Jon R. Saunders

Overview

Best Publications

• Microbial Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology: A Decade of Ribosomal RNA Analysis of Uncultivated Microorganisms

  I.M. Head;J.R. Saunders;Roger W. Pickup

  1080
  Citations

• Group Search Optimizer: An Optimization Algorithm Inspired by Animal Searching Behavior

  S. He;Q.H. Wu;J.R. Saunders

  908
  Citations

• Isolation and identification of methanogen-specific DNA from blanket bog peat by PCR amplification and sequence analysis.

  B A Hales;C Edwards;D A Ritchie;G Hall

  613
  Citations

• A particle swarm optimizer with passive congregation.

  S. He;Q.H. Wu;J.Y. Wen;J.R. Saunders

  513
  Citations

• The phylogeny of autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria as determined by analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences.

  IM Head;WD Hiorns;TM Embley;AJ McCarthy

  471
  Citations

• Meningococcal pilin: a glycoprotein substituted with digalactosyl 2,4-diacetamido-2,4,6-trideoxyhexose.

  Elaine Stimson;Mumtaz Virji;Katherine Makepeace;Anne Dell

  310
  Citations

• Pilus‐facilitated adherence of Neisseria meningitidis to human epithelial and endothelial cells: modulation of adherence phenotype occurs concurrently with changes in primary amino acid sequence and the glycosylation status of pilin

  Mumtaz Virji;Jon R. Saunders;Gail Sims;Katherine Makepeace

  272
  Citations

• A Novel Group Search Optimizer Inspired by Animal Behavioural Ecology

  S. He;Q.H. Wu;J.R. Saunders

  249
  Citations

• Amplification of 16S ribosomal RNA genes of autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria demonstrates the ubiquity of nitrosospiras in the environment.

  William D. Hiorns;Richard C. Hastings;Ian M. Head;Alan J. McCarthy

  225
  Citations

• Variations in the expression of pili: the effect on adherence of Neisseria meningitidis to human epithelial and endothelial cells.

  M. Virji;C. Alexandrescu;D. J. P. Ferguson;J. R. Saunders

  189
  Citations

• Transformation of Escherichia coli C600 by plasmid DNA at different phases of growth

  Moira G.M. Brown;A. Weston;J.R. Saunders;G.O. Humphreys

  186
  Citations

• Direct molecular biological analysis of ammonia oxidising bacteria populations in cultivated soil plots treated with swine manure

  Richard C Hastings;Maria Teresa Ceccherini;Nerino Miclaus;Jon R Saunders

  185
  Citations

• Administration of HPV DNA vaccine via electroporation elicits the strongest CD8+ T cell immune responses compared to intramuscular injection and intradermal gene gun delivery.

  Simon R. Best;Shiwen Peng;Chi Mou Juang;Chi Mou Juang;Chien Fu Hung

  161
  Citations

• Mosaic plasmids and mosaic replicons: evolutionary lessons from the analysis of genetic diversity in IncFII-related replicons.

  A. Mark Osborn;Fernanda M. da Silva Tatley;Fernanda M. da Silva Tatley;Lafras M. Steyn;Roger W. Pickup

  157
  Citations

• Bacterial Foraging Algorithm For Dynamic Environments

  W.J. Tang;Q.H. Wu;J.R. Saunders

  138
  Citations

• Lytic and lysogenic infection of diverse Escherichia coli and Shigella strains with a verocytotoxigenic bacteriophage.

  Chloe E. James;Karen N. Stanley;Heather E. Allison;Harry J. Flint

  133
  Citations

• Discovery of a novel protein modification: alpha-glycerophosphate is a substituent of meningococcal pilin.

  E Stimson;M Virji;S Barker;M Panico

  126
  Citations

• Plasmid transfer between the Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki and tenebrionis in laboratory culture and soil and in lepidopteran and coleopteran larvae.

  D. J. I. Thomas;J. A. W. Morgan;J. M. Whipps;J. R. Saunders

  113
  Citations

• Immunity profiles of wild-type and recombinant shiga-like toxin-encoding bacteriophages and characterization of novel double lysogens

  Heather E. Allison;Martin J. Sergeant;Chloë E. James;Jon R. Saunders

  113
  Citations

• Application of molecular biological techniques to a seasonal study of ammonia oxidation in a eutrophic freshwater lake

  Richard C. Hastings;Jon R. Saunders;Grahame H. Hall;Roger W. Pickup

  111
  Citations