Assistant Researcher

Education  

• B.S. 1984 - Marine Biology (Honors) - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
• Ph.D. 1990 - Zoology - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Publications (2000 to present)

Apprill, A. M. and Gates, R. D. Submitted. Recognizing the complexity of symbiotic dinoflagellate communities in corals. Molecular Ecology

van Oppen, M. J. H. and Gates R. D. In Press. Understanding the resilience of reef corals: the roles of molecular biology and genetics. Invited Review. Molecular Ecology

Ridgway, T. and Gates, R.D. 2006. Why are there so few genetic markers available for coral population analyses? Symbiosis 41: 1-7.

Gleason, D. F.; Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2006. Ultraviolet radiation effects on the behavior and recruitment of larvae from the reef coral Porites astreoides. Marine Biology148: 503–512.

Edmunds, P. J., Gates, R. D., Leggat, W. and Hoegh-Guldberg, O. 2005. The effect of temperature on the size and population density of dinoflagellates in larvae from the reef coral Porites astreoides. Invertebrate Biology 124 (3): 185-193.

Bebenek, I. G., Gates R. D., Morris, J., Hartenstein, V., Jacobs, D. K. 2004. sine oculis in the Basal Metazoa. Development, Genes and Evolution 214 (7): 342-351

Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2004. Size-dependent differences in the photophysiology of the reef coral Porites astreoides. Biological Bulletin 206: 61-64

Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2003. Has coral bleaching delayed our understanding of fundamental aspects of coral-dinoflagellate symbioses? BioScience 53(10): 976-980

 Jacobs, D. J. and Gates, R. D. 2003. Developmental Genes and the Reconstruction of Metazoan Evolution – Implications of Evolutionary Loss, Limits on Inference of Ancestry and Type 2 Errors. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43: 11-18

Lee, S. E.; Gates, R. D. and Jacobs, D. K. 2003. Gene fishing: the use of a simple protocol to isolate multiple homeodomain classes from diverse invertebrate taxa. Journal of Molecular Evolution 56: 509-516

Edmunds, P. J.; Gates, R. D. and Gleason, D. F. 2003. Tissue composition of Montastraea franksi during and eleven months after a natural bleaching event. Coral Reefs 22: 54-62

Gates, R. D., Hadrys, T.; Arenas-Mena, C. and Jacobs, D. K. 2002. Determining spatial and temporal patterns of developmental gene expression in vertebrates and invertebrates using in situ hybridization techniques. In: Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine: Techniques in Molecular Evolution and Systematics (Eds. DeSalle, R.; Giribet, G. and Wheeler, W.). Birkhauser Pp. 365-399

 Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2002. Normalizing physiological data for scleractinian corals. Coral Reefs21 (2): 193-197

 Nallur, R. B.; Gates, R. D.; Ladurner, P.; Jacobs, D. K. and Hartenstein, V. 2002. Neurogenesis in the primitive bilaterian Neochildea I. Normal development and isolation of genes controlling neural fate. Development, Genes and Evolution212 (2): 55-69

 Lee, S. E.; Gates, R. D. and Jacobs, D. K. 2001. The isolation of a Distal-less gene fragment from two molluscs. Development, Genes and Evolution 211: 506-508

Edmunds, P. J.; Gates, R. D. and Gleason, D. F. 2001. The biology of planulae freshly released from the reef coral Porites astreoides and their response to temperature disturbances. Marine Biology139: 981-989

 Jacobs, D. K.; Wray, C. G.; Wedeen, C. J.; Kostriken, R.; DeSalle, R.; Staton, J. L.; Gates, R. D. and Lindberg D. L. 2000. Molluscan engrailed expression, serial organization, and shell evolution. Evolution and Development 2(6): 340-347