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A Mobile Element in mutS Drives Hypermutation in a Marine Vibrio

scientific article published on 07 February 2017

A Reverse Ecology Approach Based on a Biological Definition of Microbial Populations

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

A Small Number of Phylogenetically Distinct Clonal Complexes Dominate a Coastal Vibrio cholerae Population.

scientific article

A genomic comparison of 13 symbiotic Vibrio fischeri isolates from the perspective of their host source and colonization behavior.

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

A major lineage of non-tailed dsDNA viruses as unrecognized killers of marine bacteria.

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

A simple and efficient method for concentration of ocean viruses by chemical flocculation

scientific article published on April 2011

A simple method for quantification of uncultured microorganisms in the environment based on in vitro transcription of 16S rRNA.

scientific article

A supervised learning approach for taxonomic classification of core-photosystem-II genes and transcripts in the marine environment

scientific article published on 16 May 2009

A(r)Ray of hope in analysis of the function and diversity of microbial communities.

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ACID: annotation of cassette and integron data

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Accurate Quantification of Laminarin in Marine Organic Matter with Enzymes from Marine Microbes.

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Accurately quantifying low-abundant targets amid similar sequences by revealing hidden correlations in oligonucleotide microarray data

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Adaptation and spectral tuning in divergent marine proteorhodopsins from the eastern Mediterranean and the Sargasso Seas

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Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes

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Ancestral gene acquisition as the key to virulence potential in environmental Vibrio populations

scientific article published on 02 August 2018

Associations and dynamics of Vibrionaceae in the environment, from the genus to the population level

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

Bacterial community structure in a sympagic habitat expanding with global warming: brackish ice brine at 85–90 °N

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Bacterial evolution: Genomics of metabolic trade-offs

scientific article published on 26 October 2016

Bias in template-to-product ratios in multitemplate PCR

scientific article

Binding of harvested bacterial exopolymers to the surface of calcite.

scientific article published in November 2005

Chemoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing symbiotic bacteria on marine nematodes: Morphological and biochemical characterization

scientific article published on 01 November 1992

Coastal Bacterial Community Response to Glacier Melting in the Western Antarctic Peninsula

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Colonization dynamics of altered Schaedler flora is influenced by gender, aging, and Helicobacter hepaticus infection in the intestines of Swiss Webster mice

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Comparative biochemical characterization of three exolytic oligoalginate lyases from Vibrio splendidus reveals complementary substrate scope, temperature, and pH adaptations.

scientific article

Comparative genomics of pathogenic lineages of Vibrio nigripulchritudo identifies virulence-associated traits

scientific article published on 06 June 2013

Competition-dispersal tradeoff ecologically differentiates recently speciated marine bacterioplankton populations

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Conservation of the chitin utilization pathway in the Vibrionaceae

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Culture-independent tracking of Vibrio cholerae lineages reveals complex spatiotemporal dynamics in a natural population

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

DNA phosphorothioation is widespread and quantized in bacterial genomes.

scientific article

Diarrhoeal events can trigger long-term Clostridium difficile colonization with recurrent blooms

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Direct single-cell biomass estimates for marine bacteria via Archimedes' principle

scientific article published on 6 December 2016

Divergence and redundancy of 16S rRNA sequences in genomes with multiple rrn operons.

scientific article published on May 2004

Diversity and dynamics of a north atlantic coastal Vibrio community.

scientific article published on July 2004

Diversity and heterogeneity of epibiotic bacterial communities on the marine nematode Eubostrichus dianae

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Diversity of active marine picoeukaryotes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea unveiled using photosystem-II psbA transcripts

scientific article published on 18 March 2010

Diversity, Sources, and Detection of Human Bacterial Pathogens in the Marine Environment

Dominance of one bacterial phylotype at a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent site

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Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Episomes among Ecologically Cohesive Bacterial Populations

scientific article published on 5 May 2015

Ecological populations of bacteria act as socially cohesive units of antibiotic production and resistance.

scientific article published in September 2012

Effect of naklofen, alcohol and naklofen administered simultaneously with alcohol on transaminase levels

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Effects of temperature and salinity on Vibrio vulnificus population dynamics as assessed by quantitative PCR.

scientific article published on September 2004

Endemicity of the cosmopolitan mesophilic chemolithoautotroph Sulfurimonas at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

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Endosymbionts escape dead hydrothermal vent tubeworms to enrich the free-living population

scientific article published on 17 August 2015

Evaluation of 23S rRNA PCR primers for use in phylogenetic studies of bacterial diversity

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Evidence for Ecological Flexibility in the Cosmopolitan Genus Curtobacterium.

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Evolution of a Vegetarian Vibrio: Metabolic Specialization of Vibrio breoganii to Macroalgal Substrates

scientific article published on 10 July 2018

Explaining microbial genomic diversity in light of evolutionary ecology

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Exploiting fine-scale genetic and physiological variation of closely related microbes to reveal unknown enzyme functions

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

Extensive variation in intracellular symbiont community composition among members of a single population of the wood-boring bivalve Lyrodus pedicellatus (Bivalvia: Teredinidae).

scientific article published in January 2006

Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community.

scientific article published in July 2004

Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Genome sequence of Vibrio splendidus: an abundant planctonic marine species with a large genotypic diversity

scientific article

Genomic Features for Desiccation Tolerance and Sugar Biosynthesis in the Extremophile sp. UTEX B3054

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

Genotypic diversity within a natural coastal bacterioplankton population.

