Bove, CB, Greene, K, Sugierski, S, Kriefall, N, Huzar, AK, Hughes, AM, Sharp, KH, and Fogarty, ND, and SW Davies. 2023. Exposure to global change and microplastics elicits an immune response in an endangered coral. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:3389.
Brown, AL, Sharp, KH, and A Apprill. 2022. Reshuffling of the coral microbiome during dormancy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology e01391-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01391-22
Changsut I, Womack H, Shickle A, Sharp KH, and LE Fuess. 2022. Variation in symbiont density affects constitutive immune phenotypes in the facultatively symbiotic coral, Astrangia poculata. Biology Letters 18. 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0273
Puntin, G, Sweet, M, Fraune, S, Medina, M, Sharp, KH, Weis, VM, and M Ziegler. 2022. Harnessing the power of model organisms to unravel microbial functions in the coral holobiont. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews e00053-00022. https://doi.org/10.1128/mmbr.00053-22. Bent SM, Miller CA, Sharp KH, Hansel CM, Apprill A. 2021. Differential patterns of microbiota recovery in symbiotic and aposymbiotic corals following antibiotic disturbance. mSystems. e01086-20.
Sweet, M, Villela, H, Keller-Costa, T, Costa, R, Romano, S, Bourne, D, Cardenas, A, Huggett, M, Kerwin, A, Kuek, F, Medina, M, Meyer, J, Müller, M, Pollock, J, Rappe, M, Séré, M, Sharp, KH, Voolstra, C, Zaccardi, N*, Ziegler, M, and R. Peixoto. 2021. Insights into the cultured bacterial fraction of corals. mSystems e01249-20R1.
Wilkins, L, Leray, M, Yuen, B, Peixoto, R, Pereira, T, Bik, H, Coil, D, Duffy, JE, Herre, E, Lessios, H, Lucey, N, Mejía, L, O'Dea, A, Rasher, D, Sharp, KH, Sogin, E, Thacker, R, Thurber, R, Wcislo, W, and J Eisen. 2019. Host-associated microbiomes and their roles in marine ecosystem functions. PLoS Biol 17(11):e3000533. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000533.
Klinges, JG, Rosales, SM, McMinds, R, Shaver, EC, Shantz, AA, Peters, EC, Burkepile, DE, Eitel, M, Wörheide G, Silliman, BR, Sharp, KH, and RL Vega Thurber. 2019. “Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov.” Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0482-0 Rotjan, RD, Sharp KH, Gauthier, AE, Yelton, R, Baron Lopez, E, Carilli, J, Kagan, JC, and J Urban-Rich. 2019. Patterns, dynamics and consequences of microplastic ingestion by the temperate coral, Astrangia poculata. Proc. R. Soc. B 286. Goldsmith, DB, Pratte, ZA, Kellogg, CA, Snader, SA, and KH Sharp. 2019. Stability of temperate coral Astrangia poculata microbiome is reflected across different sequencing technologies. AIMS Microbiology 5(1): 62-76.
Sharp, KH, Pratte, ZA, Kerwin, AH, Rotjan, RD, and FJ Stewart. 2017. Season, but not symbiont state, drives microbiome structure in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata. Microbiome 5(1):120.
Sharp, KH, Sneed, JM, Ritchie, KB, McDaniel, L, and VJ Paul. 2015. Induction of Larval Settlement in the Reef Coral Porites astreoides by a Cultivated Marine Roseobacter Strain. The Biological Bulletin 228: 98-107. **Editor's Pick
Sneed, JM, Sharp, KH, Ritchie KB, and VJ Paul. 2014. The chemical cue tetrabromopyrrole from a biofilm bacterium induces settlement of multiple Caribbean corals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281(1786).doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3086.
O’Connor, RM, Fung JM, Sharp, KH, Benner, J, McClung, C, Cushing, S, Lamkin, E, Fomenkov, E, Henrissat, B, Londer, Y, Scholz, MB, Posfai, J, Malfatti, S, Tringe, SG, Woyke, T, Malmstrom, RR, Coleman-Derr, D, Altamia, MA, Dedrick, S, Kaluziak, ST, Haygood, MG, and DL Distel. 2014. Gill bacteria enable a novel digestive strategy in a wood-feeding mollusk. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci.111(47): E5096–E5104 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1413110111 **Editor's Choice: Science 2014. 346(6214):1197. link
Puglisi, MP, Sneed, JM, Sharp, KH, Ritson-Williams, R, and VJ Paul. 2014. Marine chemical ecology in benthic environments. Natural Products Reports 31 (11), 1510 - 1553.
Dimond, JD, Kerwin, A, Rotjan, RD, Sharp, KH, Stewart, F, and DJ Thornhill. 2013. A simple temperature-based model predicts the upper latitudinal limit of the temperate coral Astrangia poculata. Coral Reefs 32(2): 401-409.
Sharp, KH, & Ritchie, KB. 2012. Coral-associated bacterial communities in the face of global climate change. Biological Bulletin 223(1): 66-77.
Sharp, KH, Distel, D, and VJ Paul. 2012. Diversity and dynamics of the bacterial communities in early life stages of the reef-building coral Porites astreoides. Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology, 6(4): 790-801.
Paul, VJ, Ritson-Williams, R, and KH Sharp. 2011. Marine Chemical Ecology in Benthic Environments. Natural Products Reports, 28:345-387.
Sharp, KH, Ritchie, KB, Schupp, P, Ritson-Williams, R, and VJ Paul. 2010. Bacterial acquisition in juveniles of several broadcast spawning coral species. PLoSOne 5(5):e10898.
Trindade-Silva AE, Lim-Fong GE, Sharp KH, Haygood MG. 2010. Bryostatins: biological context and biotechnological prospects. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 21(6).
Sharp, KH, Arthur, KE, Gu, L, Ross, C, Harrison, G, Gunasekera, SP, Meickle, T, Matthew, S, Luesch, H, Thacker, RW, Sherman, DH, and VJ Paul. 2009. Phylogenetic and chemical diversity of three chemotypes of bloom-forming Lyngbya species (Cyanobacteria: Oscillatoriales) from reefs of southeastern Florida. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75(9):2879-88.
Paul, VJ, Arthur, K, Ritson-Williams, R, Ross, C, and KH Sharp. 2007. Chemical Defenses: from compounds to communities. Biological Bulletin 213: 226–251.
Sharp, KH, Davidson, SK, and MG Haygood. 2007. Localization of “Candidatus Endobugula sertula” and the bryostatins throughout the life cycle of the host bryozoan Bugula neritina. Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology 1: 693-702.
Sharp, KH, Eam, B, Faulkner, DJ, and MG Haygood. 2007. Vertical transmission of diverse microbes in the tropical sponge Corticium sp. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73(2): 622–629. **Editor's Choice: Science (2007) 314:1842
Hildebrand, M, Waggoner, LE, Lim, GE, Sharp, KH, Ridley, CP, and MG Haygood. 2004. Approaches to identify, clone and express symbiont bioactive metabolite genes. Natural Products Reports 21(1): 122-142.
Trapido-Rosenthal, HG, Sharp, KH, Galloway, TS, and CE Morrall. 2001. Nitric oxide and cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbioses: pieces of a puzzle. American Zoologist. 41(2): 247-257.