Orphan, Victoria

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• Utter, D. R. and Orphan, V. J. (2023) Gifts hidden in shadowy genome islands; Cell; Vol. 186; No. 1; 5-7; 10.1016/j.cell.2022.12.001
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• Wu, Fabai and Speth, Daan R., el al. (2022) Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote–eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes; Nature Microbiology; Vol. 7; No. 2; 200-212; 10.1038/s41564-021-01039-y
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• Phillips, Alexandra A. and Speth, Daan R., el al. (2021) Microbial succession and dynamics in meromictic Mono Lake, California; Geobiology; Vol. 19; No. 4; 376-393; 10.1111/gbi.12437
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• He, Xiaojia and Chadwick, Grayson, el al. (2021) Spatially Resolved Electron Transport through Anode‐Respiring Geobacter sulfurreducens Biofilms: Controls and Constraints; ChemElectroChem; Vol. 8; No. 10; 1747-1758; 10.1002/celc.202100111
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• Metcalfe, Kyle S. and Murali, Ranjani, el al. (2021) Experimentally-validated correlation analysis reveals new anaerobic methane oxidation partnerships with consortium-level heterogeneity in diazotrophy; ISME Journal; Vol. 15; No. 2; 377-396; PMCID PMC8027057; 10.1038/s41396-020-00757-1
• Sim, Min Sub and Skennerton, Connor T., el al. (2021) Physiological, genomic, and sulfur isotopic characterization of methanol metabolism by Desulfovibrio carbinolicus; PLoS ONE; Vol. 16; No. 1; Art. No. e0245069; 10.1371/journal.pone.0245069
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• Houghton, J. L. and Jones, C., el al. (2020) Resolving micron-scale heterogeneity in porewater δ³⁴S_(H₂S) by combining films for in-situ sulfide capture and secondary ion mass spectrometry; Marine Chemistry; Vol. 223; Art. No. 103810; 10.1016/j.marchem.2020.103810
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• Speth, Daan R. and Orphan, Victoria J. (2019) ASM-Clust: classifying functionally diverse protein families using alignment score matrices; 10.1101/792739
• Cavicchioli, Ricardo and Orphan, Victoria J. (2019) Scientists' warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change; Nature Reviews Microbiology; Vol. 17; No. 9; 569-586; PMCID PMC7136171; 10.1038/s41579-019-0222-5
• Arrojo e Drigo, Rafael and Lev-Ram, Varda, el al. (2019) Age Mosaicism across Multiple Scales in Adult Tissues; Cell Metabolism; Vol. 30; No. 2; 343-351; 10.1016/j.cmet.2019.05.010
• Sapers, Haley M. and Razzell Hollis, Joseph, el al. (2019) The Cell and the Sum of Its Parts: Patterns of Complexity in Biosignatures as Revealed by Deep UV Raman Spectroscopy; Frontiers in Microbiology; Vol. 10; Art. No. 679; PMCID PMC6527968; 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00679
• Boyd, Joel A. and Jungbluth, Sean P., el al. (2019) Divergent methyl-coenzyme M reductase genes in a deep-subseafloor Archaeoglobi; ISME Journal; Vol. 13; No. 5; 1269-1279; PMCID PMC6474303; 10.1038/s41396-018-0343-2
• Amend, Jan and Feyhl-Buska, Jayme, el al. (2019) Calorimetric determination of microbial activity in low-energy environments
• Murali, Ranjani and Hemp, James, el al. (2019) FIND: Identifying Functionally and Structurally Important Features in Protein Sequences with Deep Neural Networks; 10.1101/592808
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• Stamenković, V. and Fischer, W. W., el al. (2019) The next frontier for planetary and human exploration; Nature Astronomy; Vol. 3; No. 2; 116-120; 10.1038/s41550-018-0676-9
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• Yu, Hang and Susanti, Dwi, el al. (2018) Comparative Genomics and Proteomic Analysis of Assimilatory Sulfate Reduction Pathways in Anaerobic Methanotrophic Archaea; Frontiers in Microbiology; Vol. 9; Art. No. 2917; PMCID PMC6286981; 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02917
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• Speth, Daan R. and Orphan, Victoria J. (2018) Metabolic marker gene mining provides insight in global mcrA diversity and, coupled with targeted genome reconstruction, sheds further light on metabolic potential of the Methanomassiliicoccales; PeerJ; Vol. 2018; No. 6; Art. No. e5614; PMCID PMC6147122; 10.7717/peerj.5614
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