Bordenstein, S.R. and The Holobiont Biology Network (2024) The disciplinary matrix of holobiont biology. Science 386 (6273) 731-732

• Penn State Press Release 11.14.24, “Q&A: How do microbiomes influence the study of life?” (Link)

Kaur, R., C.J. Meier, E.A. McGraw, J.F. Hillyer, and S.R. Bordenstein (2024) The mechanism of cytoplasmic incompatibility is conserved in Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes deployed for arbovirus control. PLOS Biology 22(3):e3002573

Kaur, R., A. McGarry, J.D. Shropshire, B.A. Leigh, and S.R. Bordenstein (2024) Prophage proteins of an insect symbiont modulate sperm noncoding RNA and DNA to kill embryos. Science 383 1111-1117

• Penn State Press Release 3.08.24, “How does a virus hijack insect sperm to control disease vectors and pests?” (Link)
• Featured in Technology Networks, Microsoft Network, Mirage News, Bioengineer.org, Nouvelles du monde, Science Daily, etc.

Chioma, O.S., E. Mallott, B. Shah-Gandhi, Z. Wiggins, M. Langford, A.W. Lancaster, A. Gelbard, H. Wu, J.E. Johnson, L. Lancaster, E.M. Wilfong, L.J. Crofford, C.G. Montgomery, L. Van Kaer, S.R. Bordenstein, D.C. Newcomb, W.P. Drake. Low gut microbial diversity augments estrogen-driven pulmonary fibrosis in female-predominant interstitial lung disease. Cells 12(5): 766

Mallott, E.K., A.R. Sitarik, L.D. Leve, C. Cioffi, C.A. Camargo, K. Hasegawa, S.R. Bordenstein (2023) Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as three months of age. PLOS Biology 21(8): e3002230

Chioma, O.S., E.K. Mallott, B. Gandhi, Z. Wiggins, M. Langford, A. Lancaster, A. Gelbard, H. Wu, J. Johnson, L. Lancaster, E. Wilfong, L. Crofford, C. Montgomery, L.V. Kaer, S.R. Bordenstein, D. Newcomb, and W.P. Drake (2023) Low gut microbial diversity augments estrogen-driven pulmonary fibrosis in female-predominant interstitial lung disease. Cells 12(5), 766.

Bordenstein, S.R. (2023) Isolation of phage WO particles from Wolbachia-infected arthropods. Wolbachia: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 2739, edited by Ann M. Fallon. Springer Protocols, pgs. 337-348

Markowitz, R.H.G., A.L. LaBella, M. Shi, A. Rokas, J.A. Capra, J.F. Ferguson, J.D. Mosley, and S.R. Bordenstein (2022) Microbiome-associated human genetic variants impact phenome-wide disease risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(26):e2200551119.

Li, J., R.H.G. Markowitz, A.W. Brooks, E.K. Mallott, B.A. Leigh, T. Olszewski, H. Zare, M. Bagheri, H.M. Smith, K.A. Friese, I. Habibi, W.M. Lawrence, C.L. Rost, A. Ledeczi, A.M. Eeds, J.F. Ferguson, H.J. Silver, and S.R. Bordenstein (2022) Individuality and ethnicity eclipse a short-term dietary intervention in shaping microbiomes and viruses. PLOS Biology 20(8): e3001758.

Kaur, R, BA Leigh, IT Ritchie, and SR Bordenstein (2022) The Cif proteins from Wolbachia prophage WO modify sperm genome integrity to establish cytoplasmic incompatibility. PLOS Biology 20(5): e3001584.

Bordenstein, S.R. and S.R. Bordenstein (2022) Widespread phages of endosymbionts: Phage WO genomics and the proposed taxonomic classification of Symbioviridae. PLOS Genetics 18(6):e1010227

Ritchie, I.T., K.T. Needles, B.A. Leigh, R. Kaur, and S.R. Bordenstein (2022) Transgenic cytoplasmic incompatibility persists across age and temperature variation in D. melanogaster. iScience 25(11): 105327

Bell, K and SR Bordenstein (2022) A Margulian View of Symbiosis and Speciation: the Nasonia Wasp System. Symbiosis

Chioma, O.S., E.K. Mallott, A. Chapman, J.C. Van Amburg, H. Wu, B. Shah-Gandhi, N. Dey, M. Kirkland, M.B. Piazuelo, J. Johnson, G.R. Bernard, S.R. Bodduluri, S. Davison, B. Haribabu, S.R. Bordenstein, W.P. Drake (2022) Gut microbiota modulates lung fibrosis severity following acute lung injury in mice. Communications Biology 5:1401.

