Publications

lentisphaera araneosa gen. nov., sp. nov, a transparent exopolymer producing marine bacterium, and the description of a novel bacterial phylum, lentisphaerae.	two phylogenetically distinct marine strains producing transparent exopolymers (tep), designated htcc2155(t) and htcc2160, were cultivated from oregon coast seawater by dilution to extinction in a high throughput culturing format. when cultured in low-nutrient seawater media, these strains copiously produced alcian blue-stainable viscous tep. growing cells were attached to each other by the tep in a three dimensional network. polymerase chain reaction employing 16s rdna primers specific for the ...	2004	15142250
genome sequence of lentisphaera araneosa htcc2155t, the type species of the order lentisphaerales in the phylum lentisphaerae.	information on the genome content of deeply branching phyla with very few cultured members is invaluable for expanding understanding of microbial evolution. lentisphaera araneosa htcc2155(t) was isolated from the oregon coast using dilution-to-extinction culturing. it is a marine heterotroph found in surface and mesopelagic waters in both the pacific and atlantic oceans and has the unusual property of producing a net-like matrix of secreted exopolysaccharide. here we present the genome sequence ...	2010	20363947
Metabolic strategies of free-living and aggregate-associated bacterial communities inferred from biologic and chemical profiles in the Black Sea suboxic zone.	The Black Sea is a permanently anoxic basin with a well-defined redox gradient. We combine environmental 16S rRNA gene data from clone libraries, terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms, and V6 hypervariable region pyrosequences to provide the most detailed bacterial survey to date. Furthermore, this data set is informed by comprehensive geochemical data; using this combination of information, we put forward testable hypotheses regarding possible metabolisms of uncultured bacteria fro ...	2011	22066565