Walters AW, Hughes RC, Call TB, Walker CJ, Wilcox H, Petersen SC, Rudman SM, Newell PD, Douglas AE, Schmidt PS, et al. 2019. The microbiota influences the Drosophila melanogaster life history strategy. doi:10.1111/mec.15344
Rudman SM, Greenblum S, Hughes RC, Rajpurohit S, Kiratli O, Lowder DB, Lemmon SG, Petrov DA, Chaston JM, Schmidt P. 2019. Microbiome composition shapes rapid genomic adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster. 116(40):20025-20032. doi:10.1073/pnas.1907787116
Carroll C, Olsen KD, Ricks NJ, Dill-McFarland KA, Suen G, Robinson TF, Chaston JM. 2019. Bacterial communities in the alpaca gastrointestinal tract vary with diet and body site. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.03334
Long E, Evans C, Chaston JM, Udall JA. 2018. Genomic Structural Variations Within Five Continental Populations of Drosophila melanogaster. G3. 8(10):3247-3253. doi:10.1534/g3.118.200631
Judd AM, Matthews MK, Hughes RC, Veloz M, Sexton CE, Chaston JM. 2018. Bacterial methionine metabolism genes influence Drosophila melanogaster starvation resistance. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84:e00662-18.
Sexton CE, Smith HZ, Newell PD, Douglas AE, Chaston JM. 2018. MAGNAMWAR: An R package for genome-wide association studies of bacterial orthologs. Bioinformatics. 34:1951-1952. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty001
White KM, Matthews MK, Hughes RC, Sommer AJ, Griffitts JS, Newell PD, Chaston JM. 2018. A Metagenome-wide association study and arrayed mutant library confirm Acetobacter lipopolysaccharide genes are necessary for association with Drosophila melanogaster. G3. 8(4):1119-1127. doi:10.1534/g3.117.300530
Winans NJ, Walter A, Chouaia B, Chaston JM, Douglas AE, Newell PD. 2017. A genomic investigation of ecological differentiation between free-living and Drosophila-associated bacteria. Molecular ecology. 26(17):4536-4550. doi:10.1111/mec.14232
Hammer AJ, Walters A, Carroll C, Newell PD, Chaston JM. 2017. Draft Genome Sequence of Lactobacillus paracasei DmW181, a Bacterium Isolated from Wild Drosophila. Genome announcements. 5(27). doi:10.1128/genomeA.00545-17
Wright SM, Carroll C, Walters A, Newell PD, Chaston JM. 2017. Genome Sequence of Leuconostoc citreum DmW_111, Isolated from Wild Drosophila. Genome announcements. 5(24). doi:10.1128/genomeA.00507-17
Ricks NJ, Carroll C, Walters A, Newell PD, Chaston JM. 2017. Genome Sequence of Weissella cibaria DmW_103, Isolated from Wild Drosophila. Genome announcements. 5(24). doi:10.1128/genomeA.00512-17
Dobson AJ, Chaston JM, Douglas AE. 2016. The Drosophila transcriptional network is structured by microbiota. BMC genomics. 17(1):975. doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3307-9
Koyle ML, Veloz M, Judd AM, Wong AC, Newell PD, Douglas AE, Chaston JM. 2016. Rearing the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster under axenic and gnotobiotic conditions. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 113:e54219. doi:10.3791/54219
Chaston JM, Dobson AJ, Newell PD, Douglas AE. 2015. Host genetic control of the microbiota mediates the Drosophila nutritional phenotype. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Dobson AJ, Chaston JM, Newell P, Donahue L, Hermann S, Sannino D, Westmiller S, Clark A, Lazzaro B, Douglas AE. 2015. Host genetic determinants of microbiota-dependent nutrition revealed by genome-wide analysis of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Communications. 18(6):6312.
Newell PD, Chaston JM, Wang Y, Winans NJ, Sannino D, Wong AC, Dobson AJ, Kagle J, Douglas AE. 2014. In vivo function and comparative genomic analyses of the Drosophila gut microbiota identify candidate symbiosis factors. Frontiers in Microbiology - Microbial Symbioses.