Waymire, E, S. Duddu, S. Yared, D Getachew, D Dengela, SR Bordenstein, M Balkew, S. Zohdy, SR Irish, and TE Carter (2022) Wolbachia 16S rRNA haplotypes detected in wild Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia. Parasites and Vectors 15(1):178.

Miller, A.K., C.S. Westlake, K.L. Cross, B.A. Leigh, and S.R. Bordenstein (2021) The microbiome impacts host hybridization and speciation. PLOS Biology 19(10): e3001417

Perlmutter, J.I. , J.E. Meyers, S.R. Bordenstein (2021) A single synonymous nucleotide change impacts the male-killing phenotype of prophage WO gene wmk. eLife 2021;10:e67686

Kaur, R., J.D. Shropshire, K.L. Cross, B. Leigh, A.J. Mansueto, V. Stewart, S.R. Bordenstein, and S.R. Bordenstein (2021) Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: A centennial review. Cell Host and Microbe 29(6):879-893

Shropshire J.D., R. Rosenberg, and S.R. Bordenstein (2021) The impacts of cytoplasmic incompatibility factor (cifA and cifB) genetic variation on phenotypes. Genetics 217(1)iyaa007

Cross, K.L., B.A. Leigh, E.A. Hatmaker, A. Mikaelyan, A.K. Miller, and S.R. Bordenstein (2021) Genomes of gut bacteria from Nasonia wasps shed light on phylosymbiosis and microbe-assisted hybrid breakdown. mSystems Apr 2021, 6 (2) e01342-20

Carrier, T.J., B.A. Leigh, D.J. Deaker, H.R. Devens, G.A. Wray, S.R. Bordenstein, Byrner, A. Reitzel (2021) Microbiome reduction and endosymbiont gain from a switch in sea urchin life history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (16) e2022023118

Wang, N.C., M. Bagheri, T. Olszewski, K.A. Friese, H.M. Smith, M.E. Robles, C. Wang, A. Brooks, S.R. Bordenstein, J.F. Ferguson, and H.J. Silver (2021) New-onset vegetarian diet shows differences in fatty acid metabolites in European American and African American women. Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases 31(8):2436-2448

Dutra, H.L.C., S.A. Ford, S.L. Allen, S.R. Bordenstein, S.F. Chenoweth, S.R. Bordenstein, and E.A. McGraw (2021) The impact of artificial selection for Wolbachia-mediated dengue virus blocking on phage WO. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(7): e0009637

Lemon, A., S.R. Bordenstein, and S.R. Bordenstein (2020) Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project: Citizen Science and Student-Based Discoveries for 15 Years and Counting. Genetics 216: 263-268

Shropshire J.D., B. Leigh, and S.R. Bordenstein (2020) Symbiont-Mediated Cytoplasmic Incompatibility: What Have We Learned in 50 Years? eLife 2020;9:e61989

Shropshire, J.D., M. Kalra, and S.R. Bordenstein (2020) Evolution-guided mutagenesis of the cytoplasmic incompatibility proteins: Identifying CifA’s complex functional repertoire and new essential regions in CifB. PLOS Pathogens 16(8): e1008794

Perlmutter, J.I. and S.R. Bordenstein (2020) Microorganisms in the reproductive tissues of arthropods. Nature Reviews Microbiology 18: 97–111

Perlmutter, J.I., J.E. Myers, and S.R. Bordenstein (2020) Transgenic testing does not support a role for additional candidate genes in Wolbachia male killing or cytoplasmic incompatibility. mSystems 5(1):e00658-19

Lim. S.J. and S.R. Bordenstein (2020) An introduction to phylosymbiosis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 287: 20192900. Invited review for special issue on ‘Application of ecological and evolutionary theory to microbiome community dynamics across systems’.

• Cover

McGenity, T.J., A. Gessesse, J.E. Hallsworth, E.G. Cela, C. Verheecke-Vaessen, F. Wang,M. Chavarrıa,M.M. Haggblom, S. Molin,A. Danchin, E.J. Smid,C. Lood, C.S. Cockell,C. Whitby,S.J. Liu,N.P. Keller,L.Y. Stein,S.R. Bordenstein, R. Lal, O.C. Nunes, L. Gram, B.K. Singh, N.S. Webster, C. Morris, S. Sivinski, S. Bindschedler, P. Junier, A. Antunes, B.K. Baxter, P. Scavone, and K. Timmis (2020) Visualizing the invisible: class excursions to ignite children’s enthusiasm for microbes. Microbial Biotechnology doi:10.1111/1751-7915.13576

Yang, Y., W, Zheng, Q. Cai, M.J. Shrubsole, Z. Pei, R.M. Brucker, M., Steinwandel, S.R. Bordenstein, Z. Li, W.J. Blot, X.O. Shu, J. Long (2020) Reply to Kenyon, Are differences in the oral microbiome due to ancestry or socioeconomics? mSystems 4(6): e00891-19

Van Opstal, E. and S.R. Bordenstein (2019) Phylosymbiosis impacts adaptive traits in Nasonia wasps. mBio 10 (4) e00887-19

National Microbiome Centers Consortium, Martiny et al. (2019) The emergence of microbiome centers. Nature Microbiology 5: 2-3

• Vanderbilt News 12/19/19

Sherwin, E., S.R. Bordenstein, T.G. Dinan, and J.F. Cryan (2019) Social microbes: Microbiota-mediated modulation of the social brain and behavior. Science 366(6465): eaar2016. DOI: 10.1126/science.aar2016

Layton, E.M., J. On, J.I. Perlmutter, S.R. Bordenstein, J.D. Shorpshire (2019) Paternal grandmother age affects the strength of Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila melanogaster. mBio 10(6): e01879-19

Perlmutter, J.I. S.R. Bordenstein, D.P. LePage, J.A. Metcalf, T. Hill, J. Martinez, R.L. Unckless, F.M. Jiggins, and S.R. Bordenstein (2019) The phage gene wmk is a candidate for male killing by a bacterial endosymbiont. PLOS Pathogens 15(9): e1007936 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007936

Shropshire, J.D. and S.R. Bordenstein (2019) Two-by-one genetic model of cytoplasmic incompatibility: Synthetic recapitulation by transgenic expression of cifA and cifB in Drosophila. PLOS Genetics https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008221

Shropshire, J.D., B. Leigh, S.R. Bordenstein, A. Duplouy, M. Riegler, J.C. Brownlie, S.R. Bordenstein (2019) Models and nomenclature for cytoplasmic incompatibility: Caution over premature conclusions. Trends in Genetics DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2019.03.004

Reveillaud. J., S.R. Bordenstein, C. Cruaud, A. Shaiber, Ö.C. Esen, M. Weill, I. Rakotoarivony, S.R. Bordenstein, A.M. Eren (2019) The Wolbachia mobilome in Culex pipiens includes a putative plasmid. Nature Communications 10:1051 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08973-w

• Top story Science 360 News, National Science Foundation

Yang, Y., W. Zheng, Q.Y. Cai, M. Shrubsole, Z. Pei, R.M. Brucker, M. Steinwandel, S.R. Bordenstein, Z. Li, W. Blot, X.O. Shu, J. Long (2019) Cigarette smoking and oral microbiota in low-income and African-American populations. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 73(12):1108-1115. DOI: 10.1136/jech-2019-212474

Yang, Y., W, Zheng, Q. Cai, M.J. Shrubsole, Pei, R.M. Brucker, M. Steinwandel, S.R. Bordenstein, Z. Li, W.J. Blot, X.O. Shu, J. Long (2019) Racial differences in the oral microbiome: Data from low-income African-ancestry and European-ancestry populations. mSystems 4(6):e00639-19. DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00639-19

Roux S, Adriaenssens EM, Dutilh BE, Koonin EV, Kropinski AM, Krupovic M, Kuhn JH, Lavigne R, Brister JR, Varsani A, Amid C, Aziz RK, Bordenstein SR, et al (2019) Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG). Nature Biotechnology 2018 Dec 17. doi: 10.1038/nbt.4306

Brooks, A.W., S. Priya, R. Blekhman, S.R. Bordenstein (2018) Gut microbiota diversity across ethnicities in the United States. PLOS Biology 16(12): e2006842. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006842

• Vanderbilt News 12/4/18

Leigh, B.A., S.R. Bordenstein, A.W. Brooks, A. Mikaelyan, S.R. Bordenstein (2018) Finer-scale phylosymbiosis: Insights from insect viromes. mSystems 3(6): e00131-18

• Editor’s pick

Eisthen, H. et al. (2018) New NSF policy will stifle innovation. Science (362)6412: 297-298

