selected scholarly activity
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journal articles
- Microbial ecology and evolution.. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 71:1-3. 2025
- Co-inoculation with novel nodule-inhabiting bacteria reduces the benefits of legume–rhizobium symbiosis. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 70:275-288. 2024
- Origins and evolution of biological novelty. Biological Reviews. 98:1472-1491. 2023
- Microbiomes: Getting to the root of the rhizobial competition problem in agriculture. Current Biology. 33:R777-R780. 2023
- Genome-Wide Association Studies across Environmental and Genetic Contexts Reveal Complex Genetic Architecture of Symbiotic Extended Phenotypes. mBio. 13:e0182322. 2022
- MGEs as the MVPs of Partner Quality Variation in Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis. mBio. 13:e0088822. 2022
- Phenotypic and genomic signatures of interspecies cooperation and conflict in naturally occurring isolates of a model plant symbiont. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 289:20220477. 2022
- Genomes within genomes: nested symbiosis and its implications for plant evolution. New Phytologist. 234:28-34. 2022
- Origins and evolution of biological novelty 2022
- Genome-wide association studies across environmental and genetic contexts reveal complex genetic architecture of symbiotic extended phenotypes 2021
- Phenotypic and genomic signatures of interspecies cooperation and conflict in naturally-occurring isolates of a model plant symbiont 2021
- Experimental evolution makes microbes more cooperative with their local host genotype. Science. 370:476-478. 2020
- Medicago truncatula adjusts root proliferation, nodule formation, and partner choice in response to local N heterogeneity. Plant and Soil. 450:417-428. 2020
- Ethology of the trace fossil Chondrites: Form, function and environment. Earth-Science Reviews. 202:102989-102989. 2020
- Environmental variation impacts trait expression and selection in the legume–rhizobium symbiosis. American Journal of Botany. 107:195-208. 2020
- Using niche breadth theory to explain generalization in mutualisms. Ecology. 99:1039-1050. 2018
- The evolution of symbiont preference traits in the model legume Medicago truncatula. New Phytologist. 213:1850-1861. 2017
- Closely related thyasirid bivalves associate with multiple symbiont phylotypes. Marine Ecology. 37:988-997. 2016
- Temporal variation in chemoautotrophic symbiont abundance in the thyasirid bivalve Thyasira cf. gouldi. Marine Biology. 162:2017-2028. 2015
- Magnetosome-containing bacteria living as symbionts of bivalves. The ISME Journal. 8:2453-2462. 2014
- Divergent Chemosymbiosis-Related Characters in Thyasira cf. gouldi (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae). PLoS ONE. 9:e92856-e92856. 2014
- Mobile gene clusters and dynamic gene expression underlie partner quality variation in rhizobia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
- Plasmid transmission dynamics and evolution of partner quality in a natural population of Rhizobium leguminosarum. mBio.
