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  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jonathan P. Zehr is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with significant contributions in oceanography, ecology, and molecular biology as subfields of study. Their work also spans environmental chemistry and pollution.

The scientist has an extensive record of publications related to microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, protist diversity and phylogeny, isotope analysis in ecology, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, and aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics.

Jonathan P. Zehr's frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Limnology and Oceanography, The ISME Journal, and Journal of Phycology.

Several recent papers highlight their research contributions:

  • Changing perspectives in marine nitrogen fixation, 2020, Science
  • Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga, 2024, Science
  • Unusual marine cyanobacteria/haptophyte symbiosis relies on N2 fixation even in N-rich environments, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Latitudinal constraints on the abundance and activity of the cyanobacterium UCYN-A and other marine diazotrophs in the North Pacific, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Overlooked and widespread pennate diatom-diazotroph symbioses in the sea, 2022, Nature Communications

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Kendra A. Turk-Kubo
  • Mary R. Gradoville
  • Samuel T. Wilson
  • Angelicque White
  • David M. Karl

Jonathan P. Zehr's fields of study align with their focus on marine microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycles, emphasizing nitrogen fixation processes in marine environments.

In 2018, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Trichodesmium, a Globally Significant Marine Cyanobacterium

    Douglas G. Capone;Jonathan P. Zehr;Hans W. Paerl;Birgitta Bergman

  • Nitrogenase gene diversity and microbial community structure: a cross-system comparison.

    Jonathan P. Zehr;Bethany D. Jenkins;Steven M. Short;Grieg F. Steward

  • Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean.

    Jonathan P. Zehr;John B. Waterbury;Patricia J. Turner;Joseph P. Montoya

  • High rates of N2 fixation by unicellular diazotrophs in the oligotrophic Pacific Ocean.

    Joseph P Montoya;Carolyn M Holl;Jonathan P Zehr;Andrew Hansen

  • Nitrogen cycling in the ocean: New perspectives on processes and paradigms

    Jonathan P. Zehr;Bess B. Ward

  • Effects of Growth Irradiance and Nitrogen Limitation on Photosynthetic Energy Conversion in Photosystem II.

    Zbigniew Kolber;Jonathan Zehr;Paul Falkowski

  • Use of degenerate oligonucleotides for amplification of the nifH gene from the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium thiebautii.

    J P Zehr;L A McReynolds

  • Unicellular Cyanobacterium Symbiotic with a Single-Celled Eukaryotic Alga

    Anne W. Thompson;Rachel A. Foster;Andreas Krupke;Brandon J. Carter

  • Nitrogen fixation by marine cyanobacteria

    Jonathan P. Zehr

  • New Nitrogen-Fixing Microorganisms Detected in Oligotrophic Oceans by Amplification of Nitrogenase (nifH) Genes.

    Jonathan P. Zehr;Mark T. Mellon;Sabino Zani

  • Unicellular Cyanobacterial Distributions Broaden the Oceanic N2 Fixation Domain

    Pia H. Moisander;Roxanne A. Beinart;Ian Hewson;Angelicque E. White

  • Nitrogen cycle of the open ocean: from genes to ecosystems.

    Jonathan P. Zehr;Raphael M. Kudela

  • Nitrogen fixation and transfer in open ocean diatom–cyanobacterial symbioses

    Rachel A Foster;Marcel M M Kuypers;Tomas Vagner;Ryan W Paerl

  • Changing perspectives in marine nitrogen fixation.

    Jonathan P. Zehr;Douglas G. Capone

  • Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

    Y. W. Luo;S. C. Doney;L. A. Anderson;Mar Benavides

  • Globally Distributed Uncultivated Oceanic N2-Fixing Cyanobacteria Lack Oxygenic Photosystem II

    Jonathan P. Zehr;Shellie R. Bench;Brandon J. Carter;Ian Hewson

  • GROWTH AND NITROGEN FIXATION OF THE DIAZOTROPHIC FILAMENTOUS NONHETEROCYSTOUS CYANOBACTERIUM TRICHODESMIUM SP. IMS 101 IN DEFINED MEDIA: EVIDENCE FOR A CIRCADIAN RHYTHM

    Yi-Bu Chen;Jonathan P. Zehr;Mark Mellon

  • Metabolic streamlining in an open-ocean nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium

    H. James Tripp;Shellie R. Bench;Kendra A. Turk;Rachel A. Foster

  • Comparative day/night metatranscriptomic analysis of microbial communities in the North Pacific subtropical gyre.

    Rachel S. Poretsky;Ian Hewson;Shulei Sun;Andrew E. Allen

  • Supplementary Materials for Unicellular Cyanobacterium Symbiotic with a Single-Celled Eukaryotic Alga

    Anne W. Thompson;Rachel A. Foster;Andreas Krupke;Brandon J. Carter

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Douglas G. Capone
Douglas G. Capone University of Southern California
Matthew J. Church
Matthew J. Church University of Montana
Pia H. Moisander
Pia H. Moisander University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Ian Hewson
Ian Hewson Cornell University
Joseph P. Montoya
Joseph P. Montoya Georgia Institute of Technology
Angelicque E. White
Angelicque E. White University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ricardo M. Letelier
Ricardo M. Letelier Oregon State University
Sonya T. Dyhrman
Sonya T. Dyhrman Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christopher A. Edwards
Christopher A. Edwards University of California, Santa Cruz

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