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Ward group publications

  1. Ward, N.L., J.F. Challacombe, P.H. Janssen, B. Henrissat, P.M. Coutinho, M. Wu, G. Xie, D.H. Haft, M. Sait, J. Badger, R.D. Barabote,, B. Bradley, T.S. Brettin, L.M. Brinkac, D. Bruce, T. Creasy, S.C. Daugherty, T.M Davidsen, R.T. DeBoy, J.C. Detter, R.J. Dodson, A.S. Durkin, A. Ganapathy, M. Gwinn-Giglio, C.S. Han, H. Khouri, H. Kiss, S.P. Kothari, R. Madupu, K. Nelson, W.C. Nelson, I. Paulsen, K. Penn, Q. Ren, M.J. Rosovitz, J.D. Selengut, S. Shrivastava, S.A. Sullivan, R. Tapia, L.S. Thompson,  K.L. Watkins, Q. Yang, C. Yu, N. Zafar, L. Zhou, and C.R. Kuske. 2009. Three genomes from the Phylum Acidobacteria provide insight into the lifestyles of these microorganisms in soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75(7): 2046-56. Link
  2. Ward NL, Steven B, Penn K, Methé BA, Detrich WH 3rd. 2009. Characterization of the intestinal microbiota of two Antarctic notothenioid fish species. Extremophiles. 13:679-685. Link
  3. Kamneva, O.K., D.A. Liberles, and N.L. Ward. 2010. Genome-wide influence of indel substitutions on evolution of bacteria of the PVC super-phylum, revealed using a novel computational method. Genome Biology and Evolution  2:870-886. Link
  4. Domman, D.B., B.T. Steven, and N.L. Ward. 2010. Random transposon mutagenesis of Verrucomicrobium spinosum DSM 4136T. Archives of Microbiology DOI: 10.1007/s00203-010-0666-5. Link 
  5. Steven, B., Dowd, S.E., Schulmeyer, K.H., and N.L. Ward.  2011. Phylum-targeted pyrosequencing reveals diverse planctomycete populations in a eutrophic lake. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 64:41-49. Link  
  6. Sait, M., O.K. Kamneva, D.S. Fay, N.V. Kirienko, J. Polek, M.M. Shirasu-Hiza, and N.L. Ward. 2011. Genomic and experimental evidence suggests that Verrucomicrobium spinosum interacts with eukaryotes. Frontiers in Microbiology 2:211.
  7. Ward, N.L., A.P. Pieretti, S.E. Dowd, S. Cox, and A.M. Goldstein. 2012. Intestinal aganglionosis is associated with early and sustained disruption of the colonic microbiome. In press, Neurogastroenterology and Motility.
  8. Verchot, L.V., N.L. Ward, J. Belnap, D. Bossio, M. Coughenour, J. Gibson, O. Hanotte, A.N. Muchiru, S.L. Phillips, B. Steven, D.H. Wall, and R.S. Reid. 2012. From bacteria to elephants: effects of land-use legacies on biodiversity and ecosystem processes in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. Invited contribution to Serengeti IV Sustaining biodiversity in a coupled human-natural system.  Sinclair, A.R.E., Mduma, S.A.R., and Packer, C. (eds.).  In press, Chicago University Press.