, the nuclear net. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37065-w
2018
Nakajima, Y., Chuang, P-S., Ueda, N., Mitarai, S. First evidence of asexual recruitment of Pocillopora acuta in Okinawa Island using genotypic identification. PeerJ. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5915
Guest, J. R., Edmunds, P. J., Gates, R. D., Kuffner, I. B., Andersson, A. J., Barnes, B. B., Chollett, I., Courtney, T. A., Elahi, R., Gross, K., Lenz, E. A., Mitarai, S., Mumby, P. J., Nelson, H. R., Parker, B. A., Putnam, H. M., Rogers, C. S., Toth, L. T. A framework for identifying and characterizing coral reef “oases” against a backdrop of degradation. Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13179
Monismith, S. G., Barkdull, M. K., Nunome, Y., Mitarai, S. Transport Between Palau and the Eastern Coral Triangle: Larval Connectivity or Near Misses. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077493
Brisbin, M. M., Mesrop, L. Y., Grossmann, M. M., Mitarai, S. Intra-host Symbiont Diversity and Extended Symbiont Maintenance in Photosymbiotic Acantharea (Clade F). Frontiers in Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01998
Edmunds, P. J., McIlroy, S. E., Adjeroud, M., Ang, P., Bergman, J. L., Carpenter, R. C., Coffroth, M. A., Fujimura, A. G., Hench, J. L., Holbrook, S. J., Leichter, J. J., Muko, S., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, M., Paris, C. B., Schmitt, R. J., Sutthacheep, M., Toonen, R. J., Sakai, K., Suzuki, G., Washburn, L., Wyatt, A. S. J., Mitarai, S. Critical Information Gaps Impeding Understanding of the Role of Larval Connectivity Among Coral Reef Islands in an Era of Global Change. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00290
Mullineaux, L. S., Metaxas, A., Beaulieu, S. E., Bright, M., Gollner, S., Grupe, B. M., Herrera, S., Kellner, J., Levin, L. A., Mitarai, S., Neubert, M. G., Thurnherr, A. M., Tunnicliffe, V., Kayama Watanabe, H., and Yong-Jin, W. Exploring the ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in a metacommunity framework. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00049
2017
Nakajima, Y., Wepfer, P. H., Suzuki, S., Zayasu, Y., Shinzato, C., Satoh, N., and Mitarai S. Microsatellite markers for multiple Pocillopora genetic lineages offer new insights about coral populations. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06776-x
Nakajima, Y., Shinzato, C., Khalturina, M., Nakamura, M., Watanabe, H. K., Nakagawa, S., Satoh, N., and Mitarai, S. Isolation and characterization of novel polymorphic microsatellite loci for the deep-sea hydrothermal vent limpet, Lepetodrilus nux, and the vent-associated squat lobster, Shinkaia crosnieri. Marine Biodiversity. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0704-5
Nakajima, Y., Nishikawa, A., Iguchi, A., Nagata, T., Uyeno, D., Sakai, K., and Mitarai, S. Elucidating the multiple genetic lineages and population genetic structure of the brooding coral Seriatopora (Scleractinia: Pocilloporidae) in the Ryukyu Archipelago. Coral Reefs. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-017-1557-x
Gavelis, G. S., Wakeman, K. C., Tillmann, U., Ripken, C., Mitarai, S., Herranz, M., Özbek, S., Holstein, T., Keeling, P. J. and Leander, B. S. Microbial arms race: Ballistic “nematocysts” in dinoflagellates represent a new extreme in organelle complexity. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602552
2016
Mitarai, S. and McWilliams, J. C. Wave glider observations of surface winds and currents in the core of Typhoon Danas. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071115
Mitarai, S., Watanabe, H., Nakajima, Y., Shchepetkin, A. F., and McWilliams, J. C. Quantifying dispersal from hydrothermal vent fields in the western Pacific Ocean. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518395113
2015
Nakajima, Y., Zayasu, Y., Shinzato, C., Satoh, N., and Mitarai, S. Genetic differentiation and connectivity of morphological types of the broadcast-spawning coral Galaxea fascicularis in the Nansei Islands, Japan. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1981
Nakamura, M., Kumagai, N. H., Sakai, K., Okaji, K., Ogasawara, K., and Mitarai, S. Spatial variability in recruitment of acroporid corals and predatory starfish along the Onna coast, Okinawa, Japan. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11525
Nakajima, Y., Shinzato, C., Satoh, N., and Mitarai, S. Novel Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers Reveal Genetic Differentiation between Two Sympatric Types of Galaxea fascicularis. PLoS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130176
