PUBLICATIONS
2017 Handley KM, Piceno YM, Hu P, Tom LM, Mason OU, Andersen GL, Jansson, JK, Gilbert, JA. (2017). Metabolic and spatio-taxono response of uncultivated seafloor bacteria following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. ISMEJ 11:2569-2583. doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.110
2017 Thrash JC, Seitz KW, Baker BJ, Temperton B, Gillies LE, Rabalais NN, Henrissat, B. Mason, OU. (2017). Metabolic Roles of Uncultivated Bacterioplankton Lineages in the Northern Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’. MBio 8:1–20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01017-17
2016 Mackelprang, R. and Mason, O.U. Marine microbiology: Community clean up. Nature Microbiology.
2016 Smith, A.R., Fisk, M.R., Thurber, A.R., Flores, G.E., Mason, O.U., Popa, R. Deep Crustal Communities of the Juan de Fuca Ridge Are Governed by Mineralogy. Geomicrobiology Journal, 00-00
2016 Mason, O.U., Canter, E.J., Gillies, L.E., Paisie, T.K., and Roberts, B.J. Mississippi River plume enriches microbial diversity in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Front. Microbiol. 7:1048. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01048
2015 Stevens, E. W. N., Bailey, J. V., Flood, B. E., Jones, D. S., Gilhooly III, W. P., Joye, S. B., Teske, A., & Mason, O. U. Barite encrustation of benthic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria at a marine cold seep. Geobiology, 13, 588-603. doi:10.1111/gbi.12154
2015 #Gillies, L.E., Thrash, J. C., deRada, S., Rabalais, N. N., & Mason, O. U. Archaeal enrichment in the hypoxic zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Microbiology, 10, 3847-56. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12853
2015 Mason, O. U., Case, D. H., Naehr, T. H., Lee, R. W., Thomas, R. B., Bailey, J. V., & Orphan, V. J. Comparison of Archaeal and Bacterial Diversity in Methane Seep Carbonate Nodules and Host Sediments, Eel River Basin and Hydrate Ridge, USA. Microb Ecol, 70, 766-784. doi:10.​1007/​s00248-015-0615-6
2015 #Rakowski, C.V., Magen, C., Bosman, S., Rogers, K. L., Gillies, L. E., Chanton, J. P., & Mason, O. U. Methane and microbial dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico water column. Frontiers Marine Science, 2, 69. doi:10.3389/fmars.2015.00069
2014 ##Paisie, T.K., Miller, T. E., & Mason, O. U. Effects of a Ciliate Protozoa Predator on Microbial Communities in Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) Leaves. PLoS ONE, 9, e113384. doi:doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113384
2014 Trexler, R., Solomon, C., Brislawn, C. J., Wright, J. R., Rosenberger, A., McClure, E. E., Grube, A. M., Peterson, M. P., Keddache, M., Mason, O. U., Hazen, T. C., Grant, C. J., & Lamendella, R. Assessing impacts of unconventional natural gas extraction on microbial communities in headwater stream ecosystems in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Front. Microbiol, 5, 522. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00522
2014 Mason, O. U., Han, J., Woyke, T., & Jansson, J. K. Single-cell genomics reveals features of a Colwellia species that was dominant during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Front. Microbiol, 5, 332. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00332
2014 Lamendella, R., Strutt, S., Borglin, S. E., Chakraborty, R., Tas, N., Mason, O. U., Hultman, J., Prestat, E., Hazen, T. C., & Jansson, J. K. Assessment of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact on Gulf coast microbial communities. Frontiers in Microbiology, 5, 130. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00130
2014 Scott, N. M., Hess, M., Bouskill, N. J., Mason, O. U., Jansson, J. K., & Gilbert, J. A. The microbial nitrogen cycling potential in marine sediments is impacted by polyaromatic hydrocarbon pollution. Front. Microbiol, 1-1. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00108
2014 Mason, O. U., Scott, N. M., Gonzalez, A., Robbins-Pianka, A., Bælum, J., Kimbrel, J., Bouskill, N. J., Prestat, E., Borglin, S., Joyner, D. C., Fortney, J. L., Jurelevicius, D., Stringfellow, W. T., Alvarez-Cohen, L., Hazen, T. C., Knight, R., Gilbert, J. A., & Jansson, J. K. Metagenomics reveals sediment microbial community response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The ISME Journal, 8, 1464–1475. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.2
2013 Nicora, C. D., Anderson, B. J., Callister, S. J., Norbeck, A. D., Purvine, S. O., Jansson, J. K., Mason, O. U., David, M. M., Jurelevicius, D., Smith, R. D., & Lipton, M. S. Amino acid treatment enhances protein recovery from sediment and soils for metaproteomic studies. Proteomics, 13, 2776-85. doi:doi:10.1002/pmic.201300003
