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Kuai, L., Nair, A., Polz, M.F. (2001).

A rapid and simple method for the most-probable-number estimation of arsenic-reducing bacteria.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67(7): 3168-3173.
The Article

Lim, E., Tomita, A., Thilly, W., Polz, M.F. (2001).

Combination of competitive quantitative PCR and constant-denaturant capillary electrophoresis for high-resolution detection and enumeration of microbial cells.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67(9): 3897-3903.
The Article

Tay, S.T.-L, Hemond, H.F., Cavanaugh, C.M., Krumholz, L.R., Polz, M.F. (2001).

Population dynamics of two toluene degrading bacterial species in a contaminated stream.  Microbial Ecology 41(2): 124-131.

2001

Bertilsson, S., Cavanaugh, C.M., Polz, M.F. (2002).

Sequencing-independent method to generate oligonucleotide probes targeting a variable region in Bacterial 16S rRNA by PCR with detachable primers. Appl. Environ. Microbial. 68(12):6077-6086.
The Article

Thompson, J., Marcelino, L., Polz, M.F. (2002).

Heteroduplexes in mixed-template amplifications: formation, consequence and elimination by 'reconditioning PCR'.  Nucleic Acids Res.30(9): 2083-2088.

2002

Oates,P.M., Shanahan, P. Polz, M.F. (2003).

Solar disinfection (SODIS): simulation of solar radiation for global assessment and application for point-of-use water treatment in Haiti. Water Res. 37(1):47-54.

Polz, M.F., Bertilsson, S., Acinas, S.G., Hunt, D. (2003).

(Review) A(r)Ray of hope in analysis of function and diversity of microbial communities. Biol. Bull. 204:196-199.

2004

Sarma-Rupavtarm, R.B., Ge, Z., Schauer, D.B., Fox, J.G., Polz, M.F. (2004).

Spatial distribution and stability of the eight microbial species of the Altered Schaedler Flora in the gastrointestinal tract of mice. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70(5):2791-2800.
The Article

Acinas, S.G., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Hunt, D.E., Pharino, C.,Ceraj, I., Distel, D.L., Polz, M.F.(2004).

Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community. Nature 430:551-554.

Klepac-Ceraj,V. Bahr, M., Crumb, B., Teske, A., Hobbie, J., Polz, M.F. (2004).

High overall diversity and dominance of microdiverse relationships in salt marsh sulfate-reducing bacteria. Environ. Microbiol.6(7):686-698.

Thompson, J.R., Randa, M.A., Marcelino, L..A., Tomita, A., Lim, E., Polz, M.F. (2004).

Diversity and dynamics of a North Atlantic coastal vibrio community. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.70(7): 4103-4110.
The Article

Randa, M.A., Polz, M.F., Lim, E. (2004).

Population dynamics of Vibrio vulnifucus in a North Atlantic estuary. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.70(9):5469-5476.

Acinas, S.G., Marcelino, L., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Polz, M.F. (2004).

Divergence and redundancy of 16S rRNA sequences in genomes with multiple rrn operons. J. Bacteriol. 186(9):2629-2635.
The Article

2003

Acinas, S.G, Sarma-Rupavtarm, R., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Polz, M.F. (2005).

PCR induced sequence artifacts and bias: insights from two 16S rRNA clone libraries constructed from the same sample. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71(12):8966-8969.

Oates, P.M., Castenson, C., Harvey, C.F., Polz, M.F., Culligan, P. (2005).

Illuminating reactive microbial transport in saturated porous media: Demonstration of a visualization method and conceptual transport model. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 77(4):233-245. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2004.12.005
The Article

Thompson, J.R., Pacocha, S., Pharino, C., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Hunt, D.E., Benoit, J., Sarma-Rupavtarm, R., Distel, D.L., Polz, M.F. (2005).

Genotypic diversity within a natural coastal bacterioplankton community. Science 307:1311-1313.

Perry, T.D., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Zhang, X.V., McNamara, C.J., Polz, M.F., Martin, S.T., Berke, N., Mitchell, R. (2005).

Binding of harvested bacterial exopolymers to the surface of calcite. Environ. Sci. Technol. 39(22): 8770-8775.

Whary M, Sundina N, Sarma-Rupavtarm RB, Polz MF, Schauer D, Fox JG (2005).