Perlmutter, J.I. and S.R. Bordenstein (2018) Microbial Misandry: Discovery of a Spiroplasma Male-Killing Toxin. Cell Host and Microbe 23(6):689-690

Shropshire, J.D., J. On, E.M. Layton, H. Zhou, S.R. Bordenstein (2018) One prophage WO gene rescues cytoplasmic incompatibilty in Drosophila melanogaster. PNAS

• Vanderbilt News 4/23/18

Funkhouser-Jone, L.J.*, E.J. van Opstal*, A. Sharma, S.R. Bordenstein (2018) The maternal effect gene Wds controls Wolbachia titer in Nasonia. Current Biology

• Vanderbilt News 5/17/18; also featured at Science, NSF, Science Daily
• * Co-first authors

Taylor, M.J., S.R. Bordenstein, and B. Slatko (2018) Wolbachia: a sex selector, a viral protector and a target to treat filarial nematodes. Microbiology

Lindsey, A.R.I., D.W. Rice, S.R. Bordenstein, A.W. Brooks, S.R. Bordenstein*, and I.L.G. Newton* (2018) Evolutionary genetics of cytoplasmic incompatibilty genes cifA and cifB in prophage WO of Wolbachia. Genome Biology and Evolution

• * Co-correspoding authors

Romano-Keeler J., M. Shilts, A. Tovchigrechko, C. Wang, R. Brucker, D. Moore, C. Fonnesbeck, S. Meng, H. Correa, H. Lovvorn, Y.W. Tang, L. Hooper, S.R. Bordenstein, S. Das, J.H. Weitkamp (2018) Distinct mucosal microbial communities in surgical necrotizing enterocolitis are determined by age and antibiotic exposure. PLOS One

LePage, D.P.*, J.A. Metcalf*, S.R. Bordenstein, J. On, J.I. Perlmutter, J.D. Shropshire, E.M. Layton, L.J. Funkhouser-Jones, J.F. Beckmann, S.R. Bordenstein (2017) Prophage WO genes recapitulate and enhance Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility. Nature

• * Co-first authors
• Vanderbilt Research News 2/27/17
• Nature News and Views 2/27/17
• The Scientist 2/28/17

Dheilly N.M., Bolnick D., Bordenstein S.R., Brindley P.J., Figueres C., Holmes E.C., Martinez J., Philips A.J., Poulin R. and K. Rosario. (2017) The parasite microbiome project: Systematic investigation of microbiome dynamics within and across parasite-host interactions. mSystems

Saulsberry, A., A. Knoll, M. Pinchas, J.A. Lynch, S.R. Bordenstein, R.M. Brucker (2017) Establishment of F1 hybrid mortality in real time. BMC Evolutionary Biology, open access

Toribio-Fernández, R., J.L. Bella, P. Martinez-Rodriguez, L.J. Funkhouser-Jones, S.R. Bordenstein, M. Pita (2017) Chromosomal localization of Wolbachia inserts in the genomes of two subspecies of Chorthippus parallelus forming a Pyrenean hybrid zone. Chromosome Research

Kohl, K.D., A. Brun, M. Magallanes, J. Brinkerhoff, A. Laspiur, J.C. Acosta, E. Caviedes-Vidal, S.R. Bordenstein (2017) Gut microbial ecology of lizards: insights into diversity in the wild, effects of captivity, variation across gut regions and transmission. Molecular Ecology

Kohl, K.D., M.D. Dearing, S.R. Bordenstein (2017) Microbial communities exhibit host species distinguishability and phylosymbiosis along the length of the GI tract. Molecular Ecology

Kohl, K.D., A. Brun, S.R. Bordenstein, E. Caviedes-Vidal, W.H. Karasov (2017) Gut microbes limit growth in house sparrow nestlings (Passer domesticus) but not through limitations in digestive capacity. Integrative Zoology

Long, J., Q. Cai, M. Steinwandel, M.K. Hargreaves, S.R. Bordenstein, W.J. Blot, W. Zheng, X.O. Shu (2017) Association of oral microbiome with type 2 diabetes risk. J of Periodontal Research

Brooks, A.W.*, K.D. Kohl*, R.M. Brucker*, E.J. van Opstal, and S.R. Bordenstein (2016) Phylosymbiosis: Relationships and functional effects of microbial communities across host evolutionary history. PLOS Biology

• * Co-first authors
• The Scientist
• PLOS Biology Open Highlight – Evolving as a Holobiont

Bordenstein, S.R. and S.R. Bordenstein (2016) Eukaryotic association module in phage WO genomes of Wolbachia. Nature Communications, open access

• CNN
• The Atlantic (Ed Yong)

Dittmer, J., E.J. van Opstal, J.D. Shropshire, S.R. Bordenstein, G.D.D. Hurst, and R.M. Brucker (2016) Disentangling a holobiont – recent advances and perspectives in Nasonia wasps. Frontiers in Microbiology

Bojanova, D. and S.R. Bordenstein (2016) Fecal transplants: What is being transferred? PLOS Biology

• Vanderbilt Research News – These days, fecal transplantation is no joke
• New York Times (Carl Zimmer) – Fecal transplants can be life-saving, but how?

Kohl, K.D., A. Brun, M. Magallanes, J. Brinkerhoff, A. Laspiur, J.C. Acosta, S.R. Bordenstein and E. Caviedes Vidal (2016) Physiological and microbial adjustments to diet quality permit facultative herbivory in an omnivorous lizard. Journal of Experimental Biology

Theis, K.R., N.M. Dheilly, J.L. Klassen, R.M. Brucker, J.F. Baines, T.C.G. Bosch, J.F. Cryan, S.F. Gilbert, C.J. Goodnight, E.A. Lloyd, J. Sapp, P. Vandenkoornhuyse, I. Zilber-Rosenberg, E. Rosenberg, and S.R. Bordenstein (2016) Getting the hologenome concept right: an eco-evolutionary framework for hosts and their microbiomes. mSystems

Dobson, S.L., S.R. Bordenstein, and R.I. Rose (2016) Wolbachia mosquito control: regulated. Science

Richmond, B.W., R.M. Brucker, W. Han, R-H Du, Y. Zhang, D-S Cheng, L. Gleaves, R. Abdolrasulnia, D. Polosukhina, P.E. Clark, S.R. Bordenstein, T.S. Blackwell and V.V. Polosukhin (2016) Airway bacteria drive a progressive COPD-like phenotype in mice with polymeric immunoglobulin receptor deficiency. Nature Communications

Shropshire, J.D. and S.R. Bordenstein (2016) Speciation by symbiosis: The microbiome and behavior. mBio

Shropshire, J.D.*, E.J. van Opstal*, and S.R. Bordenstein (2016) An optimized approach to germ-free rearing in the jewel wasp Nasonia. PeerJ

• * Co-first authors

Lindsey, A.R.I., S.R. Bordenstein, I.L.G. Newton and J.L. Rasgon (2016) Wolbachia pipientis should not be splt into multiple species. Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Newton, I.L.G., M.E. Clark, B.N. Kent, S.R. Bordenstein, J. Qu, S. Richards, Y.D. Kelkar and J.H. Werren (2016) Comparative genomics of two closely related Wolbachia with different reproductive effects on hosts. Genome Biology and Evolution

Bordenstein, S.R. and K.R. Theis (2015) Host biology in light of the microbiome: Ten principles of holobionts and hologenomes. PLOS Biology

• Vanderbilt Research News – The pronoun “I” is becoming obsolete
• Futurity – Add lots of microbes to “me, myself, and I”

Van Opstal, E. and S.R. Bordenstein (2015) Rethinking heritability of the microbiome. Science Vol. 349 no. 6253 pp. 1172-1173 Link

Flynn, C.R., V.L. Albaugh, S. Cai, J. Cheung-Flynn, P.E. Williams, R.M. Brucker, S.R. Bordenstein, Y. Guo, D.H. Wasserman & N. N. Abumrada (2015) Bile diversion to the distal small intestine has comparable metabolic benefits to bariatric surgery. Nature Communications

Funkhouser-Jones, L.J., S.R. Sehnert, P. Martinez-Rodriguez, R. Toribio-Fernandez, M. Pita, J.L. Bella and S.R. Bordenstein (2015) Wolbachia co-infection in a hybrid zone: discovery of horizontal gene transfers from two Wolbachia supergroups into an animal genome. PeerJ

• Featured on This Week in Microbiology, 12.17.15, time 40:48 – 54:25.

