Microbial Ecosystems Science

Boling, W.B., G.Sinclair and B. Wawrik. Molecular Detection of Calanoid Prey Species by Gut Content Analysis. In review (Marine Biology).

Wawrik, B., M. Mendivelso, V.A. Parisi, J.M. Suflita, I.A. Davidova, C.R. Marks, J.D. Van Nostrand, Y. Liang, J. Zhou, B.J. Huizinga, D. Strapoć, and A.V. Callaghan. Field and Laboratory Studies on the Bio-Conversion of Coal to Methane. In review (FEMS Microbiology Ecology).

Wawrik,B., W.B. Boling, J.D. Van No1strand, J. Xie, J. Zhou, and D.A. Bronk. Assimilatory Nitrate Utilization by Bacteria on the West Florida Shelf as Determined by Stable Isotope Probing and Functional Microarray Analysis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. In press (FEMS Microbiology Ecology).

Callaghan, A.V., B.E.L. Morris, I.A.C. Pereira, M.J. McInerney, R.N. Austin, J. T. Groves, J.J. Kukor, J.M. Suflita, L.Y. Young , G.J. Zylstra, and B. Wawrik. The Genome Sequence of Desulfatibacillum alkenivorans AK-01: A Blueprint for Anaerobic Alkane Oxidation. In Press. Environmental Microbiology. 2011 (6).

Strąpoć, D., M. Mastalerz, K. Dawson, J. Macalady, A. V. Callaghan, B. Wawrik, C Turich, and Matthew Ashby. Biogeochemistry of Coal-Bed Methane. Annual Earth and Planetary Reviews, 2011, Volume 38, p.617-656. [.pdf file]

Callaghan, A.V., I.A. Davidova, K. Savage-Ashlock, V.A. Parisi, L.M. Gieg, J.M. Suflita J.J. Kukor, and B. Wawrik. 2010. Diversity of Benzyl- and Alkylsuccinate Synthase Genes in Hydrocarbon-Impacted Environments and Enrichment Cultures. Environmental Science and Technology 44 (19), pp 7287–7294. [.pdf file]

Wawrik, B., and B. Harriman. 2010. Rapid, Colorimetric Quantification of Lipid from Algal Cultures. The Journal of Microbiological Methods. Vol. 80, p. 262-266.[.pdf file]

B. Witte, D. John, B. Wawrik, D. Dayans, J.H. Paul, and F.R. Tabita. 2010. Functional Prokaryotic RubisCO from an Oceanic Metagenomic Library. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76: 2997-3003. [.pdf file]

Wawrik, B., A.V. Callaghan, D.A. Bronk. 2009. Inorganic and Organic Nitrogen Use by Synechococcus and Diatoms on the West Florida Shelf Measured Using Stable Isotope Probing. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75:6662-6670. [.pdf file]

Callaghan, A. V., B. Wawrik, S. M. Ni Chadhain, L. Y. Young, and G. J. Zylstra. 2008. Anaerobic alkane-degrading strain AK-01 contains two alkylsuccinate synthase genes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 366:142-8. [.pdf file]

Babcock, D. A., B. Wawrik, J. H. Paul, L. McGuinness, and L. J. Kerkhof. 2007. Rapid screening of a large insert BAC library for specific 16S rRNA genes using TRFLP. Journal of Microbiological Methods 71:156-61. [.pdf file]

Wawrik, B., D. Kutliev, U. A. Abdivasievna, J. J. Kukor, G. J. Zylstra, and L. Kerkhof. 2007. Biogeography of actinomycete communities and type II polyketide synthase genes in soils collected in New Jersey and Central Asia. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:2982-9. [.pdf file]

John, D.E., B. Wawrik, F.R. Tabita, and J.H. Paul. 2006. Gene Diversity and Organization in rbcL-containing Genome Fragments from Uncultivated Synechococcus in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 316:23-33. [.pdf file]

Wawrik, B., L. J. Kerkhof, J. J. Kukor, and G. J. Zylstra. 2005. Effect of different carbon sources on community composition of bacterial enrichments from soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71:6776-83. [.pdf file]

Wawrik, B., L. J. Kerkhof, G. J. Zylstra, and J. J. Kukor. 2005. Identification of unique type II polyketide synthase genes in soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71:2232-8. [.pdf file]

Corredor, J. E., B. Wawrik, J. H. Paul, H. Tran, L. Kerkhof, J. M. Lopez, A. Dieppa, and O. Cardenas. 2004. Geochemical rate-RNA integration study: ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase gene transcription and photosynthetic capacity of planktonic photoautotrophs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:5459-68. [.pdf file]

Wawrik, B., J. H. Paul, D. A. Bronk, D. John, and M. Gray. 2004. High rates of ammonium recycling drive phytoplankton productivity in the offshore Mississippi River plume. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 35:175–184. [.pdf file]

Wawrik, B., and J. H. Paul. 2004. Phytoplankton community structure and productivity along the axis of the Mississippi River plume in oligotrophic Gulf of Mexico waters. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 35:185–196. [.pdf file]

Gray, M., B. Wawrik, J. Paul, and E. Casper. 2003. Molecular detection and quantitation of the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis in the marine environment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69:5726-30. [.pdf file]

Wawrik, B., J. H. Paul, L. Campbell, D. Griffin, L. Houchin, A. Fuentes-Ortega, and F. Müller-Karger. 2003. Vertical structure of the phytoplankton community associated with a coastal plume in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 251:87–101. [.pdf file]

Wawrik, B., J. H. Paul, and F. R. Tabita. 2002. Real-time PCR quantification of rbcL (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) mRNA in diatoms and pelagophytes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68:3771-9. [.pdf file]

Paul, J. H., A. Alfreider, and B. Wawrik. 2000. Micro- and macrodiversity in rbcL sequences in ambient phytoplankton populations from the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 189:9-18. [.pdf file]

Kukor, J. J., B. Wawrik, and G. J. Zylstra. Metabolism of Aromatic Compounds. In: C.A. Reddy (ed.), Methods for General and Molecular Bacteriology, pp. 586-595.

Wawrik, B., T. Doolotkeldieva, D. Kutliev, L. J. Kerkhof, G. J. Zylstra, and J. J. Kukor. Prospecting Uncultured Microbial Biodiversity. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.