List of works - John R. Spear

A comparative molecular analysis of water-filled limestone sinkholes in north-eastern Mexico

scientific article

Abundant Atribacteria in deep marine sediment from the Adélie Basin, Antarctica

scientific article

Accessing the subsurface biosphere within rocks undergoing active low-temperature serpentinization in the Samail ophiolite (Oman Drilling Project)

scientific article

Antimicrobial activity and biologic potential of silver-substituted calcium phosphate constructs produced with self-propagating high-temperature synthesis.

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Bacterial abundance and composition in marine sediments beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.

scientific article

Bacterial diversity and sulfur cycling in a mesophilic sulfide-rich spring

scientific article

Bioenergetics of microbial sulfur-redox reactions in a glacial environment

scholarly article

Biologically active filtration for fracturing flowback and produced water treatment

Co-treatment of residential and oil and gas production wastewater with a hybrid sequencing batch reactor-membrane bioreactor process

Comparative molecular analysis of endoevaporitic microbial communities

scientific article

Comparison of normalization methods for construction of large, multiplex amplicon pools for next-generation sequencing

scientific article

Conservation Medicine: the Changing View of Biodiversity

Contrasting patterns of community assembly in the stratified water column of Great Salt Lake, Utah

scientific article

Cyanobacterial construction of hot spring siliceous stromatolites in Yellowstone National Park

scientific article

Deciphering Biosignatures in Planetary Contexts

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Differences in lateral gene transfer in hypersaline versus thermal environments

scientific article

Discrete Community Assemblages Within Hypersaline Paleolake Sediments of Pilot Valley, Utah

Disturbance and temporal partitioning of the activated sludge metacommunity.

scientific article

Disturbance opens recruitment sites for bacterial colonization in activated sludge.

scientific article published on 2 March 2015

Diverse capacity for 2-methylhopanoid production correlates with a specific ecological niche

scientific article (publication date: March 2014)

Diversification of methanogens into hyperalkaline serpentinizing environments through adaptations to minimize oxidant limitation

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Diversity and stratification of archaea in a hypersaline microbial mat

scientific article (publication date: April 2009)

Draft Genome Sequence of sp. Strain ML, Cultivated from Mono Lake, California

article

Draft genome of a novel chlorobi member assembled by tetranucleotide binning of a hot spring metagenome

scientific article

Environmental Drivers of Differences in Microbial Community Structure in Crude Oil Reservoirs across a Methanogenic Gradient

scientific article

Eucaryotic diversity in a hypersaline microbial mat.

scientific article

Factors Influencing Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in Municipal Drinking Waters in the Ohio River Basin, USA

scientific article

Fresh Snowfall Microbiology and Chemistry are Driven by Geography in Storm-Tracked Events

scholarly article published 13 April 2018

Genomic Analysis of the Yet-Uncultured Binatota Reveals Broad Methylotrophic, Alkane-Degradation, and Pigment Production Capacities

scientific article published on 18 May 2021

Geobiology of a microbial endolithic community in the Yellowstone geothermal environment

scientific article

High frequency ultrasonic mitigation of microbial corrosion

Hot spring siliceous stromatolites from Yellowstone National Park: assessing growth rate and laminae formation.

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Hydrogen and bioenergetics in the Yellowstone geothermal ecosystem

scientific article

Hydrogen-isotopic variability in fatty acids from Yellowstone National Park hot spring microbial communities

article

Identification of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes Containing Antimicrobial Resistance Genes, Isolated from an Advanced Water Treatment Facility

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Influence of sulfate reducing bacterial biofilm on corrosion behavior of low-alloy, high-strength steel (API-5L X80)

Insights into the dynamics between viruses and their hosts in a hot spring microbial mat

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Low bone mineral density and risk of incident fracture in HIV-infected adults

