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List of works by Vaughn S. Cooper

An insect pathogenic symbiosis between a Caenorhabditis and Serratia.

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Antibiotic resistance correlates with transmission in plasmid evolution.

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

Benefit of transferred mutations is better predicted by the fitness of recipients than by their ecological or genetic relatedness

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Ceftolozane-Tazobactam for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections: Clinical Effectiveness and Evolution of Resistance.

scientific article published in July 2017

Character displacement and the evolution of niche complementarity in a model biofilm community

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Characterization of a Novel IncHI2 Plasmid Carrying Tandem Copies of blaCTX-M-2 in a fosA6-Harboring Escherichia coli Sequence Type 410 Strain

scientific article published on 29 August 2016

Clostridioides difficile: a potential source of NpmA in the clinical environment

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Comparative genomics of Burkholderia multivorans, a ubiquitous pathogen with a highly conserved genomic structure

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Complete Genome Sequences of 13 Bacillus subtilis Soil Isolates for Studying Secondary Metabolite Diversity

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Diverse phenotypic and genetic responses to short-term selection in evolving Escherichia coli populations.

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Ecological succession in long-term experimentally evolved biofilms produces synergistic communities

scientific article published on September 2, 2010

Ecology and Genetic Structure of a Northern Temperate Vibrio cholerae Population Related to Toxigenic Isolates

scientific article published on September 16, 2011

Environmental Conditions Associated with Elevated Vibrio parahaemolyticus Concentrations in Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Evolution of Ecological Diversity in Biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Altered Cyclic Diguanylate Signaling

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

Evolution of Outbreak-Causing Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 at a Tertiary Care Hospital over 8 Years

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Evolution of the Insertion-Deletion Mutation Rate Across the Tree of Life.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Evolution of thermal dependence of growth rate of Escherichia coli populations during 20,000 generations in a constant environment

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Evolutionary Divergence of the Wsp Signal Transduction Systems in Beta- and Gammaproteobacteria

scientific article published on 08 September 2021

Evolutionary effects of translocations in bacterial genomes

scientific article published on January 2012

Evolutionary pathways to antibiotic resistance are dependent upon environmental structure and bacterial lifestyle

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Evolutionary rates and gene dispensability associate with replication timing in the archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus

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Evolved resistance to a novel cationic peptide antibiotic requires high mutation supply

scientific article published in 2022

EvolvingSTEM: A microbial evolution-in-action curriculum that enhances learning of evolutionary biology and increases interest in STEM

scholarly article published 9 January 2019

EvolvingSTEM: a microbial evolution-in-action curriculum that enhances learning of evolutionary biology and biotechnology

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Experimental Evolution In Vivo To Identify Selective Pressures during Pneumococcal Colonization

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Experimental Evolution as a High-Throughput Screen for Genetic Adaptations.

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Experimental adaptation of Burkholderia cenocepacia to onion medium reduces host range.

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Expression of myeloid Src-family kinases is associated with poor prognosis in AML and influences Flt3-ITD kinase inhibitor acquired resistance

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Forecasting Seasonal Vibrio parahaemolyticus Concentrations in New England Shellfish

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Frequency and Mechanisms of Spontaneous Fosfomycin Nonsusceptibility Observed upon Disk Diffusion Testing of Escherichia coli.

scientific article published in November 2017

Genetic characterization of clinical and environmental Vibrio parahaemolyticus from the Northeast USA reveals emerging resident and non-indigenous pathogen lineages

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Genetic requirements for Staphylococcus aureus nitric oxide resistance and virulence.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Genome sequence and comparative analysis of a putative entomopathogenic Serratia isolated from Caenorhabditis briggsae.

scientific article published on 18 July 2015

Genome-Wide Biases in the Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio fischeri

scientific article published on 15 October 2016

Genome-wide analysis of influenza viral RNA and nucleoprotein association.

scientific article published on September 2017

Glutathione-S-transferase FosA6 of Klebsiella pneumoniae origin conferring fosfomycin resistance in ESBL-producing Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Hidden resources in the Escherichia coli genome restore PLP synthesis and robust growth after deletion of the essential gene pdxB

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

High-Level Carbapenem Resistance in OXA-232-Producing Raoultella ornithinolytica Triggered by Ertapenem Therapy

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

High-Level Fosfomycin Resistance in Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium.

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Host-selected mutations converging on a global regulator drive an adaptive leap towards symbiosis in bacteria.

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Improved Detection of Culprit Pathogens by Bacterial DNA Sequencing Affects Antibiotic Management Decisions in Severe Pneumonia

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Influence of seasonality on the genetic diversity of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in New Hampshire shellfish waters as determined by multilocus sequence analysis

scientific article published on 9 March 2012

Laboratory Evolution of Microbial Interactions in Bacterial Biofilms

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Long-Term Evolution of Burkholderia multivorans during a Chronic Cystic Fibrosis Infection Reveals Shifting Forces of Selection

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Long-term experimental evolution in Escherichia coli. X. Quantifying the fundamental and realized niche.