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Heteroduplexes in mixed-template amplifications: formation, consequence and elimination by 'reconditioning PCR'

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High frequency of a novel filamentous phage, VCY φ, within an environmental Vibrio cholerae population

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High overall diversity and dominance of microdiverse relationships in salt marsh sulphate-reducing bacteria

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High resolution time series reveals cohesive but short-lived communities in coastal plankton

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Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of bacterial and archaeal population structure

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How can microbial population genomics inform community ecology?

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Illuminating reactive microbial transport in saturated porous media: demonstration of a visualization method and conceptual transport model.

scientific article published on May 2005

Importance of Xanthobacter autotrophicus in toluene biodegradation within a contaminated stream

scientific article published in February 1999

Inter-individual variability in copepod microbiomes reveals bacterial networks linked to host physiology

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

Interactions in self-assembled microbial communities saturate with diversity

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Local mobile gene pools rapidly cross species boundaries to create endemicity within global Vibrio cholerae populations

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Maintenance of Sympatric and Allopatric Populations in Free-Living Terrestrial Bacteria

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

Merging Taxonomy with Ecological Population Prediction in a Case Study of Vibrionaceae

scientific article published on August 26, 2011

Metapopulation structure of Vibrionaceae among coastal marine invertebrates.

scientific article published on September 2010

Microbial Speciation

scientific article published on 09 September 2015

Microbial community assembly and evolution in subseafloor sediment.

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Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Microbial taxonomy in the post-genomic era: rebuilding from scratch?

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Natural resource landscapes of a marine bacterium reveal distinct fitness-determining genes across the genome.

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

O-antigen diversity and lateral transfer of the wbe region among Vibrio splendidus isolates.

scientific article published on November 2010

Ordering microbial diversity into ecologically and genetically cohesive units

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Oysters and Vibrios as a Model for Disease Dynamics in Wild Animals.

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PCR-induced sequence artifacts and bias: insights from comparison of two 16S rRNA clone libraries constructed from the same sample.

scientific article published in December 2005

Patterns and mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in marine microbes

scientific article published on November 2006

Phage–host coevolution in natural populations

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Filamentous Sulfur Bacterium Thiothrix ramosa Based on 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis

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Phylogenetic analysis of a highly specific association between ectosymbiotic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and a marine nematode

scientific article (publication date: December 1994)

Physiological and gene expression responses to nitrogen regimes and temperatures in Mastigocladus sp. strain CHP1, a predominant thermotolerant cyanobacterium of hot springs

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Polyclonal symbiont populations in hydrothermal vent tubeworms and the environment

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Polyphyly of non‐bioluminescent Vibrio fischeri sharing a lux‐locus deletion

scientific article published on October 9, 2011

Population Dynamics of Two Toluene Degrading Bacterial Species in a Contaminated Stream.

scientific article published in February 2001

Population genomics of early events in the ecological differentiation of bacteria.

scientific article published on April 2012

Population genomics of the symbiotic plasmids of sympatric nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium species associated with Phaseolus vulgaris

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Public good dynamics drive evolution of iron acquisition strategies in natural bacterioplankton populations

scientific article published on November 19, 2012

Rapid and simple method for the most-probable-number estimation of arsenic-reducing bacteria.

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Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches

scholarly article

Redox-informed models of global biogeochemical cycles

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Reproducibility of Vibrionaceae population structure in coastal bacterioplankton.

scientific article published on 22 November 2012

Resolving the structure of phage-bacteria interactions in the context of natural diversity

scientific article published on 18 January 2022

Resource partitioning and sympatric differentiation among closely related bacterioplankton.

scientific article published in May 2008

Sequencing-independent method to generate oligonucleotide probes targeting a variable region in bacterial 16S rRNA by PCR with detachable primers.

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Shape and evolution of the fundamental niche in marine Vibrio

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Solar disinfection (SODIS): simulation of solar radiation for global assessment and application for point-of-use water treatment in Haiti.

scientific article published in January 2003

Spatial distribution and stability of the eight microbial species of the altered schaedler flora in the mouse gastrointestinal tract

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Streamlining standard bacteriophage methods for higher throughput

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Successional dynamics and alternative stable states in a saline activated sludge microbial community over 9 years

scientific article published on 06 October 2021

The coastal environment and human health: microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs

scientific article published on 7 November 2008

The genetic law of the minimum

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Two new Mycobacterium strains and their role in toluene degradation in a contaminated stream.

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Using Colonization Assays and Comparative Genomics To Discover Symbiosis Behaviors and Factors in Vibrio fischeri

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Verrucomicrobia use hundreds of enzymes to digest the algal polysaccharide fucoidan

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Vibrio chromosomes share common history

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Vibrio crassostreae, a benign oyster colonizer turned into a pathogen after plasmid acquisition.

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Vibrio metoecus sp. nov., a close relative of Vibrio cholerae isolated from coastal brackish ponds and clinical specimens.

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Viruses of the Nahant Collection, characterization of 251 marine Vibrionaceae viruses.

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Widespread distribution of prophage-encoded virulence factors in marine Vibrio communities.

scientific article published on 2 July 2018