Publications:

Hiscock MR, Lance VP, Apprill AM, Bidigare RR, Johnson ZI, Mitchell BG, Smith WO, Barber RT (2008) Photosynthetic maximum quantum yield increases are an essential component of the Southern Ocean phytoplankton response to iron. PNAS 105, 4775-4780.

Johnson ZI and Sheldon TL (2007) A high-throughput method to measure photosynthesis-irradiance curves of phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 5, 417-424.

Zinser ER, Johnson ZI, Coe A, Karaca E, Veneziano D, Chisholm SW. (2007) Influence of light and temperature on Prochlorococcus ecotype distributions in the Atlantic Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography 52, 2205-2220.

Johnson ZI, Zinser ER, Coe A, McNulty NP, Woodward EMS, Chisholm SW. (2006) Niche partitioning among Prochlorococcus ecotypes along ocean-scale environmental gradients Science 311, 1737-1740.

Tolonen AC, Aach J, Lindell D, Johnson ZI, Rector T, Church GM, Chisholm SW. (2006) Global gene expression of Prochlorococcus ecotypes in response to changes in nitrogen availability. Nature-EMBO Molecular Systems Biology 2, 53

Zinser E, Coe A, Johnson ZI, Martiny A, Fuller NJ, Scanlan D, and Chisholm SW. (2006) Prochlorococcus ecotype abundances in the North Atlantic Ocean revealed by an improved quantitative PCR method. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72, 723-732.

Lindell D, Jaffe J, Johnson ZI, Church G, Chisholm SW (2005) Photosynthesis genes in marine viruses yield proteins during host infection. Nature 438, 86-89.

Johnson Z (2004) Development and application of the background irradiance gradient - single turnover fluorometer (BIG- STf). Marine Ecology Progress Series 283, 73-80.

Johnson Z and Chisholm S (2004) Properties of overlapping genes are conserved across microbial genomes. Genome Research 14, 2268-2272.

Lindell D, Sullivan M, Johnson Z, Tolonen A, Rohwer F, Chisholm SW (2004) Transfer of photosynthesis genes to and from Prochlorococcus viruses. PNAS 101, 11013-11018.

Coale K, K Johnson, F Chavez, K Buesseler, R Barber, M Brzezinski, W Cochlan, F Millero, P Falkowski, J Bauer, R Wanninkhof, R Kudela, M Altabet, B Hales, T Takahashi, M Landry, R Bidigare, X Wang, Z Chase, P Strutton, G Friederich, M Gorbunov, V Lance, A Hilting, M Hiscock, M Demarest, W Hiscock, F Sullivan, S Tanner, R Gordon, C Hunter, V Elrod, S Fitzwater, J Jones, S Tozzi, M Koblizek, A Roberts, J Herndon, J Brewster, N Ladizinsky, G Smith, D Cooper, D Timothy, S Brown, K Selph, C Sheridan, B Twining, Z Johnson (2004) Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in High- and Low- Si Waters. Science 304, 408-414.

Rocap G, F Larimer, J Lamerdin, S Malfatti, P Chain, N Ahlgren, A Arellano, M Coleman, L Hauser, W Hess, Z Johnson, M Land, D Lindell, A Post, W Regala, M Shah, S Shaw, C Steglich, M Sullivan, C Ting, A Tolonen, E Webb, E Zinser, S Chisholm (2003). Microbial niche differentiation viewed from whole genome comparison of two Prochlorococcus ecotypes. Nature 424, 1042-1047.

Johnson Z and RT Barber (2003) Analysis and interpretation of the reduction of quantum yield of photosynthesis at low irradiances. Photosynthesis Research 75, 85-95

Johnson Z, RT Barber, J Marra, RR Bidigare, R Goericke, C Trees (2002) Photosynthetic Physiology and Forcing in the Arabian Sea, 1995. Deep-Sea Research I 49, 415-436.

Barber RT, J Marra, RR Bidigare, LA Codispoti, D Halpern, Z Johnson, M Latasa, R Goericke, S Smith (2001) Primary productivity and its regulation in the Arabian Sea during 1995, Deep-Sea Research II 48, 1127-1172.

Johnson Z (2000) Regulation of Marine Photosynthetic Efficiency by Photosystem II, PhD Thesis, Duke University, 200 pg.

Johnson Z and P Howd (2000) Marine Photosynthetic Performance Forcing and Periodicity for the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series, 1989-1995, Deep Sea Research I 47(8), 1485-1512.

Johnson Z, ML Landry, RR Bidigare, SL Brown, L Campbell, J Gunderson, J Marra , C Trees (1999) Energetics and growth kinetics of a deep Prochlorococcus spp . population in the Arabian Sea, Deep-Sea Research II 46, 1719-1943

Johnson Z (1997) Modeled Inherent Scattering Properties of Small Light-Limited Phytoplankton: Implications for Deep Phytoplankton Size Class Distributions in Ocean Optics XIII , Steven G. Ackleson, Robert Frouin, Editors, Proc . SPIE 2963, 862-867

Bidigare RR, M Latasa , Z Johnson, RT Barber, CC Trees, BM Balch (1997) Observations of a Synechococcus -dominated cyclonic eddy in open-oceanic waters of the Arabian Sea. in Ocean Optics XIII , Steven G. Ackleson, Robert Frouin, Editors, Proc. SPIE 2963, 260-265

Marra J, Barber RT, Trees CC, Johnson Z, Kinkade C (1997) Primary Production and irradiance during an inter-monsoon cruise to the Arabian Sea (November 1995). in Ocean Optics XIII , Steven G. Ackleson, Robert Frouin, Editors, Proc. SPIE 2963, 302-307

Barber RT, L Borden, Z Johnson, J Marra , C Knudson, CC Trees (1997) Ground truthing modeled k PAR and on deck primary productivity incubations with in situ observations. in Ocean Optics XIII , Steven G. Ackleson, Robert Frouin, Editors, Proc. SPIE 2963, 834-839

Johnson Z (1994) Chlorophyll a response to an open ocean iron addition experiment. MIT Undergraduate Thesis.

last updated Feb 2007