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  1. Novel killer yeasts and toxins from the gardens of fungus-growing ants

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2026, ASM Journals

    Paul Rowley

  2. The Saccharomyces killer toxin K62 is a protein of the aerolysin family

    Article • mBio, December 2025, ASM Journals

    Paul Rowley

  3. A Comprehensive Structural and Functional Analysis of Saccharomyces Killer Toxins

    Article • November 2025, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  4. Correction: Discovery of novel targets for important human and plant fungal pathogens via an automated computational pipeline HitList

    Article • PLOS One, October 2025, PLOS

    Paul Rowley

  5. The association of Yarrowia lipolytica with onychomycosis

    Article • Medical Mycology Case Reports, September 2025, Elsevier

    Paul Rowley

  6. The identification of a novel interaction site for the human immunodeficiency virus capsid on nucleoporin 153

    Article • Journal of General Virology, May 2025, Society for General Microbiology

    Paul Rowley

  7. Evolution of a Plasmid Regulatory Circuit Ameliorates Plasmid Fitness Cost

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, March 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley

  8. Discovery of Novel Targets for Important Human and Plant Fungal Pathogens via Automated Computational Pipeline HitList

    Article • October 2024, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  9. The Prevalence of Killer Yeasts in the Gardens of Fungus-Growing Ants and the Discovery of a Novel Killer Toxin named Ksino

    Article • October 2024, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  10. Defining the alpha domain of K1-like killer toxins

    Article • October 2024, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  11. Inhibition of diastatic yeasts by Saccharomyces killer toxins to prevent hyperattenuation during brewing

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2024, ASM Journals

    Paul Rowley

  12. Evolution of a Plasmid Regulatory Circuit Ameliorates Plasmid Fitness Cost

    Article • February 2024, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  13. yEvo: A modular eukaryotic genetics and evolution research experience for high school students

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, January 2024, Wiley

    Paul Rowley

  14. An apparent lack of synergy between degradative enzymes against Staphylococcus aureus biofilms

    Article • October 2023, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  15. Novel viruses of the family Partitiviridae discovered in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, June 2023, PLOS

    Paul Rowley

  16. Fungal Glycoside Hydrolases Display Unique Specificities for Polysaccharides and Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms

    Article • Microorganisms, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Paul Rowley

  17. Abstract 2712: The Cytotoxic Mechanism of Killer Protein 4-Like proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 2023, Elsevier

    Paul Rowley

  18. The prevalence of killer yeasts and double-stranded RNAs in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • FEMS Yeast Research, January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley

  19. Defining the HIV Capsid Binding Site of Nucleoporin 153

    Article • mSphere, October 2022, ASM Journals

    Brenda Rubenstein , Paul Rowley

  20. Killer Toxins for the Control of Diastatic Yeasts in Brewing

    Article • October 2022, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  21. yEvo: experimental evolution in high school classrooms selects for novel mutations that impact clotrimazole resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, September 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley

  22. yEvo: a modular eukaryotic genetics and evolution research experience for high school students

    Article • May 2022, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  23. Defining the HIV Capsid Binding Site of Nucleoporin 153

    Article • May 2022, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  24. The Characterization of a Novel Virus Discovered in the Yeast Pichia membranifaciens

    Article • Viruses, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Paul Rowley

  25. A Novel Virus Discovered in the Yeast Pichia membranifaciens

    Article • January 2022, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  26. Vaginal Isolates of Candida glabrata Are Uniquely Susceptible to Ionophoric Killer Toxins Produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2021, ASM Journals

    Paul Rowley

  27. Nuku, a family of primate retrocopies derived from KU70

    Article • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, May 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley

  28. yEvo: Experimental evolution in high school classrooms selects for novel mutations and epistatic interactions that impact clotrimazole resistance in S. cerevisiae

    Article • May 2021, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  29. The Species-Specific Acquisition and Diversification of a K1-like Family of Killer Toxins in Budding Yeasts of the Saccharomycotina

    Article • PLoS Genetics, February 2021, PLOS

    Paul Rowley

  30. Nuku, a family of primate retrogenes derived from KU70

    Article • December 2020, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  31. Vaginal Isolates of Candida glabrata are Uniquely Susceptible to Ionophoric Killer Toxins Produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • October 2020, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  32. The Species-specific Acquisition and Diversification of a Novel Family of Killer Toxins in Budding Yeasts of the Saccharomycotina

