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2020

Stice SP, Thao KK, Khang CH, Baltrus DA, Dutta B, Kvitko BH. 2020 "Thiosulfinate Tolerance Is a Virulence Strategy of an Atypical Bacterial Pathogen of Onion. Curr Biol. 2020 Jun 26:S0960-9822(20)30779-X WEB PDF 

Kandel PP, Baltrus DA, Hockett KL. 2020 "Pseudomonas Can Survive Tailocin Killing via Persistence-Like and Heterogenous Resistance Mechanisms." J Bacteriol. Jun 9;202(13):e00142-20 WEB PDF 

Baltrus DA. 2020 "Bacterial dispersal and biogeography as underappreciated influences on phytobiomes." Curr Opin Plant Biol. Apr 8;56:37-46. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2020.02.010. WEB PDF 

Baltrus DA, Clark M. 2020 "Complete Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas coronafaciens pv. oryzae 1_6." Microbiol Resour Announc. Jan 16;9(3):e01564-19 ​WEB PDF 

2019

Baltrus DA, Cuomo CA, Dennehy JJ, Dunning Hotopp JC, Maresca JA, Newton ILG, Rasko DA, Rokas A, Roux S, Stajich JE. 2019 "Future-Proofing Your Microbiology Resource Announcements Genome Assembly for Reproducibility and Clarity." Microbiol Resour Announc. Sep 5;8(36):e00954-19. WEB PDF 

Sharma R, Pielstick BA, Bell KA, Nieman TB, Stubbs OA, Yeates EL, Baltrus DA, Grose JH. 2019 "A Novel, Highly Related Jumbo Family of Bacteriophages That Were Isolated Against Erwinia." Front Microbiol. Jul 23;10:1533. WEB PDF 

Baltrus DA, Clark M, Inderbitzin P, Pignatta D, Knight-Connoni V, Arnold AE. 2019 "Complete Genome Sequence of Luteibacter pinisoli MAH-14." Microbiol Resour Announc. Jul 18;8(29):e00774-19 WEB PDF

Baltrus DA, Clark M. 2019 "A complete genome sequence for Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi PP1 highlights the importance of multiple modes of horizontal gene transfer during phytopathogen evolution." Mol Plant Pathol. Jul;20(7):1013-1018.WEB PDF 

Smith BA, Leligdon C, Baltrus DA. 2019 "Just the Two of Us? A Family of Pseudomonas Megaplasmids Offers a Rare Glimpse into the Evolution of Large Mobile Elements." Genome Biol Evol. Apr 1;11(4):1192-1206 PDF 

Lu-Irving P, Harenčár JG, Sounart H, Welles SR, Swope SM, Baltrus DA, Dlugosch KM. 2019 "Native and Invading Yellow Starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) Microbiomes Differ in Composition and Diversity of Bacteria." mSphere. Mar 6;4(2):e00088-19. PDF 

Morimoto J, Baltrus DA. 2019 "TThe Extended Genotype: To What Extent? A Comment on Carthey et al." Trends Ecol Evol. Mar;34(3):186-187. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.12.010. PDF 

Baltrus DA, Clark M, Smith C, Hockett KL. 2019 "Localized recombination drives diversification of killing spectra for phage-derived syringacins." ISME J. Feb;13(2):237-249. ​PDF 

2018​

Sharma R, Berg JA, Beatty NJ, Choi MC, Cowger AE, Cozzens BJR, Duncan SG, Fajardo CP, Ferguson HP, Galbraith T, Herring JA, Hoj TR, Durrant JL, Hyde JR, Jensen GL, Ke SY, Killpack S, Kruger JL, Lawrence EEK, Nwosu IO, Tam TC, Thompson DW, Tueller JA, Ward MEH, Webb CJ, Wood ME, Yeates EL, Baltrus DA, Breakwell DP, Hope S, Grose JH. 2018 "Genome Sequences of Nine Erwinia amylovora Bacteriophages." Microbiol Resour Announc. Oct 11;7(14):e00944-18. PDF

Baltrus DA, Spraker J, Arnold AE. 2018 "Quantifying Re-association of a Facultative Endohyphal Bacterium with a Filamentous Fungus."
Methods Mol Biol.:1-11. PDF 

