Publications

^Titus Lab member, *Undergraduate, ^‡ equal contributions

(36) Ball, M. Titus, BM, Exton DA, Caves, EM (In Review) Hunger affects cleaning, signaling, and signal reliability in the cleaner shrimp Ancylomenes pedersoni. In review at Animal Behavior

(35) Sheridan, N. Fisher, K.C., Syoum, S., Wallace, EM., Titus, B.M., Richards, C.L., Schrey, A.W. (In Review) Further evidence that reduced representation approaches work for symbiotic anthozoans without reference samples.

(34) Chiodo, T. ^{^}, De Jode, A. ^{^}, Quattrini, A., Gibson, M.K. ^{^}, Froehlich, C.Y.M. ^{^}, Huang, D., Fuji, T., Yanagi, K., Reimer, J.D, Scott, A., Rodríguez, E.R. Titus, B.M. (2024). Nemo knows: clownfishes differentiate cryptic host species across fine and broad scales and reveal a potential adaptive radiation in the clownfish-hosting sea anemones Biorxiv Preprint https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.15.623784 (In Review at Systematic Biology).

(33) Clerissi C., Beldade R, Mejait A., Haguenaure A., Jobet, E. Titus, BM, Mills, S. (In Revision). Microbiota of the sea anemone Radianthus magnifica and associated anemonefish Amphiprion chrysopterus show contrasting responses to a bleaching event. Coral Reefs

(32) De Jode, A.,^{^} Titus, B.M. (2025) The first de novo Hi-Fi genome assemblies for three clownfish-hosting sea anemone species (Anthozoa: Actiniaria). Genome Biology and Evolution

(31) Gaboriau, T., Marcionetti, A., Garcia-Jimenez, A., Schmid, S., Fitzgerald, LM, Micheli, Titus, B.M.^‡ Salamin, N. ^‡ (2025) Host-used drives convergent evolution in clownfish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

(30) De Jode^, A., Quattrini, AM, Chiodo, T^., Daly, M., McFadden, CS, Berumen ML, Meyer, CP, Mills, S., Beldade, R., Bartholomew, A., Scott, A., Reimer, JD, Yanagi, K., Fujii, T., Rodriguez, E. Titus, BM. (2024). Phylogenomics reveals coincident divergence between giant host sea anemones and the clownfish adaptive radiation. Biorxiv preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.24.576469v1.abstract (In Review at Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution)

(29) Rodríguez, E., Titus, B.M. Lauretta, D. (2024) Case 3885: Priapus giganteus Forsskål, 1775 (currently Stichodactyla gigantea) and Discosoma haddoni Saville-Kent, 1893 (currently Stichodactyla haddoni) (Cnidaria, Actiniaria): proposed conservation of prevailing usage of the specific names by the designation of a neotype for Priapus giganteus. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.

(28) Titus, B.M. Froehlich, C.^, Vondriska, C., Baker, R., Caves, E.M. (2024) Stable isotopes disentangle niche partitioning and co-occurrence in a multi-species mutualism. Oikos, e10553.

(27) Titus, B.M., Gibbs, H.L., Simoes, N., Daly, M. (2024) Topology testing and demographic modeling reveal a novel diversification pathway in the Caribbean Sea following the formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Systematic Biology, 73, 758-768. Cover Article

(26) Titus, B.M. Bennett-Smith M., Chiodo, T.^, Rodriguez, E. (2024) The clownfish-hosting sea anemones (Anthozoa: Actiniaria): updated nomenclature, biogeography, and practical field guide. Zootaxa. 5506 (1), 1-34. Volume Cover Article.

(25) Sheridan, N., Seyoum, S., Sharp, WC, Titus, B.M. , Daly, M., Richards, CL, Schrey, AW. (2023). Conservation genomics of an exploited, popular aquarium trade species: the giant Caribbean sea anemone Condylactis gigantea (Anthozoa: Actiniidae). Conservation Genetics, 24, 435-447.

(24) McCloskey, K., Radford, A., Rose, A., Casiraghi, G., Lubbock, N., Weschke, E., Titus, B.M, Exton, D., Simpson, S. SCUBA noise alters community structure and cooperation at Pederson’s cleaner shrimp cleaning stations. (2023) Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, p.1058414.

(23) Bennet-Smith, M.F., Justo, M.S. Berumen, M.L., Peixoto R., Titus, B.M. (2022). Novel in situ observations of asexual reproduction in the carpet sea anemone Stichodactyla mertensii (Stichodactylidae, Actiniaria). ZooKeys, 1103, 57.

(22) Titus, B.M., Daly, M. (2022) Population genomics for symbiotic anthozoans: can reduced representation approaches be used for taxa without reference genomes? Heredity, 128, 338-351. Editor’s Choice

(21)Bennet-Smith, M.F., Majoris, J.E., Titus, B.M., Berumen, M.L. (2021). Clownfish-hosting sea anemones (Anthozoa: Actiniaria) of the Red Sea: notes on new associations and distributions, historical misidentifications, and morphological variability. Marine Biodiversity Records, 14, 1-15.

(20) Glon, H., Quattrini, A., Rodriguez, E., Titus, B.M., Daly, M. (2021). Comparison of sequence-capture and ddRAD approaches in resolving species and populations in hexacorallian anthozoans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163, 107233.

(19) Rose, A*., Titus, B.M., Romain, J.J.*, Vondriska*, C.V. Exton, D.A., (2020) Multiple cleaner species provide simultaneous services to reef fish clients. Biology Letters, 16, 1-5.

