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Publications

Arctic Ocean virus communities and their seasonality, bipolarity, and prokaryotic associations

Nature Communications

Calayag, AM, Priest, T., Oldenburg, E, Muschiol J, Wietz M, Needham DM

2025

More realistic plankton simulation models will improve projections of ocean ecosystem responses to global change

Nature Ecology & Evolution

Flynn KJ, Atkinson A, Beardall J, Berges JA, Boersma M, Brunet C, Calbet A, Caron DA, Dam HG, Glibert PM, Hansen PJ, ...et al

2025

High-throughput, single-microbe genomics with strain resolution, applied to a human gut microbiome

Science

Wenshan Z, Zhao S, Yin Y, Zhang H, Needham DM, Evans ED, Dai CL, Lu PJ, Alm EJ, Weitz DA

2022

A distinct lineage of giant viruses brings a rhodopsin photosystem to unicellular marine predators

PNAS

Needham DM, Yoshizawa S, Hosaka T, Poirier C, Choi C, Hehenberger E, Irwin NAT, Wilken S, Yung C,Bachy C, ..., Shirouzu M, Iwasaki W, Worden AZ

2019

Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples

Environmental Microbiology

Parada AE, Needham DM, Fuhrman JA

2016

Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Zimmerman AE, Howard-Varona C, Needham DM, John SG, Worden AZ, Sullivan MB, Waldbauer JR, Coleman ML

2020

The microbiome of a bacterivorous marine choanoflagellate contains a resource-demanding obligate bacterial associate

Nature Microbiology

Needham DM, Poirier C, Bachy C, George EE, Wilken S, Yung CMC, Limardo AJ, Morando M, Sudek, L, Malmstrom RR, Keeling PJ, Santoro AE, Worden AZ

2022

Basin-scale dynamics and enrichment-enabled genomics of marine nitrifiers: seasonality, niches, interac8ons, and genomic uniqueness

bioRxiv

Kim S, D'Agostino E, Needham DM

From Microscale to Microbial Insights: Validating High-Throughput Microvolume Extraction Methods (HiMEx) for Microbial Ecology

bioRxiv

Ghotbi M, Ghotbi M, D'Agostino E, Kanitz M, Needham DM

Elucidating terrestrial nutrient sources to a coastal lagoon, Chincoteague Bay, Maryland, USA

Estaurine, Coastal, and Shelf Science

Fertig B, O’Neil JM, Beckert KA, Cain CJ, Needham DM, Carruthers TJB, Dennison WC

2013

Short-term observations of marine bacterial and viral communities: patterns, connections and resilience

ISME Journal

Needham DM, Chow CE, Cram JA, Sachdeva R, Parada A, Fuhrman JA

2013

Temporal variability and coherence of euphotic zone bacterial communities over a decade in the Southern California Bight

ISME Journal

Chow CE, Sachdeva R, Cram JA, Steele JA, Needham DM, Patel A, Parada AE, Fuhrman JA

2013

Seasonal and interannual variability of the marine bacterioplankton community throughout the water column over ten years

ISME Journal

Cram JA, Chow ET, Sachdeva R, Needham DM, Parada AE, Steele JA, Fuhrman JA

2015

Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Fuhrman JA, Cram JA, Needham DM

2015

Cross-depth analysis of marine bacterial networks suggests downward propagation of temporal changes

ISME Journal

Cram JA, Xia LC, Needham DM, Sachdeva R, Sun F, Fuhrman JA

2015

Pronounced daily succession of phytoplankton, archaea and bacteria following a spring bloom

Nature Microbiology

Needham DM, Fuhrman JA

2016

Ecological dynamics and co-occurrence among marine phytoplankton, bacteria and myoviruses shows microdiversity matters

ISME Journal

Needham DM, Sachdeva R, Fuhrman JA

2017

Genome and epigenome of a novel marine Thaumarchaeota strain suggest viral infection, phosphorothioation DNA modification and multiple restriction systems

