* authors contributed equally; ^ corresponding author

In progress

Menatti L, Waterton E, Alegado RA, Lee E, Smiles D, Waterman T and Liboiron M. (2024) “Book Review Forum: Pollution is Colonialism”. Landscape Research, in production

McGregor DP, Wiebe SM, Oceana Francis, Baker CMK, Bremer L, Alegado RA, Puniwai N. (2023) “Energy As Deity: Kahoʻolawe and Aloha ʻĀina Futures” in Rachel George, Jen Belman and Sarah Marie Wiebe (Eds). Seascape Stories: Decolonial Water Relations. Victoria, BC: University of British Columbia Press, submitted.

Palkovacs E^, Alegado RA, Beck M, Blumwald E, Bobo J, Fisher K, Folt C, Franco G, Horton B, Johnston E, Kebreab E, Lund J, Mazet J, Ocampo-Peñuela N, Sampson S, Schneider T, Shaw R. (2023) Key role of universities in confronting global sustainability challenges. Science, submitted

Alegado RA^, Hintzen, K, Ching L, Lieberman M, Chang S, Nakano E, Sy A, Horio D, Tam K, Nerurkar VR^. (2023) Founding Hawaiʻi’s public diagnostic laboratory at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Oceanography, in revision.

Hintzen K, Ascuncion B, Tamanaha M, Hui Mālama Loko Iʻa, Alegado RA^ (2023) A practitioner-led approach to a climate change needs assessment of Native Hawaiian aquaculture. Oceanography, in revision.

2023

Kane, H.H.^, C.A. Choy, B.C. Bruno, D.K. Tachera, K. Keliipuleole, J.A.T.K. Wong-Ala, J.H.R. Burns, C.A. Kapono, K.H. Pascoe, K. Steward, and R.A. Alegado.^ 2023. Ho‘okele ka wa‘a: Recalibrating the sail plan for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the ocean sciences. Oceanography 36(4), .

Bader AC^, Van Zuylen EM, Handsley-Davis M, Alegado RA, Amber Benezra A, Pollet RM, Ehau-Taumaunu H, Weyrich LS, Anderson MZ^ (2023) A relational framework guides best practices in microbiome research with Indigenous communities. Nature Microbiology, 8:1768-1776.

Leonard K, David-Chavez D, Smiles D, Jennings L, Alegado RA, Tsinnajinnie L, Manitowabi J, Arsenault R, Begay RL, Kagawa-Viviani A, David DD, von Uitregt V, Pichette H, Liboiron M, Moggridge B, Russo Carroll S, Tsosie RL, Gomez A (2023) “Water Back: A Review of Reclamation, Rematriation, and Restoration for Indigenous Water Sovereignty” Water Alternatives Reviews, 16(2) 1.

Alegado RA^, Hintzen KD, Tamanaha M, Asuncion B, Bottjer-Willson D. (2023) ʻKūlana Noiʻi: a kanaka ʻōiwi-centered indigenist axiology for conducting research with communitiesʻ in Stephens J and Pipe L (Eds). IGNITE: A Justice-Forward Approach to Decolonizing Higher Education through Space, Place, and Culture, 147-176. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.

2022

Chen, C. Y.,^ Kahanamoku, S. S.^, Tripati, A.^, Alegado, R. A.^, Morris, V. R.^, Andrade, K., & Hosbey, J. (2022) Meta-Research: Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation eLife 11:e83071 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83071

Alegado RA. (2022). ʻDean Tiburcio Alegadoʻ in Nadal K, Tintiangco-Cubales A, and David EJR (Eds). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Chen, C. Y.,^ Kahanamoku, S. S.^, Tripati, A.^, Alegado, R. A.^, Morris, V. R.^, Andrade, K., & Hosbey, J. (2022, July 1). Decades of systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation. OSF preprints doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/xb57u

Freckelton ML, Nedved BT, Cai Y-S, Cao S, Turano H, Alegado RA, Hadfield MG⌃. (2022) Bacterial lipopolysaccharide induces settlement and metamorphosis in a marine larva. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 119 (18) e2200795119. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200795119

2021

Nakahara BA, Demopoulos AWJ, Rii YM, Alegado RA, Fraiola K, Smith CR. (2021) Novel introduced mangrove habitats support distinct megafaunal communities along the coast of Moloka’i, Hawai’i. Pacific Science, 72(2) 205-223. doi.org/10.2984/75.2.4

Mateo-Matriano D, Alegado RA, Conaco CC. (2021) Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Genome of Salpingoeca rosetta. Scientific Reports, 11 (1), 1-11. doi-org.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/10.1038/s41598-021-85259-6

2020

McGregor DP⌃, Aluli NE, Alegado RA. (2020) “ Lessons from Aloha ʻĀina Activism: Visioning and Planning for our Islands and Communities in the Wake of COVID-19” in Goodyear-Kaʻōpua N, Howes C, Osorio JKK, Yamashiro A (eds). The Value of Hawaiʻi III: Hulihia, the Turning. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaiʻi Press.

