By Professor Peter Steinberg

Journal articles

Johnston EL; Mayer-Pinto M; Hutchings PA; Marzinelli EM; Ahyong ST; Birch G; Booth DJ; Creese RG; Doblin MA; Figueira W; Gribben PE; Pritchard T; Roughan M; Steinberg PD; Hedge LH; Mayer Pinto M, 2015, 'Sydney Harbour: What we do and do not know about a highly diverse estuary', Marine and Freshwater Research, 66, pp. 1073 - 1087, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF15159

Basford AJ; Feary DA; Truong G; Steinberg PD; Marzinelli EM; Vergés A, 2015, 'Feeding habits of range-shifting herbivores: tropical surgeonfishes in a temperate environment', Marine and Freshwater Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF14208

Marshall DJ; Steinberg PD, 2014, 'Larval size and age affect colonization in a marine invertebrate', Journal of Experimental Biology, 217, pp. 3981 - 3987, http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.111781

Vergés A; Steinberg PD; Hay ME; Poore AGB; Campbell AH; Ballesteros E; Heck KL; Booth DJ; Coleman MA; Feary DA; Figueira W; Langlois T; Marzinelli EM; Mizerek T; Mumby PJ; Nakamura Y; Roughan M; van Sebille E; Gupta ASE; Smale DA; Tomas F; Wernberg T; Wilson SK, 2014, 'The tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems: climate-mediated changes in herbivory and community phase shifts', Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 281, pp. 20140846, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0846

Marzinelli EM; Campbell AH; Vergés A; Coleman MA; Kelaher BP; Steinberg PD, 2014, 'Restoring seaweeds: does the declining fucoid Phyllospora comosa support different biodiversity than other habitats?', Journal of Applied Phycology, 26, pp. 1089 - 1096, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10811-013-0158-5

Ling GC; Low MH; Erken M; Longford S; Nielsen S; Poole AJ; Steinberg P; McDougald D; Kjelleberg S, 2014, 'Micro-fabricated polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS) surfaces regulate the development of marine microbial biofilm communities', Biofouling, 30, pp. 323 - 335, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2013.872778

Paul NA; Svensson CJ; De Nys R; Steinberg PD, 2014, 'Simple growth patterns can create complex trajectories for the ontogeny of constitutive chemical defences in seaweeds', PLoS ONE, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086893

Tebben J; Guest JR; Sin TM; Steinberg PD; Harder T, 2014, 'Corals like it waxed: Paraffin-based antifouling technology enhances coral spat survival', PLoS ONE, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087545

Campbell AH; Marzinelli EM; Vergés A; Coleman MA; Steinberg PD, 2014, 'Towards Restoration of Missing Underwater Forests', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e84106 - e84106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084106

Evans SM; Sinclair EA; Poore AGB; Steinberg PD; Kendrick GA; Vergés A, 2014, 'Genetic diversity in threatened Posidonia australis seagrass meadows', Conservation Genetics, 15, pp. 717 - 728, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-014-0573-4

Campbell AH; Vergés A; Steinberg PD, 2014, 'Demographic consequences of disease in a habitat-forming seaweed and impacts on interactions between natural enemies', Ecology, 95, pp. 142 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-0213.1

Chavez-Dozal A; Gorman C; Erken M; Steinberg PD; McDougald SD; Nishiguchi MK, 2013, 'Diet-induced alterations of host cholesterol metabolism are likely to affect the gut microbiota composition in hamsters', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79, pp. 553 - 558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02710-12

Chavez-dozal A; Gorman C; Erken M; Steinberg PD; Mcdougald D; Nishiguchi M, 2013, 'Predation response of Vibrio fischeri biofilms to bacterivorous protists', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79, pp. 553 - 558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02710-12

Egan SG; Harder T; Burke CM; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S; Thomas T, 2013, 'The seaweed holobiont: understanding seaweed–bacteria interactions.', FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 37, pp. 462 - 476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1574-6976.12011

Harder T; Campbell AH; Egan S; Steinberg PD, 2012, 'Chemical Mediation of Ternary Interactions Between Marine Holobionts and Their Environment as Exemplified by the Red Alga Delisea pulchra', Journal of Chemical Ecology, 38, pp. 442 - 450, http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861347617&partnerID=40&md5=bc86c40247f5194277a620026bbc956e

Fernandes N; Steinberg PD; Rusch D; Kjelleberg S; Thomas T, 2012, 'Community structure and functional gene profile of bacteria on healthy and diseased thalli of the red seaweed Delisea pulchra.', PLoS One, 7, pp. e50854, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050854

