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List of works by Leonardo van Zyl

Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee

scientific article published in 2023

Analysis of the mobilization region of the broad-host-range IncQ-like plasmid pTC-F14 and its ability to interact with a related plasmid, pTF-FC2

scientific article

Biogeography and taxonomic overview of terrestrial hot spring thermophilic phages

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

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

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Construction of arsB and tetH mutants of the sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Acidithiobacillus caldus by marker exchange

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

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.

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

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

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

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

scientific article

Identification and characterization of a novel Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius bacteriophage, GVE3.

scientific article

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

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

scientific article published in 2021

Isolation, sequence analysis, and comparison of two plasmids (28 and 29 kilobases) from the biomining bacterium Leptospirillum ferrooxidans ATCC 49879.

scientific article

Metagenomic analysis of the viral community in Namib Desert hypoliths

scientific article

Metaviromics of Namib Desert Salt Pans: A Novel Lineage of Haloarchaeal Salterproviruses and a Rich Source of ssDNA Viruses.

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Novel phages of healthy skin metaviromes from South Africa

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Structure and functional characterization of pyruvate decarboxylase from Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus

scientific article

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

scientific article

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

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

scientific article published on 03 December 2016

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

scientific article published on 23 January 2017