Olga Zhaxybayeva

Selected Publications

• Migun Shakya, Shannon M. Soucy, and Olga Zhaxybayeva (2017) "Insights into Origin and Evolution of alpha-proteobacterial Gene Transfer Agents", Virus Evolution, 3: vex036.

• Stephen M. J. Pollo, Abigail A. Adebusuy, Timothy J. Straub, Julia M. Foght, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Camilla L. Nesbo (2017) "Genomic insights and temperature-dependent transcriptional responses of Kosmotoga olearia, a deep-biosphere bacterium that can grow from 20C to 79C", Extremophiles, 21:963-979.

• Straub TJ and Zhaxybayeva O (2017) "A null model for microbial diversification", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114: E5414-E5423.

• Lori R. Shapiro, Erin D. Scully, Timothy J. Straub, Jihye Park, Andrew G. Stephenson, Gwyn Beattie, Mark Gleason, Roberto Kolter, Miguel C. Coelho, Consuelo M. DeMoraes, Mark C. Mescher, and Olga Zhaxybayeva (2016) "Horizontal Gene Acquisitions, Mobile Element Proliferation, and Genome Decay in the Host-Restricted Plant Pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila", Genome Biol Evol., 8:649-664.

• Pollo SM, Zhaxybayeva O, Nesbo CL (2015) "Insights into thermoadaptation and the evolution of mesophily from the bacterial phylum Thermotogae." Can J Microbiol., 61:655-70.

• Lossouarn J, Nesbo CL, Mercier C, Zhaxybayeva O, Johnson MS, Charchuck R, Farasin J, Bienvenu N, Baudoux AC, Michoud G, Jebbar M, Geslin C. (2015) "Menage a trois": a selfish genetic element uses a virus to propagate within Thermotogales. Environ Microbiol., 17:3278-88.

• Nesbo CL, S Swithers K, Dahle H, Haverkamp TH, Birkeland NK, Sokolova T, Kublanov I, Zhaxybayeva O. (2015) "Evidence for extensive gene flow and Thermotoga subpopulations in subsurface and marine environments." ISME J., 9:1532-42.

• Complete list of publications is available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ecglab/pubs.html