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Recent Publications

2019

Kiene, R. P., B. Nowinski, K. Esson, C. Preston, R. Marin III., J. Birch, C. Scholin, J. Ryan, and M. A. Moran. 2019.  Unprecedented DMSP concentrations in a massive dinoflagellate bloom in Monterey Bay, CA. Geophysical Research Letters, in press.

Damashek, J., C. F. Edwardson, B. B. Tolar, S. M. Gifford, M. A. Moran, and J. T. Hollibaugh. 2019. Coastal ocean metagenomes and curated metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from Marsh Landing, Sapelo Island (Georgia, USA). Microbiology Resource Announcements 8: e000934-19.

Moran, M. A.and B. P. Durham. 2019. Sulfur metabolites in the pelagic ocean. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 17: 665–678.

Nowinski, B., C. B. Smith, C. M. Thomas, K. Esson, R. Marin III, C. M. Preston, J. M. Birch, C. A. Scholin, M. Huntemann, A. Clum, B. Foster, B. Foster, S. Roux, K. Palaniappan, N. Varghese, S. Mukherjee, T.B.K. Reddy, C. Daum, A. Copeland, I.-M. A. Chen, N. N. Ivanova, N. C. Kyrpides, T. Glavina del Rio, W. B. Whitman, R. P. Kiene, E. A. Eloe-Fadrosh, and M. A. Moran. 2019. Data Descriptor: Microbial metagenomes and metatranscriptomes during a coastal phytoplankton bloom. Scientific Data 6: 129.

Baltar, F., B. Bayer, N. Bednarsek, S. Deppeler, R. Escribano, C. Gonzalez R. Hansman, R. K. Mishra, M. A. Moran, D. Repeta, C. Rominson, E. Sintes, C. Tamburini, L. Valentin, and G. Herndl. 2019. Integrating evolution, metabolism and climate change studies of marine ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 34: 1022–1033. 

Landa, M., A. S. Burns, B. P. Durham, K. Esson, B. Nowinski, S. Sharma, A. Vorobev, T. Nielsen, R. P. Kiene, and M. A. Moran. 2019. Sulfur metabolites that facilitate oceanic phytoplankton-bacteria carbon flux. ISME Journal 13: 2536–2550.

Cavicchioli, R., K. Timmis, W. Ripple, F. Azam, L. Bakken, M. Baylis, M.Behrenfeld, A. Boetius, P. Boyd, A. Classen, T. Crowther, R. Danovaro, C. Foreman, J. Huisman, D. Hutchins, J. Jansson, D. Karl, B. Koskella, J. Martiny, M. A. Moran, V. Orphan, D. Reay, J. Remais, V. Rich, B. Singh, L. Stein, F. Stewart, M. Sullivan, M. van Oppen, S. Weaver, E. Webb, N. Webster, and D. M. Welch. 2019. Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: microorganisms and climate change. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 17: 569–586. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-019-0222-5.

Nowinski, B., J. Motard-Côté, M. Landa, C. M. Preston, C. A. Scholin, J. M. Birch, R. P. Kiene, and M. A. Moran. 2019. Microdiversity and temporal dynamics of marine bacterial dimethylsulfoniopropionate genes. Environmental Microbiology 12:1687-1701.

2018

Wilmoth, J. L., M. A. Moran, and A. Thompson. 2018. Transient O₂ pulses direct Fe crystallinity and Fe(II)-reducer gene expression with a soil microbiome. Microbiome 6:189.

Vorobev, A., S. Sharma, M. Yu, J. Lee, B. J. Washington, W. B. Whitman^., F. Ballantyne IV, P. M. Medeiros, and M. A. Moran. 2018. Identifying labile DOM components in a coastal ocean through depleted bacterial transcripts and chemical signals. Environmental Microbiology 20:3021-3030.

Gómez-Consarnau, L., R. Sachdeva, S. M. Gifford, L. S. Cutter, J. Fuhrman, S. A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy, M. A. Moran. 2018.Mosaic patterns of B-vitamin synthesis and utilization in a natural marine microbial community. Environmental Microbiology 20:2809-2823.

2017

Coles, V. J., M. R. Stukel, M. T. Brooks, A. Burd, B. C. Crump, M. A. Moran, J. H. Paul, B. M. Satinsky, P. L. Yager, B. L. Zielinski, and R. R. Hood. 2017. Ocean biogeochemistry modeled with emergent trait-based genomics.Science 358:1149-1154.

Landa, M., A. S. Burns, S. J. Roth, and M. A. Moran.2017. Bacterial transcriptome remodeling during sequential co-culture with a marine dinoflagellate and diatom. ISME Journal 11:2677-2690.

Durham, B. P., S. P. Dearth, S. Sharma, S. A. Amin, C. B. Smith, S. R. Campagna, E. V. Armbrust, and M. A. Moran. 2017. Recognition cascade and metabolite transfer in a marine bacteria-phytoplankton model system. Environmental Microbiology19:3500-3513.

Doherty, M., P. L. Yager, M. A. Moran, V. J. Coles, C. S. Fortunato, A. V. Krusche, P. M. Medeiros, J. P. Payet, J. E. Richey, B. M. Satinsky, H. O. Sawakuchi, N. D. Ward, B. C. Crump. 2017. Bacterial biogeography across the Amazon river-ocean continuum. Frontiers in Microbiology8:882.

Sun, Y., K. E. Powell, W. Sung, M. Lynch, M. A. Moran, and H. Luo. 2017. Spontaneous mutations of a model heterotrophic marine bacterium. ISME Journal11:1713-1718.

