Faculty Projects and Publications

Giovannoni, S. J., L. Bibbs, J.-C. Cho, M. D. Staples, R. Desiderio, K. L. Vergin, M. S. Rappé, S. Laney, D. F. Barofsky, and E. Mathur (2005) Proteorhodopsin phototrophy in the ubiquitous marine bacterium SAR11. Nature 438:82-85.

Giovannoni, S. J., H. J. Tripp, S. Givan, M. Podar, K. L. Vergin, D. Baptista, L. Bibbs, J. Eads, T. H. Richardson, M. Noordewier, M. S. Rappé, J. M. Short, J. C. Carrington and E. J. Mathur (2005) Genome streamlining in a cosmopolitan oceanic bacterium. Science 309:1242-1245.

Morris, R. M., J.-C. Cho, K. L. Vergin, M. S. Rappé, C. A. Carlson, and S. J. Giovannoni (2005) Temporal and spatial response of bacterioplankton lineages to annual convective overturn at BATS. Limnology and Oceanography 50:1687-1696.

Lodge-Ivey, S. L., M. S. Rappé, W. H. Johnston, R.E. Bohlken, and A. M. Craig (2005) Molecular analysis of a consortium of ruminal microbes that detoxify pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 51:455-465.

Morris, R. M., M. S. Rappé, S. A. Connon, E. Urbach, and S. J. Giovannoni (2004) Prevalence of the Chloroflexi-related SAR202 bacterioplankton cluster throughout the mesopelagic zone and deep ocean. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:2836-2842.

Rappé, M. S., and S. J. Giovannoni (2003) The uncultured microbial majority. Annual Review of Microbiology 57:369-394.

Cowen, J. P, S. J. Giovannoni, F. Kenig, H. P. Johnson, D. Butterfield, M. S. Rappé, M. Hutnak, and P. Lam (2003) Fluids from aging ocean crust that support microbial life. Science 299:120-123.

Zengler, K., G. Toledo, M. Rappé, J. Elkins, E. Mathur, J. Short, and M. Keller (2002) Cultivating the uncultured. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99:15681-15686.

Morris, R. M., M. S. Rappé, S. A. Connon, K. L. Vergin, W. A. Siebold, C. Carlson, and S. J. Giovannoni (2002) SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities. Nature 420:806-810.

Rappé, M. S., S. A. Connon, K. L. Vergin, and S. J. Giovannoni (2002) Cultivation of the ubiquitous SAR11 marine bacterioplankton clade. Nature 418:630-633.

Hold, G. L., E. A. Smith, M. S. Rappé, E. W. Maas, E. R. B. Moore, C. Stroempl, J. R. Stephen, J. I. Prosser, T. H. Birkbeck, and S. Gallacher (2001) Characterization of bacterial communities associated with toxic and non-toxic dinoflagellates: Alexandrium spp. and Scrippsiella trochoidea. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 37:161-173.

Vergin, K. L., M. S. Rappé, and S. J. Giovannoni (2001) Streamlined method to analyze 16S rRNA gene clone libraries. BioTechniques 30:938-944.

Giovannoni, S. J., and M. S. Rappé (2000) Evolution, diversity and molecular ecology of marine prokaryotes. In D. L. Kirchman [ed.], Microbial Ecology of the Oceans. Wiley and Sons, pp. 47-84.

Brinkmeyer, R., M. Rappé, S. Gallacher, and L. Medlin (2000) Development of clade (Roseobacter and Alteromonas) and taxon-specific oligonucleotide probes to study bacterial/toxic algal interactions in toxic dinoflagellate cultures. European Journal of Phycology 35:315-329.

Rappé, M. S., K. Vergin, and S. J. Giovannoni (2000) Phylogenetic comparisons of a coastal bacterioplankton community with its counterparts in open ocean and freshwater systems. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 33:219-232.