Swanson RL; Byrne M; Prowse T; Mos B; Dworjanyn SA; Steinberg PD, 2012, 'Dissolved histamine: A potential habitat marker promoting settlement and metamorphosis in sea urchin larvae', Marine Biology, 159, pp. 915 - 925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-011-1869-2

Raingeard D; Ng C; Seow WY; Jinyu BC; Guest J; Steinberg P; McDougald D, 2012, 'Evolution from Bacteria to Mammalia of selected marker genes involved in energy metabolism and stress responses: Bioinformatic approach and applications in coral reef ecology', Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 163, pp. S29 - S29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.05.087

Williamson JE; Steinberg PD, 2012, 'Fitness benefits of size-dependent diet switching in a marine herbivore', Marine Biology, 159, pp. 1001 - 1010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-012-1880-2

Koh KS; Matz C; Tan C; Le HL; Rice SA; Marshall D; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S, 2012, 'Minimal increase in genetic diversity enhances predation resistance', Molecular Ecology, 21, pp. 1741 - 1753, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05415.x

Williams SB; Pizarro OR; Jakuba MV; Johnson CR; Barrett NS; Babcock RC; Kendrick GA; Steinberg PD; Heyward AJ; Doherty PJ; Mahon I; Johnson-Roberson M; Steinberg DM; Friedman AL, 2012, 'Monitoring of benthic reference sites: Using an autonomous underwater vehicle', IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 19, pp. 73 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2011.2181772

McDougald D; Rice SA; Barraud N; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S, 2012, 'Should we stay or should we go: mechanisms and ecological consequences for biofilm dispersal', Nature Reviews Microbiology, 10, pp. 39 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2695

Burke CM; Steinberg PD; Rusch D; Kjelleberg S; Thomas T, 2011, 'Bacterial community assembly based on functional genes rather than species', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, pp. 14288 - 14293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1101591108

Campbell AH; Harder T; Nielsen S; Kjelleberg S; Steinberg PD, 2011, 'Climate change and disease: Bleaching of a chemically defended seaweed', Global Change Biology, 17, pp. 2958 - 2970, http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960976699&partnerID=40&md5=27c159a2e7f6f717b50f094b4c34e997

Burke CM; Thomas T; Lewis M; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S, 2011, 'Composition, uniqueness and variability of the epiphytic bacterial community of the green alga Ulva australis', ISME Journal, 5, pp. 590 - 600, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2010.164

Fernandes N; Case RJ; Longford SR; Seyedsayamdost M; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S; Thomas T, 2011, 'Genomes and virulence factors of novel bacterial pathogens causing bleaching disease in the marine red alga Delisea pulchra', PLoS ONE, 6, pp. e27387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027387

Wernberg T; Russell BD; Moore PJ; Ling S; Smale DA; Campbell AH; Coleman MA; Steinberg PD; Kendrick GA; Connell SD, 2011, 'Impacts of climate change in a global hotspot for temperate marine biodiversity and ocean warming', Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 400, pp. 7 - 16

Tebben J; Tapiolas DM; Motti CA; Abrego D; Negri AP; Blackall LL; Steinberg PD; Harder T, 2011, 'Induction of larval metamorphosis of the coral Acropora millepora by tetrabromopyrrole isolated from a Pseudoalteromonas bacterium', PLoS ONE, 6, http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79955706712&partnerID=40&md5=f4296a64d2ef8c5add855f47ab61e94b

Steinberg PD; Rice SA; Campbell AH; McDougald D; Harder T, 2011, 'Interfaces between bacterial and eukaryotic "neuroecology"', Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51, pp. 794 - 806, http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80054928527&partnerID=40&md5=692dd6af046bb5e0b93e51361d4a8e36

Gribben PE; Jeffs AG; De Nys R; Steinberg PD, 2011, 'Relative importance of natural cues and substrate morphology for settlement of the New Zealand Greenshell mussel, Perna canaliculus', Aquaculture, 319, pp. 240 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2011.06.026

Jayawardena MB; Yee LH; Rainbow IJ; Bergquist P; Such CH; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S, 2011, 'Surfactant enhanced lipase containing films characterized by confocal laser scanning microscopy', Colloids and Surfaces B - Biointerfaces, 82, pp. 291 - 296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2010.08.042

Case RJ; Longford SR; Campbell AH; Low A; Tujula NA; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S, 2011, 'Temperature induced bacterial virulence and bleaching disease in a chemically defended marine macroalga', Environmental Microbiology, 13, pp. 529 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02356.x

Coleman MA; Roughan M; Macdonald HS; Connell SD; Gillanders BM; Kelaher B; Steinberg PD, 2011, 'Variation in the strength of continental boundary currents determines continent-wide connectivity in kelp', Journal of Ecology, 99, pp. 1026 - 1032, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01822.x