Fitzpatrick CR, Lu-Irving P, Copeland J, Guttman DS, Wang PW, Baltrus DA, Dlugosch KM, Johnson MTJ. 2018 "Chloroplast sequence variation and the efficacy of peptide nucleic acids for blocking host amplification in plant microbiome studies."
Microbiome. Aug 18;6(1):144. PDF

Baltrus DA, Orth KN. 2018 "Understanding genomic diversity in Pseudomonas syringae throughout the forest and on the trees."
New Phytol. Jul;219(2):482-484. PDF

Baltrus DA, Dougherty K, Diaz B, Murillo R. 2018 "Evolutionary Plasticity of AmrZ Regulation in Pseudomonas."
mSphere. Apr 18;3(2):e00132-18. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00132-18. PDF

2017

Smee MR, Baltrus DA, Hendry TA. 2017 "Entomopathogenicity to Two Hemipteran Insects Is Common but Variable across Epiphytic Pseudomonas syringae Strains. Front Plant Sci. 2017 Dec 19;8:2149. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02149  PDF

Williams LE, Baltrus DA, O'Donnell SD, Skelly TJ, Martin MO. 2017 "Complete Genome Sequence of the Predatory Bacterium Ensifer adhaerens Casida A" Genome Announc. 5(47):e01344-17. PDF

Araldi-Brondolo SJ, Spraker J, Shaffer JP, Woytenko EH, Baltrus DA, Gallery RE, Arnold AE. "Bacterial Endosymbionts: Master Modulators of Fungal Phenotypes" Microbiol Spectr. 5(5). PDF

Baltrus DA. "Adaptation, specialization, and coevolution within phytobiomes." Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2017 Aug;38:109-116. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2017.04.023. PDF

Shaffer JP, U'Ren JM, Gallery RE, Baltrus DA, Arnold AE. "An Endohyphal Bacterium (Chitinophaga, Bacteroidetes) Alters Carbon Source Use by Fusarium keratoplasticum (F. solani Species Complex, Nectriaceae)." Front Microbiol. 8:350. PDF

Baltrus DA, Dougherty K, Arendt KR, Huntemann M, Clum A, Pillay M, Palaniappan K, Varghese N, Mikhailova N, Stamatis D, Reddy TBK, Ngan CY, Daum C, Shapiro N, Markowitz V, Ivanova N, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Arnold AE. "Absence of genome reduction in diverse, facultative endohyphal bacteria." Microb Genom. 3(2):e000101.PDF
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Hockett KL, Baltrus DA. "Use of the Soft-agar Overlay Technique to Screen for Bacterially Produced Inhibitory Compounds."
.J Vis Exp. (119):55064. PDF

Baltrus DA, McCann HC, Guttman DS. "Evolution, genomics and epidemiology of Pseudomonas syringae: Challenges in Bacterial Molecular Plant Pathology" Mol Plant Pathol. 18(1):152-168. PDF

2016

Hendry TA, Clark KJ, Baltrus DA. "A highly infective plant-associated bacterium influences reproductive rates in pea aphids" R Soc Open Sci. 2016 Feb 10;3(2):150478. PDF

Arendt KR, Hockett KL, Araldi-Brondolo SJ, Baltrus DA, Arnold AE. "Isolation of Endohyphal Bacteria from Foliar Ascomycota and In Vitro Establishment of Their Symbiotic Associations" Appl Environ Microbiol. 2016 May 2;82(10):2943-2949. PDF

Baltrus DA. "Divorcing Strain Classification from Species Names" Trends Microbiol. 2016 Jun;24(6):431-439. PDF 

2015

Hockett KL, Renner T, Baltrus DA. "Independent Co-option of a Tailed Bacteriophage into a Killing Complex in Pseudomonas" MBio 11:6(4): pii.e00452-15 PDF 

2014

Hendry TA, Hunter MS, Baltrus DA. "The Facultative Symbiont Rickettsia Protects an Invasive Whitefly Against Entomopathogenic Pseudomonas syringae Strains" Appl Environ Microbiol. 80(23): 7161-7168 PDF
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Dougherty K, Smith BA, Moore AF, Maitland S, Fanger C, Murillo R, Baltrus DA. "Multiple Phenotypic Changes Associated with Large-scale Horizontal Gene Transfer" PLoS ONE. 9(7):e102179 PDF

