Selected Publications

Peer reviewed publications (last five years)
78. Kamennaya N.A. and A.F. Post (2011). Characterization of cyanate metabolism in marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus spp. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 77 (1), 291-301.
79. Post A.F., Penno S., Zandbank K., Paytan A., Huse S. and D. Mark Welch (2011). Long term seasonal dynamics of Synechococcus population structure in the Gulf of Aqaba, Northern Red Sea. Frontiers in Aquat. Microbiol. 2, 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00131.
80. Mackey K.R.M., Bristow L., Parks D.R., Altabet M.A., Post A.F., and A. Paytan (2011). Nitrite maxima in oligotrophic waters – the impact of light and substrate availability. Prog. Oceanogr. 91, 545-560, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2011.09.001.
81. Finkel O.M., Burch A.Y., Lindow S.E., Post A.F. and S. Belkin (2011). Geographical location determines the population structure in phyllosphere microbial communities of a salt-excreting desert tree:. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 77 (21), 7647-7655.
82. Atamna-Ismaeel N., Finkel O.M., Glaser F., Sharon I., Sharon A.J., Schneider R., Post A.F., Béjà O. & S. Belkin (2011) Microbial rhodopsins on leaf surfaces of terrestrial plants. Environ. Microbiol. 14 (1), 140-146. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02554.x
83. Post A.F., Rihtman B. and Q. Wang (2012). Decoupling of ammonium regulation and ntcA transcription in the diazotrophic marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium sp. ISME J. 6, 629-637. doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.121
84. Sukenik A., Kaplan-Levy R.N., Mark Welch J. and A.F. Post (2012). Dramatic multiplication of the genome and the ribosomes in akinetes are an essential attribute of the survival strategy in Aphanizomenon ovalisporum. ISME J. 6, 670-679. doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.128
85. Meeder, E., Mackey, K.R.M., Paytan A., Shaked Y., Iluz D., Stambler N., Rivlin T., Post A.F. and B.Lazar (2012). Nitrite dynamics in the open ocean – a lesson from the Northern Red Sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 453, 11-26. doi: 10.3354/meps09525.
86. Finkel O.M., Burch A.Y., Elad T., Huse S.M., Lindow S.E., Post A.F. and S.Belkin (2012). Distance-Decay relationships partially determine diversity patterns of phyllosphere bacteria on Tamarisk trees across the Sonoran Desert. Environ. Microbiol. 78(17), 6187-6193. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00888-12.
87. Mackey K.R.M., Roberts K., Lomas M.W., Saito M.A., Post A.F. and A.Paytan (2012). Enhanced solubility and ecological impact of atmospheric phosphorus deposition upon extended seawater exposure. Environ. Sci Technol., 46 (19), 10438-10446. doi: 10.1021/es3007996.
88. Yager P.L., Sherrell R.M., Stammerjohn S.E., Alderkamp A.-C., Schofield O., Abrahamsen E.P. , Arrigo K.R., Bertilsson S., Garay D.L., Guerrero R., Lowry K.E., Moksnes P.-O. , Ndungu K., Post A.F., Randall-Goodwin E., Riemann L., Severmann S., Thatje S. , van Dijken G.L., and S. Wilson. (2012). ASPIRE: The Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition. Oceanography 25(3):40–53, doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.73
89. Kamennaya, N. and A.F. Post (2013). Distribution and expression of the cyanate acquisition potential among cyanobacterial populations in oligotrophic marine waters. Limnol. Oceanogr. 58(6):1959-1971, doi/10.4319:lo.2013.58.6.1959.
90. Shilova I.N., Robidart J.C., Tripp H.J., Turk-Kubo K., Wawrik B., Post A.F., Thompson A.W., Ward B., Hollibaugh J.T., Millard A., Ostrowski M., Scanlan D., Paerl R.W., Stuart R. and J.P. Zehr (2014). A microarray for assessing transcription from pelagic marine microbial taxa. ISME J. 8(7):1476-1491. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.1.
91. Huo Y.-Y., Li Z.-Y., You H., Wang C.-S., Post A.F., Oren A. and X.-W. Xu (2014). Oceanicola antarcticus sp. nov. and Oceanicola flagellatus sp. nov., moderately halophilic bacteria isolated from seawater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 64(9):2975-2979.
92. Saito M.A., McIlvin M.R., Moran D.M, Goepfert T.J., DiTullio G.R., Post A.F. and C.H. Lamborg (2014). Multiple nutrient stresses at intersecting Pacific Ocean biomes detected by protein biomarkers. Science 345:1173-1176.
