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2025, 'Lipidic drug delivery systems are responsive to the human microbiome', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 677, pp. 293 - 302, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.07.216
,2024, 'Prevalence of opportunistic pathogens and anti-microbial resistance in urban aquaculture ponds', Journal of Hazardous Materials, 474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134661
,2024, 'Microcystins with Modified Adda5-Residues from a Heterologous Microcystin Expression System', ACS Omega, 9, pp. 27618 - 27631, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c03332
,2024, '16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data from an Australian wastewater treatment plant', Microbiology Resource Announcements, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mra.01237-23
,2024, 'Critical steps in an environmental metaproteomics workflow', Environmental Microbiology, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16637
,2024, 'Long-term stability of the genome structure of the cyanobacterium, Dolichospermum in a deep German lake', Harmful Algae, 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2024.102600
,2024, 'Dynamics of the benthic and planktic microbiomes in a Planktothrix-dominated toxic cyanobacterial bloom in Australia', Water Research, 249, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.120980
,2024, 'Grazer-induced toxin production is energetically costly and significantly reduces growth of cylindrospermopsin-producing cyanobacteria', Limnology and Oceanography, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.12721
,2024, 'Microbiome analysis reveals Microcystis blooms endogenously seeded from benthos within wastewater maturation ponds', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.01585-23
,2023, 'Biosynthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles using the supernatant of Weissella cibaria UPM22MT06 and its antibacterial and cytotoxicity properties', Biologia, 78, pp. 3315 - 3328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11756-023-01506-3
,2023, 'Cyanobacteria as a critical reservoir of the environmental antimicrobial resistome', Environmental Microbiology, 25, pp. 2266 - 2276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16453
,2023, 'Hive Transplantation Has Minimal Impact on the Core Gut Microbiome of the Australian Stingless Bee, Tetragonula carbonaria', Microbial Ecology, 86, pp. 2086 - 2096, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-023-02222-w
,2023, 'Cyanotoxins, biosynthetic gene clusters, and factors modulating cyanotoxin biosynthesis', World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11274-023-03652-x
,2023, 'ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES OF ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLES SYNTHESIZED BY THE SUPERNATANT OF WEISSELLA CONFUSA UPM22MT04', Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 54, pp. 1209 - 1222, http://dx.doi.org/10.36103/ijas.v54i5.1816
,2022, 'Climate dictates microbial community composition and diversity in Australian biological soil crusts (biocrusts)', Environmental Microbiology, 24, pp. 5467 - 5482, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16098
,2022, 'Bacterial community structure and metabolic potential in microbialite-forming mats from South Australian saline lakes', Geobiology, 20, pp. 546 - 559, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12489
,2022, 'Heterologous Expression and Biochemical Analysis Reveal a Schizokinen-Based Siderophore Pathway in Leptolyngbya (Cyanobacteria)', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.02373-21
,2022, 'Tailoring Enzyme Stringency Masks the Multispecificity of a Lyngbyatoxin (Indolactam Alkaloid) Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase', ChemBioChem, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202100574
,2022, '2-Methylhopanoids in geographically distinct, arid biological soil crusts are primarily cyanobacterial in origin', Environmental Microbiology Reports, 14, pp. 164 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.13037
,2021, 'Australian bush medicines harbour diverse microbial endophytes with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity', Journal of Applied Microbiology, 131, pp. 2244 - 2256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jam.15122
,2021, 'Quantitative detection of human- And canine-associated Bacteroides genetic markers from an urban coastal lagoon', Water Science and Technology, 84, pp. 1732 - 1744, http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2021.341
,2021, 'Recent developments in quantitative PCR for monitoring harmful marine microalgae', Harmful Algae, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2021.102096
,2021, 'Genome Mining and Evolutionary Analysis Reveal Diverse Type III Polyketide Synthase Pathways in Cyanobacteria', Genome Biology and Evolution, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab056
,2021, 'Cover Feature: Heterologous Expression of an Unusual Ketosynthase, SxtA, Leads to Production of Saxitoxin Intermediates in Escherichia coli (5/2021)', ChemBioChem, 22, pp. 762 - 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202100062
,2021, 'Heterologous Expression of an Unusual Ketosynthase, SxtA, Leads to Production of Saxitoxin Intermediates in Escherichia coli', ChemBioChem, 22, pp. 845 - 849, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202000675
,2021, 'A Pseudoalteromonas Clade with Remarkable Biosynthetic Potential', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 87, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02604-20
,2021, 'A new species of cryptic cyanobacteria isolated from the epidermis of a bottlenose dolphin and as a bioaerosol', Phycologia, 60, pp. 603 - 618, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2021.1968173
,2021, 'Comparative proteomics of the toxigenic diazotroph Raphidiopsis raciborskii (cyanobacteria) in response to iron', Environmental Microbiology, 23, pp. 405 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15328
,2021, 'Cyanobacterial blooms in wastewater treatment facilities: Significance and emerging monitoring strategies', Journal of Microbiological Methods, 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2020.106123
,2020, 'Genome mining of a fungal endophyte of Taxus yunnanensis (Chinese yew) leads to the discovery of a novel azaphilone polyketide, lijiquinone', Microbial Biotechnology, 13, pp. 1415 - 1427, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13568
,2020, 'Identification of promoter elements in the Dolichospermum circinale AWQC131C saxitoxin gene cluster and the experimental analysis of their use for heterologous expression', BMC Microbiology, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-1720-3
,2019, 'Heterologous expression and biochemical characterisation of cyanotoxin biosynthesis pathways', Natural Product Reports, 36, pp. 1117 - 1136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8np00063h
,2019, 'Phenotypic niche partitioning and transcriptional responses of Microcystis aeruginosa in a spatially heterogeneous environment', Algal Research, 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2019.101551
,2019, 'Microbial biobanking - Cyanobacteria-rich topsoil facilitates mine rehabilitation', Biogeosciences, 16, pp. 2189 - 2204, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2189-2019
,2019, 'Mutagenesis of the Microcystin Tailoring and Transport Proteins in a Heterologous Cyanotoxin Expression System', ACS Synthetic Biology, 8, pp. 1187 - 1194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.9b00068
,2019, 'Diagnosing water treatment critical control points for cyanobacterial removal: Exploring benefits of combined microscopy, next-generation sequencing, and cell integrity methods', Water Research, 152, pp. 96 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.01.002
,2019, 'Physiological responses of the freshwater N
2019, 'Harnessing long-read amplicon sequencing to uncover NRPS and Type i PKS gene sequence diversity in polar desert soils', FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz031
,2019, 'Bioinformatic, phylogenetic and chemical analysis of the UV-absorbing compounds scytonemin and mycosporine-like amino acids from the microbial mat communities of Shark Bay, Australia', Environmental Microbiology, 21, pp. 702 - 715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14517
,2019, 'Re-evaluation of paralytic shellfish toxin profiles in cyanobacteria using hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry', Toxicon, 158, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2018.11.301
,2019, 'Distribution and conservation of known secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in the genomes of geographically diverse Microcystis aeruginosa strains', Marine and Freshwater Research, 71, pp. 701 - 716, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF18406
,2018, 'Synthetic microbe communities provide internal reference standards for metagenome sequencing and analysis', Nature Communications, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05555-0
,2018, 'Insertions within the Saxitoxin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Result in Differential Toxin Profiles', ACS Chemical Biology, 13, pp. 3107 - 3114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.8b00608
,2018, 'Microbial diversity of speleothems in two southeast Australian limestone cave arches', Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 80, pp. 121 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.4311/2017MB0119
,2018, 'Biocrust morphology is linked to marked differences in microbial community composition', Plant and Soil, 429, pp. 65 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3442-3
,2018, 'Effects of indigenous soil cyanobacteria on seed germination and seedling growth of arid species used in restoration', Plant and Soil, 429, pp. 91 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-3607-8
,2018, 'Viral communities of Shark Bay modern stromatolites', Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, pp. 1223, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01223
,2018, 'Cyanobacterial community composition and bacteria-bacteria interactions promote the stable occurrence of particle-associated bacteria', Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00777
,2018, 'An in Vitro and in Vivo Study of Broad-Range Phosphopantetheinyl Transferases for Heterologous Expression of Cyanobacterial Natural Products', ACS Synthetic Biology, 7, pp. 1143 - 1151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00091
,2018, 'Genome variation in nine co-occurring toxic Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii strains', Harmful Algae, 73, pp. 157 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2018.03.001
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