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Mou Lab @ KSU

Scientist in the Lab

Scientist in the Lab

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Mou Lab @ KSU

New publications 

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  • Krishnan A^, Yuqing Zhang, Banbala M^, Seo Y and Mou X#. 2020. Taxonomic and genotypic heterogeneity of microcystin degrading bacterioplankton isolated from western Lake Erie. Harmful Algae. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2020.101895

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  • Li J, Wang P, Salam N, Li X^, Ahmad M, Tian Y^, Duan L^, Huang L^, Xiao M, Mou X# and Li W#. 2020. Unraveling bacteria-mediated of lignin-derived aromatic compounds degradation in a freshwater environment. Science of the Total Environment. 141236

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  • Zhao M^, Ma Y, He S^, Mou X# and L Wu#. 2020. Dynamics of bacterioplankton community structure in response to seasonal hydrological disturbances in Poyang Lake, the largest wetland in China. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 96:fiaa064.

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  • Lu X^, Wang K^, Sun S and Mou X#. 2020. Metatranscriptomic identification of polyamine-transforming bacterioplankton in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Microbiology Reports. In press. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12841​

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  • Duan L^, Li J-L, Li X^, Dong L, Fang B-Z, Xiao M, Mou X and Li W-J#. 2020. Roseibium aestuarii sp. nov., isolated from Pearl River Estuary. International Journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology. In press.

* undergraduate student

^Graduate student

# Corresponding author(s)

Recent Publications

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  • Wang K^, Razzano M, and Mou X#. 2019. Cyanobacterial blooms alter the relative importance of neutral and selective processes in assembling freshwater bacterioplankton community. Science of The Total Environment, 706: 135724.

  • Krishnan A^, Koski G and Mou X#. 2019. Characterization of microcystin-induced apoptosis in HepG2 hepatoma cells. Toxicon. 173:20-26.

  • Li X^, Salam N, Li J, Chen Y, Yang Z^, Han M^, Mou X, Xiao M, Salam N# and Li W#. 2019. Aestuariisphingobium litorale gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel proteobacterium isolated from a water sample of Pearl River estuary. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 112:1357-1367.  

  • Madhuri S^, Wang K^, Bade D and Mou X#. 2019. Concentration and turnover of dissolved free polyamines on the south coast of Lake Erie. Limnology and Oceanography. 64:1641-1650. IF:

  • Li X^, Salam N, Li J^, Chen Y^, Yang Z, Han M^, Mou X, Xiao M# and Li W#. 2019. Aestuariivirga litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a proteobacterium isolated from a water sample, and proposal of Aestuariivirgaceae fam. nov. International Journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology. 69 (2):299-306.

  • Krishnan A^, Zhang YQ and Mou X#. 2018. Isolation and characterization of microcystin-degrading bacteria from Lake Erie. Bulletin of Environmental  Contamination and Toxicology. 101: 617-623.

  • Lu X^, Bade D, Leff L and Mou X#. 2018. The relative importance of anammox and denitrification to total N2 production in Lake Erie. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 44:428-435.

  • Wang K^, Zou L#, Lu X and Mou X#. 2018. Organic carbon source and salinity shape sediment bacterial composition in two China marginal seas and their major tributaries. Sciences of the Total Environment. 633:1510-1517. IF: 5.589,

  • Li J^, Salam N, Wang P, Chen L, Jiao J^, Li X^, Xian W^, Han M^, Fang B^, Mou X# and Li W#. 2018. Discordance between resident and active bacterioplankton in free-living and particle-associated communities in estuary ecosystem. Microbial Ecology. 76:637-647. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-018-1174-4 .

  • Zhao M^, Bing L, Ma YT, He SY^, Mou X# and Wu L#. 2018. Advances in the application of environmental microbes to control microcystins in freshwater lake. Microbiology China. DOI: 10.13344/j.microbiol.china.170709.

  • Li J^, Mou X# and Li W#. 2018. Advances in ecological research of Pearl River Estuarine bacterioplankton. Acta Microbiologica Sinica. 58(4): 598-607.

  • Brower S^, Leff L# and Mou X#. 2017. Effects of short and long-term hydrological regimes on the composition and function of denitrifying bacteria in experimental wetlands. Wetlands. 37(3) :573-583. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-017-0891-7.

  • Zhang B, Ding Z, Li H, Mou X#, Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhou E and Li W#. 2016. Algicidal activity of Streptomyces eurocidicus JXJ-0089 metabolites and their effects on Microcystis physiology. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(17):5132-5143.

  • Kou W^, Zhang J^, Lu X^, Ma Y, Mou X# and Wu L#. 2016. Identification of bacterial communities in sediments of Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China.  SpringerPlus, 5(1):1-9.

