Microbial Ecology Laboratory

Saw, J.H.W., Nunoura, T., Hirai, M., Takaki, Y., Parsons, R., Michelsen, M., Longnecker, K., Kujawinski, E.B., Stepanauskas, R., Landry, Z., Carlson, C.A., and Giovannoni, S.J. (2019) Pangenomics reveal diversification of enzyme families and nich specialization in globally abundant SAR202 bacteria. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02975-19

James, A, Carlson, C., Passow, U, Brzezinski, M, Parsons, RJ and Trapani, JN. (2017) “Elevated bacterioplankton removal of organic carbon.” PLoS ONE 12(3):e0173145. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173145

McNally, S.P., Parsons, R.J., Santoro, A.E., and Apprill, A. (2017). Multifaceted impacts of the stony coral Porites astreoides on picoplankton abundance and community composition. Limnology and Oceanography 62, 217-234. DOI: 10.1002/lno.10389

Zhang, T., Diaz, J.M., Brighi, C., Parsons, R.J., McNally, S., Apprill, A., and Hansel, C.M. (2016). Dark Production of Extracellular Superoxide by the Coral Porites astreoides and Representative Symbionts. Frontiers in Marine Science 3, 232. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00232

Apprill, A., McNally, S., Parsons, R. and Weber, L. 2015 “Minor revision to V4 region SSU rRNA 806R gene primer greatly increases detection of SAR11 bacterioplankton” AME Vol. 75, No. 2. doi: 10.3354/ame01753

Goldsmith, D.B., Parsons, R.J., Beyene, D., Salamon, P. and Breitbrt, M. 2015 “Deep sequencing of the viral phoH gene reveals temporal variation, depth-specific composition, and persistent dominance of the same viral phoH genes in the Sargasso Sea.” PeerJ 3, e997. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.997

Parsons, RJ, Nelson, CE, Demnan, CC, Andersson, AJ, Kledzik, AL, Vergin, K, McNally, SP, Treusch, AH, Carlson, CA, and Giovannoni, SJ. (2014) Marine bacterioplankton community turnover within seasonally hypoxic waters of a sub-tropical sound: Devil's Hole, Bermuda. Environmental Microbiology doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12445.

Marston, M.F., Taylor, S., Sme, N, Parsons, R.J., Noyes, T.J.E. and Martiney J.B.H. 2013 “Marine cyanophages exhibit local and regional biogeography”. Environmental Microbiology, 15: 1452-1463. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12062

Parsons, R.J., Breitbart, M., Lomas, M.W., Carlson, C. (2011). Ocean time-series reveals recurring seasonal patterns of virioplankton dynamics in the northwestern Sargasso Sea. The ISME Journal (August): 1-12.

Carlson, C.A., Morris, R., Parsons, R., Treusch, A.H., Giovannoni, S.J., Vergin, K. (2009). Seasonal dynamics of SAR11 populations in the euphotic and mesopelagic zones of the northwestern Sargasso Sea. The ISME Journal 3: 283-295.

Angly, F.E., Felts, B., Breitbart, M., Salamon, P., Edwards, R.A., Carlson, C., Chan, A.M., Haynes, M., Kelley, S., Liu, H., Mahaffy, J.M., Mueller, J.E., Nulton, J., Olson, R., Parsons, R., Rayhawk, S., Suttle, C.A., Rohwer, F. (2006). PLoS Biol 4(11): e368. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040368.

Venter, J.C., Remington, K., Heidelberg, J.F., Halpern, A.L., Rusch, D., Eisen, J.A., Wu, D., Paulsen, I., Nelson, K.E., Nelson, W., Fouts, D.E., Levy, S., Knap, A.H., Lomas, M.W., Nealson, K., White, O., Peterson, J., Hoffman, J., Parsons, R., Baden-Tillson, H., Pfannkoch, C., Rogers, Y., Smith, H.O. (2004). Environmental genome shotgun sequencing of the Sargasso Sea. Science 304: 66-74.