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  • A. Shade, C. C. Carey, E. Kara, S. Bertilsson, K. D. McMahon, M. C. Smith. "Can the black box be cracked? The augmentation of microbial ecology by high-resolution automated sensing technologies". In review.

  • S. E. Jones, R. J. Newton, K. D. McMahon. "Linkages between land and water: bacterial community composition as predicted by organic carbon source in temperate lakes". In review.

  • J. Flowers, S. He, N. Ivanova, S. Yilmaz, D. R. Noguera, K. D. McMahon. "Denitrification capabilities of two enhanced biological phosphorus removal sludges dominated by different 'Candidatus Accumulibacter' clades" In revision.

  • S. He, V. Kunin, M. Haynes, H. Garcia Martin, N. Ivanova, F. Rohwer, P. Hugenholtz, K. D. McMahon. "Metatranscriptomic array analysis of 'Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis'-enriched enhanced biological phosphorus removal sludge." In revision.

  • E. E. Seyfried, R. J. Newton, K. F. Rubert IV, J. A. Pedersen, K. D. McMahon. (200_) "Diversity of tetracycline resistance genes in aquaculture facilities with varying use of oxytetracycline" In revision.

  • S.E. Jones, K. D. McMahon. (200_) "Species sorting may explain an apparent minimal effect of immigration on freshwater bacterial community dynamics" Environmental Microbiology, in press.

  • S. E. Jones, T. K. Kratz, C.-Y. Chiu, K. D. McMahon. (2009) "The influence of typhoons on annual CO2 flux from a sub-tropical, humic lake." Global Change Biology. 15:243-254.

  • G. T. Hinckley, C. J. Johnson, K. H. Jacobson, C. Bartholomay, K. D. McMahon, D. McKenzie, J. M. Aiken, J. A. Pedersen. (2008) "Persistence of pathogenic prion protein during simulated wastewater treatment processes." Environmental Science and Technology,42(14):5254-5259.

  • S. B. Peterson, F. Warnecke, J. Madejska, K. D. McMahon, P. Hugenholtz. (2008) "Environmental distribution and population biology of Candidatus Accumulibacter, a primary agent of biological phosphorus removal." Environmental Microbiology. 10(10):2692-2703.

  • I. S. Gil, W. Sheldon, T. Schmidt, M. Servilla, R. Aguilar, C. Gries, T. Gray, D. Field, J. Cole, J. Y. Pan, G. Palanisamy, D. Henshaw, M. O'Brien, L. Kinkel, K. McMahon, R. Kottman, J. Brunt, W. Michener. (2008) "Defining linkages between the GSC and NSF's LTER program: how does the ecological metadata language relate to GCDML and other outcomes" OMICS: A journal of Integrative Biology, 12(2):151-156.

  • S. E. Jones, R. J. Newton, K. D. McMahon. (2008) "Potential for atmospheric deposition of bacteria to influence bacterioplankton communities." FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 64:388-394.

  • S. E. Jones, C.-Y. Chiu, T. K. Kratz, J.-T. Wu, A. Shade, K. D. McMahon. (2008) "Typhoons initiate predictable change in aquatic bacterial communities" Limnology and Oceanography, 53:1319-1326.

  • V. Kunin, H. Garcia Martin, F. Warnecke, S. B. Peterson, N. Ivanova, L. L. Blackall, K. D. McMahon, P. Hugenholtz. (2008) "A bacterial metapopulation adapts locally to phage predation despite global dispersal" Genome Research, 18:293-297.

  • A. Shade, S. E. Jones, K. D. McMahon. (2008) "The influence of habitat heterogeneity on freshwater bacterial community composition and dynamics" Environmental Microbiology, 10(4):1057-1067.

  • Y. K. Cho, T. J. Donohue, I. Tejedor, M. A. Anderson, K. D. McMahon, D. R. Noguera. (2008) "Development of a solar powered microbial fuel cell" Journal of Applied Microbiology, 104:640-650.

  • S. He, A. Gu, K.D. McMahon. (2008) "Progress towards understanding the distribution of Accumulibacter among full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal systems" Microbial Ecology, 55(2):229-236.

