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Universal species concept: pipe dream or a step toward unifying biology?James T Staley
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 36:1331-6. 2009..Furthermore, this universal species concept could help provide a more equitable circumscription among all species, as well as aid in the unification of biologists and biology...
Diversity and distribution of Planctomycetes and related bacteria in the suboxic zone of the Black SeaJohn Kirkpatrick
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357242, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:3079-83. 2006..The distributions of known anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria, many unknown Planctomycetes, and other phylotypes were examined in relation to the local nutrient and redox conditions...- Microbiological material exchanges among scientistsJames T Staley
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington 357242, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Res Microbiol 161:446-52. 2010..However, special challenges have recently been encountered in transporting such strains in order to meet such needs. This paper discusses the use of material exchanges and the challenges in this field... 
Eukaryotic signature proteins of Prosthecobacter dejongeii and Gemmata sp. Wa-1 as revealed by in silico analysisJames T Staley
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, P O Box 98195, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
FEMS Microbiol Lett 243:9-14. 2005..However, this does not rule out the possibility that ancestral members of either the Verrucomicrobia or Planctomycetes may have played an important role in the evolution of a proto-eukaryotic organism...- Probing nitrogen metabolism in the redox gradient of the Black SeaJames T Staley
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:6881-2. 2007 - Astrobiology, the transcendent science: the promise of astrobiology as an integrative approach for science and engineering education and researchJames T Staley
Department of Microbiology, NSF Astrobiology IGERT Program, University of Washington, Box 357242, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 14:347-54. 2003..The rationale for implementing novel educational programs in astrobiology is presented along with specific research and educational policy recommendations... - Free-living and aggregate-associated Planctomycetes in the Black SeaClara A Fuchsman
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 5351, USA
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 80:402-16. 2012..Sequences obtained from the sulfidic zone (1000 m depth) yielded Planctomycetes from two uncharacterized Planctomycetacia clusters and three potentially new genera as well as sequences from the uncultured OP3 phylum... - Analysis of nitrite reductase (nirK and nirS) genes and cultivation reveal depauperate community of denitrifying bacteria in the Black Sea suboxic zoneBrian B Oakley
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 357242, USA
Environ Microbiol 9:118-30. 2007..Analysis of the recently discovered nirS gene from the anammox bacterium Candidatus'Kuenenia stuttgartiensis' revealed that mismatches with commonly used primers may have prevented the previous detection of this divergent sequence... - Metabolic strategies of free-living and aggregate-associated bacterial communities inferred from biologic and chemical profiles in the Black Sea suboxic zoneClara A Fuchsman
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 78:586-603. 2011..On the basis of the bacterial assemblages and simple modeling, we find that in suboxic waters, the interior of sinking aggregates potentially support manganese reduction, sulfate reduction, and sulfur oxidation... - The enigmatic planctomycetes may hold a key to the origins of methanogenesis and methylotrophyLudmila Chistoserdova
Departments of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Mol Biol Evol 21:1234-41. 2004..This finding suggests a possible role for Planctomycetes in the evolution of the methane cycle on Earth... - Diversity and distribution of Frankia strains symbiotic with Ceanothus in CaliforniaBrian Oakley
College of Forest Reserves, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:6444-52. 2004.... - Concurrent activity of anammox and denitrifying bacteria in the Black SeaJohn B Kirkpatrick
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA
Front Microbiol 3:256. 2012.... - The bacterial species dilemma and the genomic-phylogenetic species conceptJames T Staley
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:1899-909. 2006..Second, the GPSC would replace the burdensome requirement for DNA hybridization presently needed to describe new species. Furthermore, the GPSC is consistent with the present treatment at higher taxonomic levels... - Phylogeny of the genus Simonsiella and other members of the NeisseriaceaeBrian P Hedlund
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 7242, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52:1377-82. 2002..Instabilities may be attributable to frequent gene transfer between Neisseria or other members of the Neisseriaceae and Simonsiella... - Analysis and comparison of the microbial community structures of two enrichment cultures capable of reductively dechlorinating TCE and cis-DCEApril Z Gu
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA
Environ Microbiol 6:45-54. 2004.... - Genes for the cytoskeletal protein tubulin in the bacterial genus ProsthecobacterCheryl Jenkins
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:17049-54. 2002..The discovery of genes for tubulin in a bacterial genus may offer new insights into the evolution of the cytoskeleton... 
A canonical FtsZ protein in Verrucomicrobium spinosum, a member of the Bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia that also includes tubulin-producing Prosthecobacter speciesBenjamin Yee
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
BMC Evol Biol 7:37. 2007..It is therefore of interest to know whether other members of phylum Verrucomicrobia possess FtsZ or tubulin as their FtsZ-tubulin gene family representative...- Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the mapJennifer B Hughes Martiny
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 80 Waterman Street, Box G W, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 4:102-12. 2006..However, recent studies also dispute the idea that 'everything is everywhere'. We also consider how the processes that generate and maintain biogeographic patterns in macroorganisms could operate in the microbial world... - Genomics of an extreme psychrophile, Psychromonas ingrahamiiMonica Riley
Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
BMC Genomics 9:210. 2008..Determination of the whole genome sequence allows comparison with genes of other psychrophiles and mesophiles... - Isolation and characterization of Pseudoalteromonas strains with divergent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon catabolic propertiesBrian P Hedlund
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, 89154 4004, USA
Environ Microbiol 8:178-82. 2006.... - Psychromonas ingrahamii sp. nov., a novel gas vacuolate, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from Arctic polar sea iceAnn J Auman
Department of Biology, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:1001-7. 2006..antarctica, providing further support that it represents a distinct species. The name Psychromonas ingrahamii sp. nov. is proposed for this novel species. The type strain is 37T (=CCUG 51855T=CIP 108865T)... - In vitro assembly and GTP hydrolysis by bacterial tubulins BtubA and BtubBChristopher A Sontag
Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Cell Biol 169:233-8. 2005..37 per min when mixed 1:1 with BtubA. A critical concentration of 0.4-1.0 microM was indicated by light scattering experiments and extrapolation of GTPase versus concentration, thus suggesting a cooperative assembly mechanism...