Microbial Diversity Publications

2020 - 2024

* = preprint 
+ = thesis/dissertation 

Fonseca Coelho, L., Kaltenegger, L., Zinder, S., Philpot, W., Price, T. L., & Hamilton, T. L. (2024). Purple is the new green: Biopigments and spectra of Earth-like purple worlds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(2), 1363–1368.

* Hernandez-Rodriguez, Y., Bullard, A. M., Busch, R. J., & Vargas-Muñiz, J. M. (2024). Strategies for Genetic Manipulation of the Halotolerant Black Yeast H. werneckii: Ectopic DNA integration and marker-free CRISPR/Cas9 Trasformation (p. 2024.03.06.583723). bioRxiv.

O’Toole, G. A. (2024). We have a community problem. Journal of Bacteriology, e00073-24.

Quinones-Olvera, N., Owen, S. V., McCully, L. M., Marin, M. G., Rand, E. A., Fan, A. C., Martins Dosumu, O. J., Paul, K., Sanchez Castaño, C. E., Petherbridge, R., Paull, J. S., & Baym, M. (2024). Diverse and abundant phages exploit conjugative plasmids. Nature Communications, 15(1), 3197.

+ Tsypin, L. M. (2023). The Discovery and Biological Mechanisms of a Widespread Phenazine’s Oxidation [Thesis, California Institute of Technology].

* Gregor, R., Szabo, R. E., Vercelli, G. T., Gralka, M., Reynolds, R., Qu, E. B., Levine, N. M., & Cordero, O. X. (2023). Widespread B-vitamin auxotrophy in marine particle-associated bacteria (p. 2023.10.16.562604). bioRxiv.

Gu Liu, C., & Maresso, A. W. (2023). Effect of various types of extracellular DNA on V. hyugaensis biofilm formation. mSphere, e00035-23.

+ Junger, P. C. (2023). Ecological processes structuring the ocean microbiome across space and time [Thesis, Universidade Federal de São Carlos].

* Kosmopoulos, J. C., Campbell, D. E., Whitaker, R. J., & Wilbanks, E. G. (2023a). Horizontal gene transfer and CRISPR targeting drive phage-bacterial host interactions and co-evolution in pink berry marine microbial aggregates (p. 2023.02.06.527410). bioRxiv.

Kosmopoulos, J. C., Campbell, D. E., Whitaker, R. J., & Wilbanks, E. G. (2023b). Horizontal Gene Transfer and CRISPR Targeting Drive Phage-Bacterial Host Interactions and Coevolution in “Pink Berry” Marine Microbial Aggregates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, e0017723.

* Quinones-Olvera, N., Owen, S. V., McCully, L. M., Marin, M. G., Rand, E. A., Fan, A. C., Dosumu, O. J. M., Paul, K., Castaño, C. E. S., Petherbridge, R., Paull, J. S., & Baym, M. (2023). Diverse and abundant phages exploit conjugative plasmids (p. 2023.03.19.532758). bioRxiv.

+ Lin, J. Y. C. (2022). Structure, Stability, and Function of the Microbiome of Soil Aggregates [Dissertation, University of California, Davis]. 

+ Andrade Meirelles, L. (2022). The Nuanced Effects of Redox-Active Metabolites on Bacterial Physiology and Antibiotic Susceptibility [Phd, California Institute of Technology].

Hake, K. H., West, P. T., McDonald, K., Laundon, D., De Las Bayonas, A. G., Feng, C., Burkhardt, P., Richter, D. J., Banfield, J. F., & King, N. (2021). Colonial choanoflagellate isolated from Mono Lake harbors a microbiome. BioRxiv, 2021.03.30.437421. 

+ Perry, E. K. (2021). Mechanisms and Consequences of Bacterial Resistance to Natural Antibiotics [Phd, California Institute of Technology].

Mickol, R. L., Louyakis, A. S., Kee, H. L., Johnson, L. K., Dawson, S. C., Hargreaves, K. R., Chadwick, G. L., Newman, D. K., Leadbetter, J. R., & Brown, C. T. (2021). Draft Genome Sequence of the Free-Living, Iridescent Bacterium Tenacibaculum mesophilum Strain ECR. Microbiology Resource Announcements,10(1).

Bhatnagar, S., Cowley, E. S., Kopf, S. H., Pérez Castro, S., Kearney, S., Dawson, S. C., Hanselmann, K., & Ruff, S. E. (2020). Microbial community dynamics and coexistence in a sulfide-driven phototrophic bloom. Environmental Microbiome,15(1), 3. 

Urtecho, G., Campbell, D. E., Hershey, D. M., Hussain, F. A., Whitaker, R. J., & O’Toole, G. A. (2020). Discovering the Molecular Determinants of Phaeobacter inhibens Susceptibility to Phaeobacter Phage MD18. MSphere,5(6).

Urtecho, G., Campbell, D. E., Hershey, D. M., Whitaker, R. J., & O’Toole, G. A. (2020). Discovering the Molecular Determinants of Phaeobacter inhibens susceptibility to Phaeobacter phage MD18. BioRxiv, 2020.04.13.038638.