Nakamura, M., Chen, C., Mitarai, S. Insights into life-history traits of Munidopsis spp. from hydrothermal vent fields in the Okinawa Trough, in comparison with the existing data. Deep-Sea Research I. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2015.02.007
Edmunds, P., Steneck, R., Albright, R., Carpenter, R., Chui, P. Y., Fan, T. Y., Harii, S., Kitano, H., Kurihara, H., Legendre, L., Mitarai, S., Muko, S., Nozawa, Y., Padillo-Gamino, J., Price, N., Sakai, K., Suzuki, G., van Oppen, M. J. H., Yarid, A., Gates, R. D., Geographic variation in long-term trajectories of change in coral recruitment: a global-to-local perspective. Marine & Freshwater Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF14139
Grossmann, M. M., Gallager, S. M., Mitarai, S. Continuous monitoring of near-bottom mesoplankton communities in the East China Sea during a series of typhoons. Journal of Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-014-0268-y
2014
Nakamura, M., Okaji, K., Higa, Y., Yamakawa, E., Mitarai, S. Spatial and temporal population dynamics of the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci, over a 24-year period along the central west coast of Okinawa Island, Japan. Marine Biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-014-2524-5
Nakajima, Y., Shinzato, C., Khalturina, M., Watanabe, H., Inagaki, F., Satoh, N., and Mitarai, S. Cross-species, amplifiable microsatellite markers for neoverrucid barnacles from deep-sea hydrothermal vents developed using next-generation sequencing. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms150814364
Nakamura, M., Watanabe, H., Sasaki, T., Ishibashi, J., Fujikura, K., and Mitarai, S. Life history traits of Lepetodrilus nux in the Okinawa Trough, based upon gametogenesis, shell size, and genetic variability. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10779
2013
White, J., Scholz, A., Rassweiler, A., Steinback, C., Botsford, L., Kruse, S., Costello, C., Mitarai, S., Siegel, D., Drake, P., and Edwards, C. Socioeconomics and bioeconomics in marine protected area network planning. Ocean & Coastal Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.06.006
Harrison, C., Siegel, D., Mitarai, S. Filamentation and eddy−eddy interactions in marine larval accumulation and transport. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10061
2012
Watson, J., Kendall, B., Siegel, D. and Mitarai, S. Changing Seascapes, Stochastic Connectivity, and Marine Metapopulation Dynamics. American Naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1086/665992
2011
Nakamura, M., Morita, M., Kurihara, H. and Mitarai, S. Expression of hsp 70, hsp 90, hsf1 in the reef coral Acropora digitifera under prospective acidified conditions over the next several decades. Biology Open. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.2011036
Watson, J., Hays, C., Raimondi, P., Mitarai, S., Dong, C., McWilliams, J., Blanchette, C., Caselle, J. and Siegel, D., Currents connecting communities: nearshore community similarity and ocean circulation. Ecology. http://https://doi.org/10.1890/10-1436.1
Alberto, F., Raimondi, P., Reed, D., Watson, J., Siegel, D., Mitarai, S., Coelho, N., and Serrao, E. Isolation by oceanographic distance explains genetic structure for Macrocystis pyrifera in the Santa Barbara Channel, Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05117.x
2010
Ohlmann, J. C. and Mitarai, S. Lagrangian assessment of simulated surface current dispersion in the coastal ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL044436
Selkoe, K. A., Watson, J. R., White, C., Horin, T. B., Iacchei, M., Mitarai, S., Siegel, D. A., Gaines, S. D. and Toonen, R. J. Taking the chaos out of genetic patchiness: seascape genetics reveals ecological and oceanographic drivers of genetic patterns in three temperate reef species. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04658.x
Watson, J. R., Mitarai, S., Siegel, D. A., Caselle, J. E., Dong, C. and McWilliams, J. C. Realized and potential larval connectivity in the Southern California Bight. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08376
Berkley, H. A., Kendall, B. E., Mitarai, S. and Siegel, D. A. Turbulent dispersal promotes species coexistence. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01427.x
2009
Mitarai, S., Siegel, D. A., Watson, J. R., Dong, C. and McWilliams, J. C. Quantifying connectivity in the coastal ocean with application to the Southern California Bight. Journal of Geophysical Research–Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JC005166