  • R. J. Newton, S. E. Jones, M. R. Helmus, K. D. McMahon. (2007) "The phylogenetic ecology of the freshwater acI lineage" Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73(22):7169-7176.

  • S. He, D. L. Gall, K. D. McMahon. (2007) "Accumulibacter population structure in enhanced biological phosphorus removal sludges revealed by polyphosphate kinase genes" Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73(18):5865-5874.

  • K. D. McMahon, S. Yilmaz, S. He, D. L. Gall, D. Jenkins, J. D. Keasling. (2007) "Polyphosphate kinase genes from full-scale activated sludge plants." Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 77(1):167-173.

  • K. D. McMahon, H. Garcia Martin, P. Hugenholtz. (2007) "Integrating ecology into environmental biotechnology" Current Opinion in Biotechnology 18(3):287-292.

  • A. D. Kent, A.C. Yannarell, J. A. Rusak, E. W. Triplett, K. D. McMahon. (2007) "Synchronous dynamics in aquatic microbial communities" The ISME Journal 1:38-47.

  • S. R. Carpenter, B. J. Benson, R. Biggs, J. W. Chipman, J. A. Foley, S.A. Golding, R. B. Hammer, P. C. Hanson, P.T.J. Johnson, A. M. Kamarainen, T. K. Kratz, R. C. Lathrop, K. D. McMahon, B. Provencher, J. A. Rusak, C. T. Solomon, E. H. Stanley, M. G. Turner, M.J. Vander Zanden, C.-H. Wu and H. Yuan. (2007). "Understanding regional change: Comparison of two lake districts." BioScience 57(4):323-335.

  • E. A. Auerbach, E. E. Seyfried, and K. D. McMahon. (2007) "Tetracycline resistance genes in activated sludge wastewater treatment plants." Water Research 41:1143-1151.

  • S. E. Jones, A. Shade, K. D. McMahon, A. D. Kent. (2007) "Comparison of primer sets for use in automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA) of aquatic bacterial communities: An ecological perspective" Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73(2):659-662

  • A. Shade, A.D. Kent, S. E Jones, R. J. Newton, E.W. Triplett, K.D. McMahon, (2007) "Inter-annual dynamics and phenology of bacterial communities in a eutrophic lake" Limnology and Oceanography 52:487-494.

  • H. Garcia Martin, N. Ivanova, V. Kunin, F. Warnecke, K. Barry, A. C. McHardy, C. Yeates, S. He, A. Salamov, E. Szeto, E. Dalin, N. Putnam, I. Rigoutsos, N. C. Kyrpides, L. L. Blackall, K. D. McMahon , P. Hugenholtz. (2006). "Metagenomic analysis of phosphorus removing sludge communities." Nature Biotechnology 24:1263-1269.

  • T. C. Balser, K. D. McMahon, D. Bronson, D. R. Coyle, N. Craig, M. L. Flores-Mangual, K. Forshay, S. E. Jones, A. D. Kent, A. Shade. (2006). "Bridging the gap between micro- and macro-scale perspectives on the role of microbial communities in global change ecology" Plant and Soil 289(1-2):59-70.

  • J. A. Pedersen, K. D. McMahon, C. H. Benson (2006). "Prions: novel pathogens of environmental concern?" Journal of Environmental Engineering 132(9):967-969.

  • A. D. Kent, S. E. Jones, G. H. Lauster, J. M. Graham, R. J. Newton, and K. D. McMahon (2006). "Experimental manipulations of microbial food web interactions in a humic lake: shifting drivers of bacterial community structure" Environmental Microbiology 8(8):1448-1459.

  • R. J. Newton, A.D. Kent, E.W. Triplett, and K.D. McMahon (2006) "Microbial community dynamics in a humic lake: bacterial assemblages respond differentially to seasonal biological drivers" Environmental Microbiology 8(6):956-970.

  • S. He, A. Gu, K. D. McMahon (2006) "Fine-scale differences between Accumulibacter-like bacteria in enhanced biological phosphorus removal activated sludge" Water Science and Technology 54(1):111-117.