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| Mya BreitbartSummaryAffiliation: University of South Florida Country: USA Publications
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Marine viruses: truth or dareMya Breitbart
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA
Ann Rev Mar Sci 4:425-48. 2012....
Using pyrosequencing to shed light on deep mine microbial ecologyRobert A Edwards
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
BMC Genomics 7:57. 2006..These sites were adjacent to each other, but differed significantly in chemistry and hydrogeology...
Metagenomic and stable isotopic analyses of modern freshwater microbialites in Cuatro Ciénegas, MexicoMya Breitbart
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Environ Microbiol 11:16-34. 2009..The genomic and stable isotopic data presented here significantly enhance our evolving knowledge of contemporary biomineralization processes, and are directly applicable to studies of ancient microbialites...- Viral diversity and dynamics in an infant gutMya Breitbart
College of Marine Sciences, University of South Florida, 140 Seventh Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Res Microbiol 159:367-73. 2008..Certain sequences were stable in the infant's gut over the first 3 months of life, but microarray experiments demonstrated that the overall viral community composition changed dramatically between 1 and 2 weeks of age... - Spatially resolved genomic, stable isotopic, and lipid analyses of a modern freshwater microbialite from Cuatro Ciénegas, MexicoAnthony Nitti
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Florida 33701, USA
Astrobiology 12:685-98. 2012..These findings are critical for understanding the formation of modern microbialites and have implications for the interpretation of ancient microbialite records... - PhiSiGns: an online tool to identify signature genes in phages and design PCR primers for examining phage diversityBhakti Dwivedi
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St, Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 13:37. 2012.... - Broad surveys of DNA viral diversity obtained through viral metagenomics of mosquitoesTerry Fei Fan Ng
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e20579. 2011..Through sampling insect vectors, VEM enables broad survey of viral diversity and has significantly increased our knowledge of the DNA viruses present in mosquitoes... - Pepper mild mottle virus as an indicator of fecal pollutionKaryna Rosario
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:7261-7. 2009..Together, these data demonstrate that PMMoV is a promising new indicator of fecal pollution in coastal environments... - Diverse circular ssDNA viruses discovered in dragonflies (Odonata: Epiprocta)Karyna Rosario
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
J Gen Virol 93:2668-81. 2012..The novelty of CRESS-DNA viruses identified in dragonflies using simple molecular techniques indicates that there is an unprecedented diversity of ssDNA viruses among insect populations... - Development of phoH as a novel signature gene for assessing marine phage diversityDawn B Goldsmith
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:7730-9. 2011..Each depth and geographic location had a distinct phoH composition, although most phoH clusters were recovered from multiple sites. Overall, phoH is an effective signature gene for examining phage diversity in the marine environment... - Metagenomic identification of a novel anellovirus in Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardsii) lung samples and its detection in samples from multiple yearsTerry Fei Fan Ng
University of South Florida College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
J Gen Virol 92:1318-23. 2011.... - Molecular and microscopic evidence of viruses in marine copepodsDarren S Dunlap
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:1375-80. 2013..Taken together, these results provide strong independent lines of evidence for active viral infection in dominant copepod species, indicating that viruses may significantly influence mesozooplankton ecology... - Discovery of a novel mastrevirus and alphasatellite-like circular DNA in dragonflies (Epiprocta) from Puerto RicoKaryna Rosario
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Virus Res 171:231-7. 2013.... - Diverse circovirus-like genome architectures revealed by environmental metagenomicsKaryna Rosario
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
J Gen Virol 90:2418-24. 2009..Investigating the complex community of ssDNA viruses in the environment can lead to the discovery of divergent species and help elucidate evolutionary links between ssDNA viruses... - Exploring the diversity of plant DNA viruses and their satellites using vector-enabled metagenomics on whitefliesTerry Fei Fan Ng
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e19050. 2011.... - A field guide to eukaryotic circular single-stranded DNA viruses: insights gained from metagenomicsKaryna Rosario
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Arch Virol 157:1851-71. 2012..Metagenomic discovery of ssDNA viruses has created both a challenge to current taxonomic classification schemes and an opportunity to revisit hypotheses regarding the evolutionary history of these viruses... - Metagenomic analysis of viruses in reclaimed waterKaryna Rosario
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, Florida, USA
Environ Microbiol 11:2806-20. 2009..Future studies will need to investigate the infectivity and host range of these viruses to evaluate the impacts of reclaimed water use on human and ecosystem health... - Metagenomic analysis of lysogeny in Tampa Bay: implications for prophage gene expressionLauren McDaniel
University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, Florida, USA
PLoS ONE 3:e3263. 2008..These results underscore the value of metagenomic data in discovering signature genes that play important roles in the environment through their expression, as demonstrated by integrases in lysogeny... - Discovery of a novel single-stranded DNA virus from a sea turtle fibropapilloma by using viral metagenomicsTerry Fei Fan Ng
