2017

1. Prazeres, M., Ainsworth, T.D., Roberts, T.E., Pandolfi, J.M., Leggat, W. 2017 Symbiosis and microbiome flexibility in calcifying benthis foraminifera of the Great Barrier Reef. Microbiome 5:38 
2. Gierz, S., Foret, S., Leggat, W. 2017 Transcriptomic analysis of thermally stressed Symbiodinium reveals differential expression of stress and metabolism genes. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 8:271
3. Pontasch, S., Fisher, P.L., Krueger, T., Dove, S., Leggat, W., Hoegh‐Guldberg, O., Davy, S.K. 2017 Photoacclimatory and photoprotective responses to cold versus heat stress in high latitude reef corals. Journal of phycology, In press 
4. ​Hernandez-Ageda, A., Gates, R.D., Ainsworth, T.D. 2017. Defining the core microbe in coral's microbial soup. Trends in Microbiology ​In press

2016

1. Gierz, S. L., Gordon, B., Leggat, W. 2016. Integral light-harvesting complex expression in Symbiodinium within the coral Acropora aspera under thermal stress. Scientific Reports 6:25081
2. Ainsworth, T., Heron, S.F., Ortiz, J.C., Mumby, P., Grech, A., Ogawa, D., Eakin, C. M., Leggat, W. 2016. Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier Reef. Science 352:338-342
3. Hernandez-Ageda, A., Leggat, W., Bongaerts, P., Ainsworth, T.D. 2016. The microbial signature provides insight into the mechanistic basis of coral success across reef habitats. MBio 7:e00560-16

2015

1. Veilleux, H.D., Ryu, T., Donelson, J.M., van Herwerden, L., Seridi, Y., Berumen, M.L., Leggat, W., Ravasi, T., Munday, P. (2015) Molecular processes of transgenerational acclimation to a warming ocean. Nature Climate Change 5:1074-1078
2. Ainsworth, T.D., Bridge, T., Torda, G., Raina, J.B., Gates, R., Padilla-Gamino, J., Smith, C., Woosley, E., Krausee, L., Zakrzewski, M., Bongaerts, P., Spalding, H., Bourne, D., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Leggat, W. (2015) The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts. The ISME Journal 9:2261–2274 
3. van de Water, J., Ainsworth, T.D., Leggat, W., Bourne, D., Willis, B., van Oppen, M. (2015) The coral immune response facilitates protection against microbes during tissue regeneration. Molecular Ecology 24: 3390-3404 
4. Krueger, T., Hawkins, T.D., Becker, S., Pontasch, S., Dove, S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Leggat, W., Fisher, P.L., Davy, S.K. (2015) Differential coral bleaching – Contrasting the activity and response of enzymatic antioxidants in symbiotic parteners under thermal stress. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology (Part A) 190:15-25 
5. Voolstra, C.R., Miller, D.J., Ragan, M., Hoffmann, A., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Bourne, D., Ball, E., Ying, H., Foret, S., Takahashi, S., Weynberg, K.D., van Oppen, M.J.H., Morrow, K., Xin Chan, C., Rosic, N., Leggat, W., Sprungala, S., Imelfort, M., Tyson, G.W., Kassahn, K., Lundgren, P., Beeden, R., Ravasi, T., Berumen, M., Abel, E., Fyffe, T. (2015) The ReFuGe 2020 Consortium – Using “omics” approaches to explore the adaptability and resilience of coral holobionts to environmental change. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2:68 
6. Krueger, T., Fisher, P.L., Becker, S., Pontasch, S., Dove, S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Leggat, W., Davy, S.K. (2015) Transcriptomic characterisation of the enzymatic antioxidants FeSOD, MnSOD, APX and KatG in the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:1-48 
7. Ainsworth, T.D., Knack, B., Ukani, L. Seneca, F., Weiss, Y., Leggat, W. (2015) In situ hybridisation detects pro-apoptotic gene expression in apparently healthy regions of white syndrome-affected coral. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 117:155-163
8. van de Water, J, Leggat, W, Bourne, B, van Oppen, M, Willis, W., Ainsworth, T.  (2015) Elevated seawater temperatures have limited impact on the coral immune response following physical damage. Hydrobiologia 759:201-214

