Laboratory procedures to generate viral metagenomesRebecca V Thurber
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA
Nat Protoc 4:470-83. 2009
..Overall, a sample can be processed to isolate viral nucleic acids suitable for high-throughput sequencing in approximately 1 week...
Apoptosis in early development of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratusRebecca Vega Thurber
Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, 120 Oceanview Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Dev Biol 303:336-46. 2007
..Remarkably, however, pharmacological induction of apoptosis, while reducing overall survival, also significantly accelerates development of the survivors such that metamorphosis occurs up to a week before controls...
- Current insights into phage biodiversity and biogeography
Rebecca Vega Thurber
Florida International University, Department of Biological Sciences, Biscayne Bay Campus, Marine Science 355, 3000 NE 151st Street, North Miami, FL 33181, USA
Curr Opin Microbiol 12:582-7. 2009
..This review discusses currents in the field of phage ecology with particular focus on efforts to characterize phage diversity and biogeography across various spatial and temporal scales...
- Metagenomic analysis of stressed coral holobionts
Rebecca Vega Thurber
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Environ Microbiol 11:2148-63. 2009
..Additionally, low-abundance Vibrio spp. were found to significantly alter microbiome metabolism, suggesting that the contribution of a just a few members of a community can profoundly shift the health status of the coral holobiont...
Metagenomic analysis indicates that stressors induce production of herpes-like viruses in the coral Porites compressaRebecca L Vega Thurber
Department of Biology, Computational Sciences Research Center, and Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:18413-8. 2008
..These data support the hypotheses that corals experience viral infections, which are exacerbated by stress, and that herpes-like viruses are common in Cnidarians...
- Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments
Beltran Rodriguez-Brito
Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182 1245, USA
ISME J 4:739-51. 2010
..Microbial taxa, viral taxa, and metabolic function persist over time in stable ecosystems and both communities fluctuate in a Kill-the-Winner manner at the level of viral genotypes and microbial strains...
- Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes
Elizabeth A Dinsdale
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA
Nature 452:629-32. 2008
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- Biodiversity and biogeography of phages in modern stromatolites and thrombolites
Christelle Desnues
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA
Nature 452:340-3. 2008
..Taken together, these results prove that viruses in modern microbialites display biogeographical variability and suggest that they may be derived from an ancient community...
- Microbial ecology of four coral atolls in the Northern Line Islands
Elizabeth A Dinsdale
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
PLoS ONE 3:e1584. 2008
..Obtaining the microbial data set, from atolls is particularly important given the association of microbes in the ongoing degradation of coral reef ecosystems worldwide...
- Viruses manipulate the marine environment
Forest Rohwer
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA
Nature 459:207-12. 2009
..A series of recent studies has shown that viruses have the ability to manipulate the life histories and evolution of their hosts in remarkable ways, challenging our understanding of this almost invisible world...
- The GAAS metagenomic tool and its estimations of viral and microbial average genome size in four major biomes
Florent E Angly
Biology Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
PLoS Comput Biol 5:e1000593. 2009
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- Metagenomic signatures of 86 microbial and viral metagenomes
Dana Willner
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
Environ Microbiol 11:1752-66. 2009
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- The sea urchin embryo as a model for studying efflux transporters: roles and energy cost
David Epel
Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Mar Environ Res 62:S1-4. 2006
..The energy cost is estimated from a novel use of calcein-AM as a substrate; keeping 0.25 microM substrate levels out of the cell utilizes only 0.023% of steady state respiration...