Jernigan, K.K. and S.R. Bordenstein (2015) Tandem-repeat protein domains across the tree of life. PeerJ

Metcalf, J.A., L.J. Funkhouser, K. Brileya, A.L. Reysenbach, S.R. Bordenstein (2014) Antibacterial gene transfer across the tree of life. (open access) eLife

• The Naked Scientists Podcast (5 min)
• Vanderbilt Research News – Life’s extremists may be an untapped source of antibacterial drugs
• National Geographic blog by Ed Yong – How an antibiotic jumped all over the tree of life
• The Scientist – Gene jumped to all three domains of life

Stilling, R.M., S.R. Bordenstein, T.G. Dinan, and J.C. Cryan (2014) Friends with social benefits: host-microbe interactions as a driver of brain evolution and development? Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

LePage D.P., K.K. Jernigan, and S.R. Bordenstein (2014) The relative importance of DNA methylation and Dnmt2-mediated epigenetic regulation on Wolbachia densities and cytoplasmic incompatibility. PeerJ

Metcalf, J.A., M. Jo, S.R. Bordenstein, J. Jaenike, and S.R. Bordenstein (2014) Recent genome reduction of Wolbachia in Drosophila recens targets phage WO and narrows candidates for reproductive parasitism. PeerJ

Romano-Keeler, J., D.J. Moore, C. Wang, R.M. Brucker, C. Fonnesbeck, J.C. Slaughter, H. Li, D.P. Curran, S. Meng, H. Correa, H.N. Lovvorn, Y. Tang, S.R. Bordenstein, A.L. George, J. Weitkamp (2014) Early life establishment of site-specific microbial communities in the gut. Gut Microbes (5)2:1-10

Jernigan, K.K. and S.R. Bordenstein (2014) Ankyrin domains across the tree of life. PeerJ 2:e264

• Top 20 Staff Picks for 2015

Bordenstein, S.R. (2014) Genomic and cellular complexity from symbiotic simplicity. Cell 158 (6) p1236–1237

Brucker, R.M. and S.R. Bordenstein (2013) The capacious hologenome. Zoology

Funkhouser, L.J. and S.R. Bordenstein (2013) Mom knows best: The universality of maternal microbial transmission. PLOS Biology

• Symbionticism Blog Post – The Story Behind the Article
• New York Times Column by Carl Zimmer – Human Microbiome May Be Seeded Before Birth
• PLOS Blog Post by Jonathan Eisen – Yet Another Thing to Blame/Thank Your Mother – Your Microbes

Brucker, R.M. and S.R. Bordenstein (2013) The hologenomic basis of speciation: Gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia. Science 341(6146): 667-669

• PRI’s “Living on Earth” Radio – Microbes and evolution
• Science Now – Gut microbes can split a species
• io9 – A weird new insight into how species evolve

LePage, D. and S.R. Bordenstein (2013) Wolbachia: Can we save lives with a great pandemic? Trends in Parasitology 29(8): 385-393

Duncan, S.S., P.L. Valk, M.S. McClain, C.L. Shaffer, J.A. Metcalf, S.R. Bordenstein, and T.L. Cover (2013) Comparative genomic analysis of east Asian and non-Asian Helicobacter pylori strains identifies rapidly evolving genes. PLOS ONE 8(1) e55120.

Brucker, R.M. and S. R. Bordenstein (2012) Speciation by Symbiosis. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27(8): 443-451

• Blog Post – The Story Behind the Review
• Blog Post – ASM’s Small Things Considered
• Cover story for New Scientist, January 12, 2013

Brucker, R.M. and S. R. Bordenstein (2012) The roles of host evolutionary relationships and development in structuring microbial communities. Evolution 66(2): 349-362

• Blog Post – Is the Microbiota Species Specific?
• Blog Post – Is the Microbiome Part of the Host?

Metcalf, J.A. and S. R. Bordenstein (2012) The complexity of virus systems: the case of endosymbionts. Current Opinion in Microbiology 15(4): 546-552

• Blog Post – The Story Behind the Review

Brucker, R.M., Funkhouser, L.J., Setia, S., Pauly, R. and S. R. Bordenstein (2012). Insect innate immunity database (IIID): An annotation tool for identifying immune genes in insect genomes. PLOS ONE e45125

Brucker, R.M. and S. R. Bordenstein (2012) In vitro cultivation of the Hymenopteran genetic model, Nasonia. PLOS ONE 7(12): e51269. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051269

Duncan, S.S., P.L. Valk, C.L. Shaffer, S. R. Bordenstein, and T.L. Cover (2012). J-Western forms of Helicobacter pylori cagA constitute a major group with a widespread geographic distribution. Journal of Bacteriology 194(6) 1593-1604.