Winter KB⌃, Y Rii, F Reppun, K Hintzen, RA Alegado, BW Bowen, LL Bremer, M Coffman, JL Deenik, MJ Donahue, KA Falinksi, KL Frank, EC Franklin, N Kurashima, NK Lincoln, E Madin, MA McManus, C Nelson, R Okano, A Olegario, K Oleson, P Pascua, MR Price, MAJ Rivera, K Rodgers, C Sabine, CM Smith, T Ticktin, A Hewitt, R Kaluhiwa, M Cypher, JA Leong, B Thomas, K Kekuewa, K Kukea-Shultz, H Kawelo, K Kotubetey, B Neilson, J Tonimoto, T Lee, RJ Toonen. (2020) Collaborative research to inform adaptive co-management: A framework for the Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve. Ecology and Society. 25(4): 15. doi.org/10.5751/ES-11895-250415

Mateo-Matriano D, Alegado RA, Conaco CC. (2020) Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Genome of Salpingoeca rosetta. bioRxiv 2020.06.28.176636; doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.28.17663

Winter K^, N Lincoln, F Berkes, RA Alegado, N Kurashima, K Frank, P Pascua, Y Rii, F Reppun, I Knapp, W McClatchey, T Ticktin, C Smith, E Franklin, K Oleson, M Price, MA McManus, M Donahue, K Rodgers, B Bowen, C Nelson, B Thomas, J Leong, E Madin, MA Rivera, K Falinski, L Bremer, J Deenik, S Gon III, B Neilson, R Okano, A Olegario, B Nyberg, AH Kawelo, K Kotubetey, J K Kukea-Shultz, R Toonen. (2020) Eco-mimicry in Indigenous Resource Management: Optimizing ecosystem services to achieve resource abundance with examples from Hawaii. Ecology and Society. 25 (2):26. www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss2/art26/

Freckelton ML, Nedved BT, Cai Y-S, Cao S, Turano H,  Alegado RA, Hadfield MG⌃. (2020) Bacterial lipopolysaccharide induces settlement and metamorphosis in a marine larva. bioRxiv 851519.  doi.org/10.1101/851519

Kahanamoku S, Alegado RA, Kagawa-Viviani A, Kamelamela KL, Kamai B, Walkowicz LM, Prescod-Weinstein C, de los Reyes MA, Neilson H. (2020). A Native Hawaiian-led summary of the current impact of constructing the Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea. arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00970. doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11434494.v1

2019

Alegado RA. (2019). Opponents of the Thirty Meter Telescope fight the process, not science. Nature572(7767), 7. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02304-1 

Shuler CK^, Daniel W. Amato DW, Gibson V, Baker L, Dulai H, Smith CM, Alegado RA. (2019) Assessment of Terrigenous Nutrient Loading to Coastal Ecosystems Along a Human Land-Use Gradient, Tutuila, American Samoa. Hydrology, 6(1). doi.org/10.3390/hydrology6010018

Mohlenkamp P, Beebe CK, McManus MA, Kawelo AH, Kotubetey K, Lopez-Guzman M, Nelson CE, Alegado RA^. (2019) Kū Hou Kuapā: Cultural Restoration Improves Water Budget and Water Quality Dynamics in Heʻeia Fishpond. Journal of Sustainability, 11(1): 161. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11010161.

2018

Hynson N^, Frank K, Alegado R, Amend A, Arif M, Bennett G, Jani A, Medeiros M, Mileyko Y, Nelson C, Nguyen N, Nigro O, Prisic S, Takagi D, Wilson S, Yew J, Shin S. (2018) Synergy among microbiota and their hosts: leveraging the Hawaiian archipelago and local collaborative networks to address pressing questions in microbiome research. mSystems, 3:e00159-17, doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00159-17.

2017

McCoy D, McManus MA, Kotubetey K, Kawelo AH, Young C, DʻAndrea B, Ruttenberg KC, Alegado RA⌃ (2017) Large-scale climatic effects on a traditional Hawaiian fishpond. PLoS One, 16 Nov. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187951

Lynch J^ and Alegado RA^. (2017) Spheres of hope, orbs of doom: the good and bad of outer membrane vesicles in interspecies dynamics. Journal of Bacteriology, 17 April, doi: 10.1128/JB.0012-17.