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Mechanisms causing rapid and parallel losses of ribose catabolism in evolving populations of Escherichia coli B.

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Mutations that improve efficiency of a weak-link enzyme are rare compared to adaptive mutations elsewhere in the genome

scientific article published on 9 December 2019

NADH Dehydrogenases in Growth and Virulence

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Negative frequency-dependent selection maintains coexisting genotypes during fluctuating selection

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

New Insights from Elucidating the Role of LMP1 in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Non-Uniform and Non-Random Binding of Nucleoprotein to Influenza A and B Viral RNA

scientific article published on 25 September 2018

One gene, multiple ecological strategies: A biofilm regulator is a capacitor for sustainable diversity

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase-Producing Citrobacter freundii at a Tertiary Acute Care Facility in Miami, Florida

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections from a Contaminated Gastroscope Detected by Whole Genome Sequencing Surveillance

scientific article published on 25 December 2020

Outbreak of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Interventional Radiology: Detection Through Whole Genome Sequencing-Based Surveillance

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Parallel Evolution of Tobramycin Resistance across Species and Environments

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Parallel evolution of small colony variants in Burkholderia cenocepacia biofilms

scientific article published on 28 September 2014

Parallel evolution of two clades of a major Atlantic endemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus pathogen lineage by independent acquisition of related pathogenicity islands

scientific article published on 7 July 2017

Parallel genetic adaptation across environments differing in mode of growth or resource availability

scientific article published on 04 August 2018

Periodic Variation of Mutation Rates in Bacterial Genomes Associated with Replication Timing

scientific article published on 21 August 2018

Perspectives on the future of ecology, evolution, and biodiversity from the Council on Microbial Sciences of the American Society for Microbiology

scientific article published on 21 November 2024

Phylogenomic Study of Burkholderia glathei-like Organisms, Proposal of 13 Novel Burkholderia Species and Emended Descriptions of Burkholderia sordidicola, Burkholderia zhejiangensis, and Burkholderia grimmiae

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Phylogenomics of colistin-susceptible and resistant XDR Acinetobacter baumannii

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Polygenic Adaptation and Clonal Interference Enable Sustained Diversity in Experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa Populations

scientific article published on 01 December 2021

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Interstrain Dynamics and Selection of Hyperbiofilm Mutants during a Chronic Infection

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

Punctuated evolution caused by selection of rare beneficial mutations.

scientific article published on June 1996

Rapid phenotypic change and diversification of a soil bacterium during 1000 generations of experimental evolution

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RelA Mutant Enterococcus faecium with Multiantibiotic Tolerance Arising in an Immunocompromised Host

scientific article published on 03 January 2017

Response: Mechanisms of Punctuated Evolution

scientific article published in Science

Sequence Type 631 Vibrio parahaemolyticus, an Emerging Foodborne Pathogen in North America.

scientific article published on 14 December 2016

Structural basis of DSF recognition by its receptor RpfR and its regulatory interaction with the DSF synthase RpfF

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Structural modification of LPS in colistin-resistant, KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae.

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

Structure of O-Antigen and Hybrid Biosynthetic Locus in Burkholderia cenocepacia Clonal Variants Recovered from a Cystic Fibrosis Patient.

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Susceptibility of Caenorhabditis elegans to Burkholderia infection depends on prior diet and secreted bacterial attractants

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Synonymous mutations make dramatic contributions to fitness when growth is limited by a weak-link enzyme

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Systematic detection of horizontal gene transfer across genera among multidrug-resistant bacteria in a single hospital

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Tangled bank of experimentally evolved Burkholderia biofilms reflects selection during chronic infections

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The Fitness Effects of Spontaneous Mutations Nearly Unseen by Selection in a Bacterium with Multiple Chromosomes

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

The OmpR Regulator of Burkholderia multivorans Controls Mucoid-to-Nonmucoid Transition and Other Cell Envelope Properties Associated with Persistence in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung

scientific article published on 10 August 2018

The Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in the GC-Rich Multichromosome Genome of Burkholderia cenocepacia

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

The origins of specialization: insights from bacteria held 25 years in captivity.

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There and back again: consequences of biofilm specialization under selection for dispersal.

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Thrombospondin-1 protects against pathogen-induced lung injury by limiting extracellular matrix proteolysis.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Timing of transmission and the evolution of virulence of an insect virus

scientific article published in June 2002

Use of Whole-Genome Phylogeny and Comparisons for Development of a Multiplex PCR Assay To Identify Sequence Type 36 Vibrio parahaemolyticus

scientific article published on April 2015

Use of online tools for antimicrobial resistance prediction by whole-genome sequencing in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Why genes evolve faster on secondary chromosomes in bacteria

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