  • Lu X^, Sun S, Hollibaugh JT and Mou X#. 2015. Identification of polyamine-responsive bacterioplankton taxa in South Atlantic Bight. Environmental Microbiology Report. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12311.

  • Liu Q^, Lu X^, Tolar B^, Mou X and Hollibaugh JT#. 2015. Concentrations, turnover rates and fluxes of polyamines in coastal waters of the South Atlantic Bight. Biogeochemistry  123, 117-133. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-014-0056-1.

  • Lu X^, Sun S, Zhang Y, Hollibaugh JT and Mou X#. 2015. Temporal and Vertical Distributions of Bacterioplankton at the Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary Applied and Environmental Microbiology 81:910-917.

  • Mou X#, Jacob J, Lu X^, Vila-Costa M, Chan L-K, Sharma S and Zhang Y. 2015. Bromodeoxyuridine labelling and fluorescence-activated cell sorting of polyamine-transforming bacterioplankton in coastal seawater. Environmental Microbiology. 17: 876-888. Doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12550.

  • Sun H, Zhang T, Yu L, Lu X^, Mou X and Y Zhang#. 2014. Actinophytocola gilvus sp.nov.isolated from desert soil crusts and emended description of the genus Actinophytocola Indananda. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 64:3120-3125.

  • Lu X^, Zou L^, Clevinger C^, Hollibaugh JT, Liu Q^ and Mou X#. 2014. Temporal dynamics and depth variations of dissolved free amino acids and polyamines in coastal seawater determined by high-performance liquid chromatography. Marine Chemistry 163:36-44.

  • Zhang Y#, Lee J, Park D, Lu X^, Mou X and Kim C. 2014. Roseivivax roseus sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium isolated from a solar saltern soil sample. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology  64:1743-1746.

  • Buse H#, Lu J, Lu X^, Mou X and Ashbolt N. 2014. Microbial diversities (16S and 18S rDNA pyrosequencing) and environmental pathogens within drinking water biofilms grown on the common premise plumbing materials unplasticized polyvinylchloride and copper. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 88:280-295.

  • Mou X#, Lu X^, Jacob, J, Sun, S and Heath, R. 2013. Metagenomic identification of bacterioplankton taxa and pathways involved in microcystin degradation in Lake Erie. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61890. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061890.

  • Mou X#, Jacob J, ^ Lu X^, Robbins S*, Sun S and Ortiz J. 2013. Diversity and distribution of free-living and particle associated bacterioplankton community in Sandusky Bay and Adjacent Waters of Lake Erie Western Basin. Journal of Great Lakes Research 39: 352-357.

  • Mou X#, Vila-Costa M, Sun S, Zhao W, Sharma S and Moran MA. 2011. Metatranscriptomic signature of exogenous polyamine utilization by coastal bacterioplankton. Environmental Microbiology Reports 3:798-806.

  • Robbins S*, Jacob J^, Lu X^, Moran MA and Mou X#. 2011. Bromodeoxyuridine (Brdu) labeling and subsequent fluorescence activated cell sorting for culture-independent identification of dissolved organic carbon-degrading bacterioplankton. Journal of Visualized Experiments DOI: 10.3791/2855.

  • Zhao W^, Song Z, Jiang H, Li W, Mou X, Romanek CS, Wiegel J, Dong H and Zhang C-L#. 2011. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea in Kamchatka hot springs. Geomicrobiology Journal 28: 149-159.

  • Fernandez-Guerra A, Buchan A, Mou X, Casamayor E O and Gonzalez J M#. 2010. T-RFPred: a nucleotide sequence size prediction tool for microbial community description based on Terminal-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism chromatograms. BMC Microbiology 10:262.

  • Mou X#, Sun S, Rayapati P* and Moran MA. 2010. Genes for transport and metabolism of spermidine in Rugeria pomeroyi DSS-3 and other marine bacteria. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 58: 311–321.

  • Poretsky R, Sun S, Mou X and Moran MA#. 2009. Transporter genes expressed by coastal bacterioplankton in response to dissolved organic carbon. Environmental Microbiology 12:616-627.

  • Mou X, Sun SL, Edwards R, Hodson RE and Moran MA#. 2008. Generalist species dominate bacterial carbon processing in the coastal ocean. Nature 451:708-711. 

  • Mou X, Hodson RE and Moran MA#. 2007. Bacterioplankton assemblages transforming dissolved organic compounds in coastal seawater. Environmental Microbiology. 9: 2025-2037. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01318.x.

  • Mou X^, Moran MA#, Stepanauskas R, Gonzàles JM and Hodson RE. 2005. Flow-cytometric cell sorting and subsequent molecular analyses for culture-independent identification of bacterioplankton involved in DMSP transformations. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71:1405-1416.

 

 

 

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