Publications


2009


Tzahor S, Man-Aharonovich D, Kirkup BC, Yogev T, Berman-Frank I, Polz MF et al. A supervised learning approach for taxonomic classification of core-photosystem-II genes and transcripts in the marine environment. BMC Genomics. 2009 May 16;10:229. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-229

Joss MJ, Koenig JE, Labbate M, Polz MF, Gillings MR, Stokes HW et al. Acid: annotation of cassette and integron data. BMC Bioinformatics. 2009 Apr 21;10:118. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-118

Fraser C, Alm EJ, Polz MF, Spratt BG, Hanage WP. The bacterial species challenge: making sense of genetic and ecological diversity. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2009 Feb 6;323(5915):741-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1159388

2008


Stewart JR, Gast RJ, Fujioka RS, Solo-Gabriele HM, Meschke JS, Amaral-Zettler LA et al. The coastal environment and human health: microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs. Environmental health : a global access science source. 2008 Nov 7;7 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):S3. doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-7-S2-S3

Hunt DE, David LA, Gevers D, Preheim SP, Alm EJ, Polz MF. Resource partitioning and sympatric differentiation among closely related bacterioplankton. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2008 May 23;320(5879):1081-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1157890

Hunt DE, Gevers D, Vahora NM, Polz MF. Conservation of the chitin utilization pathway in the Vibrionaceae. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2008 Jan;74(1):44-51. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01412-07

2007


Sabehi G, Kirkup BC, Rozenberg M, Stambler N, Polz MF, Béjà O. Adaptation and spectral tuning in divergent marine proteorhodopsins from the eastern Mediterranean and the Sargasso Seas. The ISME Journal. 2007 May;1(1):48-55. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2007.10

2006


Marcelino LA, Backman V, Donaldson A, Steadman C, Thompson JR, Preheim SP et al. Accurately quantifying low-abundant targets amid similar sequences by revealing hidden correlations in oligonucleotide microarray data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2006 Sept 12;103(37):13629-34. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601476103

Hunt DE, Klepac-Ceraj V, Acinas SG, Gautier C, Bertilsson S, Polz MF. Evaluation of 23S rRNA PCR primers for use in phylogenetic studies of bacterial diversity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2006 Mar;72(3):2221-5. doi: 10.1128/AEM.72.3.2221-2225.2006

2005


Perry TD, Klepac-Ceraj V, Zhang XV, McNamara CJ, Polz MF, Martin ST et al. Binding of harvested bacterial exopolymers to the surface of calcite. Environmental Science & Technology. 2005 Nov 15;39(22):8770-5. doi: 10.1021/es0508368

Thompson JR, Pacocha S, Pharino C, Klepac-Ceraj V, Hunt DE, Benoit J et al. Genotypic diversity within a natural coastal bacterioplankton population. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2005 Feb 25;307(5713):1311-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1106028

2004


Acinas SG, Klepac-Ceraj V, Hunt DE, Pharino C, Ceraj I, Distel DL et al. Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community. Nature. 2004 Jul 29;430(6999):551-4. doi: 10.1038/nature02649

Thompson JR, Randa MA, Marcelino LA, Tomita-Mitchell A, Lim E, Polz MF. Diversity and dynamics of a north atlantic coastal Vibrio community. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2004 Jul;70(7):4103-10. doi: 10.1128/AEM.70.7.4103-4110.2004

Klepac-Ceraj V, Bahr M, Crump BC, Teske AP, Hobbie JE, Polz MF. High overall diversity and dominance of microdiverse relationships in salt marsh sulphate-reducing bacteria. Environmental Microbiology. 2004 Jul;6(7):686-98. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00600.x