Benjamin M. Titus

This study reclassifies Amphiprion polymnus as a host generalist by analyzing its host associations, behavior, and diet, resolving conflicting prior findings.

The paper identifies cryptic species in the sea anemone Entacmaea quadricolor and suggests it may be undergoing adaptive radiation in response to clownfish symbiosis.

This study investigates clownfish color patterns and finds that specialists and generalists have distinct ecological and adaptive functions linked to their anemone hosts.

This study identifies sea anemone host use as the driver of convergent evolution in clownfish color and morphology, resolving a long-standing mystery in adaptive radiation.

The paper presents the first high-quality long-read genome assemblies for three clownfish-hosting sea anemone species, enabling comparative genomic studies of their symbiotic relationship with clownfish.

The paper uses stable isotope analysis to show that co-occurring crustacean symbionts in a marine mutualism have distinct trophic niches, supporting niche theory over neutral theory.

This paper uses phylogenomic analysis to show that clownfish-hosting sea anemones diversified coincidently with clownfishes, supporting co-evolutionary patterns in their mutualistic relationship.

The paper investigates how symbiont loci affect phylogeographic inference in anthozoans using ddRADseq and a reference genome to filter out endosymbiont contamination.