Xie G, Wang X, Ji J, Zhao A, Yan J, Chen W, Jiang R, Huang F, Zhang Y, Lei S, Ge K, Zheng X, Alegado RA, Liu J, Liu P, Nicholson J, Jia W, Jia W. (2017) Sex-dependent effects on gut microbiota regulate carcinogenic outcomes. Scientific Reports,  Mar 27;7:45232. doi: 10.1038/srep45232. 

2016

Baker LJ, Alegado RA, Kemp PF. (2016) Response of diatom-associated bacteria to host diatom growth state, nutrient concentrations, and viral host infection in a tripartite model system. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 25 Aug doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12456.

Xie G, Wang X, Liu P, Chen W., Hernandez BY, Alegado RA, Dong B, Li D and Wei J. (2016) Distinctly altered gut microbiota in the progression of liver disease. Oncotarget Mar 29. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.8466

2014

Alegado RA and King N. (2014) Bacterial influences on animal origins. Cold Spring Harbor Biological Perspectives eds. Patrick Keeling and Eugene Koonin eds. 6 (11): a016162.

Beemelmanns C, Woznica A, Alegado RA, King N, Clardy J. (2014). Synthesis of the rosette-inducing factor RIF-1 and analogs. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136(29):10210-3. 

2007-2013

Alegado RA^, Grabenstatter JD, Zuzow R, Morris A, Huang SY, Summons R, King N*. (2013)  Algoriphagus machipongonensis sp. nov. co-isolated with a colonial choanoflagellate. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63(Pt 1):163-8. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.038646-0

Alegado RA*, Brown LW*, Cao S, Dermenjian RK, Zuzow R, Fairclough SR, Clardy J, King N. (2012) A bacterial sulfonolipid triggers multicellular development in the closest living relatives of animals. eLife Epub Oct 15 2012, doi:10.7544/eLife.0.00013             

Dayel MJ, Alegado RA*, Fairclough SR*, Levin T, Nichols SA, McDonald K, King N. (2011) Cell differentiation and morphogenesis in the colony-forming choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosettaDevelopmental Biology 357(1): 73-82.

Alegado RA^, Ferreira S, Nusbaum C, Young SK, Zeng Q, Imamovic A, Fairclough SR, King N. (2011) Complete genome sequence of Algoriphagus sp. PR1, Bacterial Prey of a Colony-forming Choanoflagellate. Journal of Bacteriology 193(6):1485-1496. 

Alegado RA, Chin CY, Monack D, Tan MW. (2011) The two-component sensor kinase KdpD is required for Salmonella typhimurium colonization of Caenorhabditis elegans and survival in macrophages.Cellular Microbiology 13(10):1618-1637.

2000 - 2007

Alegado RA, Tan MW. (2008) Resistance to antimicrobial peptides contributes to persistence of Salmonella typhimurium in the C. elegans intestine. Cellular Microbiology 10(6): 1259-1273.

Alegado RA, Campbell MC, Chen WC, Slutz SS, Tan MW (2003) Characterization of mediators of microbial virulence and innate immunity using the C. elegans host-pathogen model. Cellular Microbiology 5(7): 435-44.


White papers and Reports

Kūlana Noiʻi Working Group. (2021) Kūlana Noiʻi v. 2. Honolulu: Hawaiʻi Sea Grant.

Hui Mālama Loko Iʻa. (2020). Loko Iʻa Needs Assessment. Honolulu: Pacific Islands Climate Science Adaptation Center.

City & County of Honolulu Climate Change Commission. (2020) Climate Change and Social Equity, Honolulu: City & County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resilience.

City & County of Honolulu Climate Change Commission. (2020) Climate Change and FInancial Risk, Honolulu: City & County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resilience.

City & County of Honolulu Climate Change Commission. (2019) ROH 23 Chapter Shoreline Setback Guidance, Honolulu: City & County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resilience

City & County of Honolulu Climate Change Commission. (2018) Climate Brief, Honolulu: City & County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resilience

City & County of Honolulu Climate Change Commission. (2018) Sea Level Rise Guidance, Honolulu: City & County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resilience.

Kūlana Noiʻi Working Group. (2018) Kūlana Noiʻi v. 1. Honolulu: Hawaiʻi Sea Grant.  https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11540289.v1

Hawaiian Place of Learning Implementation Task Force. (2016) Ka Hoʻokō Kuleana: Fulfilling Our Responsibility to Establish the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as a Hawaiian Place of Learning. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa.