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Overview

Gordon T. Taylor is a researcher affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications contributing to this field.

Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Pollution, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Within these areas, Taylor has explored topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions.

Taylor has published in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Limnology and Oceanography Methods

Key publications by Taylor include:

  • Raman microspectroscopy for microbiology, 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Viral elements and their potential influence on microbial processes along the permanently stratified Cariaco Basin redoxcline, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Diverse secondary metabolites are expressed in particle-associated and free-living microorganisms of the permanently anoxic Cariaco Basin, 2023, Nature Communications
  • MicrobioRaman: an open-access web repository for microbiological Raman spectroscopy data, 2024, Nature Microbiology
  • Diverse nitrogen cycling pathways across a marine oxygen gradient indicate nitrogen loss coupled to chemoautotrophic activity, 2020, Environmental Microbiology

Frequent collaborators of Taylor include Virginia P. Edgcomb, Maria Pachiadaki, Elizabeth A. Suter, Tatiana Zaliznyak, and Luis Medina Faull, reflecting interdisciplinary cooperation across microbiology and environmental research.

Best Publications

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Chemoautotrophy in the redox transition zone of the Cariaco Basin: A significant midwater source of organic carbon production

    Gordon T. Taylor;Maria Iabichella;Tung-Yuan Ho;Mary I. Scranton

  • Protistan microbial observatory in the Cariaco Basin, Caribbean. I. Pyrosequencing vs Sanger insights into species richness

    Virginia Edgcomb;William Orsi;John Bunge;Sunok Jeon

  • Phylogenetic Diversity of Bacterial and Archaeal Communities in the Anoxic Zone of the Cariaco Basin

    Vanessa M. Madrid;Gordon T. Taylor;Mary I. Scranton;Andrei Y. Chistoserdov

  • Novel Eukaryotes from the Permanently Anoxic Cariaco Basin (Caribbean Sea)

    Thorsten Stoeck;Gordon T. Taylor;Slava S. Epstein

  • A Multiple PCR-primer Approach to Access the Microeukaryotic Diversity in Environmental Samples

    Thorsten Stoeck;Brett Hayward;Gordon T. Taylor;Ramon Varela

  • Annual cycle of primary production in the Cariaco Basin: Response to upwelling and implications for vertical export

    Frank E. Muller-Karger;Ramon Varela;Robert Thunell;Mary Scranton

  • Sea ice microbial communities. VI. Growth and primary production in bottom ice under graded snow cover

    SM Grossi;ST Kottmeier;RL Moe;GT Taylor

  • Comparison of Vertical Distributions of Prokaryotic Assemblages in the Anoxic Cariaco Basin and Black Sea by Use of Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

    Xueju Lin;Stuart G. Wakeham;Isabell F. Putnam;Yrene M. Astor

  • Ecosystem responses in the southern Caribbean Sea to global climate change

    Gordon T. Taylor;Frank E. Muller-Karger;Robert C. Thunell;Mary I. Scranton

  • Effect of B-vitamins (B1, B12) and inorganic nutrients on algal bloom dynamics in a coastal ecosystem

    Christopher J. Gobler;Colleen Norman;Caterina Panzeca;Gordon T. Taylor

  • Microbial biomass and productivity in the western Bransfield Strait, Antarctica during the 1986–87 austral summer

    D.M. Karl;O. Holm-Hansen;G.T. Taylor;G. Tien

  • Nutrient pulses, plankton blooms, and seasonal hypoxia in western Long Island Sound

    Timothy H. Anderson;Gordon T. Taylor

  • Regulation of phytoplankton dynamics by vitamin B12

    S. A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy;C. J. Gobler;M. Okbamichael;G. T. Taylor

  • Interactions of bactivorous grazers and heterotrophic bacteria with dissolved organic matter

    Gordon T. Taylor;R. Iturriaga;C. W. Sullivan

  • Phytoplankton species‐specific release of dissolved free amino acids and their selective consumption by bacteria

    Hugo Sarmento;Hugo Sarmento;Cristina Romera-Castillo;Markus V. Lindh;Jarone Pinhassi

  • Biomarkers, chemistry and microbiology show chemoautotrophy in a multilayer chemocline in the Cariaco Basin

    Stuart G. Wakeham;Courtney Turich;Florence Schubotz;Agnieszka Podlaska

  • Acetate cycling in the water column of the Cariaco Basin: Seasonal and vertical variability and implication for carbon cycling

    Tung-Yuan Ho;Mary I. Scranton;Gordon T. Taylor;Ramon Varela

  • Protistan microbial observatory in the Cariaco Basin, Caribbean. II. Habitat specialization

    William Orsi;Virginia Edgcomb;Sunok Jeon;Chesley Leslin

  • B vitamins as regulators of phytoplankton dynamics

    Caterina Panzeca;Antonio Tovar-Sanchez;Susana Agustí;Isabel Reche

  • Influence of surface properties on accumulation of conditioning films and marine bacteria on substrata exposed to oligotrophic waters

    G T Taylor;D Zheng;M Lee;P J Troy

Frequent Co-Authors

Yrene Astor
Yrene Astor Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
Frank E. Muller-Karger
Frank E. Muller-Karger University of South Florida
Robert C. Thunell
Robert C. Thunell University of South Carolina
Christopher J. Gobler
Christopher J. Gobler Stony Brook University
Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy
Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy University of Southern California
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson University of South Carolina
Shiv K. Sharma
Shiv K. Sharma University of Hawaii at Manoa
Slava S. Epstein
Slava S. Epstein Northeastern University
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Stanislaus S. Wong
Stanislaus S. Wong Stony Brook University

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