Publications
Angly FE, Willner D, Prieto-Davó A, Edwards RA, Schmieder R, Vega Thurber R., et al. (2009) The GAAS Metagenomic Tool and Its Estimations of Viral and Microbial Average Genome Size in Four Major Biomes. PLoS Comput Biol 5(12): e1000593. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000593
Vega Thurber, R. Current Insights into Phage Biodiversity and Biogeography. Current Opinion in Microbiology 2009, 12:582–587
Ainsworth, T., Vega Thurber, R., and Gates, R. (in press) The Future of Coral Reefs: a Microbial Perspective. Trends in Ecology and Evolution doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.11.001
Rohwer, F. and Vega Thurber, R. (2009) Viruses Manipulate the Marine Environment. Nature 459:207-212
Vega Thurber, R., Brietbart, M., Kelly, L., Haynes, M., and Rohwer, F. (2009) Methods in Viral Metagenomics. 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. (2009) Metagenomic Analysis of Stressed Coral Holobionts Environmental Microbiology 11: 2148–2163
Willner-Hall, D., Vega Thurber, R., and Rohwer, F. (2009) Metagenomic Signatures of 86 Microbial and Viral Metagenomes. Environmental Microbiology 11: 1752-1766
Vermeij , 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
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 SciencesUSA 105: 18413-18418
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: 629-632
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. (2008) 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: 340-343
Vega Thurber, R. and Epel, D. (2007) Apoptosis in Early Development of the Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Developmental Biology 303: 336-346
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
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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