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Esaian, S., Bui, A., DiFiore, B. P., Peters, J. R., Lepori-Bui, M., Husted, K., Moeller, H. V., & Wilbanks, E. G. (2024). Maturing giant kelp develop depth-specific microbiomes. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.04.588117

Doré, H., Eisenberg, A. R., Junkins, E. N., Leventhal, G. E., Ganesh, A., Cordero, O. X., Paul, B. G., Valentine, D. L., O’Malley, M. A., & Wilbanks, E. G. (2024). Targeted hypermutation of putative antigen sensors in multicellular bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(9), e2316469121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316469121

Kosmopoulos, J. C., Campbell, D. E., Whitaker, R. J., & Wilbanks, E. G. (2023). Horizontal Gene Transfer and CRISPR Targeting Drive Phage-Bacterial Host Interactions and Coevolution in “Pink Berry” Marine Microbial Aggregates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 89(7), e00177-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00177-23

Wilbanks, E. G., Doré, H., Ashby, M. H., Heiner, C., Roberts, R. J., & Eisen, J. A. (2022). Metagenomic methylation patterns resolve bacterial genomes of unusual size and structural complexity. The ISME Journal, 16(8), 1921–1931.

Vinales, J., Sackett, J., Trutschel, L., Amir, W., Norman, C., Leach, E., Wilbanks, E., & Rowe, A. (2022). Physiologic, Genomic, and Electrochemical Characterization of Two Heterotrophic Marine Sediment Microbes from the Idiomarina Genus. Microorganisms, 10(6), 1219.

Sackett, J. D., Kamble, N., Leach, E., Schuelke, T., Wilbanks, E., & Rowe, A. R. (2022). Genome-Scale Mutational Analysis of Cathode-Oxidizing Thioclava electrotropha ElOx9T. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 909824.

Vu, L., Sackett, J. D., Leach, E., Wilbanks, E., & Rowe, A. R. (2021). Complete Genome Sequence of Halomonas sp. Strain FeN2, a Novel Cathode-Oxidizing Bacterium Isolated from Catalina Harbor Sediments. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10(46), e00862-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00862-21

James, A. K., English, C. J., Nidzieko, N. J., Carlson, C. A., & Wilbanks, E. G. (2020). Giant kelp microbiome altered in the presence of epiphytes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 5(5), 354–362. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10157

Catlett, D., Matson, P. G., Carlson, C. A., Wilbanks, E. G., Siegel, D. A., & Iglesias‐Rodriguez, M. D. (2020). Evaluation of accuracy and precision in an amplicon sequencing workflow for marine protist communities. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 18(1), 20–40. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10343

Wilkins, L. G., Leray, M., O’Dea, A., Yuen, B., Peixoto, R. S., Pereira, T. J., Bik, H. M., Coil, D. A., Duffy, J. E., Herre, E. A., Wilbanks, E. G., & Eisen, J. A. (2019). Host-associated microbiomes drive structure and function of marine ecosystems. PLoS Biology, 17(11), e3000533.

James, A. K., Kelly, L. W., Nelson, C. E., Wilbanks, E. G., & Carlson, C. A. (2019). Elevated p CO2 alters marine heterotrophic bacterial community composition and metabolic potential in response to a pulse of phytoplankton organic matter. Environmental Microbiology, 21(2), 541–556. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14484

Wear, E. K., Wilbanks, E. G., Nelson, C. E., & Carlson, C. A. (2018). Primer selection impacts specific population abundances but not community dynamics in a monthly time‐series 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of coastal marine bacterioplankton. Environmental Microbiology, 20(8), 2709–2726. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14091

Chang, R., Bird, L., Barr, C., Osburn, M., Wilbanks, E., Nealson, K., & Rowe, A. (2018). Thioclava electrotropha sp. Nov., a versatile electrode and sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from marine sediments. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68(5), 1652–1658. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002723

Wilbanks EG, Salman-Carvalho V, Jaekel U, Humphrey PT, Eisen JA, Buckley DH, Zinder SH. (2017). The green berry consortia of the Sippewissett salt marsh: millimeter-sized aggregates of diazotrophic unicellular cyanobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8: 1623.  doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01623.

Persson T, Demina IV, Battenberg K, Vigil-Stenman T, Heuvel BV, Pujic P, Facciotti MT, Wilbanks EG et al. (2015)  Candidatus Frankia datiscae Dg1, the actinobacterial microsymbiont of Datisca glomerata, expresses the canonical nod genes nodABC in symbiosis with its host plant. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0127630. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127630 

Wilbanks EG, Jaekel U, Salman V, Humphrey PT, Eisen JA, Facciotti MT, Zinder SH, Buckley DH, Druschel GK, Fike DA, Orphan VJ. (2014). Microscale sulfur cycling in the phototrophic pink berry consortia of the Sippewissett Salt Marsh. Environmental Microbiology. 16: 3398–3415. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12388  PDF

Seitzer PM, Wilbanks EG, Larsen DJ, Facciotti MT. (2012). A Monte Carlo-based framework enhances the discovery and interpretation of regulatory sequence motifs.  BMC Bioinformatics 13:317.  doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-317.  PDF

Lynch EA, Langille MGI, Darling A, Wilbanks EG, Haltiner C, Shao KSY, Starr MO, Teiling C, Harkins TT, Edwards RA, Eisen JA, Facciotti MT. (2012). Sequencing of Seven Haloarchaeal Genomes Reveals Patterns of Genomic Flux. PLoS ONE 7(7): e41389. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041389.  PDF

Wilbanks EG, Larsen DJ, Neches RY, Yao AI, Wu CY, Kjolby RAS, Facciotti MT. (2012) A workflow for genome-wide mapping of archaeal transcription factors with ChIP-seq.  Nucleic Acids Research. Feb. 9. doi:10.1093/nar/gks063.

Wilbanks EG, Facciotti MT (2010) Evaluation of Algorithm Performance in ChIP-Seq Peak Detection. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11471. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011471.

Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology | UC Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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