Satinsky, B. M., C. B. Smith, S. Sharma, M. Landa, P. M. Medeiros, V. J. Coles, P. L. Yager, B. C. Crump, and M. A. Moran. 2017. Expression patterns of elemental cycling genes in the Amazon River plume. ISME Journal11:1852-1864.

Medeiros, P. M, M. Seidel, S. M Gifford, F. Ballantyne, T. Dittmar, W. B Whitman, and M. A. Moran. 2017. Microbially-mediated transformations of estuarine dissolved organic matter. Frontiers in Marine Science4:69.

2016

Moran, M. A., E. B. Kujawinski, A. Stubbins, R. Fatland, L. I. Aluwihare, A. Buchan, B. C. Crump, P. C. Dorrestein, S. T. Dyhrman, N. J. Hess, B. Howe, K. Longnecker, P. M. Medeiros, J. Niggemann, I. Obernosterer, D. J. Repeta, J. R. Waldbauer. 2016. Deciphering ocean carbon in a changing world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences113:3143–3151.

Rivers, A. R., A. S. Burns, L.-K. Chan, and M. A. Moran. 2016. Experimental identification of small non-coding RNAs in the model marine bacterium Ruegeria pomeroyiDSS-3. Frontiers in Microbiology7:380.

Luo, H., Y. Sun, J. T. Hollibaugh, and M. A. Moran.2016. Low genome content diversity of marine planktonic Thaumarchaeota. Environmental Microbiology8: 501–507.

Burns, A.S., H. A. Bullock, C. B. Smith, Q. Huang, W. B. Whitman, and M. A. Moran. 2016. sRNAs expressed during DMSP degradation by a model marine bacterium. Environmental Microbiology Reports 8: 763–773.

Bendall, M. L., S. L. R. Stevens, L.-K. Chan, S. Malfatti, P. Schwientek, J. Tremblay, W. Schackwitz, J. Martin, A. Pati, B. Bushnell, J. Froula, D. Kang, S. Tringe, S. Bertilsson, A. Moran, M. A. Shade, R. Newton, K. D. McMahon and R. R. Malmstrom. 2016. Genome-wide selective sweeps and gene-specific sweeps in natural bacterial populations. ISME Journal10:1589–1601.

2015

Moran, M. A. 2015. The global ocean microbiome. Science350: aac845.

Durham, B. P., S. Sharma, H. Luo, C. B. Smith, S. A. Amin, S. J. Bender, S. P. Dearth, B. A. S. Van Mooy, S. R. Campagna, E. B. Kujawinski, E. V. Armbrust, and M. A. Moran. 2015. Cryptic carbon and sulfur cycling between surface ocean plankton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences112: 453–457.

Luo, H. and M. A. Moran. 2015. How do divergent ecological strategies emerge among marine bacterioplankton lineages? Trends in Microbiology 23: 577–584.

Satinsky, B. M., C. S. Fortunato, M. Doherty, C. B. Smith, S. Sharma, N. D. Ward, A. V. Krusche, P. L. Yager, J. E. Richey, M. A. Moran, and B. C. Crump. 2015. Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic inventories of the lower Amazon River, May 2011. Microbiome3:39.

Alivisatos, A. P., M. J. Blaser, E. L. Brodie, M. Chun, J. L. Dangl, T. J. Donohue, P. C. Dorrestein, J. A Gilbert, J. L. Green, J. K. Jansson, R. Knight, M. E. Maxon, M. J. McFall-Ngai, J. F. Miller, K. S. Pollard, E. G. Ruby, S. A. Taha and the Unified Microbiome Initiative Consortium. 2015. A unified initiative to harness Earth’s microbiomes: Transition from description to causality and engineering. Science350:507-508.

Amin, S. A., L. R. Hmelo, H. M. van Tol, B. P. Durham, L. T. Carlson, K. R. Heal, R. L. Morales, C. T. Berthiaume, M. S. Parker, B. Djunaedi, A. E. Ingalls, M. R. Parsek, M. A. Moran, and E. V. Armbrust. 2015. Interaction and signaling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria. Nature522: 98–101.

Beier, S., A. Rivers, M. A. Moran, and I. Obernosterer. 2015. Phenotypic plasticity in heterotrophic marine microbial communities in continuous cultures. ISME Journal9:1141-1151.

Varaljay, V. A., J. Robidart, C. M. Preston, S. M. Gifford, B. P. Durham, A. S. Burns, J. P. Ryan, R. Marin, R. P. Kiene, J. P. Zehr, C. A. Scholin, and M. A. Moran. 2015. Single-taxon field measurements of bacterial gene regulation controlling DMSP fate. ISME Journal9:1677-1686.

Chernyh, N. A., A. V. Mardanov, V. M. Gumerov, M. L. Miroshnichenko, A. V. Lebedinsky, A. Y. Merkel, D. Crowe, V. Pimenov, I. I. Rusanov, N. V. Ravin, M. A. Moran, and E. A. Bonch‐Osmolovskaya. 2015. Microbial life in Bourlyashchy, the hottest thermal pool of Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka. Extremophiles19: 1157-1171.

Medeiros, P. M., M. Seidel, T. Dittmar, W. B. Whitman, and M. A. Moran. 2015. Drought-induced variability in dissolved organic matter composition in a marsh-dominated estuary. Geophysical Research Letters42:6446–6453.