Selected Publications:

LeCleir, G. R., A. Buchan, J. Maurer, M. A. Moran, J. T. Hollibaugh. 2007. Comparison of chitinolytic enzymes from an alkaline hypersaline lake and an estuary. Environ. Microbiol. 9: 197–205.

Biers, E. J., R. G. Zepp, and M. A. Moran. 2007. The role of nitrogen in chromophoric and fluorescent dissolved organic matter formation. Marine Chemistry 103:46–60.

Mou, X., R. E. Hodson, M. A. Moran. 2007. Bacterioplankton assemblages transforming dissolved organic compounds in coastal seawater. Environmental Microbiology 9:2025–2037. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01318.x

Dong, Y., M. A. Moran, and S. Guerrero. 2007. Exploring marine bacterial diversity in coastal Georgia salt marshes using DNA technology. The American Biology Teacher. In press.

Moran, M. A., R. Belas, M. A. Schell, J. M. González, F. Sun, S. Sun, B. J. Binder, J. Edmonds, W. Ye, B. Orcutt, E. C. Howard, C. Meile, W. Palefsky, A. Goesmann, Q. Ren, I. Paulsen, L. E. Ulrich, L. S. Thompson, E. Saunders, and A. Buchan. 2007. Ecological genomics of marine roseobacters. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:4559-4569.

Moran, M. A. and E. V. Armbrust. 2007. Genomes of sea microbes. In: A Sea of Microbes. The Oceanography Society Journal. L. Proctor and D. Karl, issue editors. June 2007, pp. 47-55.

Bürgmann, H., E. C. Howard, W. Ye, F. Sun, S. Sun, S. Napierala, and M. A. Moran. 2007. Transcriptional response of Silicibacter pomeroyi DSS-3 to dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP). Environmental Microbiology 9:2742-2755.

Moran, M. A. and W. L. Miller. 2007. Resourceful heterotrophs make the most of light in the coastal ocean. Nature Reviews Microbiology 5:792-800.

Edmonds, J. W., N. B. Weston, S. B. Joye, and M. A. Moran. 2008. Variation in prokaryotic community composition as a function of resource availability in tidal creek sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74: 1836-1844.

Mou, X., S. Sun, R. A. Edwards, R. E. Hodson, and M. A. Moran. 2008. Bacterial carbon processing by generalist species in the coastal ocean. Nature 451:708-711.

Poretsky, R. S., N. Bano, A. Buchan, J. T. Hollibaugh and M. A. Moran. 2008. Environmental transcriptomics: A method for exploring community-level gene expression in natural samples. In: Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual. Kowalchuk, G.A., de Bruijn, F.J. Head, I.M. Akkermans, A.D., and van Elsas, J.D., editors.

Biers, E. J., K. Wang, C. Pennington, R. Belas, F. Chen, and M. A. Moran. 2008. Occurrence and expression of Gene Transfer Agent (GTA) genes in marine bacterioplankton. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. In press.

Moran, M. A. 2007. Marine prokaryotic genomics and metagenomics. In: Microbial Ecology of the Oceans. D. L. Kirchman, ed. Wiley, NY. In press.

Dinsdale, E. A., R. A. Edwards, D. Hall, F. Angly, M. Breitbart, J. M. Brulc, M. Furlan, C. Desnues, M. Haynes, L. Li, L. McDaniel, M. A. Moran, K. E. Nelson, C. Nilsson, R. Olson, J. Paul, B. Rodriguez Brito, Y. Ruan, B. K. Swan, R. Stevens, D. L. Valentine, R. Vega-Thurber, L. Wegley, B. A. White, and F. Rohwer. 2008. Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes. Nature. In press.