    Article • October 2020, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  33. The design and implementation of restraint devices for the injection of pathogenic microorganisms into Galleria mellonella

    Article • PLOS One, July 2020, PLOS

    Paul Rowley

  34. A bipartite thermodynamic-kinetic contribution by an activating mutation to RDF-independent excision by a phage serine integrase

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, June 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley

  35. The design and implementation of restraint devices for the injection of pathogenic microorganisms into Galleria mellonella

    Article • March 2020, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  36. HIV-1 Accessory Protein Vpr Interacts with REAF/RPRD2 To Mitigate Its Antiviral Activity

    Article • Journal of Virology, January 2020, ASM Journals

    Paul Rowley

  37. A Rapid Method for Sequencing Double-Stranded RNAs Purified from Yeasts and the Identification of a Potent K1 Killer Toxin Isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • Viruses, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Paul Rowley

  38. HIV-1 accessory protein Vpr interacts with REAF/RPRD2 to mitigate its antiviral activity

    Article • September 2018, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  39. Control of yeast retrotransposons mediated through nucleoporin evolution

    Article • PLoS Genetics, April 2018, PLOS

    Paul Rowley

  40. Control of Genetic Parasites Mediated Through Nucleoporin Evolution

    Article • November 2017, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  41. The frenemies within: viruses, retrotransposons and plasmids that naturally infectSaccharomycesyeasts

    Article • Yeast, June 2017, Wiley

    Paul Rowley

  42. XRN1 Is a Species-Specific Virus Restriction Factor in Yeasts

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, October 2016, PLOS

    Paul Rowley

  43. XRN1 is a Species-Specific Virus Restriction Factor in Yeasts

    Article • August 2016, openRxiv

    Paul Rowley

  44. An Overview of Tyrosine Site-specific Recombination: From an Flp Perspective

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, July 2015, ASM Journals

    Paul Rowley

  45. Stereospecific suppression of active site mutants by methylphosphonate substituted substrates reveals the stereochemical course of site-specific DNA recombination

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, May 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley

  46. The Effect of Species Representation on the Detection of Positive Selection in Primate Gene Data Sets

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley

  47. The Partitioning and Copy Number Control Systems of the Selfish Yeast Plasmid: An Optimized Molecular Design for Stable Persistence in Host Cells

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, September 2014, ASM Journals

    Paul Rowley

  48. Positive selection of primate genes that promote HIV-1 replication

    Article • Virology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Paul Rowley

  49. Organization of DNA Partners and Strand Exchange Mechanisms during Flp Site-Specific Recombination Analyzed by Difference Topology, Single Molecule FRET and Single Molecule TPM

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, February 2014, Elsevier

    Paul Rowley

  50. Temporal sequence and cell cycle cues in the assembly of host factors at the yeast 2 micron plasmid partitioning locus

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley

  51. Restoration of catalytic functions in Cre recombinase mutants by electrostatic compensation between active site and DNA substrate

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, May 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Piotr Guga, Paul Rowley

  52. Electrostatic Suppression Allows Tyrosine Site-specific Recombination in the Absence of a Conserved Catalytic Arginine

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, May 2010, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Piotr Guga, Paul Rowley

  53. Site-specific recombination by φC31 integrase and other large serine recombinases

    Article • Biochemical Society Transactions, March 2010, Portland Press Ltd.

    Paul Rowley

  54. Metabolic engineering without plasmids

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Paul Rowley

  55. DNA binding and synapsis by the large C-terminal domain of  C31 integrase

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley

  56. Active site electrostatics protect genome integrity by blocking abortive hydrolysis during DNA recombination

    Article • The EMBO Journal, May 2009, Wiley

    Piotr Guga, Paul Rowley

  57. Role of the N-Terminal Domain of φC31 Integrase in attB-attP Synapsis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, August 2008, ASM Journals

    Paul Rowley

  58. A motif in the C-terminal domain of ϕC31 integrase controls the directionality of recombination

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, May 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Paul Rowley