Black reefs: iron-induced phase shifts on coral reefsLinda Wegley Kelly
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
ISME J 6:638-49. 2012
..Together these results demonstrate that shipwrecks and their associated iron pose significant threats to coral reefs in iron-limited regions...
Rapid estimation of microbial numbers in water using bulk fluorescenceLinda Wegley
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
Environ Microbiol 8:1775-82. 2006
..Treatment with DNase I increased sensitivity by lowering background noise attributed to free DNA. This technique is simple, rapid, inexpensive and adaptable for automatically estimating microbial numbers in water samples...
- Metagenomic analysis of the microbial community associated with the coral Porites astreoides
Linda Wegley
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182 4614, USA
Environ Microbiol 9:2707-19. 2007
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Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomesElizabeth A Dinsdale
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA
Nature 452:629-32. 2008
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- 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...
- 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...
- Metagenomic analysis indicates that stressors induce production of herpes-like viruses in the coral Porites compressa
Rebecca 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...
- 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...
- Laboratory procedures to generate viral metagenomes
Rebecca 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...
- 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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- Phage community dynamics in hot springs
Mya Breitbart
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182-4614, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:1633-40. 2004
..Together, these results show that phages exert an important influence on microbial community structure and energy flow in extreme thermal environments...
- Movement of viruses between biomes
Emiko Sano
Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:5842-6. 2004
..These results imply that viruses can laterally transfer DNA between microbes in different biomes...
- Using pyrosequencing to shed light on deep mine microbial ecology
Robert 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...
- Widespread association of a Rickettsiales-like bacterium with reef-building corals
Veronica Casas
San Diego State University, Department of Biology, LS301, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-4614, USA
Environ Microbiol 6:1137-48. 2004
..These results suggest CAR1 is a relatively new bacterial associate of Acroporids and that a non-bacterial pathogen might be the cause of WBD I...
- Distribution and diversity of archaeal ammonia monooxygenase genes associated with corals
J Michael Beman
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Building 320 Room 118, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 2115, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:5642-7. 2007
..In contrast, the bacterial amoA gene could not be amplified from any of these samples. These results offer further evidence for the widespread presence of the archaeal amoA gene in marine ecosystems, including coral reefs...