Natural infection with Helicobacter hepaticus in the TCR beta knockout mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease is associated with increased colonization levels of altered schaedler flora in the diseased colon. Gastroenterology 128 (4): A514-A514 Suppl.

Thompson, J.T., Marcelino, L., Polz, M.F.(2005).

Diversity and sources of human bacterial pathogens and overview of methods of their detection and quantification. In: Shimshon Belkin and Rita Colwell (Eds.), Ocean and Health: Pathogens in the Marine Environment. Springer. p. 464.

2005

Luyten, Y.A., Thompson, J.R.,Polz, M.F.,Distel, D.L. (2006).

Symbiont community composition varies among members of a single host population of the wood-boring bivalve Lyrodus pedicellatus (Bivalvia: Teredinidae). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72(1):412-417.

Klepac-Ceraj, V., Ceraj, I., Polz, M.F. (2006).

CLUSTERER: extendable java application for sequence grouping and cluster analyses. Online J. Bioinf.7(1):15-21.

Hunt, D.E., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Acinas, S.G., Gauthier, C., Bertilsson, S., Polz, M.F. (2006).

Evaluation of 23S rRNA PCR Primers for use in Phylogenetic Studies of Bacterial Diversity. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.72(3):2221-2225.

Thompson, J.T., Polz, M.F.(2006).

Dynamics of vibrio populations and their role in environmental nutrient cycling. In: F.L. Thompson, B. Austin, and J. Swings (Eds.), The Biology of Vibrios. ASM Press, pp. 190-203.

Ge, Z., Feng, Y., Taylor, N., Ohtani, M., Polz, M.F., Schauer, D.B., Fox, J.G. (2006).

Colonization of Altered Schaedler Flora is influenced by gender, aging and Helicobacter hepaticus infection in the intestine of Swiss Webster mice. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72(7): 5100-5103.

Marcelino, L., Backman, V., Donaldson, A., Steadman, C., Thompson, J.R., Paccocha-Preheim, S., Lien, C., Lim, E., Veneziano, D., Polz, M.F. (2006).

Accurately quantifying low-abundant targets amid similar sequences by revealing hidden correlations in oligonucleotide microarray data. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA103(37): 13629-13634.

Polz, M.F., Hunt, D.E., Preheim, S.P., Weinreich, D.M. (2006).

Patterns and mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in marine microbes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 361 (1475): 2009-2021.

2006

Sabehi, G. Kirkup, B. C., Rozenberg, M., Stambler, N., Polz, M.F., Beja, O. (2007).

Niche adaptation and spectral tuning in marine proteorhodopsins. ISME Journal 1(1):48-55.

2007

Stewart JR, Gast RJ, Fujioka RS, Solo-Gabriele HM, Meschke JS, Amaral-Zettler LA, del Castillo E, Polz MF, Collier TK, Strom MS, Sinigalliano CD, Moeller PDR, Holland AF.

The coastal environment and human health: microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs. Environmental Health, 7(Suppl 2):S3 (7 November 2008).


Marcelino LA, Backman V, Donaldson A, Steadman C, Thompson JR, Preheim SP, Lien C, Lim E, Veneziano D, Polz MF.

Accurately quantifying low-abundant targets amid similar sequences by revealing hidden correlations in oligonucleotide microarray data. PNAS USA 105(50): 20045-20045


Hunt, D. E., Gevers, D., Vahora, N. M., Polz, M. F. (2008).

Conservation of the chitin utilization pathway in the Vibrionaceae. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74(1):44-51.

Stocker, R, Seymour, J. R., Samadani, A., Hunt, D. E., Polz, M. F. (2008).

Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches. PNAS USA. 105(11): 4209-4214.

Hunt, D.E., David, L.A., Gevers, D., Preheim, S.P., Alm, E.J., Polz, M.F. (2008).

Resource Partitioning and Sympatric Differentiation Among Closely Related Bacterioplankton. Science 320(5879):1081-1085.

Le Roux F, Zouine M, Chakroun N, Binesse J, Saulnier D, Bouchier C, Zidane N, Ma L, Rusniok C, Lajus A, Buchrieser C, Médigue C, Polz MF, Mazel D. (2009)

Genome sequence of Vibrio splendidus: an abundant planctonic marine species with a large genotypic diversity.

