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Levine, N M, V A Varaljay, D A Toole, J W H Dacey, S C Doney, M A Moran. 2012. Environmental, biochemical, and genetic drivers of DMSP degradation and DMS production in the Sargasso Sea. Environ. Microbio. In press.

Luo, H, A Löytynoja, M Moran. 2012. Genome content of uncultivated marine Roseobacters in the surface ocean. Environ. Microbio. 14(1):41-51.

Moran, M, C R Reisch, R P Kiene, W B Whitman. 2012. Genomic insights into bacterial DMSP transformations. Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci. 4:523-542.

Rinta-Kanto, J, S Sun, S Sharma, R P Kiene, M Moran. 2012. Bacterial Community Transcription Patterns During a Marine Phytoplankton Bloom. Environ. Microbiol. 14(1):228-239.

Varaljay, V A, S M Gifford, S T Wilson, S Sharma, D M Karl, M. A. Moran. 2012. Bacterial dimethylsulfoniopropionate-degrading genes in the oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.Appl. Environ. Microbiol. In press.

Vila-Costa, M, J M Gasol, S Sharma, M Moran. 2012. Community analysis of high-and low-nucleic acid-containing bacteria in NW Mediterranean coastal waters using 16S rDNA pyrosequencing. Environ. Microbiol. In press.

Gifford, S M, S Sharma, J M Rinta-Kanto, M Moran. 2011. Quantitative analysis of a deeply-sequenced marine microbial metatranscriptome. ISME J. 5:461-472.

Hollibaugh, J T, S Gifford, S Sharma, N Bano, M Moran. 2011. Metatranscriptomic analysis of ammonia-oxidizing organisms in an estuarine bacterioplankton assemblage. ISME J. 5:866-878.

Howard, E C, S Sun, C R Reisch, D A del Valle, H Bürgmann, R P Kiene, et al. 2011. Changes in DMSP demethylase gene assemblages in response to an induced phytoplankton bloom. Appl. Environ. Microb. 77:524-531.

Jansson, J K, J D Neufeld, M Moran, J A Gilbert. 2011. Omics for understanding microbial functional dynamics. Environ. Microb.14(1):1-3.

Mou, X, M Vila-Costa, S Sun, W Zhao, S Sharma, M Moran. 2011. Metatranscriptomic Signature of Exogenous Polyamine Utilization by Coastal Bacterioplankton. Environ. Microbiol. 3(6):798-806.

Reisch, C R, M J Stoudemayer, V A Varaljay, I J Amster, M Moran, W B Whitman. 2011. Novel pathway for assimilation of dimethylsulphoniopropionate widespread in marine bacteria. Nature 473:208–211.

** Reisch, C R, M A Moran and W B Whitman. 2011. Bacterial catabolism of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP). Frontiers in Microbial Physiology and Metabolism.

Robbins, S, J Jacob, X Lu, M Moran, X Mou. 2011. Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) labeling and subsequent fluorescence activated cell sorting for culture-independent identification of dissolved organic carbon-degrading bacterioplankton. J Visual Exp. 55 doi:10.3791/2855.

** Newton, R J, L Griffin, K Bowles, C Meile, S Gifford, C E Givens, et al. 2010. Genome characteristics of a generalist marine bacterial lineage. ISME J. 4:784-798.

Poretsky, R S, S Sun, X Mou, M Moran. 2010. Transporter genes expressed by coastal bacterioplankton in response to dissolved organic carbon. Environ. Microbiol. 12(3):616-627.

Rinta-Kanto, J, H Bürgmann, S M Gifford, S Sun, S Sharma, D A del Valle, et al. 2010. Analysis of sulfur-related transcription by Roseobacter communities using a taxon-specific functional gene microarray. Environ. Microbiol. 13:453-467.

** Varaljay V A, Howard E C, Sun S, Moran M. 2010. Deep sequencing of a dimethylsulfoniopropionate-degrading gene (dmdA) by using PCR primer pairs designed on the basis of marine metagenomic data. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76(2):609-17.

Vila-Costa, M, J M Rinta-Kanto, S Sun, S Sharma, R Poretsky, M Moran. 2010. Transcriptomic analysis of a marine bacterial community enriched with dimethylsulfoniopropionate. ISME J. 4:1410-1420.