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Urmy, S., Cramer, A., Rogers, T., Sullivan-Stack, J., Schmidt, M.L., Stewart, S., and C. Symons. (2022) When are bacteria really gazelles? Comparing patchy ecologies with dimensionless numbers. Ecology Letters, https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13987

Kirchberger, P.C., Schmidt, M.L., and H. Ochman. (2020) The ingenuity of bacterial genomes. Annual Review of Microbiology 74:815-834.

Schmidt, M.L., Biddanda, B.A., Weinke, A.D., Chiang, E.+, Januska, F., Props, R. and V.J. Denef. (2020) Microhabitats are associated with diversity-productivity relationships in freshwater bacterial communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 96(4):fiaa029


Rubbens, P.=, Schmidt, M.L.=, Props, R., Biddanda, B.A., Boon, N., Waegeman, W., and V.J. Denef. (2019) Randomized lasso links microbial taxa with aquatic functional groups inferred from flow cytometry. mSystems, DOI:10.1128/mSystems.00093-19


Chiang, E.+, Schmidt, M.L., Berry, M.A., Biddanda, B.A., Burtner, A., Johengen, T.H., Palladino, D., and V.J. Denef. (2018) Verrucomicrobia are prevalent in north-temperate freshwater lakes and display class-level preferences between lake habitats, PLoS ONE, 13(3):e0195112.


Props, R., Schmidt, M.L., Heyse, J., Vanderploeg, H.A., Boon, N., and V.J. Denef. (2017) Flow cytometric monitoring of bacterioplankton phenotypic diversity predicts high population‐specific feeding rates by invasive dreissenid mussels, Environmental Microbiology, DOI:10.1111/1462-2920.13953


Schmidt, M.L., White, J.D., and V.J. Denef. (2016) Phylogenetic conservation of freshwater lake habitat preference varies between abundant bacterioplankton phyla, Environmental Microbiology; DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13143.


Lefèvre, C.T., Howse, P.A., Schmidt, M.L., Sabaty, M., Menguy, N., Luther III, G.W., and D. Bazylinski. (2016) Growth of magnetotactic sulfate-reducing bacteria in an oxygen concentration gradient medium, Environmental Microbiology Reports, DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12479.

Denef, V.J., Fujimoto, M., Berry, M.A., and M.L. Schmidt. (2016) Seasonal succession leads to habitat-dependent differentiation in ribosomal RNA:DNA ratios among freshwater lake bacteria, Frontiers in Microbiology, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00606.


Bradley, A.S., Leavitt, W.D., Schmidt, M.L., Knoll, A.H., Girguis, P.R., and D.T. Johnston. (2015) Patterns of sulfur isotope fractionation during Microbial Sulfate Reduction, Geobiology, DOI: 10.111/gbi.12149.

McCarthy, A., Chiang, E., Schmidt, M.L., and V. J. Denef. (2015) RNA preservation agents and nucleic acid extraction method bias perceived bacterial community composition, PLoS ONE 10(3); e0121659.

Leavitt, W.D., Cummins, R., Schmidt, M.L., Sub Sim, M., Ono, S., Bradley, A.S., and D.T. Johnston. (2014) Multiple sulfur isotope signatures of sulfite and thiosulfate reduction by the model dissimilatory sulfate-reducer, Desulfovibrio alaskensis str. G20, Frontiers in Microbiology 5: Article 591; DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00591.

Lefèvre, C.T., Schmidt, M.L., Viloria, N., and D.A. Bazylinski. (2012) Insight into the Evolution of Magnetotaxis in Magnetospirillum spp. based on mam Gene Phylogeny, Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78(20): 7238 – 7248; DOI:10.1128/AEM.01951-12.

Lefèvre, C.T., Viloria, N., Schmidt, M.L., Pósfai, M., Frankel, R.B., and D.A. Bazylinski. (2011) Novel magnetite-producing magnetotactic bacteria belonging to the Gammaproteobacteria, International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal: 1-11; DOI:10.1038/ismej.2011.97.

Lefèvre, C.T., Abreu, F., Schmidt, M.L., Lins, U., Frankel, R.B., Hedlund, B.P., and D.A. Bazylinski. (2010) Moderately thermophilic magnetotactic bacteria from hot springs in Nevada, Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76(11): 3740 – 3743; DOI:10.1128/AEM.03018-09.


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