Recent publications from the lab

Stoebel, D. M. 2005. "Lack of evidence for horizontal transfer of the lac operon into Escherichia coli " Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:683-690. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Hasty, D. L., X. Wu, D. E. Dykhuizen and E. V. Sokurenko. 2005. "Allelic variation of the FimH lectin of Escherichia coli type 1 fimbriae and uropathogenesis." Pp. 351-377 in Colonization of Mucosal Surfaces. Edited by James P. Nataro et al. ASM Press, Washington D.C.

Brisson, D. and D. E. Dykhuizen. 2004. "ospC diversity in Borrelia burgdorferi: different hosts are different niches. Genetics 168:713-722. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Dykhuizen, D. E. and A. M. Dean. 2004. "Evolution of specialists in an experimental microcosom." Genetics 167:2015-2026. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Zhong, S., A. Khodursky, D. E. Dykhuizen, A.M. Dean. 2004. "Evolutionary genomics of ecological specilization." PNAS 101:11719-11724. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Sokurenko, E.V., M. Feldgarden, E. Trintchina, S. J. Weissman, S. Avagyan, S. Chattopadhyay, J. R. Johnson and D. E. Dykhuizen. 2004. "Selection footprint in the FimH adhesin shows pathoadaptive niche differentiation in Escherichia coli". Molecular Biology and Evolution 21:1373-1383. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Feldgarden, M., N. Byrd, and F. M. Cohan. 2003. "Gradual evolution in bacteria: evidence from Bacillus systematics." Microbiology 149:3565-3573. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Feldgarden, M., D. M. Stoebel, D. Brisson, and D. E. Dykhuizen. 2003. "Size doesn't matter: microbial selection experiments address ecological phenomena." Ecology 84:1679-1687. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Brisson, D. 2003. "The directed mutation controvery in an evolutionary context." Critical Reviews in Microbiology 29:25-35. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Weissman, S. J., S. L. Moseley, D. E. Dykhuizen, and E. V. Sokurenko. 2003. "Enterobacterial adhesins and the case for studying SNPs in bacteria." Trends in Microbiology 11:115-117. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Lunzer, M., A. Natarajan, D. E. Dykhuizen, and A. M. Dean. 2002. "Enzyme kinetics, substitutable resources and competition: from biochemistry to frequency-dependent selection in lac." Genetics 162:485-499. [Abstract] [Reprint]

Qiu, W.-G., D. E. Dykhuizen, M. S. Acosta, B. J. Luft. 2002. "Geographic Uniformity of the Lyme Disease Spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) and Its Shared History With Tick Vector (Ixodes scapularis) in the Northeastern United States." Genetics 160:833-849. [Abstract] [Reprint]