93. Wickham S.A., Claessens M. and A.F. Post (2014). Grazing and nutrient control of the pelagic microbial food web in the Gulf of Aqaba: seasonal experiments. J. Plankton Res., doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbu103
94. Delmont T., Hammar K.M., Ducklow H., Yager P. and A.F. Post (2014). Phaeocystis antarctica blooms shape bacterial community structures in the Amundsen Sea polynya. Frontiers in Systems Microbiology 5 (646): 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00646
95. Larsen P.E., Scott N., Field D., Post A.F., Knight R., Hamada, Y. and J.A. Gilbert (2014). Satellite remote sensing data predicts marine microbial community structure and metabolite turnover. ISME J., 9(1), 166-179. doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.107.
96. Mackey K.R.M., Chien C.-T., Post A.F., Saito M.A. and A. Paytan (2015). Rapid and gradual modes of aerosol trace metal dissolution in seawater. Frontiers of Microbiological Chemistry 5 (794): 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00794
97. Ducklow H., Erickson M., Lee S., Lowry K., Post A.F., Sherrell
 R., Stammerjohn S.E., Wilson S.E. and P.L. Yager (2015). Particle flux over the continental shelf in the Amundsen Sea Polynya and Western Antarctic Peninsula. Elementa, 3:46, 1-20. doi: 10.12952/journal.elementa.000046
98. Huo Y.-Y., Cheng H., Post A.F., Wang C.-S., Jiang X.-W., Pan J., Wu M. and X.-W. Xu (2015). Ecological functions of uncultured microorganisms in the cobalt-rich ferromanganese crust of a seamount in the Central Pacific are elucidated by fosmid sequencing. Acta Oceanologia Sinica 34 (4), 92-113. doi: 10.1007/s13131-015-0650-7
99. Hunter-Cevera K.R., Post A.F. and H.M. Sosik (2015). Diversity of Synechococcus at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory: Insights from culture isolations, clone libraries and flow cytometry. Microbial Ecol., doi 10.1007/s00248-015-0644-1.
100. Bertrand E.M., McCrow J.P., Zheng H., Moustafa A., McQuaid J., Delmont T.O., Post A.F., Sipler R., Spackeen J., Xu K., Bronk D., Hutchins D.A. and A.E. Allen (2015). Phytoplankton-bacterial interactions mediate micronutrient colimitation in the Southern Ocean. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112 (32), 9938-9943. doi/10.1073/pnas.1501615112
101. Saito M.A., Dorsk A., Post A.F., McIlvin M., Rappe M. and D. Moran (2015). Needles in the deep blue sea: subspecies specificity in targeted protein biomarker analyses with the vast oceanic microbial metaproteome. Proteomics, 00, 1-11. doi 10.1002/pmic.201400630.
102. Mackey K.R.M., Post A.F., McIlvin M.R. and M.A. Saito (2015). Divergent responses of coastal and oceanic Synechococcus to iron limitation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi/10.1073/pnas.1509448112.
103. Delmont T.O., Eren A.M., Vineis, J.H and A.F. Post (2015). Genome reconstructions indicate the partitioning of ecological functions inside a phytoplankton bloom in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica. Frontiers in Aquatic Microbiol. 6-1090, 1-17. doi/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01090
104. Mukherjee M., Ray A., Post A.F., McKay R.M and G.S. Bullerjahn (2015) Identification, Enumeration and Diversity of Nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria in the Lakes Superior and Erie (Laurentian Great Lakes). Great Lakes Res., in press.
105. Chandler J.W., Lin Y., Gainer P.J., Post A.F., Johnson Z.I., and E.R. Zinser (submitted). Coexistence of the dominant ecotypes of Prochlorococcus within the open ocean’s surface mixed layer is persistent and varies as a function of temperature. Environ. Microbiol. Rep.
106. Yager P.L., Sherrell R.M., Stammerjohn S.E., Ducklow H.W., Schofield O.M.E., Ingall E.D., Wilson S.E., Lowry K.E., Williams C.M., Riemann L., Bertilsson S., Nielsen T.G., Alderkamp A-C., Dinasquet J., Kjellerup S., Logares R., Melara A.J., Mu L., Newstead R.G., Post A.F., Richert I., Swalethorp R. and G. van Dijken (submitted). A carbon budget for the Amundsen Sea Polynya, Antarctica; estimating net community production and export in a highly productive polar ecosystem. Elementa.
107. Williams C.M., Dupont A., Post A.F., Riemann L., Dinasquet J. and P.L. Yager (submitted). Pelagic microbial heterotrophy in response to a highly productive bloom of Phaeocystis antarctica in the Amundsen Sea Polynya, Antarctica. Elementa.
108. Finkel O., Delmont T.O., Post A.F. and S. Belkin (submitted). Metagenomic signatures of bacterial adaptation to life on the surface of a salt-excreting desert tree. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.