2014

1. Krueger, T., Becker, S., Pontasch, S., Dove, S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Leggat, W., Davy, S. (2014) Antioxidant plasticity and thermal sensitivity in four types of Symbiodinium sp. Journal of Phycology 50:1035-1047​

2013

1. Ogawa D., Bobeszko, T., Ainsworth, T., Leggat, W. (2013) The combined effects of temperature and CO2 lead to altered gene expression patterns in Acropora aspera. Coral Reefs. 32:895-907 
2. Chua, C., Leggat, W., Moya, A., Baird, A.H. (2013) Temperature affects the early life history stages of corals more than near future ocean acidification. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 475:85-92 
3. Rosic, N., Leggat, W., Kaniewska, P., Dove, S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2013) New-old hemoglobin-like proteins in Symbiodinium. Journal of Ecology and Evolution 3:822-834 
4. Chua, C., Leggat, W., Moya, A., Baird, A.H. (2013) Near future reductions in pH will have no consistent ecological effects on the early life history stages of reef corals. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 486:143-151 

2012

1. Boldt, L., Yellowlees, D., Leggat, W. (2012) Hyperdiversity of genes encoding integral light-harvesting proteins in the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp.. PLoS One 7:e47456​

2011

1. Leggat, W., Seneca, F., Wasmund, K., Ukani, L., Yellowlees, D., Ainsworth, T.D. (2011) Differential responses of the coral host and their algal symbionts to thermal stress. PLoS One. 6:e26687 
2. Ainsworth, T.D., Wasmund, K., Ukani, L, Seneca, F., Yellowlees, D., Miller, D., Leggat, W. (2011) Defining the tipping point. A complex cellular life/death balance in coral in response to stress. Scientific Reports 1:160
3. Leggat, W., Yellowlees, D., Medina, M. (2011) Recent progress in Symbiodinium transcriptomics. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 408:120-125. 

2010

1. Gordon, B., Leggat, W. (2010) Symbiodinium-invertebrate symbioses and the role of metabolomics. Marine Drugs. 8:2546-2568
2. Kvennefors, E.C., Leggat, W., Kerr, C.C., Ainsworth, T.D., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Barnes, A.C (2010) Analysis of evolutionarily conserved innate immune components in coral links immunity and symbiosis. Developmental and Comparative Immunology. 34:1219-1229 

2009

1. Reef, R., Dunn, S., Levy, O., Dove, S., Shemesh, E., Brickner, I., Leggat, W., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2009) Photoreactivation is the main repair pathway for UV-induced DNA damage in coral planulae. Journal of Experimental Biology 212:2760-2766
2. Voolstra, C.R., Sunagawa, S., Schwarz, J.A., Coffroth, M.A., Yellowlees, D., Leggat, W., Medina, M. (2009) A comparison of cDNA libraries from cultured and symbiotic dinoflagellate symbionts of reef-building corals (Dinophyceae: Symbiodinium) Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics. 4:67-74

2008

1. Kvennefors, C.E., Leggat, W., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Degnan, B.M., Barnes, A.C. (2008) An ancient, highly variable mannose binding lectin and the nexus between coral disease and symbiosis. Development and Comparative Immunology 32:1582-1592 
2. Ainsworth, T.D., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Heron, S.F., Skirving, W.J., Leggat, W. (2008) Early cellular changes are indicators of pre-bleaching thermal stress in the coral host. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 364:63-71
3. Yellowlees, D., Rees, T.A.V., Leggat, W. (2008) Metabolic interactions between algal symbionts and invertebrate hosts. Plant, Cell and Environment 31:679-694 
4. Middlebrook, R. Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Leggat, W. (2008) The effect of thermal history on the susceptibility of reef-building coral to thermal stress. Journal of Experimental Biology 211:1050-1056
5. Ainsworth, T.D., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Leggat, W. (2008) Imaging the innate fluorescence of marine invertebrates and their associated flora. Journal of Microscopy 232:197-199