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

Low-temperature formation and stabilization of rare allotropes of cyclooctasulfur (β-S 8 and γ-S 8 ) in the presence of organic carbon at a sulfur-rich glacial site in the Canadian High Arctic

article

Metabolic Capability and Phylogenetic Diversity of Mono Lake during a Bloom of the Eukaryotic Phototroph Picocystis sp. Strain ML

article

Metagenomic evidence for sulfur lithotrophy by Epsilonproteobacteria as the major energy source for primary productivity in a sub-aerial arctic glacial deposit, Borup Fiord Pass

scientific article published on 22 April 2013

Methylotrophy, alkane-degradation, and pigment production as defining features of the globally distributed yet-uncultured phylum Binatota

scientific article published on 2 October 2020

Microbial Corrosion in Linepipe Steel Under the Influence of a Sulfate-Reducing Consortium Isolated from an Oil Field

Microbial Metabolic Redundancy Is a Key Mechanism in a Sulfur-Rich Glacial Ecosystem

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Microbial community biofabrics in a geothermal mine adit

scientific article

Microbial diversity in modern marine stromatolites, Highborne Cay, Bahamas

scientific article

Microbial diversity of septic tank effluent and a soil biomat

scientific article

Microbial response to single-cell protein production and brewery wastewater treatment

scientific article

Microbial species richness and metabolic activities in hypersaline microbial mats: insight into biosignature formation through lithification

scientific article

Microbialite response to an anthropogenic salinity gradient in Great Salt Lake, Utah

scientific article published on 14 July 2016

Microbially influenced corrosion communities associated with fuel-grade ethanol environments

scientific article

Microbiological water quality monitoring in a resource-limited urban area: a study in Cameroon, Africa

scholarly article by Andrew W. Nelson et al published 22 October 2012 in Journal of public health in Africa

Millimeter-scale genetic gradients and community-level molecular convergence in a hypersaline microbial mat

scientific article published on 3 June 2008

Minimum-Impact Research

Modeling reduction of uranium U(VI) under variable sulfate concentrations by sulfate-reducing bacteria.

scientific article

Modeling the Removal of Uranium U(VI) from Aqueous Solutions in the Presence of Sulfate Reducing Bacteria

scholarly article by John R. Spear et al published August 1999 in Environmental Science & Technology

Molecular evidence for an active microbial methane cycle in subsurface serpentinite-hosted groundwaters in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Near-infrared spectroscopy of lacustrine sediments in the Great Salt Lake Desert: An analog study for Martian paleolake basins

article

Neem extract as an inhibitor for biocorrosion influenced by sulfate reducing bacteria: A preliminary investigation

Novel microbial diversity retrieved by autonomous robotic exploration of the world's deepest vertical phreatic sinkhole

scientific article published in March 2010

Optode-based chemical imaging of laboratory burned soil reveals millimeter-scale heterogeneous biogeochemical responses

scientific article published in 2023

Phototrophic phylotypes dominate mesothermal microbial mats associated with hot springs in Yellowstone National Park

scientific article published on 11 February 2012

Phylogenetic and Functional Analysis of Metagenome Sequence from High-Temperature Archaeal Habitats Demonstrate Linkages between Metabolic Potential and Geochemistry

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Phylogenetic diversity and ecology of environmental Archaea

scientific article published in December 2005

Phylogenetic stratigraphy in the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat.

scientific article

Regional fresh snowfall microbiology and chemistry are driven by geography in storm-tracked events, Colorado, USA

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Sacrificing power for more cost-effective treatment: A techno-economic approach for engineering microbial fuel cells

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

Seasonal variation in the biological succession of marine diatoms over 316L stainless steel in a coastal environment of Chile

scientific article published in 2024

Secondary metabolites produced by fungi derived from a microbial mat encountered in an iron-rich natural spring ⬇️

scientific article

Spatial and Temporal Constraints on the Composition of Microbial Communities in Subsurface Boreholes of the Edgar Experimental Mine

scientific article published on 10 November 2021

Statistical Learning and Uncommon Soil Microbiota Explain Biogeochemical Responses after Wildfire

scientific article published in 2022

Subsurface microbial diversity in deep-granitic-fracture water in Colorado

scientific article

Surface orientation affects the direction of cone growth by Leptolyngbya sp. strain C1, a likely architect of coniform structures Octopus Spring (Yellowstone National Park)

scientific article (publication date: February 2013)

The deep, hot biosphere: Twenty-five years of retrospection

scientific article

The effect of butyrate concentration on hydrogen production via photofermentation for use in a Martian habitat resource recovery process

The evolution of geobiology in the context of living stromatolites

The shielding effect of wild type iron reducing bacterial flora on the corrosion of linepipe steel

Unexpected diversity and complexity of the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat

scientific article (publication date: May 2006)

Using geochemical indicators to distinguish high biogeochemical activity in floodplain soils and sediments

scientific article published on 30 April 2016

[FeFe] hydrogenase genetic diversity provides insight into molecular adaptation in a saline microbial mat community

scientific article published on 08 May 2009

[FeFe]-hydrogenase in Yellowstone National Park: evidence for dispersal limitation and phylogenetic niche conservatism.

scientific article published on 10 June 2010

List of works by John R. Spear

A comparative molecular analysis of water-filled limestone sinkholes in north-eastern Mexico

Abundant Atribacteria in deep marine sediment from the Adélie Basin, Antarctica

Accessing the subsurface biosphere within rocks undergoing active low-temperature serpentinization in the Samail ophiolite (Oman Drilling Project)

Antimicrobial activity and biologic potential of silver-substituted calcium phosphate constructs produced with self-propagating high-temperature synthesis.

Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

Bacterial abundance and composition in marine sediments beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.

Bacterial diversity and sulfur cycling in a mesophilic sulfide-rich spring

Bioenergetics of microbial sulfur-redox reactions in a glacial environment

Biologically active filtration for fracturing flowback and produced water treatment

Co-treatment of residential and oil and gas production wastewater with a hybrid sequencing batch reactor-membrane bioreactor process

Comparative molecular analysis of endoevaporitic microbial communities

Comparison of normalization methods for construction of large, multiplex amplicon pools for next-generation sequencing

Conservation Medicine: the Changing View of Biodiversity

Contrasting patterns of community assembly in the stratified water column of Great Salt Lake, Utah

Cyanobacterial construction of hot spring siliceous stromatolites in Yellowstone National Park

Deciphering Biosignatures in Planetary Contexts

Differences in lateral gene transfer in hypersaline versus thermal environments

Discrete Community Assemblages Within Hypersaline Paleolake Sediments of Pilot Valley, Utah

Disturbance and temporal partitioning of the activated sludge metacommunity.

Disturbance opens recruitment sites for bacterial colonization in activated sludge.

Diverse capacity for 2-methylhopanoid production correlates with a specific ecological niche

Diversification of methanogens into hyperalkaline serpentinizing environments through adaptations to minimize oxidant limitation

Diversity and stratification of archaea in a hypersaline microbial mat

Draft Genome Sequence of sp. Strain ML, Cultivated from Mono Lake, California

Draft genome of a novel chlorobi member assembled by tetranucleotide binning of a hot spring metagenome

Environmental Drivers of Differences in Microbial Community Structure in Crude Oil Reservoirs across a Methanogenic Gradient

Eucaryotic diversity in a hypersaline microbial mat.

Factors Influencing Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in Municipal Drinking Waters in the Ohio River Basin, USA

Fresh Snowfall Microbiology and Chemistry are Driven by Geography in Storm-Tracked Events

Genomic Analysis of the Yet-Uncultured Binatota Reveals Broad Methylotrophic, Alkane-Degradation, and Pigment Production Capacities

Geobiology of a microbial endolithic community in the Yellowstone geothermal environment

High frequency ultrasonic mitigation of microbial corrosion

Hot spring siliceous stromatolites from Yellowstone National Park: assessing growth rate and laminae formation.

