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Journal articles
, 2009, 'Characterisation of the paralytic shellfish toxin biosynthesis gene clusters in Anabaena circinalis AWQC131C and Aphanizomenon sp. NH-5', BMC Biochemistry, 10, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2091-10-8
, 2009, 'Characteristics of a Microcystin-Degrading Bacterium under Alkaline Environmental Conditions', Journal of Toxicology, 2009
, 2009, 'Determining the specific microbial populations and their spatial distribution within the stromatolite ecosystem of Shark Bay', ISME Journal, 3, pp. 383 - 396
, 2009, 'Differential accumulation of paralytic shellfish toxins from Alexandrium minutum in the pearl oyster, Pinctada imbricata', Toxicon, 54, pp. 217 - 223
, 2009, 'DNA profiling of complex bacterial populations: toxic cyanobacterial blooms', Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 85, pp. 237 - 252
, 2009, 'Global protein-level responses of halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 to prolonged changes in external sodium chloride concentrations', Journal of Proteome Research, 8, pp. 2218 - 2225
, 2009, 'Hepatotoxin Biosynthesis and Regulation in Cyanobacteria- the Putative Involvement of Nitrogen and Iron Homeostasis Mechanisms', Chiang Mai Journal of Science, 36, pp. 200 - 223
, 2009, 'Identification of a Saxitoxin Biosynthesis Gene with a History of Frequent Horizontal Gene Transfers (vol 67, pg 526, 2008)', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 68, pp. 292 - 292
, 2009, 'Lipid biomarker analysis of cyanobacteria-dominated microbial mats in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica', Organic Geochemistry, 40, pp. 258 - 269
, 2009, 'Mining cyanobacterial genomes for genes encoding complex biosynthetic pathways', Natural Product Reports, 26, pp. 1447 - 1465
, 2009, 'Modern analogues and the early history of microbial life', Precambrian Research, 173, pp. 10 - 18
, 2009, 'Molecular characterization and the effect of salinity on cyanobacterial diversity in the rice fields of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India', Saline Systems, 5
, 2009, 'The Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 Sfp-type phosphopantetheinyl transferase does not possess characteristic broad-range activity', Chembiochem, 10, pp. 1869 - 1877
, 2008, 'The genetics and genomics of cyanobacterial toxicity.', Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 619, pp. 417 - 452, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75865-7_17
, 2008, 'Biosynthetic intermediate analysis and functional homology reveal a saxitoxin gene cluster in cyanobacteria', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74, pp. 4044 - 4053, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00353-08
, 2008, 'Characterization of the gene cluster responsible for cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74, pp. 716 - 722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01988-07
, 2008, 'Development of taxol and other endophyte produced anti-cancer agents', RECENT PATENTS ON ANTI-CANCER DRUG DISCOVERY, 3, pp. 14 - 19
, 2008, 'Haloferax elongans sp nov and Haloterax mucosum sp nov., isolated from microbial mats from Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Australia', International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 58, pp. 798 - 802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65360-0
, 2008, 'Heterologous expression of the alcohol dehydrogenase (adhI) gene from Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius strain M10EXG', Journal of Biotechnology, 135, pp. 127 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2008.02.018
, 2008, 'Identification of a Saxitoxin Biosynthesis Gene with a History of Frequent Horizontal Gene Transfers', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 67, pp. 526 - 538
, 2008, 'Lysis efficiency of standard DNA extraction methods for Halococcus spp. in an organic rich environment', Extremophiles, 12, pp. 301 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00792-007-0124-8
, 2008, 'Novel homologs of the multiple resistance regulator marA in antibiotic-contaminated environments', Water Research, 42, pp. 4271 - 4280
, 2008, 'Session 18. Functional Complexity of Modern Stromatolites and Microbial Mats', Astrobiology, 8, pp. 378 - 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2008.1242
, 2008, 'The genetic basis for bioactivity in the traditional medicine plants of Australia', Planta Medica, 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1083891