Smith BA, Dougherty K, Baltrus DA. "Complete Genome Sequence of the Highly Transformable Pseudomonas stutzeri Strain 28a24" Genome Announc. 2(3). pii:e00543-14 PDF

Hockett KL, Nishimura MT, Karlsrud E, Dougherty K, Baltrus DA. "Pseudomonas syringae CC1557: a highly virulent strain with an unusually small type III effector repertoire that includes a novel effector". Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 27(9):923-932 PDF

Romanchuk A, Jones CD, Karkare K, Moore A, Smith BA, Jones C, Dougherty K, Baltrus DA. "Bigger is not always better: transmission and fitness burden of a ~1Mb Pseudomonas syringae megaplasmid pMPPla107". Plasmid 73:16-25 PDF

Baltrus DA, Yourstone S, Lind A, Guilbaud C, Sands DC, Jones CD, Morris CE, Dangl JL. "Draft Genome Sequences of a Phylogenetically Diverse Suite of Pseudomonas syringae Strains from Multiple Source Populations" Genome Announc. 2(1). pii:e01195-13 PDF

Bartolli C, Berge O, Monteil CL, Guilbaud C, Balestra GM, Varvaro L, Jones C, Dangl JL, Baltrus DA, Sands DC, Morris CE. "The Pseudomonas viridiflava phylogroups in the P. syringae species complex are characterized by genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity of pathogenicity-related traits". Environ Microbiol. 16(7): 2301-2315 PDF 

Mucyn TS, Yourstone S, Lind AL, Biswas S, Nishimura MT, Baltrus DA, Cumbie JS, Chang JH, Jones CD, Dangl JL, Grant SR. "Variable Suites of Non-effector Genes are Co-regulated in the Type III Secretion Virulence Regulon Across the Pseudomonas syringae Phylogeny" PLoS Pathog. 10(1):e1003807 PDF

Baltrus DA, Dougherty K, Beckstrom-Sternberg SM, Beckstrom-Sternberg JS, Foster JT. "Incongruence Between Multi-locus Sequence Analysis (MLSA) and Whole-genome-based Phylogenies: Pseudomonas syringae pathovar pisi as a cautionary tale". Mol Plant Pathol. 15(5):461-465 PDF

2013


Baltrus DA. "Exploring the Costs of Horizontal Gene Transfer". Trends Ecol Evol. 28(8):489-495 PDF

Sarris PF, Trantas EA, Baltrus DA, Bull CT, Wechter WP, Yan S, Ververidis F, Almeida NF, Jones CD, Dangl JL, Panopoulos NJ, Vinatzer BA, Goumas DE. "Comparative Genomics of Multiple Strains of Pseudomonas cannabina pv. alisalensis, a Potential Model Pathogen of Both Monocots and Dicots" PLoS ONE 8(3):e59366 PDF


2012


Baltrus DA, Dougherty KM, Biswas S, Mukhtar MS, Vicente J, Holub EB, Dangl JL. "The Molecular Basis of Host Specialization in Bean Pathovars of Pseudomonas syringae" Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 25(7):877-888 PDF


Hao X, Lin Y, Johnstone L, Baltrus DA, Miller SJ, Wei G, Rensing C. "Draft Genome Sequence of Plant Growth-promoting Rhizobium Mesorhizobium amorphae, Isolated from Zinc-lead Mine Tailings" J. Bacteriol 194(3): 736-737 PDF 

Lin Y, Hao X, Johnstone L, Miller SJ, Baltrus DA, Rensing C, Wei G. "Draft Genome of Streptomyces zinciresistens K42, a Novel Metal-resistant Species Isolated from Copper-Zince Mine Tailings". J Bacteriol. 193(22): 6408-6409 PDF

Baltrus DA, Nishimura MT, Romanchuk A, Chang JH, Mukhtar MS, Cherkis K, Roach J, Grant SR, Jones CD, Dangl JL. "Dynamic Evolution of Pathogenicity Revealed by Sequencing and Comparative Genomics of 19 Pseudomonas syringae Isolates". PLoS Pathog. 7(7):e10022132 PDF


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