Bordenstein, SR and Bordenstein SR (2011) Temperature affects the tripartite interactions between bacteriophage WO, Wolbachia, and cytoplasmic incompatibility. PLOS ONE 6(12): e29106.

Kent BN, Funkhouser LJ, Setia S, Bordenstein SR (2011) Evolutionary genomics of a temperate bacteriophage in an obligate intracellular bacteria (Wolbachia). PLOS ONE 6(9): e24984. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024984

• Video Blog of ISS 2012 Talk

Rebeca B. Rosengaus,Courtney N. Zecher,Kelley F. Schultheis,Robert M. Brucker and S.R. Bordenstein (2011) Disruption of termite gut-microbiota and its prolonged fitness consequences. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 4303 – 4312.

Kent, B.N., L. Salichos, J.G. Gibbons, A. Rokas, I.L.G. Newton, M.E. Clark, and S.R. Bordenstein (2011) Complete bacteriophage transfer in a bacterial endosymbiont (Wolbachia) determined by targeted genome capture. Genome Biology and Evolution

Newton ILG and Bordenstein SR (2011) Correlations between bacterial ecology and mobile DNA. Current Microbiology 62(1): 198-208.

Chafee, ME, CN Zecher, ML Gourley, VT Schmidt, JH Chen, SR Bordenstein, ME Clark, and SR Bordenstein (2011) Decoupling of host-symbiont-phage coadaptations following transfer between insect species. Genetics 187: 203-215.

S.R. Bordenstein, C. Brothers, G. Wolfe, M. Bahr, R.L. Minckley, M.E. Clark, J.J. Wernegreen, S.R. Bordenstein, W.S. Reznikoff and J.H. Werren (2010) Using the Wolbachia Bacterial Symbiont to Teach Inquiry-Based Science: A High School Laboratory Series. American Biology Teacher 72(8):478-483. (Cover)

K.A. Gangwer, Shaffer CL, Suerbaum S, Lacy DB, Cover TL, and Bordenstein SR (2010) Molecular evolution of the Helicobacter pylori vacuolating toxin gene (vacA). Journal of Bacteriology

S.P. Stock, S. R. Bordenstein, J. Odden, D. Oldenburg, W. Reznikoff, J.H. Werren and M.A. Selosse. (2010) Symbiosis instruction: considerations from the education workshop at the 6th ISS Congress. Symbiosis 51:61-73.

B.N. Kent and S.R. Bordenstein. (2010) Phage WO of Wolbachia: Lambda of the endosymbiont world. Trends in Microbiology (Cover)

J.H. Werren, S. Richards et al. (2010) Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three Nasonia parasitoid species. Science

M.C. Chaffee, D.J. Funk, R.G. Harrison, and S.R. Bordenstein (2009) Lateral phage transfer in obligate intracellular bacteria (Wolbachia): Verification from natural populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution

N. Ishmael, J.C. Dunning Hotopp, P. Ioannidis, S. Biber, J. Sakamoto, S. Siozios, V. Nene, J.H. Werren, K. Bourtzis K, S.R. Bordenstein, H. Tettelin (2009) Extensive genomic diversity of closely related Wolbachia strains. Microbiology

S. R. Bordenstein, C. Paraskevopoulos, J.C. Dunning Hotopp, P. Sapountzis, N. Lo, C. Bandi, H. Tettelin, J.H. Werren, and K. Bourtzis. (2009) Parasitism and mutualism in Wolbachia: what the phylogenomic trees can and can not say. Molecular Biology and Evolution.(26)1:231-241.

Ioannidis, P., J.C. Dunning-Hotopp, P. Sapountzis, S. Siozios, G. Tsiamis, S.R. Bordenstein, L. Baldo, J.H. Werren, K. Bourtzis (2007) New criteria for selecting the origin of DNA replication in Wolbachia and closely related bacteria. BMC Genomics 8(1): 182.

Bordenstein, S.R. (2007) Evolutionary Genomics: Transdomain Gene Transfers. Current Biology 17(21): R935-936.

Bordenstein, S.R. (2007) Discover the Microbes Within!: The Wolbachia Project. ASM’s Focus on Microbiology Education 14(1): 4-5.

Sanogo, Y.O., S.L. Dobson, S.R. Bordenstein, and R.J. Novak. (2007) Disruption of the Wolbachia suface protein gene wspB by a transposable element in mosquitoes of the Culex pipiens complex (Diptera, Culcidae). Insect Molecular Biology 16(2):143-154.

