: Caron Lab, USC :  
: Post-Doctoral Fellow - USC Microbial Observatory :

• Enderlein P, Moorthi S, Roehrscheidt H and Wahl M (2003): Optimal Foraging versus Shared Doom effects: interactive influence of mussel size and epibiosis on predator preference. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 292: 231-242.
• Moorthi SD, Countway PD, Stauffer BA and Caron DA: Use of quantitative real-time PCR to investigate the dynamics of the red tide dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum. (accepted for publication in Microbial Ecology)
• Moorthi SD and Berninger U-G: Mixotrophic nanoflagellates in coastal sediments in the Western Baltic Sea. (revised version resubmitted to Aquatic Microbial Ecology)
  
• Moorthi SD, Hillebrand H, Wahl M and Berninger U-G: Consumer diversity enhances secondary production by complementarity effects (submitted)
  
• Moorthi SD, Dietrich D and Berninger U-G: The influence of light and nutrient conditions on mixotrophic nanoflagellates in coastal sediments in the Western Baltic Sea. (submitted)
  
• Caron DA, Gast RJ, Savai P, Countway PD, Schnetzer A and Moorthi SD. Defining taxonomic units of protists for ecological studies using DNA sequence data (submitted)