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List of works by Oded Béjà

A distinct abundant group of microbial rhodopsins discovered using functional metagenomics

scientific article published in Nature

A myovirus encoding both photosystem I and II proteins enhances cyclic electron flow in infected Prochlorococcus cells

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

A novel uncultured marine cyanophage lineage with lysogenic potential linked to a putative marine Synechococcus 'relic' prophage

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

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

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

scientific article

Adaptation to sub-optimal hosts is a driver of viral diversification in the ocean

scientific article published in Nature Communications

An elusive marine photosynthetic bacterium is finally unveiled

scholarly article

An uncultured marine cyanophage encodes an active phycobilisome proteolysis adaptor protein NblA

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Assessing diversity and biogeography of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in surface waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans using the Global Ocean Sampling expedition metagenomes

scientific article

Bacterial anoxygenic photosynthesis on plant leaf surfaces

scientific article published on 16 January 2012

Bacterial, archaeal and viral‐like rhodopsins from the Red Sea

scientific article published on February 17, 2013

BchY-based degenerate primers target all types of anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria in a single PCR

scientific article published on 2 October 2009

Bias in assessments of marine SAR11 biodiversity in environmental fosmid and BAC libraries?

scientific article

Characterization of RS29, a blue-green proteorhodopsin variant from the Red Sea.

scientific article

Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem-I psaDCAB gene organization

scientific article published on 26 August 2015

Community-level analysis of phototrophy: psbA Gene Diversity

scientific article published in January 2005

Comparative analyses of actinobacterial genomic fragments from Lake Kinneret

scientific article

Comparative classification of species and the study of pathway evolution based on the alignment of metabolic pathways

scientific article

Comparative community genomics in the Dead Sea: an increasingly extreme environment

scientific article

Comparative genomic analysis of archaeal genotypic variants in a single population and in two different oceanic provinces

scientific article

Comparative metagenomic analyses reveal viral-induced shifts of host metabolism towards nucleotide biosynthesis.

scientific article

Comparative metagenomics of microbial traits within oceanic viral communities

scientific article

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

scholarly article published in PLOS Biology

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

erratum published in 2012

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

erratum published in 2012

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times.

scientific article published on 3 May 2012

Correction: The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times.

scientific article

Cyanophage tRNAs may have a role in cross-infectivity of oceanic Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus hosts

scientific article published on October 20, 2011

Cyanophage-encoded lipid desaturases: oceanic distribution, diversity and function

scientific article

Dead Sea rhodopsins revisited

scientific article published on 3 September 2012

Different SAR86 subgroups harbour divergent proteorhodopsins

scientific article published in September 2004

Diversification and spectral tuning in marine proteorhodopsins

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 18 March 2010

Diversity of viral photosystem-I psaA genes

scientific article

Evolution and molecular mechanism of four-electron reducing ferredoxin-dependent bilin reductases from oceanic phages.

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Functional metagenomic screen reveals new and diverse microbial rhodopsins

scientific article published on 19 February 2016

Global abundance of microbial rhodopsins

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Heliorhodopsins are absent in diderm (Gram-negative) bacteria: Some thoughts and possible implications for activity

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Isolation and characterization of Erythrobacter sp. strains from the upper ocean

scientific article published on September 23, 2003

Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology.

scientific article

Marine cyanophages: tinkering with the electron transport chain

scientific article published on 21 April 2011

Metagenomic retrieval of a ribosomal DNA repeat array from an uncultured marine alveolate

scientific article

Microbial community genomics in eastern Mediterranean Sea surface waters

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

Microbial rhodopsins on leaf surfaces of terrestrial plants

scientific article published on September 2011

Molecular diversity among marine picophytoplankton as revealed by psbA analyses.

scientific article published in March 2003

Molecular ecology of nifH genes and transcripts in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

scientific article

Nature's toolkit for microbial rhodopsin ion pumps

scientific article

New biosynthetic pathway for pink pigments from uncultured oceanic viruses

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

New insights into metabolic properties of marine bacteria encoding proteorhodopsins

scientific article

Novel Abundant Oceanic Viruses of Uncultured Marine Group II Euryarchaeota

scientific article

Novel Proteorhodopsin variants from the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

scientific article published in October 2003

Novel primers reveal wider diversity among marine aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs

scientific article published in December 2005

Photosystem I gene cassettes are present in marine virus genomes

scientific article

Potential for phosphite and phosphonate utilization by Prochlorococcus

scientific article published on October 20, 2011

Preparation of BAC libraries from marine microbial populations

scientific article

Proteorhodopsin genes are distributed among divergent marine bacterial taxa

scientific article published on 17 October 2003

Putative novel photosynthetic reaction centre organizations in marine aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria: insights from metagenomics and environmental genomics

scientific article published in December 2005

Reconstructing a puzzle: existence of cyanophages containing both photosystem-I and photosystem-II gene suites inferred from oceanic metagenomic datasets

scientific article

Reverse dissimilatory sulfite reductase as phylogenetic marker for a subgroup of sulfur-oxidizing prokaryotes

scientific article published on 26 September 2008

Rhodopsin-mediated nutrient uptake by cultivated photoheterotrophic <i>Verrucomicrobiota</i>

scientific article published in 2023

Roseobacter-like bacteria in red and mediterranean sea aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic populations

scientific article

Saccharibacteria harness light energy using type-1 rhodopsins that may rely on retinal sourced from microbial hosts

scientific article published in 2022

Schizorhodopsins: A family of rhodopsins from Asgard archaea that function as light-driven inward H+ pumps

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

Seasonal and diel patterns of abundance and activity of viruses in the Red Sea

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Seasonal dynamics of the endosymbiotic, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Richelia intracellularis in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

scientific article published on 26 June 2008

The Use of a Chimeric Rhodopsin Vector for the Detection of New Proteorhodopsins Based on Color

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

The light-driven proton pump proteorhodopsin enhances bacterial survival during tough times

scientific article

The use of DGGE analyses to explore eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea marine picophytoplankton assemblages

scientific article published in May 2004

To BAC or not to BAC: marine ecogenomics

scientific article published on June 2004

Unsuspected diversity among marine aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs

scientific article

Viral clones from the GOS expedition with an unusual photosystem-I gene cassette organization

scientific article published on March 29, 2012

Viral photosynthetic reaction center genes and transcripts in the marine environment

scientific article

WiChR, a highly potassium-selective channelrhodopsin for low-light one- and two-photon inhibition of excitable cells

scientific article published in 2022