2007

1. Levy, O., Appelbaum, L., Leggat, W., Gothlif, Y., Hayward, D.C., Miller, D.J., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2007) Light-responsive cryptochromes from a simplest multicellular animal, the coral Acropora millepora. Science 318:467-470
2. Leggat, W., Ainsworth, T., Bythell, J., Dove, S., Gates, R., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Iglesias-Prieto, R., Yellowlees, D. (2007) The hologenome theory disregards the coral holobiont. Nature Reviews Microbiology 5
3. Baird, A.H., Cumbo, V.R., Leggat, W., Rodriguez-Lanetty, M. (2007) Flexibility of coral symbioses in response to climate change. Marine Ecology Progress Series 347:307-309
4. Yarden, O., Ainsworth, T., Roff, G., Leggat, W., Fine, M., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2007) Increased prevalence of ubiquitous ascomycetes in an acropoid coral (Acropora formosa) exhibiting symptoms of brown band syndrome and skeletal eroding band. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:2755-2757

2006

1. Leggat, W., Ainsworth, T., Dove, S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2006) Aerial exposure influences bleaching patterns. Coral Reefs 25:452

2005

1. Leggat, W., Dixon, R., Saleh, S., Yellowlees, D. (2005) A novel carbonic anhydrase from the giant clam Tridacna gigas contains two carbonic anhydrase domains. FEBS Journal. 272:3297-3305 
2. Edmunds, P., Gates, R., Leggat, W., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2005) The effect of temperature on the size and population density of dinoflagellates in larvae from the reef coral Porites asteroides. Invertebrate Biology 124:185-193 

2004

1. Leggat, W., Whitney, S.M., Yellowlees, D. (2004) Is coral bleaching due to the instability of the zooxanthellae dark reactions? Symbiosis 37:137-154 

2003

1. Leggat, W., Buck, B.H., Grice, A., Yellowlees, D. (2003) The impact of bleaching on the metabolic contribution of dinoflagellate symbionts to their giant clams hosts. Plant, Cell and Environment. 26:1951-1961

2002

1. Leggat, W., Marendy, E.M., Baillie, B., Whitney, S.M., Ludwig, M., Badger, M.R., Yellowlees, D. 2002 Dinoflagellate symbioses: strategies and adaptations for the acquisition and fixation of inorganic carbon. Functional Plant Biology 29:309-322 

2000

1. Leggat, W., Rees, T.A.V., Yellowlees, D. (2000) Meeting the demand for inorganic carbon in an alga-invertebrate association: preferential use of CO2 by symbionts in the giant clam Tridacna gigas. Proceedings of the Royal Society - B 267:523-529

1999

1. Leggat, W., Badger, M.R., Yellowlees, D. (1999) Evidence for an inorganic carbon-concentrating mechanism in the symbiotic dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp. Plant Physiology 121:1247-1255
2. Shepherd, D. Leggat, W., Rees, T.A.V., Yellowlees, D. (1999) Ammonium, but not nitrate, stimulates an increase in glutamine concentration in the haemolymph of Tridacna gigas. Marine Biology 133:45-53

1998

1. Belda-Baillie, C.A., Leggat, W., Yellowlees, D. (1998) Growth and metabolic responses of the giant clam-zooxanthellae symbiosis in a reef-fertilisation experiment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 170:131-141
2. Badger, M.R., Andrews, T.J., Whitney, S.M., Ludwig, M., Yellowlees, D., Leggat, W., Price, G.D. (1998) The diversity and coevolution of Rubisco, plastids, pyrenoids, and chloroplast-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in algae. Canadian Journal of Botany 76:1052-1071