2008

  1. •Rappé, M. S., and M. L. Brandon.  Diversity among bacteria from the coastal subtropical Pacific Ocean determined by high-throughput culturing and small-subunit rRNA gene clone libraries.  The ISME Journal, in review.

  2. •Apprill, A. M., H. Q. Marlow, M. Q. Martindale, and M. S. Rappé.  The onset of microbial associations in the coral Pocillopora meandrina.  The ISME Journal, in  review.

  3. •Eiler, A., D. Hayakawa, M. J. Church, D. M. Karl, and M. S. Rappé.  SAR11 dynamics in relation to environmental conditions in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.  Environmental Microbiology, in review.

  4. •Salerno, J. L., E. A. Hambleton, and M. S. Rappé.  Optimization of nucleic acid extraction and PCR methods for coral-associated microorganisms.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology, in review.

  5. •Van Mooy, B. A. S., H. F. Fredricks, B. E. Pedler, S. T. Dyhrman, D. M. Karl, M. Koblizek, M. W. Lomas, T. Mincer, L. R. Moore, T. Moutin, M. S. Rappé, and E. A. Webb.  Lipid substitutions by phytoplankton are a universal response to phosphorus limitation.  Nature, in review. 

  6. •Giovannoni, S. J., D. H. Hayakawa, U. Stingl, H. J. Tripp, S. Givan, J.-C. Cho, H.-M. Oh, J. Kitner, K. L. Vergin and M. S. Rappé (2008) The small genome of an abundant coastal ocean methylotroph.  Environmental Microbiology, 10:1771-1782.

  7. •Brandon, M. L., J. W. Becker and M. S. Rappé (2008) Isolation of aquatic microorganisms via high throughput cultivation methods.  Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual, 3rd Edition.

2007

  1. •Vergin, K. L., H. J. Tripp, L. J. Wilhelm, D. R. Denver, M. S. Rappé, and S. J. Giovannoni (2007) High intraspecific recombination rate in a native population of Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique (SAR11).  Environmental Microbiology, 9:2430–2440.

  2. •Benitez-Nelson, C. R., R. R. Bidigare, T. Dickey, M. R. Landry, C. L. Leonard, S. L. Brown, F. Nencioli, Y. M. Rii, K. Maiti, J. W. Becker, T. S. Bibby, W. Black, W.-J. Cai, C. Carlson, F.Z. Chen, V. S. Kuwahara, C. Mahaffey, P. M. McAndrew, P. D. Quay, M. S. Rappé , K. E. Selph, M. E. Simmons, and E. J. Yang (2007) Eddy-induced diatom bloom drives increased biogenic silica flux, but inefficient carbon export in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean.  Science, 316:1017-1021.

  3. •Steward, G. F. and M. S. Rappé (2007) What’s the “meta” with metagenomics? The ISME Journal, 1:100-102.

  4. •Becker, J. W., M. L. Brandon, and M. S. Rappé (2007) Cultivating microorganisms from dilute aquatic environments:  melding traditional methodology with new cultivation techniques and molecular methods.  In C. J. Hurst et al. [eds], Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd Edition.  ASM Press, pp. 399-406.

  5. •Giovannoni, S. J., R. A. Foster, M. S. Rappé, and S. Epstein (2007) New cultivation strategies bring more microbial plankton species into the laboratory.  Oceanography 20:24-30.

2005

  1. •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.

  2. •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.

  3. •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.

  4. •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.

2004

  1. •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.

2003

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

  2. •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.

2002

  1. •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.

  2. •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.

  3. •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.

2001

  1. •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.

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

2000

  1. •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.

  2. •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.

  3. •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.

1999

  1. •Giovannoni, S., and M. Rappé (1999) Microbial diversity: it’s a new world. The NEB Transcript  10:1-4.

  2. •Rappé, M. S., D. Gordon, K. Vergin, and S. J. Giovannoni (1999) Phylogeny of Actinobacteria small subunit (SSU) rRNA gene clones recovered from marine bacterioplankton.  Systematic and Applied Microbiology  22:106-112.

1998

  1. •Suzuki, M. T., M. S. Rappé, and S. J. Giovannoni (1998) Kinetic bias in estimates of coastal picoplankton community structure obtained by measurements of small-subunit rRNA gene PCR amplicon length heterogeneity.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology  64:4522-4529.

  2. •Rappé, M. S., M. T. Suzuki, K. Vergin, and S. J. Giovannoni (1998) Phylogenetic diversity of ultraphytoplankton plastid SSU rRNA genes recovered in environmental nucleic acid samples from the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the United States.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology  64:294-303.

1997

  1. •Rappé, M. S., P. F. Kemp, and S. J. Giovannoni (1997) Phylogenetic diversity of marine coastal picoplankton 16S rRNA genes cloned from the continental shelf off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.  Limnology and Oceanography  42:811-826.

  2. •Suzuki, M. T., M. S. Rappé, Z. W. Haimberger, H. Winfield, N. Adair, J. Ströbel, and S. J. Giovannoni (1997) Bacterial diversity among SSU rDNA gene clones and cellular isolates from the same seawater sample.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology  63:983-989.

  3. •Field, K. G., D. Gordon, M. S. Rappé, E. Urbach, T. Wright, and S. J. Giovannoni (1997) Diversity and depth-specific distribution of SAR11 cluster rRNA genes from marine planktonic bacteria.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology  63:63-70.

1996

  1. •Giovannoni, S. J., M. S. Rappé, D. Gordon, E. Urbach, M. Suzuki, and K. G. Field.  Ribosomal RNA and the evolution of bacterial diversity (1996) In Roberts, D. McL., P. Sharp, G. Alderson, and M. Collins [eds], Evolution of microbial life.  Society for General Microbiology Symposium 54.  Cambridge University Press, pp. 63-85.

  2. •Giovannoni, S. J., M. S. Rappé, K. Vergin, and N. Adair (1996) 16S rRNA genes reveal stratified open ocean bacterioplankton populations related to the Green Non-Sulfur bacteria.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA  93:7979-7984.

1995

  1. •Rappé, M. S., P. F. Kemp, and S. J. Giovannoni (1995) Abundant chromophyte plastid 16S ribosomal RNA genes found in a clone library from Atlantic Ocean seawater.  Journal of Phycology  31:979-988.

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