Dr. Carly Kenkel
@drcarl.bsky.social
PI of the Cnidarian Evolutionary Ecology Lab at the University of Southern California working on EcoEvo, plasticity, genomics, climate change, symbiosis, coral
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Without a research arm to support its regulatory arm, Americans will get sicker, and preventable deaths will go up.
The EPA was started by (Republican!) President Richard Nixon in 1970. Some of its first regulations were to ban DDT and leaded gasoline, as well as the Clean Air and Water Acts.
The EPA was started by (Republican!) President Richard Nixon in 1970. Some of its first regulations were to ban DDT and leaded gasoline, as well as the Clean Air and Water Acts.
July 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Without a research arm to support its regulatory arm, Americans will get sicker, and preventable deaths will go up.
The EPA was started by (Republican!) President Richard Nixon in 1970. Some of its first regulations were to ban DDT and leaded gasoline, as well as the Clean Air and Water Acts.
The EPA was started by (Republican!) President Richard Nixon in 1970. Some of its first regulations were to ban DDT and leaded gasoline, as well as the Clean Air and Water Acts.
Special thanks to @la-cientifica.bsky.social for sticking with this one through my mat leave and a pandemic and to @ecoevodanny.bsky.social for pushing through a messy mountain of PCRs and library preps!
January 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Special thanks to @la-cientifica.bsky.social for sticking with this one through my mat leave and a pandemic and to @ecoevodanny.bsky.social for pushing through a messy mountain of PCRs and library preps!
Be sure to check out the paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... for more info on the performance differences; and for the first time, an exploration of family-level differences in symbiont community composition!
Symbiont Community Changes Confer Fitness Benefits for Larvae in a Vertically Transmitting Coral
We quantified the fitness consequences of changes in symbiont communities under a simulated heatwave in early life-history stages of Montipora digitata by tracking changes in their growth, survival, ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Be sure to check out the paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... for more info on the performance differences; and for the first time, an exploration of family-level differences in symbiont community composition!
But the same pattern was not observed in the juvenile recruits
January 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
But the same pattern was not observed in the juvenile recruits
In parallel we saw big changes in symbiont community composition of surviving larvae under heat
January 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In parallel we saw big changes in symbiont community composition of surviving larvae under heat
In it he shows that symbiont shuffling may be a mechanism to increase thermal tolerance of Montipora digitata larvae, but that juvenile recruits seem to lack. Elevated temperature impacted survival in both larvae and juveniles, but comparatively, larvae survived for much longer than recruits
January 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In it he shows that symbiont shuffling may be a mechanism to increase thermal tolerance of Montipora digitata larvae, but that juvenile recruits seem to lack. Elevated temperature impacted survival in both larvae and juveniles, but comparatively, larvae survived for much longer than recruits