Faculty Profiles

Sharp, V., Mammone, M., Dye, C., Gonzalez Pech, R. A., Yarden, O., & Medina, M\’onica. (2026). The mycobiome of Cassiopea xamachana as determined by culture-based and metagenomic sequencing. Symbiosis, 1--14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144394

Gonzalez Pech, R. A. (2025). Genomic potential of crustose coralline algae-associated bacteria for the biosynthesis of novel antimicrobials. Microbial Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001456

Gonzalez Pech, R. A. (2025). Incorporating microbiome analyses can enhance conservation of threatened species and ecosystem functions. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178826

Gonzalez Pech, R. A. (2024). The genome of a giant clam zooxanthella (Cladocopium infistulum) offers few clues to adaptation as an extracellular symbiont with high thermotolerance. BMC Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10822-0

Gonzalez Pech, R. A., Li, V. Y., Garcia, V., Boville, E., Mammone, M., Kitano, H., … Medina, M. (2024). The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts. Annual Review of Marine Science, 16, 443–466. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-022123-104345

Davies, S. W., Gamache, M. H., Howe-Kerr, L. I., Kriefall, N. G., Baker, A. C., Banaszak, A. T., … Parkinson, J. E. (2023). Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity. PeerJ, 11. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15023

Paz-García, D. A., Armstrong, E. J., Popovic, I., Gonzalez Pech, R. A., & Hellberg, M. E. (2023). Editorial: Innovative approaches to coral reef science by early career researchers. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1322657

Dougan, K. E., Gonzalez Pech, R. A., Stephens, T. G., Shah, S., Chen, Y., Ragan, M. A., … Chan, C. X. (2022). Genome-powered classification of microbial eukaryotes: focus on coral algal symbionts. Trends in Microbiology, 30(9), 831–840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2022.02.001

González-Pech, R. A., Hughes, D. J., Strudwick, P., Lewis, B. M., Booth, D. J., Figueira, W. F., … Matthews, J. (2022). Physiological factors facilitating the persistence of Pocillopora aliciae and Plesiastrea versipora in temperate reefs of south-eastern Australia under ocean warming. Coral Reefs, 41(4), 1239–1253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-022-02277-0

Gonzalez Pech, R. A. (2021). Comparison of 15 dinoflagellate genomes reveals extensive sequence and structural divergence in family Symbiodiniaceae and genus Symbiodinium. BMC Biology. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00994-6

Jacobus, A. P., Stephens, T. G., Youssef, P., González-Pech, R., Ciccotosto-Camp, M. M., Dougan, K. E., … Gross, J. (2021). Comparative Genomics Supports That Brazilian Bioethanol Saccharomyces cerevisiae Comprise a Unified Group of Domesticated Strains Related to Cachaça Spirit Yeasts. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.644089

Bernard, G., Stephens, T. G., González-Pech, R. A., & Chan, C. X. (2021). Inferring Phylogenomic Relationship of Microbes Using Scalable Alignment-Free Methods. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2242, pp. 69–76). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1099-2_5

Stephens, T. G., González-Pech, R. A., Cheng, Y., Mohamed, A. R., Burt, D. W., Bhattacharya, D., … Chan, C. X. (2020). Genomes of the dinoflagellate Polarella glacialis encode tandemly repeated single-exon genes with adaptive functions. BMC Biology, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00782-8

Chen, Y., Gonzalez Pech, R. A., Stephens, T. G., Bhattacharya, D., & Chan, C. X. (2020). Evidence That Inconsistent Gene Prediction Can Mislead Analysis of Dinoflagellate Genomes. Journal of Phycology, 56(1), 6–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12947

Gonzalez Pech, R. A. (2019). Genome Evolution of Coral Reef Symbionts as Intracellular Residents. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.010

Gonzalez Pech, R. A. (2018). Symbiodinium genomes reveal adaptive evolution of functions related to coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis. Communications Biology.

Gonzalez Pech, R. A. (2018). Commonly misunderstood parameters of NCBI BLAST and important considerations for users. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty1018

Gonzalez Pech, R. A. (2017). Transcriptomic Resilience of the Montipora digitata Holobiont to Low pH. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00403

Voigt, O., Erpenbeck, D., González-Pech, R. A., Al-Aidaroos, A. M., Berumen, M. L., & Wörheide, G. (2017). Calcinea of the Red Sea: providing a DNA barcode inventory with description of four new species. Marine Biodiversity, 47(4), 1009–1034. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0671-x

González-Pech, R. A., Ragan, M. A., & Chan, C. X. (2017). Signatures of adaptation and symbiosis in genomes and transcriptomes of Symbiodinium. Scientific Reports, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15029-w

Schweinsberg, González Pech, Tollrian, & Lampert. (2014). Transfer of intracolonial genetic variability through gametes in Acropora hyacinthus corals. Coral Reefs, 33(1), 77–87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-013-1102-5

Erwin, P. M., López-Legentil, S., González-Pech, R., & Turon, X. (2012). A specific mix of generalists: Bacterial symbionts in Mediterranean Ircinia spp. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 79(3), 619–637. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01243.x