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  1. Recent Publications

    May 2019


    Evidence for Biotic Perchlorate Reduction in Naturally Perchlorate-Rich Sediments of Pilot Valley Basin, Utah
    Lynch, K. L., Jackson, W. A., Rey, K., Spear, J. R., Rosenzweig, F., & Munakata-Marr, J. (2019). Evidence for Biotic Perchlorate Reduction in Naturally Perchlorate-Rich Sediments of Pilot Valley Basin, Utah. Astrobiology, 19(5), 629–641. doi:10.1089/ast.2018.1864


    April 2019


    How to resurrect ancestral proteins as proxies for ancient biogeochemistry
    Garcia, A. K., & Kaçar, B. (2019). How to resurrect ancestral proteins as proxies for ancient biogeochemistry. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.03.033


    March 2019


    Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea
    Borrel, G., Adam, P. S., McKay, L. J., Chen, L-X., Sierra-GarcíA, I. N., Sieber, C. M. K., … Gribaldo, S. (2019). Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea. Nature Microbiology. doi:10.1038/s41564-019-0363-3


    Co-occurring genomic capacity for anaerobic methane and dissimilatory sulfur metabolisms discovered in the Korarchaeota
    McKay, L. J., Dlakić, M., Fields, M. W., Delmont, T. O., Eren, A. M., Jay, Z. J., … Inskeep, W. P. (2019). Co-occurring genomic capacity for anaerobic methane and dissimilatory sulfur metabolisms discovered in the Korarchaeota. Nature Microbiology. doi:10.1038/s41564-019-0362-4


    February 2019


    Experimental determination of pyrite and molybdenite oxidation kinetics at nanomolar oxygen concentrations
    Johnson, A. C., Romaniello, S. J., Reinhard, C. T., Gregory, D. D., Garcia-Robledo, E., Revsbech, N. P., … Anbar, A. D. (2019). Experimental determination of pyrite and molybdenite oxidation kinetics at nanomolar oxygen concentrations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 249, 160–172. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2019.01.022


    Evolutionary dynamics of de novo mutations and mutant lineages arising in a simple, constant environment
    Kinnersley, M., Schwartz, K., Boswell, J., Yang, D-D., Sherlock, G., & Rosenzweig, F. (2019). Evolutionary dynamics of de novo mutations and mutant lineages arising in a simple, constant environment. []. doi:10.1101/540625


    Copper oxide nanoparticles promote the evolution of multicellularity in yeast
    Tan, J., He, Q., Pentz, J. T., Peng, C., Yang, X., Tsai, M-H., … Jiang, L. (2019). Copper oxide nanoparticles promote the evolution of multicellularity in yeast. Nanotoxicology, None, 1–9. doi:10.1080/17435390.2018.1553253


    NADH Dehydrogenases in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Growth and Virulence
    Torres, A., Kasturiarachi, N., DuPont, M., Cooper, V. S., Bomberger, J., & Zemke, A. (2019). NADH Dehydrogenases in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Growth and Virulence. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00075


    Structural basis of DSF recognition by its receptor RpfR and its regulatory interaction with the DSF synthase RpfF
    Waldron, E. J., Snyder, D., Fernandez, N. L., Sileo, E., Inoyama, D., Freundlich, J. S., … Neiditch, M. B. (2019). Structural basis of DSF recognition by its receptor RpfR and its regulatory interaction with the DSF synthase RpfF. PLOS Biology, 17(2), e3000123. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000123


    A Small Molecule with PAH Vibrational Properties and a Detectable Rotational Spectrum: c(C)C3H2, Cyclopropeny lidene Carbene
    D. Agbaglo, T. J. Lee, R. Thackston, and R. C. Fortenberry, Astrophys. J. 871, 236 (2019