, 2008, 'The Molecular Genetics and Regulation of Cyanobacterial Peptide Hepatotoxin Biosynthesis', Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 38, pp. 847 - 856
, 2008, 'The molecular genetics of cyanobacterial toxicity as a basis for monitoring water quality and public health risk', Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 19, pp. 281 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2008.03.002
, 2008, 'Unnatural production of natural products: Heterologous expression and combinatorial biosynthesis of novel cyanobacterial-derived compounds', Planta Medica, 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1083946
, 2007, 'Osmoadaptation of microorganisms from stromatolites', , pp. 203 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.11490/isea.2005.0.203.0
, 2007, 'Analysis of intergenic spacer region length polymorphisms to investigate the halophilic archaeal diversity of stromatolites and microbial mats', Extremophiles, 11, pp. 203 - 210
, 2007, 'Benthic cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriaceae) that produce microcystin-LR, isolated from four reservoirs in southern California', Water Research, 41, pp. 492 - 498
, 2007, 'Biochemical characterization of paralytic shellfish toxin biosynthesis in vitro', Journal of Phycology, 43, pp. 497 - 508
, 2007, 'Carotenoid analysis of halophilic archaea by resonance Raman Spectroscopy', Astrobiology, 7, pp. 631 - 643
, 2007, 'Characterization of PPTNs, a cyanobacterial phosphopantetheinyl transferase from Nodularia spumigena NSOR10', Journal of Bacteriology, 189, pp. 3133 - 3139
, 2007, 'Characterization of the 2-hydroxy-acid dehydrogenase Mcyl, encoded within the microcystin biosynthesis gene cluster of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282, pp. 4681 - 4692
, 2007, 'Functional analysis of PilT from the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806', Journal of Bacteriology, 189, pp. 1689 - 1697
, 2007, 'Host specificity and phylogeography of the prochlorophyte Prochloron sp., an obligate symbiont in didemnid ascidians', Environmental Microbiology, 9, pp. 890 - 899
, 2007, 'Modern stromatolites: What can they tell us about the evolution of life?', Astrobiology, 7, pp. 489 - 489
, 2007, 'Pseudovibrio denitrificans strain Z143-1, a heptylprodigiosin-producing bacterium isolated from a Philippine tunicate', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 277, pp. 188 - 196
, 2006, 'Characterization of microcystin production in an Antarctic cyanobacterial mat community', Toxicon, 47, pp. 271 - 278
, 2006, 'Comparative gene expression of PSP-toxin producing and non-toxic Anabaena circinalis strains', Environment International, 32, pp. 743 - 748, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2006.03.010
, 2006, 'Deteriogenic cyanobacteria, on historic buildings in Brazil detected by culture and molecular techniques', International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, 57, pp. 239 - 243
, 2006, 'Endolithic phototrophs from an active geothermal region in New Zealand', Geomicrobiology Journal, 23, pp. 579 - 587
, 2006, 'Functional modeling and phylogenetic distribution of putative cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis enzymes', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 62, pp. 267 - 280
, 2006, 'Halococcus hamelinensis sp nov., a novel halophilic archaeon isolated from stromatolites in Shark Bay, Australia', International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 56, pp. 1323 - 1329
, 2006, 'Isolation and characterization of two novel ethanol-tolerant facultative-anaerobic thermophilic bacteria strains from waste compost', Extremophiles, 10, pp. 363 - 372
, 2006, 'Localization of symbiotic cyanobacteria in the colonial ascidian Trididemnum miniatum (Didemnidae, Ascidiacea)', Zoological Science, 23, pp. 435 - 442
, 2006, 'Molecular identification and evolution of the cyclic peptide hepatotoxins, microcystin and nodularin, synthetase genes in three orders of cyanobacteria', Archives of Microbiology, 185, pp. 107 - 114
, 2006, 'Multiple origins of the ascidian-Prochloron symbiosis: Molecular phylogeny of photosymbiotic and non-symbiotic colonial ascidians inferred from 18S rDNA sequences', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40, pp. 8 - 19
, 2006, 'Stromatolites as a resource for novel natural products', Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 36, pp. 623 - 624
, 2006, 'Structural analysis of an extracellular polysaccharide produced by a benzene tolerant bacterium, Rhodococcus sp 33', Carbohydrate Research, 341, pp. 616 - 623