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Overview

John D. Taylor is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to ecology, molecular biology, oceanography, plant science, and pollution.

The scientist's work spans several specialized topics, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine and Coastal Plant Biology

John D. Taylor has contributed to numerous research articles published in key scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Nature Communications
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Molluscan Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some recent papers authored by or affiliated with John D. Taylor are:

  • Soil fungal networks maintain local dominance of ectomycorrhizal trees, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Diverse groups of fungi are associated with plastics in the surface waters of the Western South Atlantic and the Antarctic Peninsula, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Mechanistic strategies of microbial communities regulating lignocellulose deconstruction in a UK salt marsh, 2021, Microbiome
  • Floating plastics and their associated biota in the Western South Atlantic, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Parasites, pathogens, and other symbionts of copepods, 2021, Trends in Parasitology

Collaboration features prominently in Taylor's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Maíra Proietti
  • Ana Luzia Lacerda
  • Martyn Kelly
  • Kerry Walsh
  • Daniel S. Read

Best Publications

  • Mucosal IgA recognition of Helicobacter pylori 120 kDa protein, peptic ulceration, and gastric pathology

    J E Crabtree;J D Taylor;J I Wyatt;R V Heatley

  • Common Origin of Pigment Cells

    Joseph T. Bagnara;Jiro Matsumoto;Wayne Ferris;Sally K. Frost

  • Identification of a pathogenicity island, which contains genes for virulence and avirulence, on a large native plasmid in the bean pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pathovar phaseolicola.

    Robert W. Jackson;Evangelos Athanassopoulos;George Tsiamis;John W. Mansfield

  • Cathepsin B activity in B16 melanoma cells: a possible marker for metastatic potential.

    Bonnie F. Sloane;Kenneth V. Honn;John G. Sadler;William A. Turner

  • Bidirectional Control of Membrane Expression and/or Activation of the Tumor Cell IRGpIIb/IIIa Receptor and Tumor Cell Adhesion by Lipoxygenase Products of Arachidonic Acid and Linoleic Acid

    Irma M. Grossi;Laurence A. Fitzgerald;Lillian A. Umbarger;Kevin K. Nelson

  • Functional homologs of the Arabidopsis RPM1 disease resistance gene in bean and pea.

    Jeffery L. Dangl;Claudia Ritter;Marjorie J. Gibbon;Luis A. J. Mur

  • Enhanced tumor cell adhesion to the subendothelial matrix resulting from 12(S)-HETE-induced endothelial cell retraction.

    Kenneth V. Honn;Irma M. Grossi;Clement A. Diglio;Marek Wojtukiewicz

  • 12(S)-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid and 13(S)-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid regulation of protein kinase C-α in melanoma cells: Role of receptor- mediated hydrolysis of inositol phospholipids

    Bin Liu;Wasiuddin A. Khan;Yusuf A. Hannun;Jozsef Timar

  • Tumor Cell-derived 12(S)-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acid Induces Microvascular Endothelial Cell Retraction

    Kenneth V. Honn;Dean G. Tang;Irma Grossi;Zofia M. Duniec

  • Gene-for-gene interactions between Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola and Phaseolus.

    Jenner C;Hitchin E;Mansfield J;Walters K

  • Role of tumor cell glycoproteins immunologically related to glycoproteins Ib and IIb/IIIa in tumor cell-platelet and tumor cell-matrix interactions.

    Irma M. Grossi;James S. Hatfield;Laurence A. Fitzgerald;Marcia Newcombe

  • The lipoxygenase metabolite 12(S)‐hete induces a cytoskeleton‐dependent increase in surface expression of integrin αiibβ3 on melanoma cells

    Hemi Chopra;Jozsef Timar;Yong Q. Chen;Xianhui Rong

  • Chromatophores and color change in the lizard, Anolis carolinensis.

    John D. Taylor;Mac E. Hadley

  • Tumor cell-platelet aggregation: induced by cathepsin B-like proteinase and inhibited by prostacyclin

    Kenneth V. Honn;Philip Cavanaugh;Cynthia Evens;John D. Taylor

  • Melanosome formation in the goldfish: the role of multivesicular bodies

    William A. Turner;John D. Taylor;T.T. Tchen

  • Apoptosis Induction by a Novel Anti-Prostate Cancer Compound, BMD188 (a Fatty Acid-containing Hydroxamic Acid), Requires the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain

    Bindu Joshi;Li Li;Bonita G. Taffe;Zhenyu Zhu

  • Tumor cell-platelet interactions in vitro and their relationship to in vivo arrest of hematogenously circulating tumor cells

    David G. Menter;James S. Hatfield;Carmel Harkins;Bonnie F. Sloane

  • Inheritance of race-specific resistance to Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris in Brassica genomes

    Joana G. Vicente;J. D. Taylor;A. G. Sharpe;I. A. P. Parkin

  • Avirulence genes from Pseudomonas syringae pathovars phaseolicola and pisi confer specificity towards both host and non-host species☆

    A.J. Fillingham;J. Wood;J.R. Bevan;I.R. Crute

  • Mucosal humoral immune response to Helicobacter pylori in patients with duodenitis.

    J. E. Crabtree;T. M. Shallcross;J. I. Wyatt;J. D. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth V. Honn
Kenneth V. Honn Wayne State University
Bonnie F. Sloane
Bonnie F. Sloane Wayne State University
Dean G. Tang
Dean G. Tang Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Clement A. Diglio
Clement A. Diglio Wayne State University
Yong Q. Chen
Yong Q. Chen Jiangnan University
Lawrence J. Marnett
Lawrence J. Marnett Vanderbilt University
Carl R. Johnson
Carl R. Johnson Wayne State University
Yusuf A. Hannun
Yusuf A. Hannun Stony Brook University
Bin Liu
Bin Liu Australian National University
Sharon M. Wahl
Sharon M. Wahl National Institutes of Health

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