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  1. The archaeal RNA chaperone TRAM0076 shapes the transcriptome and optimizes the growth of Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • PLoS Genetics, August 2019, PLOS

    Professor Xiuzhu Dong, William Whitman

  2. Assembly of Methyl Coenzyme M Reductase in the Methanogenic ArchaeonMethanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 2018, ASM Journals

    William Whitman

  3. A Flexible System for Cultivation ofMethanococcusand Other Formate-Utilizing Methanogens

    Article • Archaea, January 2017, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    William Whitman

  4. Draft Genome Sequence of Geobacillus thermopakistaniensis Strain MAS1

    Article • Genome Announcements, June 2014, ASM Journals

    William Whitman, Masood Ahmed Siddiqui

  5. The putative tRNA 2‐thiouridine synthetase Ncs6 is an essential sulfur carrier in Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • FEBS Letters, February 2014, Wiley

    William Whitman

  6. Composition of bacterial communities in sand dunes of subtropical coastal forests

    Article • Biology and Fertility of Soils, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  7. Regulatory and Functional Diversity of Methylmercaptopropionate Coenzyme A Ligases from the Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Demethylation Pathway in Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3 and Other Proteobacteria

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, January 2014, ASM Journals

    William Whitman

  8. Metabolism of dimethylsulphoniopropionate by Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS‐3

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 2013, Wiley

    William Whitman

  9. Soil bacterial community succession during long‐term ecosystem development

    Article • Molecular Ecology, June 2013, Wiley

    William Whitman

  10. Progressive and retrogressive ecosystem development coincide with soil bacterial community change in a dune system under lowland temperate rainforest in New Zealand

    Article • Plant and Soil, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  11. Genome-scale analysis of gene function in the hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    William Whitman

  12. Bacterial communities in soil mimic patterns of vegetative succession and ecosystem climax but are resilient to change between seasons

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, February 2013, Elsevier

    William Whitman

  13. Genetic Confirmation of the Role of Sulfopyruvate Decarboxylase in Coenzyme M Biosynthesis inMethanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Archaea, January 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    William Whitman

  14. Comparison of soil bacterial communities between coastal and inland forests in a subtropical area

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, September 2012, Elsevier

    William Whitman

  15. Biosynthesis of 4-Thiouridine in tRNA in the Methanogenic Archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 2012, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    William Whitman

  16. Genomic Insights into Bacterial DMSP Transformations

    Article • Annual Review of Marine Science, January 2012, Annual Reviews

    William Whitman

  17. Structures of dimethylsulfoniopropionate‐dependent demethylase from the marine organism Pelagabacter ubique

    Article • Protein Science, January 2012, Wiley

    William Whitman

  18. Taxonomic outline of the phylum Actinobacteria

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  19. Road map of the phylum Actinobacteria

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  20. Land-use history has a stronger impact on soil microbial community composition than aboveground vegetation and soil properties

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, October 2011, Elsevier

    William Whitman, Professor Thomas M Schmidt

  21. Transition of microbial communities during the adaption to anaerobic digestion of carrot waste

    Article • Bioresource Technology, August 2011, Elsevier

    William Whitman, Sarahi L. Garcia

  22. Novel pathway for assimilation of dimethylsulphoniopropionate widespread in marine bacteria

    Article • Nature, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  23. Soil bacterial communities in native and regenerated perhumid montane forests

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, February 2011, Elsevier

    William Whitman

  24. Molecular Characterization of Soil Bacterial Community in a Perhumid, Low Mountain Forest

    Article • Microbes and Environments, January 2011, Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology

    William Whitman

  25. Bacterial Catabolism of Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP)

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2011, Frontiers

    William Whitman

  26. Change in Bacterial Community Structure in Response to Disturbance of Natural Hardwood and Secondary Coniferous Forest Soils in Central Taiwan

    Article • Microbial Ecology, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  27. Characterization of Energy-Conserving Hydrogenase B in Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, May 2010, ASM Journals

    William Whitman

  28. Development of soil microbial communities during tallgrass prairie restoration

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, February 2010, Elsevier

    William Whitman

  29. Phylum XIV. Bacteroidetes phyl. nov.

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  30. Road map of the phyla Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  31. Taxonomic outlines of the phyla Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), ­Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, ­Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  32. Bacterial Community Diversity in Undisturbed Perhumid Montane Forest Soils in Taiwan

    Article • Microbial Ecology, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  33. Tryptophan auxotrophs were obtained by random transposon insertions in the Methanococcus maripaludis tryptophan operon

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, August 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    William Whitman

  34. Proteocatella sphenisci gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, spore-forming anaerobe isolated from penguin guano