Chaston JM, Newell PD, Douglas AE. 2014. Metagenome-Wide Association of Microbial Determinants of Host Phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster. mBio. 5(5):e01631-14. doi:10.1128/mBio.01631-14
Veesenmeyer JL, Andersen AW, Lu X, Hussa EA, Murfin KE, Chaston JM, Dillman A, Wassarman KM, Sternberg PW, Goodrich-Blair H. 2014. NilD CRISPR RNA contributes to Xenorhabdus nematophila colonization of symbiotic host nematodes. Molecular microbiology. 93(5):1026-42. doi:10.1111/mmi.12715
Jing X, Wong AC, Chaston JM, Colvin J, McKenzie CL, Douglas AE. 2014. The bacterial communities in plant phloem-sap-feeding insects. 23(6):1433-44. doi:10.1111/mec.12637
Wong AC, Chaston JM, Douglas AE. 2013. The inconstant gut microbiota of Drosophila species revealed by 16S rRNA gene analysis. The ISME journal. 7(10):1922-32. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.86
Chaston JM, Murfin KE, Heath-Heckman EA, Goodrich-Blair H. 2013. Previously unrecognized stages of species-specific colonization in the mutualism between Xenorhabdus bacteria and Steinernema nematodes. Cellular microbiology. 15(9):1545-59. doi:10.1111/cmi.12134
Murfin KE, Chaston JM, Goodrich-Blair H. 2012. Visualizing bacteria in nematodes using fluorescent microscopy. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. doi:10.3791/4298
Chaston JM, Douglas AE. 2012. Making the most of "omics" for symbiosis research. The Biological bulletin. 223(1):21-9.
Bhasin A, Chaston JM, Goodrich-Blair H. 2012. Mutational analyses reveal overall topology and functional regions of NilB, a bacterial outer membrane protein required for host association in a model of animal-microbe mutualism. Journal of bacteriology. 194(7):1763-76. doi:10.1128/JB.06711-11
Sugar DR, Murfin KE, Chaston JM, Andersen AW, Richards GR, deLéon L, Baum JA, Clinton WP, Forst S, Goldman BS, et al. 2012. Phenotypic variation and host interactions of Xenorhabdus bovienii SS-2004, the entomopathogenic symbiont of Steinernema jollieti nematodes. Environmental microbiology. 14(4):924-39. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02663.x
Dillman A, Chaston JM, Adams BJ, Ciche TA, Goodrich-Blair H, Stock SP, Sternberg PW. 2012. An entomopathogenic nematode by any other name. PLoS pathogens. 8(3):e1002527. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002527
Chaston JM, Dillman A, Shapiro-Ilan DI, Bilgrami AL, Gaugler R, Hopper KR, Adams BJ. 2011. Outcrossing and crossbreeding recovers deteriorated traits in laboratory cultured Steinernema carpocapsae nematodes. International journal for parasitology. 41(7):801-9. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.02.005
Chaston JM, Suen G, Tucker SL, Andersen AW, Bhasin A, Bode E, Bode HB, Brachmann AO, Cowles CE, Cowles KN, et al. 2011. The entomopathogenic bacterial endosymbionts Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus: convergent lifestyles from divergent genomes. PloS one. 6(11):e27909. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027909
Chaston JM, Goodrich-Blair H. 2010. Common trends in mutualism revealed by model associations between invertebrates and bacteria. FEMS microbiology reviews. 34(1):41-58. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00193.x
Adhikari BN, Lin CY, Bai X, Ciche TA, Grewal PS, Dillman A, Chaston JM, Shapiro-Ilan DI, Bilgrami AL, Gaugler R, et al. 2009. Transcriptional profiling of trait deterioration in the insect pathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora. BMC genomics. 10:609. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-609
Adams BJ, Wall DH, Gozel U, Dillman A, Chaston JM, Hogg ID. 2007. The southernmost worm, Scottnema lindsayae (Nematoda): diversity, dispersal and ecological stability. Polar Biology. 30:809-815.
Presentations
Mabey JG, Chaston JM, Adams TD, Hunt SC, Davidson LE. Gut microbiota composition 12 years after gastric bypass surgery compared to non-surgical controls with severe obesity. Obesity Week 2019. Las Vegas, NV. 2019 .
Chaston JM. Genetic influence of the Drosophila melanogaster microbiome on host nutrition and behavior. University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Las Vegas, NV. 2015 .
Chaston JM, Dobson AJ, Douglas AE. Effects of Wolbachia on Drosophila nutrition and microbiome. Drosophila Conference 2015. Chicago, IL. 2015 .
Chaston JM. Finding determinants of microbial community structure and function using genome-wide association. 5th ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes. Washington, DC. 2014 .