2013 Dubinsky, E. A., Conrad, M. E., Chakraborty, R., Bill, M., Borglin, S. E., Hollibaugh, J. T., Mason, O. U., Piceno, Y. M., Reid, F. C., Stringfellow, W. T., Tom, L. M., Hazen, T. C., & Andersen, G. L. Succession of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Science & Technology, 47, 10860-10867. doi:10.1021/es401676y
2012 Baelum, J., Borglin, S., Chakraborty, R., Fortney, J. L., Lamendella, R., Mason, O. U., Auer, M., Zemla, M., Bill, M., Conrad, M. E., Malfatti, S. A., Tringe, S. G., Holman, Hoi-Ying, Hazen, T. C., & Jansson, J. K. Deep-sea bacteria enriched by oil and dispersant from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Environmental Microbiology, 14(9, SI), 2405-2416. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02780.x
2012 Mason, O. U., Hazen, T. C., Borglin, S., Chain, P. S. G., Dubinsky, E. A., Fortney, J. L., Han, J., Holman, Hoi-Ying N., Hultman, J., Lamendella, R., Mackelprang, R., Malfatti, S., Tom, L. M., Tringe, S. G., Woyke, T., Zhou, J., Rubin, E. M., & Jansson, J. K. Metagenome, metatranscriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal microbial response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill. ISME J, 6(9), 1715-1727. doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.59
2012 Lu, Z., Deng, Y., Van Nostrand, J. D., He, Z., Voordeckers, J., Zhou, A., Lee, Yong-Jin, Mason, O. U., Dubinsky, E. A., Chavarria, K. L., Tom, L. M., Fortney, J. L., Lamendella, R., Jansson, J. K., D'haeseleer, P., Hazen, T. C., & Zhou, J. Microbial gene functions enriched in the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea oil plume. ISME J, 6(2), 451-460. doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.91
2011 Blackman, D. K., & IODP Expeditions 304/305 Science Team. Drilling constraints on lithospheric accretion and evolution at Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 30°N.Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(B7), 1-x. doi:10.1029/2010JB007931
2011 Bertagnolli, A. D., Treusch, A. H., Mason, O. U., Stingl, U., Vergin, K. L., Chan, F., Beszteri, B., & Giovannoni, S. J. Bacterial diversity in the bottom boundary layer of the inner continental shelf of Oregon, USA. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 64(1), 15-25.
2010 Mason, O. U., Nakagawa, T., Rosner, M., Van Nostrand, J. D., Zhou, J., Maruyama, A., Fisk, M. R., & Giovannoni, S. J. First Investigation of the Microbiology of the Deepest Layer of Ocean Crust. PLOS ONE, 5(11), 1-x. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015399
2010 Hazen, T., Dubinsky, E., DeSantis, T., Andersen, G., Piceno, Y., Singh, N., Jansson, J., Probst, A., Borglin, S., Fortney, J., Stringfellow, W., Bill, M., Conrad, M., Tom, L., Chavarria, K., Alusi, T., Lamendella, R., Joyner, D., Spier, C., Baelum, J., Auer, M., Zemla, M., Chakraborty, R., Sonnenthal, E., D'Haeseleer, P., Holman, H., Osman, S., Lu, Z., Van Nostrand, J., Deng, Y., Zhou, J., & Mason, O. U. Deep-Sea Oil Plume Enriches Indigenous Oil-Degrading Bacteria. SCIENCE, 330(6001), 204-208. doi:10.1126/science.1195979
2009 Mason, O. U., Di Meo-Savoie, C. A., Van Nostrand, J. D., Zhou, J., Fisk, M. R., & Giovannoni, S. J. Prokaryotic diversity, distribution, and insights into their role in biogeochemical cycling in marine basalts. ISME J, 3(2), 231-242. doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.92
2007 Mason, O. U., Stingl, U., Wilhelm, L. J., Moeseneder, M. M., Di Meo-Savoie, C. A., Fisk, M. R., & Giovannoni, S. J. The phylogeny of endolithic microbes associated with marine basalts. Environmental Microbiology, 9(10), 2539-2550. doi:10.1111/j.1462- 2920.2007.01372.x
2007 Ildefonse, B., & IODP Expeditions 304/305 Science Team. Oceanic core complexes and crustal accretion at slow-spreading ridges. Geology, 35(7), 623-626.
2006 Fisk, M., Popa, R., Mason, O., Storrie-Lombardi, M., & Vicenzi, E. Iron-magnesium silicate bioweathering on Earth (and Mars?). Astrobiology, 6(1), 48-68. doi:10.1089/ast.2006.6.48
2005 Amaral Zettler, L. A., Laatsch, A. D., Zettler, E., Nerad, T. A., Cole, J., Diaz, F. C., Diaz, J., Janzen, D. H., Sittenfeld, A. N. A., Mason, O., & Reysenbach, Anna-Louise. A Microbial Observatory of Caterpillars: Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Protists Associated with the Saturniid Moth Caterpillar Rothschildia lebeau.Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 52(2), 107-115. doi: 10.1111/j.1550- 7408.2005.05202008.x
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