Environ. Microbiol. 11(8):1959-1970.


Tzahor S, Man-Aharonovich D, Kirkup BC, Yogev T, Berman-Frank I, Polz MF, Béjà O, Mandel-Gutfreund Y. (2009)

A supervised learning approach for taxonomic classification of core-photosystem-II genes and transcripts in the marine environment.

BMC Genomics 2009, 10:229 (16 May 2009)


Joss MJ, Koenig JE, Labbate M, Polz MF, Gillings MR, Stokes HW, Doolittle WF, Boucher Y

ACID: annotation of cassette and integron data. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:118 (21 April 2009).


Fraser C., Alm EJ, Polz MF, Spratt BG, Hanage WP.

The Bacterial Species Challenge: Making Sense of Genetic and Ecological Diversity. Science 6 February 2009  Vol. 323. no. 5915, pp. 741 - 746   DOI: 10.1126/science.1159388

2008

2009

earlier publications

Polz, M.F. , Cavanaugh, C.M. (1997).

A simple method for quantification of not-yet cultivated microorganisms in environment based on in vitro transcription of 16S rRNA.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63(3): 1028-1033.
Abstract

Van Dover, C.L., Polz, M.F., Robinson, J., Cavanaugh, C., Kadko, D, Hickey, J. P. (1997).

Predatory anemones at TAG.  BRIDGE 12: 33-34.

1997

Tay, S.T.-L., Hemond, H.F., Polz, M.F., Cavanaugh, C.M., Krumholz, L.R. (1998).

Characterization of two Tolulene degrading myobacterial isolates from a contaminated freshwater stream.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64(5): 1715-1720.

Polz, M.F. , Cavanaugh, C.M. (1998).

Bias in template-to-product ratios in multi-template PCR.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64(10): 3724-3730.

Polz, M.F. , Robinson, J., Cavanaugh, C.M, VanDover, C.L. (1998).

Trophic ecology of the massive aggregations of the hydrothermal vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata.  Limnol. Oceanogr. 43:1631-1638.

1998

Tay, S.T.-L., Hemond, H.F., Polz, M.F., Cavanaugh, C.M., Krumholz, L.R. (1999).

Importance of Xanthobacter autotrophicus in toluene biodegradation within a contaminated stream.  Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 22:113-118.

Polz, M.F. , Harbison, C., Cavanaugh, C.M. (1999).

Diversity and heterogeneity of epibiotic bacterial communities on the marine nematode Eubostricus dianae.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65(9):4271-4275.

1999

Polz, M.F., Ott, J.A., Bright, M., Cavanaugh, C.M. (2000).

(Review) When bacteria hitch a ride.  ASM News 66(9):531-539.

Giribet, G., Distel, D. L., Polz, M.F., Sterrer, W., Wheeler, W. C. (2000).

Triploblastic relationships with emphasis on the position of Gnathostomulida, Cycliophora, Plathelminthes, and Chaetognatha; a combined approach of 18S rDNA sequences and morphology.  Syst. Biol. 49(3):539-562.

2000

Polz Lab Publications

2010

Kirkup BC, Chang LA, Chang S, et al.(MAY 2010). Vibrio chromosomes share common history.

BMC MICROBIOLOGY 10(137).


Man-Aharonovich D, Philosof A, Kirkup BC, et al. (AUG 2010).

Diversity of active marine picoeukaryotes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea unveiled using photosystem-II psbA transcripts.

ISME JOURNAL 4(8): 1044-1052.


Wildschutte H, Preheim SP, Hernandez Y, et al. (NOV 2010).

O-antigen diversity and lateral transfer of the wbe region among Vibrio splendidus isolates.

Environ. Microbiol. 12(11): 2977-2987.  

2011

John SG, Mendez CB, Deng L, et al. (APR 2011).

A simple and efficient method for concentration of ocean viruses by chemical flocculation

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS  3(2): 195-202.


Wang LR, Chen S, Vergin KL, et al. (FEB 15 2011).

DNA phosphorothioation is widespread and quantized in bacterial genomes. PNAS 108 (7): 2963-2968.


Preheim SP, Boucher Y, Wildschutte H, et al. (JAN 2011).

Metapopulation structure of Vibrionaceae among coastal marine invertebrates. Environ. Microbiol. 13(1): 265-275.