Tom O. Delmont

The paper identifies genomic features of domoic acid biosynthesis in Pseudo-nitzschia diatoms, revealing expanded toxigenic diversity and environmental expression patterns.

The paper identifies DNA polymerase III subunit genes in plastid-targeted genomes of Teleaulax and related taxa, revealing their role in plastid DNA replication during kleptoplastidy.

The paper identifies a new deep-branching algal lineage, leptophytes, through metagenomic analysis of Tara Oceans data, revealing hidden plastid genome diversity and evolutionary insights.

This study generates absolute estimates of plankton cell concentrations and carbon biomass using environmental genomic data, revealing ecological associations and quantitative biogeographies of photosynthetic lineages.

The paper introduces EcoPhylo, a computational workflow to assess genome recovery rates in microbial communities using ribosomal protein phylogeography, applied to human gut and oral cavity data.

The paper uses flow cytometry and electron microscopy to discover new viral morphotypes and their abundance in aquatic environments, highlighting their ecological role.

The paper discovers a new group of DNA viruses, egoviruses, found in the digestive systems of humans and animals, closely related to poxviruses and suggesting an evolutionary link between gut-infecting viruses and animal pathogens.

The paper analyzes defensomes in 7,759 bacterial genomes from diverse environments, revealing variation in defense systems linked to lifestyle and habitat.

The paper studies genomic variability in Bathycoccus prasinos across different oceanic temperatures, finding temperature-associated variant frequency changes and minimal mutational strategies for thermal adaptation.

The paper shows that mitotic interhomolog recombination generates genomic diversity in diatom clonal populations, with recombination rates exceeding 4% per cell division and increasing under stress.

The paper develops a transcriptome reconstruction method to analyze marine plankton communities using metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, identifying co-abundant gene groups and their functional roles.

The paper links comparative genomics with environmental distribution patterns of microbial populations using metagenomics to study the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact.