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List of works by Marla Tuffin

A novel bacterial Water Hypersensitivity-like protein shows in vivo protection against cold and freeze damage

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

A novel, extremely alkaliphilic and cold-active esterase from Antarctic desert soil

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Abiotic factors influence microbial diversity in permanently cold soil horizons of a maritime-associated Antarctic Dry Valley

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An unusual Tn21-like transposon containing an ars operon is present in highly arsenic-resistant strains of the biomining bacterium Acidithiobacillus caldus.

scientific article published on September 2005

Antibacterial Activities of Bacteria Isolated from the  Marine Sponges Isodictya compressa and Higginsia  bidentifera Collected from Algoa Bay, South Africa

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Assessment of temporal and spatial evolution of bacterial communities in a biological sand filter mesocosm treating winery wastewater.

scientific article published on 15 April 2013

Biogeography and taxonomic overview of terrestrial hot spring thermophilic phages

scholarly article by Olivier Zablocki et al published November 2018 in Extremophiles

Capturing global metabolism

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Characterisation of three novel α-L-arabinofuranosidases from a compost metagenome

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Cloning, expression and characterization of thermostable YdaP from Bacillus licheniformis 9A

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Correction to: Novel metagenome-derived ornithine lipids identified by functional screening for biosurfactants

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Correction: Zablocki, O.; et al. Diversity of dsDNA Viruses in a South African Hot Spring Assessed by Metagenomics and Microscopy. Viruses 2017, 9, 348.

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

Degradation of Hydrocarbons and Heavy Metal Reduction by Marine Bacteria in Highly Contaminated Sediments

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Diversity of dsDNA Viruses in a South African Hot Spring Assessed by Metagenomics and Microscopy.

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Draft Genome Sequence of the Antarctic Polyextremophile Nesterenkonia sp. Strain AN1.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Draft Genome Sequences of Marine Isolates of Thalassomonas viridans and Thalassomonas actiniarum.

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Draft Genome Sequences of Three Bacillus Species from South African Marine Sponges

scientific article published on 7 April 2016

Engineering pyruvate decarboxylase-mediated ethanol production in the thermophilic host Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius.

scientific article published on 26 November 2013

Engineering resistance to phage GVE3 in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius.

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Erratum: Evidence for successional development in Antarctic hypolithic bacterial communities

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Evidence for successional development in Antarctic hypolithic bacterial communities.

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Evidence of novel plant-species specific ammonia oxidizing bacterial clades in acidic South African fynbos soils.

scientific article published on 27 February 2015

Evidence of species recruitment and development of hot desert hypolithic communities.

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Factors influencing pigment production by halophilic bacteria and its effect on brine evaporation rates

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Genetic tool development underpins recent advances in thermophilic whole-cell biocatalysts.

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

Genome sequence of temperate bacteriophage Psymv2 from Antarctic Dry Valley soil isolate Psychrobacter sp. MV2.

scientific article published on 4 July 2012

High-level diversity of tailed phages, eukaryote-associated viruses, and virophage-like elements in the metaviromes of antarctic soils.

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Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert.

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Hypolithic communities: important nitrogen sources in Antarctic desert soils.

scientific article published on 16 June 2011

Identification and sequence analysis of two novel cryptic plasmids isolated from the vaginal mucosa of South African women

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Impact of metagenomic DNA extraction procedures on the identifiable endophytic bacterial diversity in Sorghum bicolor (L. Moench).

scientific article published on 14 March 2015

Isolation and Characterization of Strain Exiguobacterium sp. KRL4, a Producer of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from a Tibetan Glacier

scientific article published in 2021

Leaching and antimicrobial properties of silver nanoparticles loaded onto natural zeolite clinoptilolite by ion exchange and wet impregnation

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Liquid Phase Multiplex High-Throughput Screening of Metagenomic Libraries Using p-Nitrophenyl-Linked Substrates for Accessory Lignocellulosic Enzymes

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MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration

scientific article published on 9 December 2024

Metagenomic analysis of the viral community in Namib Desert hypoliths

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Metagenomic gene discovery: how far have we moved into novel sequence space?

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Micro-eukaryotic diversity in hypolithons from miers valley, antarctica

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Microbial responses to solvent and alcohol stress.

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Molecular adaptations to psychrophily: the impact of 'omic' technologies

scientific article published on 18 June 2010

Non-indigenous microorganisms in the Antarctic: assessing the risks

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Normalization of environmental metagenomic DNA enhances the discovery of under-represented microbial community members.

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

Novel metagenome-derived ornithine lipids identified by functional screening for biosurfactants

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Novel phages of healthy skin metaviromes from South Africa

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Selection of Clostridium spp. in biological sand filters neutralizing synthetic acid mine drainage

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Streptomyces sp. ADR1, Strain Producing β- and γ-Rubromycin Antibiotics, Isolated from Algerian Sahara Desert

scientific article published in 2022

Structure and biosynthesis of carotenoids produced by a novel Planococcus sp. isolated from South Africa

scientific article published on 19 March 2022

Structure and functional characterization of pyruvate decarboxylase from Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus

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Targeted metagenomics as a tool to tap into marine natural product diversity for the discovery and production of drug candidates

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Thermophilic ethanologenesis: future prospects for second-generation bioethanol production.

scientific article published on 28 May 2009

Three novel bacteriophages isolated from the East African Rift Valley soda lakes

scientific article published on 03 December 2016

Understanding physiological responses to pre-treatment inhibitors in ethanologenic fermentations.

scientific article published on 14 February 2012

Unique Aliphatic Amidase from a Psychrotrophic and Haloalkaliphilic Nesterenkonia Isolate

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Virome Assembly and Annotation: A Surprise in the Namib Desert.

scientific article published on 23 January 2017