Publications


2011


Boucher Y, Cordero OX, Takemura A, Hunt DE, Schliep K, Bapteste E et al. Local mobile gene pools rapidly cross species boundaries to create endemicity within global Vibrio cholerae populations. mBio. 2011;2(2). doi: 10.1128/mBio.00335-10

2010


Wildschutte H, Preheim SP, Hernandez Y, Polz MF. O-antigen diversity and lateral transfer of the wbe region among Vibrio splendidus isolates. Environmental Microbiology. 2010 Nov;12(11):2977-87. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02274.x

Man-Aharonovich D, Philosof A, Kirkup BC, Le Gall F, Yogev T, Berman-Frank I et al. Diversity of active marine picoeukaryotes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea unveiled using photosystem-II psbA transcripts. The ISME Journal. 2010 Aug;4(8):1044-52. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2010.25

Kirkup BC, Chang L, Chang S, Gevers D, Polz MF. Vibrio chromosomes share common history. BMC Microbiology. 2010 May 10;10:137. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-137

2009


Le Roux F, Zouine M, Chakroun N, Binesse J, Saulnier D, Bouchier C et al. Genome sequence of Vibrio splendidus: an abundant planctonic marine species with a large genotypic diversity. Environmental Microbiology. 2009 Aug;11(8):1959-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01918.x

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. 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. 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