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Martin F. Polz

Martin F. Polz

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
23031
World Ranking
6891
National Ranking
3178

Overview

Martin F. Polz is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to research within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Their publications focus on microbial ecology, molecular mechanisms, and environmental interactions of microorganisms.

Their recent research papers include:

  • Verrucomicrobia use hundreds of enzymes to digest the algal polysaccharide fucoidan, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Conjugative plasmids interact with insertion sequences to shape the horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Phage-host coevolution in natural populations, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Rapid evolutionary turnover of mobile genetic elements drives bacterial resistance to phages, 2021, Science
  • Resolving the structure of phage-bacteria interactions in the context of natural diversity, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Fatima A. Hussain
  • Kathryn M. Kauffman
  • Tong Zhang
  • You Che
  • Javier Dubert

Publication venues where Martin F. Polz has frequently published are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science
  • Nature Communications

Their work primarily spans the following main fields of study:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

Subfields of study covered include:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Endocrinology
  • Genetics
  • Oceanography

The principal topics addressed in their research are:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Gut microbiota and health

Best Publications

  • Bias in Template-to-Product Ratios in Multitemplate PCR

    Martin F. Polz;Colleen Marie Cavanaugh

  • Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

    Stilianos Louca;Martin F Polz;Florent Mazel;Florent Mazel;Michaeline B N Albright

  • Divergence and redundancy of 16S rRNA sequences in genomes with multiple rrn operons.

    Silvia G. Acinas;Luisa A. Marcelino;Vanja Klepac-Ceraj;Martin F. Polz

  • PCR-Induced Sequence Artifacts and Bias: Insights from Comparison of Two 16S rRNA Clone Libraries Constructed from the Same Sample

    Silvia G. Acinas;Ramahi Sarma-Rupavtarm;Vanja Klepac-Ceraj;Martin F. Polz

  • Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community

    Silvia G. Acinas;Vanja Klepac-Ceraj;Dana E. Hunt;Chanathip Pharino

  • Heteroduplexes in mixed-template amplifications: formation, consequence and elimination by ‘reconditioning PCR’

    Janelle R. Thompson;Luisa A. Marcelino;Martin F. Polz;Martin F. Polz

  • Resource partitioning and sympatric differentiation among closely related bacterioplankton.

    Dana E. Hunt;Lawrence A. David;Dirk Gevers;Dirk Gevers;Sarah P. Preheim

  • Population genomics of early events in the ecological differentiation of bacteria.

    B. Jesse Shapiro;B. Jesse Shapiro;Jonathan Friedman;Otto X. Cordero;Sarah P. Preheim

  • Triploblastic relationships with emphasis on the acoelomates and the position of Gnathostomulida, Cycliophora, Plathelminthes, and Chaetognatha: a combined approach of 18S rDNA sequences and morphology.

    Gonzalo Giribet;Daniel L. Distel;Martin Polz;Wolfgang Sterrer

  • The Bacterial Species Challenge: Making Sense of Genetic and Ecological Diversity

    Christophe Fraser;Eric J. Alm;Eric J. Alm;Martin F. Polz;Brian G. Spratt

  • Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of bacterial and archaeal population structure

    Martin F. Polz;Eric J. Alm;Eric J. Alm;William P. Hanage

  • Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches

    Roman Stocker;Justin R. Seymour;Azadeh Samadani;Dana E. Hunt

  • Diversity and dynamics of a north atlantic coastal Vibrio community

    Janelle R. Thompson;Janelle R. Thompson;Mark A. Randa;Luisa A. Marcelino;Aoy Tomita-Mitchell

  • Genotypic Diversity Within a Natural Coastal Bacterioplankton Population

    Janelle R. Thompson;Sarah E. Pacocha;Sarah E. Pacocha;Chanathip Pharino;Vanja Klepac-Ceraj;Vanja Klepac-Ceraj

  • Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles.

    Manoshi S. Datta;Elzbieta Sliwerska;Jeff Gore;Martin F. Polz

  • Associations and dynamics of Vibrionaceae in the environment, from the genus to the population level

    Alison F. Takemura;Diana M. Chien;Martin F. Polz

  • Explaining microbial genomic diversity in light of evolutionary ecology

    Otto X. Cordero;Martin F. Polz

  • Public good dynamics drive evolution of iron acquisition strategies in natural bacterioplankton populations

    Otto X. Cordero;Laure-Anne Ventouras;Edward F. DeLong;Martin F. Polz

  • Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles

    Elzbieta Sliwerska;Manoshi Sen Datta;Jeff Gore;Martin F Polz

  • Population Genomics of Early Events in the Ecological Differentiation of Bacteria

    B. J. Shapiro;J. Friedman;O. X. Cordero;S. P. Preheim

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédérique Le Roux
Frédérique Le Roux French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Colleen M. Cavanaugh
Colleen M. Cavanaugh Harvard University
Dirk Gevers
Dirk Gevers Johnson & Johnson (United States)
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
William P. Hanage
William P. Hanage Harvard University
Silvia G. Acinas
Silvia G. Acinas Spanish National Research Council
Jennifer B. H. Martiny
Jennifer B. H. Martiny University of California, Irvine
Jean Swings
Jean Swings Ghent University
Fabiano L. Thompson
Fabiano L. Thompson Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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