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Jason Doyle

Experimental Scientist
Tropical marine Water Quality Impacts
Contact email
j.doyle@aims.gov.au
Townsville
Background
About

Jason Doyle is an Experimental Scientist who has been working with AIMS since 1994. During this time Jason has supervised a number of Interns & post grads as well as being involved in many internal institutional committees. 

Employment
2022 - Present
Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, Australian Insitute of Marine Science, QLD
2014 - 2022
Development of strategic research and effective solutions for the management and control of Crown of Thorns Starfish, Australian Insitute of Marine Science, QLD
2014 - 2019
Manager Pigment Analysis Facility, Australian Insitute of Marine Science, QLD
2013 - 2019
Laboratory Manager, Australian Insitute of Marine Science, QLD
2011 - 2015
Biophysical oceanography of Great Barrier Reef and North West Shelf. Enzymatic processes as indicators of growth, grazing and respiration.
2008 - 2014
Temperature tolerance of coral symbionts
2008 - 2011
Fate of organic matter in the Central Great Barrier Reef
2005 - 2012
Marine Monitoring Program. Algal pigments as indicators for water quality.
1994 - 2005
Marine Bio-discovery. Spanning many aspects of this project including assay design and development, chemical purification, field collection and curation.
Education
1994
BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, James Cook University, Townsville AU
Research

Molecular methods for detection for Acanthaster planci (Crown of Thorns Starfish) in the marine environment.
Environmental DNA monitoring
Use of algal pigments for chemotaxonomy and as bioindicators
Development of biochemical indicators for biological oceanography

Publications

Uthicke, S., Doyle, J., Gomez-Cabrera, M., Patel, F., McLatchie, M., Doll, P., Chandler, J. and Pratchett, M. (2024). "eDNA monitoring detects new outbreak wave of corallivorous seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris) at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef." Coral Reefs https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02506-8

Uthicke, S., Robson, B., Doyle, J. R., Logan, M., Pratchett, M. S., & Lamare, M. (2022). Developing an effective marine eDNA monitoring: eDNA detection at pre-outbreak densities of corallivorous seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris). Science of The Total Environment, 851, 158143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158143

Peter C. Doll, Vanessa Messmer, Sven Uthicke, Jason R. Doyle, Ciemon F. Caballes, and Morgan S. (2021) Pratchett. DNA-Based Detection and Patterns of Larval Settlement of the Corallivorous Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star (Acanthaster sp.). The Biological Bulletin 2021 241:3, 271-285 https://doi.org/10.1086/717539

Morgan S. Pratchett, Ciemon F. Caballes, Christopher Cvitanovic, Maia L. Raymundo, Russell C. Babcock, Mary C. Bonin, Yves-Marie Bozec, Deborah Burn, Maria Byrne, Carolina Castro-Sanguino, Carla C. M. Chen, Scott A. Condie, Zara-Louise Cowan, Dione J. Deaker, Amelia Desbiens, Lyndon M. Devantier, Peter J. Doherty, Peter C. Doll, Jason R. Doyle, Symon A. Dworjanyn, Katharina E. Fabricius, Michael D. E. Haywood, Karlo Hock, Anne K. Hoggett, Lone Høj, John K. Keesing, Richard A. Kenchington, Bethan J. Lang, Scott D. Ling, Samuel A. Matthews, Hamish I. McCallum, Camille Mellin, Benjamin Mos, Cherie A. Motti, Peter J. Mumby, Richard J. W. Stump, Sven Uthicke, Lyle Vail, Kennedy Wolfe, and Shaun K. Wilson. Knowledge Gaps in the Biology, Ecology, and Management of the Pacific Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star Acanthaster sp. on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The Biological Bulletin 2021 241:3, 330-346. 10.1086/717026

Kwong, S.L.T., Villacorta-Rath, C., Doyle, J and Uthicke, S. Quantifying shedding and degradation rates of environmental DNA (eDNA) from Pacific crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris). Mar Biol 168, 85 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03896-x

Doyle J, Uthicke S. Sensitive environmental DNA detection via lateral flow assay (dipstick)—A case study on corallivorous crown-of-thorns sea star (Acanthaster cf. solaris) detection. Environmental DNA. 2021; 3: 323–342 https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.123

Kroon, F.J., Lefèvre, C.D., Doyle, J.R., Patel, F., Milton, G., Severati, A., Kenway, M., Johansson, C., Schnebert, S. and Thomas-Hall, P. (2020) DNA-based identification of predators of the corallivorous Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) from fish faeces and gut contents. Sci Rep 10, 8184 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65136-4

Uthicke, S., Fisher, E., Patel, F., Diaz-Guijarro, B., Doyle, J., Messmer, V. and Pratchett, M. (2019). "Spawning time of Acanthaster cf. solaris on the Great Barrier Reef inferred using qPCR quantification of embryos and larvae: do they know it’s Christmas?" Marine Biology 166(10): 133 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-019-3582-5

Uthicke, S., Lamare, M. & Doyle, J.R. (2018) eDNA detection of corallivorous seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris) outbreaks on the Great Barrier Reef using digital droplet PCR. Coral Reefs. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-018-1734-6

Doyle JR, McKinnon AD, Uthicke S (2017) Quantifying larvae of the coralivorous seastar Acanthaster cf. solaris on the Great Barrier Reef using qPCR. Mar Biol 164:176 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-017-3206-x
 
Lønborg C, Doyle J, Furnas M, Menendez P, Benthuysen JA, Carreira C (2017) Seasonal organic matter dynamics in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon: contribution of carbohydrates and proteins. Continental Shelf Research 138: 95-105 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2017.01.010
 
Pineda MC, Strehlow B, Duckworth A, Doyle J, Jones R, Webster NS (2016) Effects of light attenuation on the sponge holobiont- implications for dredging management. Scientific Reports 6 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39038
 
Bay LK, Doyle J, Logan M, Berkelmans R (2016) Recovery from bleaching is mediated by threshold densities of background thermo-tolerant symbiont types in a reef-building coral. Royal Society Open Science https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160322
 
Strahl J, Francis DS, Doyle J, Humphrey C, Fabricius KE (2016) Biochemical responses to ocean acidification contrast between tropical corals with high and low abundances at volcanic carbon dioxide seeps, ICES J Mar Sci 73:897-909 https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsv194
 
Uthicke, S., Doyle, J., Duggan, S., Yasuda, N. and McKinnon, A. D. (2015). "Outbreak of coral-eating Crown-of-Thorns creates continuous cloud of larvae over 320¿km of the Great Barrier Reef." Scientific Reports 5: 16885. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep16885
 
McKinnon AD, Doyle J, Duggan S, Logan M, Lønborg C, Brinkman R (2015) Zooplankton Growth, Respiration and Grazing on the Australian Margins of the Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0140012 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140012
 
Berkelmans R, Doyle J, van Oppen MJH, Asbridge EF, Brown AR (2014) Efficacy of long-term coral tissue storage in ethanol for genotyping studies. Coral Reefs 33:89-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-013-1106-1
 
Evans-Illidge EA, Logan M, Doyle J, Fromont J, Battershill CN, Ericson G, Wolff CW, Muirhead A, Kearns P, Abdo D, Kininmonth S, Llewellyn L (2013) Phylogeny Drives Large Scale Patterns in Australian Marine Bioactivity and Provides a New Chemical Ecology Rationale for Future Biodiscovery. PLoS ONE 8. doi: ARTN e73800. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073800

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