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Juliet Wong

Juliet Wong

Assistant Professor in the Division of Marine Science and Conservation
Marine Science and Conservation
juliet.wong@duke.edu
135 Duke Marine Lab Rd, Beaufort, NC 28516
135 Duke Marine Lab Rd, Beaufort, NC 28516

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

A Haplotype-Resolved Genome Assembly of the Long-Spined Sea Urchin Diadema antillarum, a Keystone Caribbean Reef Herbivore

Journal article Genes · July 28, 2026 Background/Objectives: The long-spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum is a keystone herbivore whose grazing maintains Caribbean coral reefs; basin-wide mass mortalities in 1983–1984 and 2022 have made genomic resources a conservation priority, yet n ... Full text Cite

Seasonal Physiological Strategies Reveal Contrasting Host-Symbiont Dynamics Among Dominant Indo-Pacific Reef-Building Corals.

Journal article Ecology and evolution · July 2026 As coral reefs face declines driven by thermal stress and the breakdown of coral symbiosis (i.e., coral bleaching), restoration efforts rely on coral health and resilience rankings. However, seasonal plasticity in symbiosis and metabolism and the presence ... Full text Cite

The influence of environmental history on the performance of Acropora cervicornis corals across a spatiotemporal gradient.

Journal article The Science of the total environment · May 2025 Environmental cues can trigger plastic changes in organism phenotype which may be maintained through environmental memory. However, the duration through which phenotypic differences persist under naturally occurring environmental variation is not yet well ... Full text Cite

Ecological forensic testing: Using multiple primers for eDNA detection of marine vertebrates in an estuarine lagoon subject to anthropogenic influences.

Journal article Gene · November 2024 Many critical aquatic habitats are in close proximity to human activity (i.e., adjacent to residences, docks, marinas, etc.), and it is vital to monitor biodiversity in these and similar areas that are subject to ongoing urbanization, pollution, and other ... Full text Cite

Evolution of Methyltransferase-Like (METTL) Proteins in Metazoa: A Complex Gene Family Involved in Epitranscriptomic Regulation and Other Epigenetic Processes.

Journal article Molecular biology and evolution · December 2021 The methyltransferase-like (METTL) proteins constitute a family of seven-beta-strand methyltransferases with S-adenosyl methionine-binding domains that modify DNA, RNA, and proteins. Methylation by METTL proteins contributes to the epigenetic, and in the c ... Full text Cite

Fluctuating selection and global change: a synthesis and review on disentangling the roles of climate amplitude, predictability and novelty.

Journal article Proceedings. Biological sciences · August 2021 A formidable challenge for global change biologists is to predict how natural populations will respond to the emergence of conditions not observed at present, termed novel climates. Popular approaches to predict population vulnerability are based on the ex ... Full text Cite

Gene expression patterns of red sea urchins (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) exposed to different combinations of temperature and pCO2 during early development.

Journal article BMC genomics · January 2021 BackgroundThe red sea urchin Mesocentrotus franciscanus is an ecologically important kelp forest herbivore and an economically valuable wild fishery species. To examine how M. franciscanus responds to its environment on a molecular level, differen ... Full text Cite

Ocean acidification promotes broad transcriptomic responses in marine metazoans: a literature survey.

Journal article Frontiers in zoology · January 2020 For nearly a decade, the metazoan-focused research community has explored the impacts of ocean acidification (OA) on marine animals, noting that changes in ocean chemistry can impact calcification, metabolism, acid-base regulation, stress response and beha ... Full text Cite

Transcriptional profiles of early stage red sea urchins (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) reveal differential regulation of gene expression across development.

Journal article Marine genomics · December 2019 The red sea urchin, Mesocentrotus franciscanus, is an ecologically important kelp forest species that also serves as a valuable fisheries resource. In this study, we have assembled and annotated a developmental transcriptome for M. franciscanus that repres ... Full text Cite

Transgenerational effects in an ecological context: Conditioning of adult sea urchins to upwelling conditions alters maternal provisioning and progeny phenotype

Journal article Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology · August 1, 2019 Transgenerational plasticity occurs when the conditions experienced by the parental generation influence the phenotype of their progeny. This may in turn affect progeny performance and physiological tolerance, providing a means by which organisms cope with ... Full text Cite

Parental environments alter DNA methylation in offspring of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Journal article Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology · August 2019 Full text Cite

Seasonal transcriptomes of the Antarctic pteropod, Limacina helicina antarctica.

Journal article Marine environmental research · January 2019 High latitude seas will be among the first marine systems to be impacted by ocean acidification (OA). Previous research studying the effects of OA on the pteropod, Limacina helicina antarctica, has led this species to be identified as a sentinel organism f ... Full text Cite

Transcriptomics reveal transgenerational effects in purple sea urchin embryos: Adult acclimation to upwelling conditions alters the response of their progeny to differential pCO2 levels.

Journal article Molecular ecology · March 2018 Understanding the mechanisms with which organisms can respond to a rapidly changing ocean is an important research priority in marine sciences, especially in the light of recent predictions regarding the pace of ocean change in the coming decades. Transgen ... Full text Cite

Additive effects of pCO2 and temperature on respiration rates of the Antarctic pteropod Limacina helicina antarctica.

Journal article Conservation physiology · January 2017 The Antarctic pteropod, Limacina helicina antarctica, is a dominant member of the zooplankton in the Ross Sea and supports the vast diversity of marine megafauna that designates this region as an internationally protected area. Here, we observed the ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic and transcriptomic analyses reveal the evolution of bioluminescence and light detection in marine deep-sea shrimps of the family Oplophoridae (Crustacea: Decapoda).

Journal article Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · February 2015 Bioluminescence is essential to the survival of many organisms, particularly in the deep sea where light is limited. Shrimp of the family Oplophoridae exhibit a remarkable mechanism of bioluminescence in the form of a secretion used for predatory defense. ... Full text Cite