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  1. Quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP)-informed metagenomics identifies viruses infecting chemoautotrophs

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gareth Trubl

  2. Divergent successional patterns and infection dynamics in virion and transcriptionally active soil viral communities following phosphorus amendment and wet-up

    Article • April 2026, openRxiv

    Gareth Trubl

  3. Population ecology and biogeochemical implications of ssDNA and dsDNA viruses along a permafrost thaw gradient

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gareth Trubl

  4. STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies

    Article • Nature Microbiology, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gareth Trubl, Master Rhiannon Mondav

  5. A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data

    Article • Nature Microbiology, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gareth Trubl, Dr Robert A Edwards, Luis M Rodriguez-R

  6. Clarifying Terminology in Microbial Ecology: A Call for Precision in Scientific Communication

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2025, Wiley

    Gareth Trubl

  7. Beneath the surface: Unsolved questions in soil virus ecology

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, June 2025, Elsevier

    Gareth Trubl

  8. Tracking Persistence and Dynamics of Active Soil Viruses with SIP-Viromics

    Article • May 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Gareth Trubl

  9. Virus-mediated recycling of chemoautotrophic biomass

    Article • May 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Gareth Trubl

  10. Diverging drivers of fungal diversity: seasonal effects shape aboveground communities, while geographical patterns govern belowground communities in rubber tree ecosystems

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, May 2025, ASM Journals

    Gareth Trubl

  11. Editorial: Ecology, evolution, and biodiversity of microbiomes and viromes from extreme environments

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiomes, April 2025, Frontiers

    Gareth Trubl

  12. Meeting report: International soil virus conference 2024

    Article • Virus Research, April 2025, Elsevier

    Gareth Trubl

  13. On the Relationship Between Methane Production in Anaerobic Incubations of Peat Material and In Situ Methane Emissions

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, March 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Gareth Trubl

  14. Preemptive optimization of a clinical antibody for broad neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants and robustness against viral escape

    Article • Science Advances, March 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Gareth Trubl

  15. Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, March 2025, Elsevier

    Gareth Trubl

  16. A climatically significant abiotic mechanism driving carbon loss and nitrogen limitation in peat bogs

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gareth Trubl

  17. Soil redox drives virus-host community dynamics and plant biomass degradation in tropical rainforest soils

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Gareth Trubl

  18. Integrating viruses into soil food web biogeochemistry

    Article • Nature Microbiology, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gareth Trubl

  19. Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, July 2024, Wiley

    Gareth Trubl, Master Rhiannon Mondav

  20. Chapter 1: The Astrobiology Primer 3.0

    Article • Astrobiology, March 2024, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gareth Trubl

  21. Chapter 2: What Is Life?

    Article • Astrobiology, March 2024, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gareth Trubl

  22. Chapter 5: Major Biological Innovations in the History of Life on Earth

    Article • Astrobiology, March 2024, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gareth Trubl

  23. Chapter 8: Searching for Life Beyond Earth

    Article • Astrobiology, March 2024, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gareth Trubl

  24. Meeting report: The first soil viral workshop 2022

    Article • Virus Research, July 2023, Elsevier

    Gareth Trubl

  25. Population ecology and potential biogeochemical impacts of ssDNA and dsDNA soil viruses along a permafrost thaw gradient

    Article • June 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Gareth Trubl

  26. Breaking the Ice: A Review of Phages in Polar Ecosystems

    Article • May 2023, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Gareth Trubl

  27. Astrovirology: how viruses enhance our understanding of life in the Universe

    Article • International Journal of Astrobiology, April 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Gareth Trubl

  28. Astrovirology: how viruses will enhance our understanding of life in the universe

    Article • January 2023, MDPI AG

    Gareth Trubl

  29. Improved Mobilome Delineation in Fragmented Genomes

    Article • Frontiers in Bioinformatics, April 2022, Frontiers

    Gareth Trubl

  30. Permafrost as a potential pathogen reservoir

    Article • One Earth, April 2022, Elsevier

    Gareth Trubl

  31. Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gareth Trubl

  32. Carbon Accumulation, Flux, and Fate in Stordalen Mire, a Permafrost Peatland in Transition

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, January 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Gareth Trubl, Master Rhiannon Mondav

  33. Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations

    Article • Microbiome, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gareth Trubl

  34. Active virus-host interactions at sub-freezing temperatures in Arctic peat soil

    Article • Microbiome, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gareth Trubl

  35. Integrating Viral Metagenomics into an Ecological Framework

    Article • Annual Review of Virology, September 2021, Annual Reviews

    Gareth Trubl

  36. Functional capacities of microbial communities to carry out large scale geochemical processes are maintained during ex situ anaerobic incubation

    Article • PLOS One, February 2021, PLOS

    Gareth Trubl

  37. Metagenomic tools in microbial ecology research

    Article • Current Opinion in Biotechnology, February 2021, Elsevier

    Gareth Trubl

  38. Active viral population dynamics in frozen Arctic peat soil revealed with H218O stable isotope probing metagenomics

    Article • January 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Gareth Trubl

  39. Virus-Like Particle: Evolving Meanings in Different Disciplines

    Article • PHAGE Therapy Applications and Research, October 2020, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gareth Trubl

  40. The IsoGenie database: an interdisciplinary data management solution for ecosystems biology and environmental research

    Article • PeerJ, August 2020, PeerJ

    Gareth Trubl, Master Rhiannon Mondav

  41. Coming-of-Age Characterization of Soil Viruses: A User’s Guide to Virus Isolation, Detection within Metagenomes, and Viromics

    Article • Soil Systems, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Gareth Trubl

  42. Characteristics of Wetting-Induced Bacteriophage Blooms in Biological Soil Crust

    Article • mBio, December 2019, ASM Journals

    Gareth Trubl

  43. Towards optimized viral metagenomes for double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses from challenging soils

    Article • PeerJ, July 2019, PeerJ

    Gareth Trubl

  44. Towards optimized viral metagenomes for double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses from challenging soils

    Article • April 2019, PeerJ

    Gareth Trubl

  45. Towards optimized viral metagenomes for double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses from challenging soils

    Article • April 2019, PeerJ

    Gareth Trubl

  46. Optimizing de novo genome assembly from PCR-amplified metagenomes

    Article • December 2018, PeerJ

    Gareth Trubl

  47. Optimizing de novo genome assembly from PCR-amplified metagenomes

    Article • December 2018, PeerJ

    Gareth Trubl

  48. Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing

    Article • mSystems, October 2018, ASM Journals

    Gareth Trubl

  49. Soil viral extraction protocol for ssDNA & dsDNA viruses v3

    Article • September 2018, ZappyLab, Inc.

    Gareth Trubl

  50. Soil viruses are underexplored players in ecosystem carbon processing

    Article • June 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Gareth Trubl

  51. Optimization of viral resuspension methods for carbon-rich soils along a permafrost thaw gradient

    Article • PeerJ, May 2016, PeerJ

    Gareth Trubl

  52. Illuminating structural proteins in viral “dark matter” with metaproteomics

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Gareth Trubl

  53. Brine Assemblages of Ultrasmall Microbial Cells within the Ice Cover of Lake Vida, Antarctica

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2014, ASM Journals

    Gareth Trubl