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David J. Scanlan is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and molecular biology, with particular focus on microbial community ecology, genomics, and marine ecosystems.

Their work has contributed to the understanding of microbial processes and interactions in diverse environments, especially in marine and coastal ecosystems. They have explored topics such as microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protist diversity and phylogeny, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Major fields of study for David J. Scanlan include Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. More specialized subfields within these areas include Ecology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Niche-adaptation in plant-associated Bacteroidetes favours specialisation in organic phosphorus mineralisation, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • A widely distributed phosphate-insensitive phosphatase presents a route for rapid organophosphorus remineralization in the biosphere, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cyanorak v2.1: a scalable information system dedicated to the visualization and expert curation of marine and brackish picocyanobacteria genomes, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Evolutionary Mechanisms of Long-Term Genome Diversification Associated With Niche Partitioning in Marine Picocyanobacteria, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Accumulation of ambient phosphate into the periplasm of marine bacteria is proton motive force dependent, 2020, Nature Communications

They frequently publish in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The ISME Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Nature Communications.

David J. Scanlan collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Yin Chen, Andrew R. J. Murphy, Ian D. E. A. Lidbury, Andrew Millard, and Branko Rihtman. These collaborations have resulted in numerous publications exploring microbial ecology, genomics, and related molecular biology topics.

Best Publications

  • Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the metabolically versatile Pseudomonas putida KT2440

    K. E. Nelson;C. Weinel;I. T. Paulsen;R. J. Dodson

  • Ecological Genomics of Marine Picocyanobacteria

    David J. Scanlan;Martin Ostrowski;Sophie Mazard;Alexis Dufresne;Alexis Dufresne;Alexis Dufresne

  • Complete genome sequence of the Q-fever pathogen Coxiella burnetii

    Rekha Seshadri;Ian T. Paulsen;Ian T. Paulsen;Jonathan A. Eisen;Jonathan A. Eisen;Timothy D. Read

  • Complete genome sequence and comparative genomic analysis of an emerging human pathogen, serotype V Streptococcus agalactiae

    Hervé Tettelin;Vega Masignani;Michael J. Cieslewicz;Jonathan A. Eisen;Jonathan A. Eisen

  • Widespread occurrence and genetic diversity of marine parasitoids belonging to Syndiniales (Alveolata)

    Laure Guillou;Manon Viprey;Aurélie Chambouvet;R.M. Welsh

  • Genome sequence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus SS120, a nearly minimal oxyphototrophic genome

    Alexis Dufresne;Marcel Salanoubat;Frédéric Partensky;François Artiguenave

  • Global phylogeography of marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus reveals a distinct partitioning of lineages among oceanic biomes.

    Katrin Zwirglmaier;Ludwig Jardillier;Martin Ostrowski;Sophie Mazard

  • Genomic Insights into Methanotrophy: The Complete Genome Sequence of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

    Naomi Ward;Øivind Larsen;James Sakwa;Live Bruseth

  • Clade-Specific 16S Ribosomal DNA Oligonucleotides Reveal the Predominance of a Single Marine Synechococcus Clade throughout a Stratified Water Column in the Red Sea

    Nicholas J. Fuller;Dominique Marie;Frédéric Partensky;Daniel Vaulot

  • Unraveling the genomic mosaic of a ubiquitous genus of marine cyanobacteria.

    Alexis Dufresne;Alexis Dufresne;Martin Ostrowski;David J Scanlan;Laurence Garczarek

  • Significant CO2 fixation by small prymnesiophytes in the subtropical and tropical northeast Atlantic Ocean.

    Ludwig Jardillier;Mikhail V. Zubkov;John K. Pearman;David J. Scanlan

  • Diversity and evolution of phycobilisomes in marine Synechococcus spp.: a comparative genomics study

    Christophe Six;Christophe Six;Jean Claude Thomas;Laurence Garczarek;Martin Ostrowski

  • Mixotrophic basis of Atlantic oligotrophic ecosystems

    Manuela Hartmann;Carolina Grob;Glen A. Tarran;Adrian P. Martin

  • Rapid Diversification of Marine Picophytoplankton with Dissimilar Light-Harvesting Structures Inferred from Sequences of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus (Cyanobacteria)

    Ena Urbach;David J. Scanlan;Daniel L. Distel;John B. Waterbury

  • Molecular ecology of the marine cyanobacterial genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

    David J. Scanlan;Nyree J. West

  • Niche-partitioning of Prochlorococcus populations in a stratified water column in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean.

    Nyree J. West;David J. Scanlan

  • Cyanobacteria and Eukaryotic Algae Use Different Chemical Variants of Vitamin B12

    Katherine Emma Helliwell;Andrew David Lawrence;Andre Holzer;Andre Holzer;Ulrich Johan Kudahl

  • Elemental composition of single cells of various strains of marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus using X-ray microanalysis

    M. Heldal;D. J. Scanlan;S. Norland;F. Thingstad

  • Oceanographic Basis of the Global Surface Distribution of Prochlorococcus Ecotypes

    Heather A. Bouman;Osvaldo Ulloa;David J. Scanlan;Katrin Zwirglmaier

  • Genetic diversity of marine Synechococcus and co-occurring cyanophage communities: evidence for viral control of phytoplankton

    Martin Mühling;Martin Mühling;Nicholas J. Fuller;Andrew Millard;Paul J. Somerfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikhail V. Zubkov
Mikhail V. Zubkov National Oceanography Centre
Andrew D. Millard
Andrew D. Millard University of Leicester
Frédéric Partensky
Frédéric Partensky Sorbonne University
Anton F. Post
Anton F. Post University of Rhode Island
Peter H. Burkill
Peter H. Burkill Plymouth University
Wolfgang R. Hess
Wolfgang R. Hess University of Freiburg
John P. Hammond
John P. Hammond University of Reading
Adrian P. Martin
Adrian P. Martin National Oceanography Centre
Glen A. Tarran
Glen A. Tarran Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Daniel Vaulot
Daniel Vaulot Station Biologique De Roscoff

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