W. Ford Doolittle Lab

Research

Recent Publications

Koenig, J.E., Boucher, Y., Charlebois, R.L., Nesbo, C., Zhaxybayeva, O., Bapteste, E., Spencer, M., Joss, M.J., Stokes, H.W., and Doolittle, W.F. (2008) Integron-associated gene cassettes in Halifax Harbour: assessment of a mobile gene pool in marine sediments. Environmental Microbiology: 10(4), 1024-1038.

Sharma, A.K., Zhaxybayeva, O., Papke, R.T. & Doolittle, W.F. (2008) Actinorhodopsins: Proteorhodopsin-like gene sequences found predominantly in non-marine environments. (Environmental Microbiology: 10(4), 1039-1056.)

Doolittle, W.F., Nesbo, C.L., Bapteste, E. & Zhaxybayeva, O. (2008) Lateral gene transfer. In Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics, M. Pagel & A. Pomiankowski (eds.), pp. 45-79, Sinauer.

Bapteste, E., Susko, E., Leigh, J., Ruiz-Trillo, I., Bucknam, J. & Doolittle, W.F. (2008) Alternative methods for concatenation of core genes indicate a lack of resolution in deep nodes of the prokaryotic phylogeny. Mol. Biol. Evol. 25: 83-91.

Boucher, Y., Labbate, M., Koenig, J.E. & Stokes, H.W. (2007) Integrons: mobilizable platforms that promote genetic diversity in bacteria. Trends in Microbiology 15: 301-309.

Sharma, AK, Walsh, DA, Bapteste, E, Rodriguez-Valera, F, Doolittle W.F., and Papke, RT. (2007) Evolution of rhodopsin ion pumps in haloarchaea. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:79.

Cullen, J.J., Doolittle, W.F., Levin, S.A. and Li, W.K.W. (2007) Patterns and prediction in microbial oceanography. Oceanography 20: 34-46.

Papke, R.T., Zhaxybayeva, O., Feil, E.J., Sommerfeld, K., Muise, D. and Doolittle, W.F. (2007) Searching for species in haloarchaea. PNAS 104: 14092-14097.

Zhaxybayeva, O., Gogarten, J.P., and Doolittle, W.F. (2007) A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 274: 30-34.

Doolittle, W.F. and Zhaxybayeva, O. (2007) Evolution: reducible complexity -- the case for bacterial flagella. Current Biology 17: R510-512.

Zhaxybayeva, O., Nesbo, C.L. and Doolittle, W.F. (2007) Systematic overestimation of gene gain through false diagnosis of gene absence. Genome Biology 8: 402.