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K. Eric Wommack is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on environmental science, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these broader fields, their work covers a range of subfields, including ecology, molecular biology, plant science, infectious diseases, and ecological modeling.

The main topics in K. Eric Wommack's research include bacteriophages and microbial interactions, genomics and phylogenetic studies, plant virus research studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis, and viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Wommack has contributed to several scholarly publication venues, with a notable presence in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), where they have published six works. Other frequent venues include PeerJ and Frontiers in Microbiology, each with two publications, as well as Viruses and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Iroki: automatic customization and visualization of phylogenetic trees," 2020, PeerJ
  • "Lysogenic reproductive strategies of viral communities vary with soil depth and are correlated with bacterial diversity," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Temporal Dynamics of Soil Virus and Bacterial Populations in Agricultural and Early Plant Successional Soils," 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Towards an integrative view of virus phenotypes," 2021, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Assessing the efficacy of eDNA metabarcoding for measuring microbial biodiversity within forest ecosystems," 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators of K. Eric Wommack include Shawn W. Polson, Barbra D. Ferrell, Ryan M. Moore, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, and Amelia O. Harrison. Their partnerships have resulted in multiple co-authored works, reflecting ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG)

    Simon Roux;Evelien M. Adriaenssens;Bas E. Dutilh;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Influence of environmental changes on degradation of chiral pollutants in soils.

    David L. Lewis;David L. Lewis;A. Wayne Garrison;K. Eric Wommack;K. Eric Wommack;Alton Whittemore

  • Metagenomics: Read Length Matters

    K. Eric Wommack;Jaysheel Bhavsar;Jacques Ravel

  • Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances

    C.H. Wigington;D. Sonderegger;C.P.D. Brussaard;A. Buchan

  • Viruses in Soil Ecosystems: An Unknown Quantity Within an Unexplored Territory.

    Kurt E Williamson;Jeffry J Fuhrmann;K Eric Wommack;Mark Radosevich

  • Abundance and Diversity of Viruses in Six Delaware Soils

    Kurt E. Williamson;Mark Radosevich;K. Eric Wommack

  • Global-scale processes with a nanoscale drive: the role of marine viruses

    Corina P.D. Brussaard;Steven W. Wilhelm;T. Frede Thingstad;Markus G. Weinbauer

  • Microbiome, demystifying the role of microbial communities in the biosphere.

    K Eric Wommack;Jacques Ravel

  • A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes

    Joshua S Weitz;Charles A Stock;Steven W Wilhelm;Lydia Bourouiba

  • Population Dynamics of Chesapeake Bay Virioplankton: Total-Community Analysis by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis

    K. Erick Wommack;Jacques Ravel;Russell T. Hill;Russell T. Hill;Jongsik Chun

  • Metagenomic Characterization of Chesapeake Bay Virioplankton

    Shellie R. Bench;Thomas E. Hanson;Kurt E. Williamson;Dhritiman Ghosh

  • Assembly of viral metagenomes from yellowstone hot springs.

    Thomas Schoenfeld;Melodee Patterson;Paul M. Richardson;K. Eric Wommack

  • Phages across the biosphere: contrasts of viruses in soil and aquatic environments.

    Sharath Srinivasiah;Jaysheel Bhavsar;Kanika Thapar;Mark Liles

  • The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010.

    Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Folker Meyer;Folker Meyer;Janet K. Jansson;Jeff Gordon

  • Groundtruthing next-gen sequencing for microbial ecology-biases and errors in community structure estimates from PCR amplicon pyrosequencing.

    Charles Kai-Wu Lee;Craig W. Herbold;Shawn W. Polson;Shawn W. Polson;Shawn W. Polson;K. Eric Wommack

  • Sampling Natural Viral Communities from Soil for Culture-Independent Analyses

    Kurt E. Williamson;K. Eric Wommack;Mark Radosevich

  • Single-cell genomics-based analysis of virus–host interactions in marine surface bacterioplankton

    Jessica M Labonté;Brandon K Swan;Bonnie Poulos;Haiwei Luo

  • VIROME: a standard operating procedure for analysis of viral metagenome sequences

    K. Eric Wommack;Jaysheel Bhavsar;Shawn W. Polson;Jing Chen

  • Genome of Phaeocystis globosa virus PgV-16T highlights the common ancestry of the largest known DNA viruses infecting eukaryotes

    Sebastien Santini;Sandra Jeudy;Julia Bartoli;Olivier Poirot

  • Incidence of lysogeny within temperate and extreme soil environments.

    Kurt E. Williamson;Mark Radosevich;David W. Smith;K. Eric Wommack

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven W. Wilhelm
Steven W. Wilhelm University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jacques Ravel
Jacques Ravel University of Maryland, Baltimore
Curtis A. Suttle
Curtis A. Suttle University of British Columbia
Jed A. Fuhrman
Jed A. Fuhrman University of Southern California
S. Craig Cary
S. Craig Cary University of Waikato
Corina P. D. Brussaard
Corina P. D. Brussaard Utrecht University
Mathias Middelboe
Mathias Middelboe University of Copenhagen
Joshua S. Weitz
Joshua S. Weitz Georgia Institute of Technology
Mark R. Liles
Mark R. Liles Auburn University
Jay T. Lennon
Jay T. Lennon Indiana University

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