Publications
Angly, F., Willner, D., Edwards, R.A., Schmieder, R., Vega Thurber, R.L., and Rohwer, F. A Method for the Accurate Estimation of Relative Abundance and Average Genome Length and its application to 175 Viral and Microbial Metagenomes (submitted to PLoS Computational Biology)
Vega Thurber, R. Current Insights into Phage Biodiversity and Biogeography (accepted, Current Opinion in Microbiology)
Rohwer, F. and Vega Thurber, R. (2009) Viruses Manipulate the Marine Environment. Nature 459:207-212
Vega Thurber, R., Breitbart, M., Haynes, M. Kelly, L., and Rohwer, F. (2009) Experimental Methods to Generate Viral Metagenomes. Nature Protocols 4: 470-483
Vega Thurber, R., Hall-Willner, D., Rodriguez-Brito, B., Desnues, C., Edwards R.A., Angly, F., Dinsdale, E., Kelly, L., and Rohwer, F. Metagenomic Analysis of Stressed Coral Holobionts (online, Environmental Microbiology doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01935.x)
Willner-Hall, D., Vega Thurber, R., and Rohwer, F. (2009) Metagenomic Signatures of 86 Microbial and Viral Metagenomes. Environmental Microbiology 11: 1752-1766
Vega Thurber, R., Barott, K., Rodriguez-Brito, B., Liu, H., Hall, D., Edwards, R.A., Desnues, C., Angly, F., Haynes, M., Wegley, L., and Rohwer, F. (2008) Metagenomic Analysis Indicated that Stressors Induce Production of Herpes-like Viruses in the Coral Porites compressa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 18413-18418
Vermeji, M.J.L., Smith, J.E., Smith, C.M., Vega Thurber, R., and Sandin, S.A. (2009) Survival and Settlement Success of Coral Planulae: Independent and Synergistic Effects of Macroalgae and Microbes Oecologia 159:325–336
Dinsdale, E., Edwards, E.A, Hall D., Angly, F., Brietbart, M., Brulc, J., Fulan, M., Desnues, C., Haynes, M., Lin, L., McDaniel, L., Moran, M.A., Nelson, K.E., Nilsson, C., Olson, R., Paul, J., Rodriquez-Brito, B., Ruan, Y., Swan, B.K., Stevens, R., Valentine, D.L., Vega Thurber, R., Wegley, L., White, B., and Rohwer, F. (2008) Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes. Nature 452 April 3 2008
Dinsdale, E.A, Pantos, P., Smriga, S., Edwards, R.A., Angly, F., Wegley, L., Hatay, M., Hall, D., Brown, E., Haynes, M., Krause, L., Sala, E., Sandin, S.A., Vega Thurber, R., Willis B.L, Azam, F., Knowlton, N., and Rohwer, F. Microbial Ecology of Four Coral Atolls in the Northern Line Islands. (PLoS One 3(2): e1584. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001584)
Desnues, C.M., Rodriguez-Brito, B., Rayhawk, S., Kelley, S., Tran, T., Haynes, M., Liu, H., Furlan, M., Wegley, L., Chau, B., Ruan, Y., Hall, D., Angly, F.E., Edwards, R.A., Vega Thurber, R., Reid, P., Siefert, J., Souza, V., Valentine, D.L., Swan, B.K., Breitbart, M., and Rohwer, F. (2008) Biodiversity and biogeography of phages in modern stromatolites and thrombolites. Nature 452 March 20 340-343
Vega Thurber, R. and Epel, D. (2007) Apoptosis in Early Development of the Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Developmental Biology 303: 336-346
Epel, D., Cole, B., Hamdoun, A., and Vega Thurber, R. (2006) The Sea Urchin Embryo as a Model for Studying Efflux Transporters: Roles and Energy Cost. Marine Environmental Research 62: S1-D4
Smital, T., Luckenbach, T., Sauerborn, R., Hamdoun, A. M., Vega, R.L., and Epel, D. (2004) Emerging contaminants: pesticides, PPCPs, microbial degradation products and natural substances as inhibitors of the multixenobiotic defense in aquatic organisms. Mutation Research 552: 101-117
Vega, R.L. and Epel, D. (2004) Stress-Induced Apoptosis in Sea Urchin Embryogenesis.
Marine Environmental Research 58: 799-802
Epel, D. and Vega, R. L. (2002) The floating world: Problems and adaptations to ultraviolet radiation. AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition 168: p.A23
Work Discussed in Popular Press:
Slime dwellers: a blanket seeded with microbes appears critical to coral health. (2007) Science News, 346 (3)
Coral Reefs and What Ruins Them (March 3, 2008) New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/science/earth/26reef.html
Scientist To Watch: Rebecca Vega Thurber: The coral doctor. (August 2009) The Scientist, Vol. 23 No. 8 http://www.the-scientist.com/2009/08/1/50/1/
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