Zoologist, Environmental Biology
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
647 Contees Wharf Road
Edgewater, MD 21037
Email: coats at si.edu
Research Interests
Protistan ecology, structure and function; taxonomy of Ciliophora.
Recent Publications
Coats, D. W. 2002. Dinoflagellate Life-Cycle Complexities. J. Phycol., 38:417-419.
Coats, D. W. & Park, M. G. 2002. Parasitism of photosynthetic dinoflagellates by three strains of Amoebophrya (Dinophyta): parasite survival, infectivity, generation time, and host specificity. J. Phycol., 38:520-528.
Johansson, M. & Coats, D. W. 2002. Ciliate grazing on the parasite Amoebophrya sp. decreases infection of the red-tide dinoflagellates Akashiwo sanguinea. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 28:69-78.
Park, M. G., Cooney, S. K., Kim, J. S. & Coats, D. W. 2002. Effects of parasitism on diel vertical migration, phototaxis/geotaxis, and swimming speed of the bloom-forming dinoflagellate Akashiwo sanguinea. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 29:11-18.
Park, M., G., Cooney, S. K, Yih, W. & Coats, D. W. 2002. Effects of two strains of the parasitic dinoflagellate Amoebophrya on growth, photosynthesis, light absorption, and quantum yield of bloom-forming dinoflagellates. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 227:281-292.
Smalley, G. W. & Coats, D. W. 2002. Ecology of the red-tide dinoflagellates Ceratium furca: distribution, mixotrophy, and grazing impact on ciliate populations of Chesapeake Bay. J. Euk. Microbiol., 49:64-74.
Gunderson, J. H., John, S. A., Bowman
II, W. C. & Coats, D. W. 2002. Multiple strains of the parasitic dinoflagellate
Amoebophrya exist in Chesapeake Bay. J. Euk. Microbiol., 49:469-474.
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