Lo, N., C. Paraskevopoulos, K. Bourtzis, S.L. O’Neill, J.H. Werren, S.R. Bordenstein, and C. Bandi. (2007) Taxonomic status of the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis. International Journal of Systematic and Evol Microbiology 57: 654-657.

Bordenstein S.R. and J.H. Werren. (2007) Bidrectional incompatibility among divergent Wolbachia and incompatibility level differences among closely related Wolbachia in Nasonia. Heredity 99: 278-287.

Bordenstein, S.R., M.L. Marshall, A.J. Fry, U. Kim, and J.J. Wernegreen. (2006) The tripartite associations between bacteriophage, Wolbachia, and arthropods. PLoS Pathogens 2(5):e43.

Baldo L., J.C. Dunning Hotopp, K.A. Jolley, S.R. Bordenstein, S.A. Biber, R.R. Choudhury, C. Hayashi, M.C.J. Maiden, H. Tettelin, and J.H. Werren. (2006) Multilocus sequence typing system for the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72: 7098-7110.

Paraskevopoulos, C., S. R. Bordenstein, J.J. Wernegreen, J.H. Werren, and K. Bourtzis (2006). Towards a Wolbachia multilocus sequence typing system: Discrimination of Wolbachia strains present in Drosophila species. Curr. Microbiol. 53: 388-395.

Baldo, L., S. R. Bordenstein, J.J. Wernegreen, and J.H. Werren (2006). Widespread recombination througout Wolbachia genomes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23: 437-449.

Casiraghi, M., S. R. Bordenstein, L. Baldo, N. Lo, T. Beninati, J. J. Wernegreen, J. H. Werren, and C. Bandi (2005). Phylogeny of Wolbachia pipientis based on gltA, groEL and ftsZ gene sequences: clustering of arthropod and nematode symbionts in the F supergroup, and evidence for further diversity in the Wolbachia tree. Microbiology 151: 4015 – 4022.

Bordenstein, S.R. and R. B. Rosengaus (2005) Discovery of a novel Wolbachia supergroup in Isoptera. Current Microbiology 51: 393-398.

Bordenstein, S.R and W.S. Reznikoff (2005) Mobile DNA in obligate intracellular bacteria. Nature Reviews Microbiology 3:688-699.

Reznikoff, W.S., S.R. Bordenstein and J. Apodaca (2004) Comparative sequence analysis of IS50/Tn5 transposase. Journal of Bacteriology 186:8240-8247.

Bordenstein, S.R. and J.J. Wernegreen (2004) Bacteriophage flux in endosymbionts (Wolbachia): Lateral transfer, recombination rates, and the ‘intracellular arena’ hypothesis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21:1981-1991.

JJ Wernegreen, PH Degnan, AB Lazarus, C Palacios & SR Bordenstein (2003) Genome evolution in an insect cell: Distinct features of an ant-bacterial partnership. The Biological Bulletin 204:221-232.

Bordenstein, S.R., J.J. Uy, and J.H. Werren (2003) Host genotype determines cytoplasmic incompatibility type in the haplodiploid genus Nasonia. Genetics 163:223-233.

Bordenstein, S.R., D.H.A. Fitch, and J.H. Werren (2003) Absence of Wolbachia in nonfilariid nematodes. Journal of Nematology 35:266-270.

Bordenstein, S.R. (2003) Symbiosis and the origin of species, in Insect Symbiosis, ed. K. Bourtzis and T. Miller, CRC Press, New York, NY.

Bordenstein, S.R., F.P. O’Hara, and J.H. Werren (2001) Wolbachia-induced incompatibility precedes other hybrid incompatibilities in Nasonia. Nature 409:707-710.

Bordenstein, S.R. and M.D. Drapeau (2001) Genotype-by-environment interaction and the Dobzhansky-Muller model of postzygotic isolation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14:490-501.

Bordenstein, S.R., M.D. Drapeau, and J.H. Werren (2000) Intraspecific variation in sexual isolation in the jewel wasp Nasonia. Evolution 54:567-573.

Bordenstein, S.R. and J.H. Werren (2000) Do Wolbachia influence fecundity in Nasonia vitripennis? Heredity 84:54-62.

Bordenstein, S.R. and J.H. Werren (1998) The role of Wolbachia and host genotype in interspecies cytoplasmic incompatibility in Nasonia. Genetics 148:1833-1844.