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  1. Draft Genome Sequences of Nine Vibrio sp. Isolates from across the United States Closely Related to Vibrio cholerae

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, November 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Yan Boucher

  2. Complete Genome Sequence of Vibrio sp. Strain 2521-89, a Close Relative of Vibrio cholerae Isolated from Lake Water in New Mexico, USA

    Article • Genome Announcements, August 2017, ASM Journals

    Dr Yan Boucher

  3. Major tdh+ Vibrio parahaemolyticus serotype changes temporally in the Bay of Bengal estuary of Bangladesh

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Yan Boucher

  4. A Small Number of Phylogenetically Distinct Clonal Complexes Dominate a Coastal Vibrio cholerae Population

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2016, ASM Journals

    Dr Yan Boucher

  5. Mexico cholera

    Article • mBio, May 2016, ASM Journals

    Dr Yan Boucher

  6. The out-of-the-delta hypothesis: dense human populations in low-lying river deltas served as agents for the evolution of a deadly pathogen

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, October 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Yan Boucher

  7. The Dynamics of Genetic Interactions between Vibrio metoecus and Vibrio cholerae , Two Close Relatives Co-Occurring in the Environment

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, October 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Yan Boucher

  8. Ancient origin of the biosynthesis of lignin precursors

    Article • Biology Direct, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yan Boucher

  9. Lateral Gene Transfer and Microbial Diversity

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yan Boucher

  10. Vibrio metoecus sp. nov., a close relative of Vibrio cholerae isolated from coastal brackish ponds and clinical specimens

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, June 2014, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Yan Boucher

  11. The Roles of Lateral Gene Transfer and Vertical Descent in Vibrio Evolution

    Article • April 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Yan Boucher

  12. The 2010 Cholera Outbreak in Haiti: How Science Solved a Controversy

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, April 2014, PLOS

    Dr Yan Boucher

  13. Evolutionary Dynamics of Vibrio cholerae O1 following a Single-Source Introduction to Haiti

    Article • mBio, July 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Yan Boucher, Cheryl Tarr

  14. Integron Gene Cassettes: A Repository of Novel Protein Folds with Distinct Interaction Sites

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2013, PLOS

    Dr Yan Boucher

  15. Integron associated mobile genes

    Article • Mobile Genetic Elements, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Yan Boucher

  16. High Frequency of a Novel Filamentous Phage, VCYϕ, within an Environmental Vibrio cholerae Population

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2011, ASM Journals

    Dr Yan Boucher

  17. Genome Sequence of Vibrio rotiferianus Strain DAT722

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, May 2011, ASM Journals

    Dr Yan Boucher

  18. Local Mobile Gene Pools Rapidly Cross Species Boundaries To Create Endemicity within Global Vibrio cholerae Populations

    Article • mBio, April 2011, ASM Journals

    Dr Yan Boucher

  19. Crystal Structure of an Integron Gene Cassette-Associated Protein from Vibrio cholerae Identifies a Cationic Drug-Binding Module

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2011, PLOS

    Dr Yan Boucher

  20. Coral-mucus-associated Vibrio integrons in the Great Barrier Reef: genomic hotspots for environmental adaptation

    Article • The ISME Journal, January 2011, Nature

    Dr Yan Boucher

  21. Molecular musings in microbial ecology and evolution

    Article • Biology Direct, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yan Boucher

  22. Integration of a laterally acquired gene into a cell network important for growth in a strain of Vibrio rotiferianus

    Article • BMC Microbiology, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yan Boucher

  23. Metapopulation structure ofVibrionaceaeamong coastal marine invertebrates

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2010, Wiley

    Professor Martin Polz, Dr Yan Boucher

  24. Clanistics: a multi-level perspective for harvesting unrooted gene trees

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, August 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Yan Boucher

  25. Structure from the mobile metagenome of Vibrio cholerae. Integron cassette protein VCH_CASS14

    Article • August 2009, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Dr Yan Boucher

  26. Revisiting the concept of lineage in prokaryotes: a phylogenetic perspective

    Article • BioEssays, May 2009, Wiley

    Dr Yan Boucher

  27. Integron Gene Cassettes and Degradation of Compounds Associated with Industrial Waste: The Case of the Sydney Tar Ponds

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2009, PLOS

    Dr Yan Boucher

  28. ACID: annotation of cassette and integron data

    Article • BMC Bioinformatics, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Polz, Dr Yan Boucher, Michael R Gillings

  29. Epistemological Impacts of Horizontal Gene Transfer on Classification in Microbiology

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yan Boucher

  30. Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

    Article • Biology Direct, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yan Boucher, Professor Johann Peter Gogarten

  31. Lateral gene transfer challenges principles of microbial systematics

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, May 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Yan Boucher

  32. Integron-associated gene cassettes in Halifax Harbour: assessment of a mobile gene pool in marine sediments

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, April 2008, Wiley

    Dr Yan Boucher, DR Camilla L Nesbø

  33. Structural Genomics of the Bacterial Mobile Metagenome: an Overview

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yan Boucher

  34. A putative house-cleaning enzyme encoded within an integron array: 1.8 Å crystal structure defines a new MazG subtype

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, November 2007, Wiley

    Dr Yan Boucher

  35. Crystal structure of iMazG from Vibrio DAT 722: Ctag-iMazG (P43212)

    Article • October 2007, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Dr Yan Boucher

  36. Crystal structure of iMazG from Vibrio DAT 722: Ntag-iMazG (P43212)

    Article • October 2007, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Dr Yan Boucher

  37. Crystal structure of iMazG from Vibrio DAT 722: Ctag-iMazG (P41212)

    Article • October 2007, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Dr Yan Boucher

  38. Integrons: mobilizable platforms that promote genetic diversity in bacteria

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Yan Boucher

  39. Use of chromosomal integron arrays as a phylogenetic typing system for Vibrio cholerae pandemic strains

    Article • Microbiology, May 2007, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Yan Boucher, Michael R Gillings

  40. Improving protein solubility: The use of the Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase gene as a fusion reporter

    Article • Protein Expression and Purification, May 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Yan Boucher

  41. Lateral gene transfer and phylogenetic assignment of environmental fosmid clones

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2005, Wiley

    Dr Yan Boucher, DR Camilla L Nesbø

  42. Paradigm change in evolutionary microbiology

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, March 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Yan Boucher

  43. Higher-level classification of the Archaea: evolution of methanogenesis and methanogens

    Article • Archaea, January 2005, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Yan Boucher

  44. Origins and evolution of isoprenoid lipid biosynthesis in archaea

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2004, Wiley

    Dr Yan Boucher

  45. Lateral Gene Transfer and the Origins of Prokaryotic Groups

    Article • Annual Review of Genetics, December 2003, Annual Reviews

    Dr Yan Boucher, DR Camilla L Nesbø

  46. Biodiversity: Something new under the sea

    Article • Nature, May 2002, Nature

    Dr Yan Boucher

  47. Defining the Core of Nontransferable Prokaryotic Genes: The Euryarchaeal Core

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, October 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yan Boucher, DR Camilla L Nesbø

  48. Microbial genomes: dealing with diversity

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, June 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Yan Boucher, DR Camilla L Nesbø

  49. The role of lateral gene transfer in the evolution of isoprenoid biosynthesis pathways

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, August 2000, Wiley

    Dr Yan Boucher