University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, 140 7th Avenue South, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
J Virol 83:2500-9. 2009..This study demonstrates the potential of viral metagenomics for discovering novel viruses directly from animal tissue, which can enhance our understanding of viral evolution and diversity... - Diversity and distribution of single-stranded DNA phages in the North Atlantic OceanKimberly P Tucker
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, 140 Seventh Avenue South, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
ISME J 5:822-30. 2011..Future work needs to elucidate the host ranges for oceanic ssDNA phages and determine their ecological roles in the marine ecosystem... - Dragonfly cyclovirus, a novel single-stranded DNA virus discovered in dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera)Karyna Rosario
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
J Gen Virol 92:1302-8. 2011..To our knowledge, this is the first report of a circular ssDNA virus identified in insects, and the data may help elucidate evolutionary links among novel Circoviridae recently identified in animals and environmental samples... - Bacterial communities associated with the ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi and Beroe ovataCamille Daniels
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, USA
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 82:90-101. 2012..Future work needs to elucidate the functional roles and mode of acquisition of these bacteria... - Exploring the viral world through metagenomicsKaryna Rosario
University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, 140 7th Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Curr Opin Virol 1:289-97. 2011..The intrinsic potential for virus discovery through viral metagenomics can help advance a wide array of disciplines including evolutionary biology, pathogen surveillance, and biotechnology... - Novel anellovirus discovered from a mortality event of captive California sea lionsTerry Fei Fan Ng
University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
J Gen Virol 90:1256-61. 2009..The higher prevalence of ZcAV and presence of the double-stranded replicative form in the lungs of sea lions from the mortality event suggest that ZcAV was associated with the death of these animals... - Eukaryotic viruses in wastewater samples from the United StatesErin M Symonds
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:1402-9. 2009..This baseline understanding of viruses in raw sewage will enable educated decisions to be made regarding the use of different viruses in water quality assessments... - Diversity and population structure of a near-shore marine-sediment viral communityMya Breitbart
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-4614, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:565-74. 2004..Based on these observations we propose that marine-sediment viral communities are one of the largest unexplored reservoirs of sequence space on the planet... - Global distribution of nearly identical phage-encoded DNA sequencesMya Breitbart
Department of Biology, LS301, Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, LS301, San Diego, CA 92182-4614, USA
FEMS Microbiol Lett 236:249-56. 2004.... - PHACCS, an online tool for estimating the structure and diversity of uncultured viral communities using metagenomic informationFlorent Angly
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Boulevard Sebastien Brandt, 67413 Illkirch, France
BMC Bioinformatics 6:41. 2005..PHACCS uses the contig spectrum from shotgun DNA sequence assemblies to mathematically model the structure of viral communities and make predictions about diversity... - Metagenomic analyses of an uncultured viral community from human fecesMya Breitbart
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA
J Bacteriol 185:6220-3. 2003..Most of the sequences were unrelated to anything previously reported. The recognizable viruses were mostly siphophages, and the community contained an estimated 1,200 viral genotypes... - Here a virus, there a virus, everywhere the same virus?Mya Breitbart
Biology Department, LS301, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
Trends Microbiol 13:278-84. 2005..Together, these findings suggest that viral diversity could be high on a local scale but relatively limited globally. Also, by moving between environments, viruses can facilitate horizontal gene transfer... - Method for discovering novel DNA viruses in blood using viral particle selection and shotgun sequencingMya Breitbart
San Diego State University, CA 19282 4614, USA
Biotechniques 39:729-36. 2005..PCR primers designed to amplify these novel anellovirus sequences were then used to verify the presence of these viruses in the general donor population... - RNA viral community in human feces: prevalence of plant pathogenic virusesTao Zhang
Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
PLoS Biol 4:e3. 2006..Intriguingly, the fecal PMMV was infectious to host plants, suggesting that humans might act as a vehicle for the dissemination of certain plant viruses... - The marine viromes of four oceanic regionsFlorent E Angly
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
PLoS Biol 4:e368. 2006..These results support the idea that viruses are widely dispersed and that local environmental conditions enrich for certain viral types through selective pressure... - Biodiversity and biogeography of phages in modern stromatolites and thrombolitesChristelle 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... - Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communitiesMya Breitbart
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-4614, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:14250-5. 2002..Overall, diversity of the viral communities was extremely high. The results also showed that it would be possible to sequence the entire genome of an uncultured marine viral community...