Environmental Microbiology

Ahlgren NA, Chen Y, Needham DM, Parada AE, Sachdeva R, Trinh V, Chen T, Fuhrman JA

2017

Vertical and seasonal patterns control bacterioplankton communities at two horizontally coherent coastal upwelling sites off Galicia (NW Spain)

Microbial Ecology

Hernando-Morales V, Varela MM, Needham DM, Cram J, Fuhrman JA, Teira E

2018

Short-term dynamics and interactions of marine protist communities during the spring–summer transition

ISME Journal

Berdjeb L, Parada A, Needham DM, Fuhrman JA

2018

Taxon disappearance from microbiome analysis reinforces the value of mock communities as a standard in every sequencing run

Msystems

Yeh Y, Needham DM, Sieradzki ET, Fuhrman JA

2018

Dynamics and interactions of highly resolved marine plankton via automated high-frequency sampling

ISME Journal

Needham DM, Fichot EB, Wang E, Berdjeb L, Cram JA, Fichot CG, Fuhrman JA

2018

Influence of light on particulate organic matter utilization by attached and free-living marine bacteria

Frontiers in Microbiology

Gomez-Consarnau L, Needham DM, Weber PK, Fuhrman JA, Mayali X

2019

Dynamic marine viral infections and major contribution to photosynthetic processes shown by spatiotemporal picoplankton metatranscriptomes

Nature Communications

Sieradzki ET, Ignacio-Espinoza JC, Needham DM, Fuhrman JA

2019

Targeted metagenomic recovery of four divergent viruses reveals shared and distinctive characteristics of giant viruses of marine eukaryotes

Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B

Needham DM, Poirier C, Hehenberger E, Swallwell JE, Santoro AE, Worden AZ

2019

Seasonal and geographical transitions in eukaryotic phytoplankton community structure in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Frontiers in Microbiology

Choi CJ, Jimenez V, Needham DM, Poirier C, Bachy C, Alexander H, Wilken S, Chavez FP, Sudek S, Giovannoni SJ, Worden AZ

2020

Comprehensive single‐PCR 16S and 18S rRNA community analysis validated with mock communities, and estimation of sequencing bias against 18S

Environmental Microbiology

Yeh Y, McNichol J, Needham DM, Fichot EB, Berdjeb L, Fuhrman JA

2021

Viruses infecting a warm water picoeukaryote shed light on spatial co-occurrence dynamics of marine viruses and their hosts

ISME Journal

Bachy C, Yung C, Needham DM, Gazitúa MC, Roux S, Limardo AJ, Choi CJ, Jorgens DM, Sullivan MB, Worden AZ

2021

A comparative study of flow cytometry‐sorted communities and shotgun viral metagenomics in a Singapore municipal wastewater treatment plant

Imeta

Gu X, Yang Y, Mao F, Lee WL, Armas F, You F, Needham DM, Ng Charmaine, Chen H, Chandra F, Gin KY

2022

Marine protists: a Hitchhiker's guide to their role in the marine microbiome

The marine Microbiome

Bachy C, Hehenberger E, Ling Y, Needham DM, Strauss J, Wilken S, Worden AZ

2022

Genomes from uncultivated pelagiphages reveal multiple phylogenetic clades exhibiting extensive auxiliary metabolic genes and cross-family multigene transfers

Msystems

Wittmers F, Needham DM, Hehenberger E, Giovannoni SJ, Worden AZ

2022

Ecological divergence of a mesocosm in an eastern boundary upwelling system assessed with multi-marker environmental DNA metabarcoding

Biogeosciences

Min MA, Needham DM, Sudek S, Truelove NK et al.,

2023

Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean

Current Biology

Wittmers F, Comstock J, Poirier C, Needham DM, Schulz F, Malmstrom R, Carlson CA, Worden AZ

2024

Gradients of bacteria in the oceanic water column reveal finely-resolved vertical distributions

PLoS ONE

Harbeitner RC, Wittmers F, Yung Yung CMC, Eckmann CA, Hehenberger E, Blum M, Needham DM, Worden AZ

2024

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