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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

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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​

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Wilbanks, E. G., Salman-Carvalho, V., Jaekel, U., Humphrey, P. T., Eisen, J. A., Buckley, D. H., & Zinder, S. H. (2017). The Green Berry Consortia of the Sippewissett Salt Marsh: Millimeter-sized aggregates of diazotrophic unicellular cyanobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 1623.

 

Persson, T., Battenberg, K., Demina, I. V., Vigil-Stenman, T., Heuvel, B. V., Pujic, P., Facciotti, M. T., Wilbanks, E. G., O’Brien, A., Fournier, P., Hernandez, M. A. C., Herrera, A. M., Médigue, C., Normand, P., Pawlowski, K., & Berry, A. M. (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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127630

 

Wilbanks, E. G., Jaekel, U., Salman, V., Humphrey, P. T., Eisen, J. A., Facciotti, M. T., Buckley, D. H., Zinder, S. H., Druschel, G. K., Fike, D. A., & Orphan, V. J. (2014). Microscale sulfur cycling in the phototrophic pink berry consortia of the S ippewissett S alt M arsh. Environmental Microbiology, 16(11), 3398–3415. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12388

 

Seitzer, P., Wilbanks, E. G., Larsen, D. J., & Facciotti, M. T. (2012). A Monte Carlo-based framework enhances the discovery and interpretation of regulatory sequence motifs. BMC Bioinformatics, 13(1), 317. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-13-317

 

Lynch, E. A., Langille, M. G., Darling, A., Wilbanks, E. G., Haltiner, C., Shao, K. S., Starr, M. O., Teiling, C., Harkins, T. T., & Edwards, R. A. (2012). Sequencing of seven haloarchaeal genomes reveals patterns of genomic flux. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0041389

 

Wilbanks, E. G., Larsen, D. J., Neches, R. Y., Yao, A. I., Wu, C.-Y., Kjolby, R. A., & Facciotti, M. T. (2012). A workflow for genome-wide mapping of archaeal transcription factors with ChIP-seq. Nucleic Acids Research, 40(10), e74–e74.


Wilbanks, E. G., & Facciotti, M. T. (2010). Evaluation of algorithm performance in ChIP-seq peak detection. PloS One, 5(7), e11471.​

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

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