Nancy Moran Publications Yale University

2012

Sabree ZL, Huang CY, Okusu A, Moran NA, Normark BB. 2012. The nutrient supplying capabilities of Uzinura, an endosymbiont of armoured scale insects. Environ Microbiol. 2012 Nov 29. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12058.
Kwong WK, Moran NA. 2012. Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees: Snodgrassella alvi gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Neisseriaceae family of the Betaproteobacteria; and Gilliamella apicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Orbaceae fam. nov., Orbales ord. nov., a sister taxon to the Enterobacteriales order of the Gammaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2012 Oct 5. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.044875-0
Tian B, Fadhil NH, Powell JE, Kwong WK, Moran NA. 2012. Long-term exposure to antibiotics has caused accumulation of resistance determinants in the gut microbiota of honeybees. mBio 3(6):e00377-12. doi:10.1128/mBio.00377-12
Honeybees harbor antibiotic-resistance genes at ASM
Sloan DB, Moran NA. 2012. Endosymbiotic bacteria as a source of carotenoids in whiteflies. Biol Lett. 8: 986-989. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0664
Huang CY, Sabree ZL, Moran NA. 2012. Genome Sequence of Blattabacterium sp. Strain BGIGA, Endosymbiont of the Blaberus giganteus Cockroach. J Bacteriol. 194: 4450-4451. doi:10.1128/JB.00789-12
Sloan DB, Moran NA. 2012. Genome reduction and co-evolution between the primary and secondary bacterial symbionts of psyllids. Mol Bio Evol. 29: 3781-3792. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mss180
Sabree ZL, Hansen AK, Moran NA. 2012. Independent Studies Using Deep Sequencing Resolve the Same Set of Core Bacterial Species Dominating Gut Communities of Honey Bees. PLoS ONE 7(7): e41250. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041250
Engel P, Martinson VG, Moran NA. 2012. Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 109: 11002-11007. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1202970109
Editor's choice: Simple but specific in Science
Hansen AK, Moran NA. 2012. Altered tRNA characteristics and 3' maturation in bacterial symbionts with reduced genomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 40: 7870–7884. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks503
Moran NA, Hansen AK, Powell JE, Sabree ZL. 2012. Distinctive Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees Assessed Using Deep Sampling from Individual Worker Bees. PLoS ONE 7(4): e36393. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036393
Martinson VG, Moy J, Moran NA. 2012.Establishment of characteristic gut bacteria during development of the honey bee worker. 2012. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78: 2830-2840. doi: 10.1128/AEM.07810-11
Hansen AK, Vorburger C, Moran NA. 2012. Genomic basis of endosymbiont-conferred protection against an insect parasitoid. Genome Res. 22:106-114. doi: 10.1101/gr.125351.111
Sabree ZL, Huang CY, Arakawa G, Tokuda G, Lo N, Watanabe H, Moran NA. 2012. Genome shrinkage and loss of nutrient-providing potential in the obligate symbiont of the primitive termite Mastotermes darwiniensis. Appl Environ Microbiol. 78: 204-210. doi: 10.1128/ AEM.06540-11
Nováková E, Moran NA. 2012. Diversification of genes for carotenoid biosynthesis in aphids following an ancient transfer from a fungus. Mol Bio Evol. 29: 313-323. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msr206