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, July 2009, Society for General Microbiology

    William Whitman

  35. Spirochaeta dissipatitropha sp. nov., an alkaliphilic, obligately anaerobic bacterium, and emended description of the genus Spirochaeta Ehrenberg 1835

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, July 2009, Society for General Microbiology

    William Whitman

  36. Spirochaeta dissipatitropha sp. nov., an alkaliphilic, obligately anaerobic bacterium, and emended description of the genus Spirochaeta Ehrenberg 1835

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, June 2009, Society for General Microbiology

    William Whitman

  37. Biochemistry and genetics of autotrophy in Methanococcus

    Article • March 2009, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

    William Whitman

  38. The Diverse Bacterial Community in Intertidal, Anaerobic Sediments at Sapelo Island, Georgia

    Article • Microbial Ecology, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  39. Taxonomic outline of the phylum Firmicutes

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  40. Revised road map to the phylum Firmicutes

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  41. Relative impacts of land-use, management intensity and fertilization upon soil microbial community structure in agricultural systems

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, November 2008, Elsevier

    William Whitman

  42. Dimethylsulfoniopropionate-Dependent Demethylase (DmdA) from Pelagibacter ubique and Silicibacter pomeroyi

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, October 2008, ASM Journals

    William Whitman

  43. Formate-Dependent H2 Production by the Mesophilic Methanogen Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2008, ASM Journals

    William Whitman

  44. Differences in the composition and diversity of bacterial communities from agricultural and forest soils

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, June 2008, Elsevier

    William Whitman

  45. Microbial community succession and bacterial diversity in soils during 77 000 years of ecosystem development

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, April 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    William Whitman

  46. Section 7 update: LIBSHUFF Comparisons of 16S rRNA Gene Clone Libraries

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  47. Thermococcus thioreducens sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic, obligately sulfur-reducing archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, July 2007, Society for General Microbiology

    William Whitman

  48. Anaerovirgula multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel spore-forming, alkaliphilic anaerobe isolated from Owens Lake, California, USA

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, November 2006, Society for General Microbiology

    William Whitman

  49. Biochemical and genetic characterization of an early step in a novel pathway for the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids and p‐aminobenzoic acid in the archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, October 2006, Wiley

    William Whitman

  50. Role of the precorrin 6-X reductase gene in cobamide biosynthesis inMethanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Archaea, January 2005, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    William Whitman

  51. Genome sequence of Silicibacter pomeroyi reveals adaptations to the marine environment

    Article • December 2004

    William Whitman, Prof. Jonathan A. Eisen, William Nelson

  52. Continuous culture of Methanococcus maripaludis under defined nutrient conditions

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, September 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    William Whitman

  53. Two Biosynthetic Pathways for Aromatic Amino Acids in the Archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, August 2004, ASM Journals

    William Whitman

  54. The importance of porE and porF in the anabolic pyruvate oxidoreductase of Methanococcus maripaludi s

    Article • Archives of Microbiology, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  55. Identification of uncultured bacteria tightly associated with the intestine of the earthworm Lumbricus rubellus (Lumbricidae; Oligochaeta)

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, December 2003, Elsevier

    William Whitman

  56. Tindallia californiensis sp. nov., a new anaerobic, haloalkaliphilic, spore-forming acetogen isolated from Mono Lake in California

    Article • Extremophiles, August 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  57. Intracellular pyruvate flux in the methane-producing archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • Archives of Microbiology, December 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman

  58. Genome of Methanocaldococcus (methanococcus) jannaschii

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

    William Whitman, Dr Nikos C Kyrpides

  59. Cysteinyl‐tRNA formation: the last puzzle of aminoacyl‐tRNA synthesis

    Article • FEBS Letters, November 1999, Wiley

    William Whitman

  60. Genetics of Methanococcus: possibilities for functional genomics in Archaea

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 1999, Wiley

    William Whitman

  61. A reconstruction of the metabolism of Methanococcus jannaschii from sequence data

    Article • Gene, September 1997, Elsevier

    William Whitman

  62. Cloning and phylogenetic analysis of the genes encoding acetohydroxyacid synthase from the archaeon Methanococcus aeolicus

    Article • Gene, March 1997, Elsevier

    William Whitman

  63. Development of genetic approaches for the methane‐producing archaebacterium Methanococcus maripaludis

    Article • BioFactors, January 1997, Wiley

    William Whitman

  64. Transformation of Methanococcus maripaludis and identification of a Pst I-like restriction system

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, September 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    William Whitman

  65. Pyruvate oxidation by Methanococcus spp.

    Article • Archives of Microbiology, September 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Whitman