Ainsworth, Tracy D., and Gates, Ruth D. (2016) Corals' microbial sentinels: the coral microbiome will be key to future reef health. Science, 352 (6293). pp. 1518-1519.

Ainsworth, Tracy D., Krause, Lutz, Bridge, Thomas, Torda, Gergely, Raina, Jean-Baptiste, Zakrzewski, Martha, Gates, Ruth D., Padilla-Gamino, Jacqueline L., Spalding, Heather L., Smith, Celia, Woolsey, Erika S., Bourne, David G., Bongaerts, Pim, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove, and Leggat, Bill (2015) The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts. ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology, 9. pp. 2261-2274.

Gates, Ruth D., and Ainsworth, Tracy D. (2011) The nature and taxonomic composition of coral symbiomes as drivers of performance limits in scleractinian corals. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 408 (1-2). pp. 94-101.

Ainsworth, Tracy D., Thurber, Rebecca Vega, and Gates, Ruth D. (2010) The future of coral reefs: a microbial perspective. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 25 (4). pp. 233-240.

Olson , N.D., Ainsworth, T.D., Gates, R.D., and Takabayashi, M. (2009) Diazotrophic bacteria associated with Hawaiian Montipora corals: diversity and abundance in correlation with symbiotic dinoflagellates. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 371 (2). pp. 140-146.

Palmer, Caroline V., Roth, Melissa S., and Gates, Ruth D. (2009) Red fluorescent protein responsible for pigmentation in Trematode-infected Porites compressa tissues. Biological Bulletin, 216 (1). pp. 68-74.

Leggat, William, Ainsworth, Tracy, Bythell, John, Dove, Sophie, Gates, Ruth, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove, Iglesias-Prieto, Roberto, and Yellowlees, David (2007) The hologenome theory disregards the coral holobiont. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 5. - .

Edmunds, Peter J., Gates, Ruth D., Leggat, William, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove, and Allen-Requa, Laurie (2005) The effect of temperature on the size and population density of dinoflagellates in larvae of the reef coral Porites astreoides. Invertebrate Biology, 124 (3). pp. 185-193.