Hydrogen and bioenergetics in the Yellowstone geothermal ecosystem

Hydrogen-isotopic variability in fatty acids from Yellowstone National Park hot spring microbial communities

Identification of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes Containing Antimicrobial Resistance Genes, Isolated from an Advanced Water Treatment Facility

Influence of sulfate reducing bacterial biofilm on corrosion behavior of low-alloy, high-strength steel (API-5L X80)

Insights into the dynamics between viruses and their hosts in a hot spring microbial mat

Low bone mineral density and risk of incident fracture in HIV-infected adults

Low-temperature formation and stabilization of rare allotropes of cyclooctasulfur (β-S 8 and γ-S 8 ) in the presence of organic carbon at a sulfur-rich glacial site in the Canadian High Arctic

Metabolic Capability and Phylogenetic Diversity of Mono Lake during a Bloom of the Eukaryotic Phototroph Picocystis sp. Strain ML

Metagenomic evidence for sulfur lithotrophy by Epsilonproteobacteria as the major energy source for primary productivity in a sub-aerial arctic glacial deposit, Borup Fiord Pass

Methylotrophy, alkane-degradation, and pigment production as defining features of the globally distributed yet-uncultured phylum Binatota

Microbial Corrosion in Linepipe Steel Under the Influence of a Sulfate-Reducing Consortium Isolated from an Oil Field

Microbial Metabolic Redundancy Is a Key Mechanism in a Sulfur-Rich Glacial Ecosystem

Microbial community biofabrics in a geothermal mine adit

Microbial diversity in modern marine stromatolites, Highborne Cay, Bahamas

Microbial diversity of septic tank effluent and a soil biomat

Microbial response to single-cell protein production and brewery wastewater treatment

Microbial species richness and metabolic activities in hypersaline microbial mats: insight into biosignature formation through lithification

Microbialite response to an anthropogenic salinity gradient in Great Salt Lake, Utah

Microbially influenced corrosion communities associated with fuel-grade ethanol environments

Microbiological water quality monitoring in a resource-limited urban area: a study in Cameroon, Africa

Millimeter-scale genetic gradients and community-level molecular convergence in a hypersaline microbial mat

Minimum-Impact Research

Modeling reduction of uranium U(VI) under variable sulfate concentrations by sulfate-reducing bacteria.

Modeling the Removal of Uranium U(VI) from Aqueous Solutions in the Presence of Sulfate Reducing Bacteria

Molecular evidence for an active microbial methane cycle in subsurface serpentinite-hosted groundwaters in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman

Near-infrared spectroscopy of lacustrine sediments in the Great Salt Lake Desert: An analog study for Martian paleolake basins

Neem extract as an inhibitor for biocorrosion influenced by sulfate reducing bacteria: A preliminary investigation

Novel microbial diversity retrieved by autonomous robotic exploration of the world's deepest vertical phreatic sinkhole

Optode-based chemical imaging of laboratory burned soil reveals millimeter-scale heterogeneous biogeochemical responses

Phototrophic phylotypes dominate mesothermal microbial mats associated with hot springs in Yellowstone National Park

Phylogenetic and Functional Analysis of Metagenome Sequence from High-Temperature Archaeal Habitats Demonstrate Linkages between Metabolic Potential and Geochemistry

Phylogenetic diversity and ecology of environmental Archaea

Phylogenetic stratigraphy in the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat.

Regional fresh snowfall microbiology and chemistry are driven by geography in storm-tracked events, Colorado, USA

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

Sacrificing power for more cost-effective treatment: A techno-economic approach for engineering microbial fuel cells

Seasonal variation in the biological succession of marine diatoms over 316L stainless steel in a coastal environment of Chile

Secondary metabolites produced by fungi derived from a microbial mat encountered in an iron-rich natural spring ⬇️

Spatial and Temporal Constraints on the Composition of Microbial Communities in Subsurface Boreholes of the Edgar Experimental Mine

Statistical Learning and Uncommon Soil Microbiota Explain Biogeochemical Responses after Wildfire

Subsurface microbial diversity in deep-granitic-fracture water in Colorado

Surface orientation affects the direction of cone growth by Leptolyngbya sp. strain C1, a likely architect of coniform structures Octopus Spring (Yellowstone National Park)

The deep, hot biosphere: Twenty-five years of retrospection

The effect of butyrate concentration on hydrogen production via photofermentation for use in a Martian habitat resource recovery process

The evolution of geobiology in the context of living stromatolites

The shielding effect of wild type iron reducing bacterial flora on the corrosion of linepipe steel