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other
- SyM3: Evolution within Multi-genomic, Multi-scaled, and Multi-mode Symbioses 2025
- The evolutionary mechanisms of mutualism decline in a keystone nutritional mutualism 2024
- The evolutionary mechanisms of mutualism decline 2024
- The evolutionary mechanisms of mutualism decline 2024
- Characterization of flavonoids secreated by legume roots using multiple Mass Spectrometry Approaches 2024
- Disentangling the evolutionary mechanisms of mutualism decline. 2024
- Impact of Antimicrobials on Plant-Microbe Interactions in Agriculture. 2024
- Impacts of nitrogen fertilization on inter-microbial competition. 2024
- Unlocking Nature’s Secret Weapon: Harnessing phage-rhizobia interactions to minimize competition in the rhizobia soil microbiome for sustainable agriculture. 2024
- Characterization of microbiomes from tree swallow nestling fecal samples collected from colonies near a wastewater treatment plant. 2024
- The impact of nitrogen fertilization on antimicrobial resistance genes in Rhizobium leguminosarm bv. trifoli. 2024
- Constructing a Nodulation Reporter as a Tool To Investigate Legume-Rhizobia Co-Evolutionary Traits. 2024
- Characterization of microbiomes from tree swallow nestling fecal samples collected from colonies near a wastewater treatment plant. 2024
- Impacts of nitrogen fertilization on inter-microbial competition. 2024
- The Hunt for Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance: A metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiome of tree swallows. 2024
- Characterization of microbiomes from tree swallow (\emTachicyneta bicolor) nestling fecal samples collected from colonies near a wastewater treatment plant. 2024
- Environmental impact on genetic diversity in gut microbiomes of Tachycineta bicolor: a metagenomic analysis of antimicrobial resistance genes. 2024
- Impacts of N-supplementation on rhizobia quality at the population level. 2024
- Unlocking Nature’s Secret Weapon: Harnessing phage-rhizobia interactions to minimize competition in the rhizobia soil microbiome for sustainable agriculture. 2024
- Impact of antimicrobials on plant-microbe interactions in agriculture. 2024
- Unlocking Nature’s Secret Weapon: Harnessing phage-rhizobia interactions to minimize competition in the rhizobia soil microbiome for sustainable agriculture. 2024
- The impact of nitrogen amendment on soil and plant health (Port Dover-Silver Lake). 2023
- Evolutionary dynamics of a self-sacrificial bacterial trait in response to bacteriophage infection. 2023
- Impacts of nitrogen fertilization on inter-microbial competition. 2023
- The selective drivers of mutualism decline in a keystone nutritional symbiosis. 2023
- Determining the Most Probable Ancestor of experimentally evolved bacterial isolates using fastANI. 2023
- Experimental evolution coupled with whole genome sequencing reveals the selective drivers of mutualism decline. 2023
- Assessing \emSinorhizobium meliloti nodD1 expression in response to \emMedicago truncatula root exudates using a reporter construct. 2023
- Evolutionary dynamics of a self-sacrificial bacterial trait in response to bacteriophage infection. 2023
- Characterizing legume-secreted flavonoid profiles in response to inoculation with a model nitrogen-fixing symbiont. 2023
- Under construction of an NodD promoter: Constructing a nodulation reporter to investigate \emSinorhizobium and host-specific traits. 2023
- Investigating the correlation among nitrogen fixation, plant health, and biofilm formation. 2023
- Nested symbioses and their implication for host-microbe coevolution. 2023
- Experimental evolution reveals the selective drivers and genetic mechanisms associated with the breakdown of a keystone host-microbe nutritional symbiosis. 2023
- Investigating the correlation among nitrogen fixation, plant health, and biofilm formation. 2023
- Characterizing legume-secreted flavonoid profiles in response to inoculation with a model nitrogen-fixing symbiont. 2023
- Characterizing the effects of the Type VI secretion system found in \emRhizobium etli b.v. Mim1. 2023
- Pacifistic elimination of competition: The role type VI secretion system plays on interference competition in \emRhizobium etli Mim1 during symbiosis with the host plant. 2023
- The impacts of hydroponics on the outcomes of plant-microbe symbiosis. 2023
- Characterizing legume-secreted flavonoid profiles in response to inoculation with a model nitrogen-fixing symbiont. 2023
- Characterizing the effects of the Type VI secretion system found in \emRhizobium etli b.v. Mim1. 2023
- Pacifistic elimination of competition: The role type VI secretion system plays on interference competition in \emRhizobium etli Mim1 during symbiosis with the host plant. 2023
- The impacts of hydroponics on the outcomes of plant-microbe symbiosis. 2023
