Publications

Myers TL, Prince EK, Naar J, Kubanek J (2008) Loss of waterborne brevetoxins from exposure to phytoplankton competitors. Harmful Algae.  In press.

Kubanek J, Snell TW (2008) Quorum sensing in rotifers.  In Chemical Communication Among Bacteria Winans SC, Bassler BL (Eds.), ASM Press, Washington DC, pp.453-461.

Prince EK, Myers TL, Kubanek J (2008) Effects of harmful algal blooms on competitors: allelopathic mechanisms of the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis. Limnology & Oceanography 53: 531-541

Padove Cohen SA, Hatt H, Kubanek J, McCarty NA (2008) Reconstitution of a chemical defense signaling pathway in a heterologous system.  Journal of Experimental Biology 211:599-605

Lane AL, Stout EP, Hay ME, Prusak AC, Hardcastle K, Fairchild CR, Aalbersberg W, Kubanek J (2007) Callophycoic acids and callophycols from the Fijian red alga Callophycus serratus.  Journal of Organic Chemistry 72:7343-7351

Kubanek J, Snell TW, Pirkle C (2007) Chemical defense of the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis against rotifer grazing.  Limnology & Oceanography 52:1026-1035

Lane AL, Kubanek J (2007) Secondary metabolite defenses against pathogens and biofoulers.  In Algal Chemical Ecology, Amsler CD (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp.229-243.

Fuller MD, Thompson CH, Zhang ZR, McMaster D, French RJ, Pohl J, Kubanek J, McCarty NA (2007) State-dependent inhibition of CFTR chloride channel by a novel peptide toxin. Journal of Biological Chemistry 282:37545-37555

Parker JD, Burkepile DE, Collins DO, Kubanek J, Hay ME (2007) Stream mosses as chemically-defended refugia for freshwater macroinvertebrates.  OIKOS 116:302-312

Prince EK, Lettieri L, McCurdy KJ, Kubanek J (2006) Fitness consequences for copepods feeding on a red tide dinoflagellate: deciphering the effects of nutritional value, toxicity, and feeding behavior. Oecologia 147:479-488

Lane AL, Kubanek J (2006) Structure-activity relationship of chemical defenses from the freshwater plant Micranthemum umbrosum.  Phytochemistry 67:1224-1231

Kubanek J, Prusak AC, Snell TW, Giese RA, Fairchild CR, Aalbersberg W, Hay ME (2006)  Bromophycolides C-I from the Fijian red alga Callophycus serratus.  Journal of Natural Products 69:731-735

Burkepile DE, Parker JD, Woodson CB, Mills HJ, Kubanek J, Sobecky P, Hay ME (2006)  Chemically-mediated competition between microbes and animals: microbes as consumers in food webs. Ecology 87:2821-2831

Snell TW, Kubanek J, Carter W, Payne AB, Kim J, Hicks MK, Stelzer CP (2006) A protein signal triggers sexual reproduction in Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera). Marine Biology 149:763-773

Parker JD, Collins DO, Kubanek J, Sullards MC, Bostwick D, Hay ME (2006) Chemical defenses promote persistence of the aquatic plant Micranthemum umbrosum.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 32:815-833

Kubanek J, Prusak AC, Snell TW, Giese RA, Hardcastle K, Fairchild C, Aalbersberg W, Raventos-Suarez C, Hay ME (2005) Antineoplastic diterpene-benzoate macrolides from the Fijian red alga Callophycus serratus.  Organic Letters 7:5261-5264

Kubanek J, Hicks MK, Naar J, Villareal T (2005) Does the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis use allelopathy to out-compete other phytoplankton?  Limnology and Oceanography 50: 883-895

Prusak AC, O’Neal J, Kubanek J (2005) Prevalence of chemical defenses in freshwater macrophytes.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 31:1145-1160

Barsby, T, Kubanek J (2005) Isolation and structure elucidation of feeding deterrent diterpenoids from the sea pansy Renilla reniformis.  Journal of Natural Products  68:511-516

Thompson CH, Fields DM, Olivetti PR, Fuller MD, Zhang ZR, Kubanek J, McCarty NA (2005) Inhibition of ClC-2 Cl- channels by a peptide component of scorpion venom Journal of Membrane Biology 208:65-76

John EA, Pollet P, Gelbaum L, Kubanek J (2004) Synthesis and antifeedant effect of 2,3,4-tribromopyrrole.  Journal of Natural Products 67:1929-1931

Kubanek J, Lester S, Fenical W, Hay ME (2004) Ambiguous role of phlorotannins as chemical defenses in the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 277:79-93

Kicklighter C, Kubanek J, Hay ME (2004) Do brominated natural products defend marine worms from consumers?  Some do, most don’t.  Limnology and Oceanography 49:430-441

Fuller MD, Zhang ZR, Cui G, Kubanek J, McCarty NA (2004) Inhibition of CFTR channels by a peptide toxin of scorpion venom.  American Journal of Physiology – Cell Physiology  287:C1328-C1341

Kubanek J, Jensen PR, Keifer PA, Sullards C, Collins DO, Fenical W (2003) Seaweed resistance to microbial attack: A targeted chemical defense against marine fungi.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100: 6916-6921

Barsby T, Kicklighter, C, Hay ME, Sullards MC, Kubanek J (2003) Defensive 2-alkylpyrrole sulfamates from the marine annelid Cirriformia tentaculata [Polychaeta: Cirratulidae].  Journal of Natural Products 66:1110-1112

Kicklighter C, Kubanek J, Barsby T, Hay ME (2003) Palatability and defense of some tropical marine worms: Alykylpyrrole sulfamates as deterrents to fish feeding.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 263:299-306

Hay ME, Kubanek J (2002) Community and ecosystem level consequences of chemical signaling in the plankton.  Journal of Chemical Ecology  28:2001-2016

[Review written by Hay and Kubanek]