(18) Romain, J.J.*, Exton, D.A., Smith, D.J., Rose, A.*., Vondriska, C.V.*, Titus, B.M. (2020) Fine-scale patterns of cleaning activity by Pederson’s cleaner shrimp, Ancylomenes pedersoni across ecologically disjunct reef habitats. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315420000958

(17) Riginos, CR, Crandall, ED, Liggans, L, Gaither, MR, Ewing, RB, Meyer, C, Andres, KR, Euclide, PR, Titus, BM, Therkildsen, NO, Salces-Castellano, A, Stewart, LC, Toonen, RJ, Deck, J (2020) Building a Global Genomics Observatory: using GEOME (the Genomic Observatories Metadatabase) to expedite and improve deposition and retrieval of genetic data and metadata for biodiversity research. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13269 From the Cover Article

(16) Titus, BM, Laroche, R*., Rodriguez, E., Wirshing, H., Meyer, C.P. (2020) Host identity and symbiotic association affects the taxonomic and functional diversity of the clownfish-hosting sea anemone microbiome. Biology Letters 16, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0738

(15) Titus, B.M., Blishak, P., Daly, M (2019). Genomic signatures of sympatric speciation with historical and contemporary gene flow in a tropical anthozoan (Hexacorallia: Actiniaria). Molecular Ecology, https:doi.org/10.1111/mec.15157.

(14) Titus, BM, Benedict, C.*, Laroche, R.* Gusmao, LC, Van Deusen, V.,* Chiodo, T., Meyer, CP, Berumen, ML, Bartholomew, A., Yanagi, K., Reimer, JD, Fujii, T., Daly, M., Rodriguez, E. (2019) Phylogenetic relationships of the clownfish-hosting sea anemones. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106526

 (13) Titus, B.M, Daly, M., Vondriska, C.,* Hamilton, I., Exton D.A. (2019) Lack of strategic service provisioning by Pederson’s cleaner shrimp (Ancylomenes pedersoni) highlights independent evolution of cleaning behaviors between ocean basins. Scientific Reports. 9:629, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-37418-5

(12) O’Reilly, E. ^‡, Titus, B.M. ^‡, Nelsen, M.W., Ratchford, S., Chadwick, N.E. (2018) Giant ephemeral anemones? Rapid growth and high mortality in the corkscrew sea anemone Bartholomea annulata under variable conditions. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 509: 44-53.

(11) Titus, B.M., Daly, M, Hamilton, N*., Berumen, M., Baeza, J.A. (2018) Global species delimitation and phylogeography of the circumtropical “sexy shrimp” Thor amboinensis reveals a cryptic species complex and secondary contact in the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Biogeography 45, 1275-1287.

(10) Titus, B.M., Daly, M. (2017) Phylogeographic reconstruction reveals extensive cryptic diversity in a common symbiosis from the Tropical Western Atlantic. Reef Encounter 32: 20-24.

(09) Titus, B.M., Palombit, S*., Daly, M. (2017) Endemic diversification in an isolated archipelago with few endemics: an example from a cleaner shrimp species complex in the Tropical Western Atlantic. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 122: 98-112.

(08) Titus, B.M. Vondriska, C*., Daly, M. (2017) Comparative behavioral observations demonstrate the spotted “cleaner” shrimp Periclimenes yucatanicus engages in true symbiotic cleaning interactions. Royal Society Open Science, 4:170078

(07) Titus, B.M., Daly, M, Macrander, J., Del Rio, A*., Santos, S.R., Chadwick, N.E. (2017) Contrasting abundance and contribution of clonal proliferation to the population structure of the corkscrew sea anemone Bartholomea annulata in the tropical Western Atlantic. Invertebrate Biology. 136: 62-74.

(06) Titus, B.M., Daly M. (2017) Specialist and generalist symbionts show counterintuitive levels of genetic diversity and discordant demographic histories along the Florida Reef Tract. Coral Reefs. 36: 339-354.

(05) Titus, B.M. Daly, M., Exton, DA. (2015) Temporal patterns of Pederson shrimp (Ancylomenes pedersoni Chace 1958) cleaning interactions on Caribbean coral reefs. Marine Biology. 162: 1651-1664

(04) Titus, B.M. Daly, M., Exton, DA. (2015) Do reef fish habituate to diver presence? Evidence from two reef sites with contrasting historical levels of SCUBA intensity in the Bay Islands, Honduras. PLOS ONE. 10(3): e0119645.

(03) Titus, B.M., Daly, M. (2015) Fine-scale phylogeography reveals cryptic biodiversity in Pederson’s cleaner shrimp, Ancylomenes pedersoni (Crustacea: Caridea: Palaemonidae), along the Florida Reef Tract. Marine Ecology. 36: 1379-1390.

(02) Huebner, L.K., Dailey, B., Titus, B.M., Khalaf, M., Chadwick, N.E. (2012). Host preference and habitat segregation among Red Sea anemonefish: effects of sea anemone traits and fish life stages. Marine Ecology Progress Series 464: 1-15. Feature cover article

(01) Lescinsky, H., Titus, B.M., Hubbard, D. (2012).  Live coral cover in the fossil record: an example from Holocene reefs of the Dominican Republic. Coral Reefs. 31 (2): 335-346.

NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

(01) Titus, B.M. (2021). The Forgotten Anthozoans: How the clownfish-hosting sea anemones became some of the most understudied animals on tropical coral reefs. CORAL Magazine, 18(3) p.50-56.