Steinberg PD; Marshall D; McDougald D; Kjelleberg S, 2010, 'Bacteria are more like corals than bees', Science, e-letter published 25 August, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5986/1700/reply

Thomas T; Rusch D; Demaere MZ; Yung PY; Lewis M; Halpern A; Heidelberg KB; Egan SG; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S, 2010, 'Functional genomic signatures of sponge bacteria reveal unique and shared features of symbiosis', ISME Journal, 4, pp. 1557 - 1567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2010.74

Gribben PE; Byers J; Clements M; McKenzie LA; Steinberg PD; Wright JT, 2009, 'Behavioural interactions between ecosystem engineers control community species richness', Ecology Letters, 12, pp. 1127 - 1136

Gribben PE; Wright JT; O Connor W; Steinberg PD, 2009, 'Larval settlement preference of a native bivalve:the influence of an invasive alga versus native substrata', Aquatic Biology, 7, pp. 217 - 227, http://www.int-res.com/articles/ab2009/7/b007p217.pdf

Poore AG; Campbell AH; Steinberg PD, 2009, 'Natural densities of mesograzers fail to limit growth of macroalgae or their epiphytes in a temperate algal bed', Journal of Ecology, 97, pp. 164 - 175, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121498499/PDFSTART

Gribben PE; Wright JT; O Connor W; Doblin M; Eyre B; Steinberg PD, 2009, 'Reduced performance of native infauna following recruitment to a habitat-forming invasive marine alga', Oecologia, 158, pp. 733 - 745

Zhu H; Kumar A; Ozkan J; Bandara R; Ding A; Perera I; Steinberg P; Kumar N; Lao W; Griesser SS; Britcher L; Griesser HJ; Willcox MDP, 2008, 'Erratum: Fimbrolide-coated antimicrobial lenses: their in vitro and in vivo effects (Optometry and Vision Science (2008) 85 (292-300)', Optometry and Vision Science, 85, pp. 609, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OPX.0b013e318180df0a

Kelaher B; Steinberg PD; Millar A; Coleman M, 2008, 'Absence of a large brown macroalga on urbanized rocky reefs around Sydney, Australia, and evidence for historical decline', Journal of Phycology, 44, pp. 897 - 901, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00541.x

Dolman G; Kelaher B; Steinberg PD; Coleman M, 2008, 'Characterisation of microsatellite loci in the subtidal habitat-forming alga, Phyllospora comosa (Phaeophyceae, Fucales)', Conservation Genetics, 9, pp. 1015 - 1017

Zhu H; Kumar A; Ozkan J; Bandara R; Ding A; Perera I; Steinberg PD; Kumar N; Lao W; Griesser S; Britcher L; Griesser HJ; Willcox MD, 2008, 'Fimbrolide-coated antimicrobial lenses: Their in vitro and in vivo effects', Optometry and Vision Science, 85, pp. 292 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OPX.0b013e31816bea0f

Matz C; Webb JS; Schupp P; Phang SY; Penesyan A; Egan SG; Steinberg PD; Kjelleberg S, 2008, 'Marine Biofilm Bacteria Evade Eukaryotic Predation by Targeted Chemical Defense', PLoS One, 3, pp. e2744 - e2744

Huggett MJ; Crocetti GR; Kjelleberg S; Steinberg PD, 2008, 'Recruitment of the sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma and the distribution and abundance of inducing bacteria in the field', Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 53, pp. 161 - 171

Nylund G; Cervin G; Persson F; Hermansson M; Steinberg PD; Pavia H, 2008, 'Seaweed defence against bacteria: a poly-brominated 2-heptanone from the red alga Bonnemaisonia hamifera inhibits bacterial colonisation', Marine Ecology Progress Series, 369, pp. 39 - 50

Verges A; Paul NA; Steinberg PD, 2008, 'Sex and life-history stage alter herbivore responses to a chemically defended red alga', Ecology, 89, pp. 1334 - 1343

Longford SR; Tujula NA; Crocetti GR; Holmes A; Holmstrom CG; Kjelleberg S; Steinberg PD; Taylor MW, 2007, 'Comparisons of diversity of bacterial communities associated with three sessile marine eukaryotes', Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 48, pp. 217 - 229

Yee LH; Holmstrom CG; Fuary E; Lewin NC; Kjelleberg S; Steinberg PD, 2007, 'Inhibition of fouling by marine bacteria immobilised in k-carrageenan beads', Biofouling, 23, pp. 287 - 294

Khou M; Paul NA; Wright JT; Steinberg PD, 2007, 'Intrinsic factors influence the attachment of fragments of the freen alga Caulerpa filiformis', Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 352, pp. 331 - 342

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