- The impact of nitrogen amendment on soil and plant health (Port Dover-Silver Lake). 2023
- Friends with Multiple Benefits: Investigating the correlations among nitrogen fixation, plant health, and biofilms 2023
- Investigation of Flavonoid Synthesis in M. truncatula during S. meliloti Inoculation Based on Co-Evolutionary History. 2022
- Legume hosts drive the evolutionary decline in symbiotic benefits under soil nitrogen addition. 2022
- Using genome-wide association studies and experimental evolution to map nested genomes onto symbiotic extended phenotypes. 2022
- Symbiont adaptation to nitrogen-addition is mediated by hosts rather than the direct effects of nitrogen in a model nutritional symbiosis. 2022
- The complex genetics of symbiotic extended phenotypes in a model N-fixing symbiont. 2022
- Using genome-wide association studies and experimental evolution to predict the outcomes and (co)evolutionary trajectories of host-microbiome interactions. 2022
- The complex genetics of symbiotic extended phenotypes in a model mutualism. 2022
- Microbia! Translating your science into an interactive game. 2021
- The complex genetics of symbiotic extended phenotypes in a model mutualism. 2021
- The complex genetics of symbiotic extended phenotypes in a model mutualism. 2021
- Evolution in a symbiotic world: the genomic basis of conflict and cooperation in experimentally-evolved and natural symbiont populations. 2021
- Intergenomic conflict and cooperation in the model legume-rhizobium symbiosis. 2021
- Microbial evolution and its effects on One Health. 2021
- Evolution in a microbial world. 2021
- From genomes to symbiotic phenotypes: mechanisms of adaptation through conflict and cooperation in a model mutualism. 2020
- Experimental evolution results in rapid adaptation of rhizobia to their local legume host. 2020
- Experimental evolution reveals rapid local adaptation of rhizobia to legumes. 2019
- Experimentally evolving better partners 2018
- Experimentally evolving better partners: rapid evolution of cooperative traits in rhizobia associating with choosy legumes. 2018
- Rapid evolution of nodulation and partner quality in a legume-rhizobium mutualism. 2017
- Experimentally evolving more cooperative symbionts using the legume-rhizobium mutualism. 2017
- Root foraging and mutualism-stabilizing traits in Medicago truncatula. 2016
- Root foraging and mutualism-stabilizing traits in Medicago truncatula. 2016
- Root foraging and the evolution of mutualism stabilizing traits in the model legume Medicago truncatula. 2016
- Root foraging and mutualism stabilizing traits are not genetically correlated in the model legume Medicago truncatula 2016
- Root foraging and mutualism stability in the model legume Medicago truncatula. 2015
- A preliminary investigation of nitrogen foraging and host sanctions by Medicago truncatula: does a positive genetic correlation exist? 2014
- Nitrogen foraging by Medicago truncatula roots promotes cooperation with rhizobia. 2014
- Uncovering a species complex of thyasirid clams (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) from a subarctic fjord in Bonne Bay, Newfoundland. 2012
- The Gouldi Complex: Uncovering a species complex of thyasirid clams (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) using morphological and molecular characteristics. 2012
- Host-specificity and co-evolution between thyasirid clams (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) and sulphur-oxidizing bacterial symbionts from organically enriched habitats in a sub-arctic Newfoundland fjord. 2011
- The relationship between thyasirid (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) ventilation behavior and sediment redox cycles. 2011
- Understanding the ecology and evolution of thyasirids (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) from organically enriched habitats in Newfoundland 2011
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preprints
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presentations
- Negative frequency-dependent selection drives partner quality variation in a keystone host-microbe mutualism 2025
- Negative frequency-dependent selection on partner quality 2024
- Negative frequency-dependent and nitrogen-dependent selection on partner quality 2024
- An investigation of the population dynamics of a self-sacrificial phage defense mechanism 2024
- Disentangling the selective drivers of mutualism decline in a keystone nutritional symbiosis 2024
- Using experimental evolution to disentangle the drivers and evolutionary mechanisms underlying mutualism decline in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis 2024
- An investigation of the population dynamics of a self-sacrificial phage defense mechanism 2024
- An Examination of the Population Dynamics of a Self-Sacrificial Phage Defense Mechanism 2024