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PRE-PRINTS

  1. Roman Kogay, Weicheng Ma, Jad Bousselham, Zechen Yang, Daniel Rockmore, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Soroush Vosoughi: “Homology detection using a protein secondary structure-based large language model”, bioRxiv 2023.12.19.572443; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.19.572443.
  2. Roman Kogay and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Co-evolution of gene transfer agents and their alphaproteobacterial hosts”, bioRxiv 2023.08.11.553018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.11.553018. Accepted to the Journal of Bacterioloogy.

IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

  1. Anne A Farrell, Camilla L Nesbø, and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Early divergence and gene exchange highways in the evolutionary history of Mesoaciditogales, Genome Biol. Evol., 2023: evad156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad156
  2. Laura Blum, Daniel Colman, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Matthew Kellom, Eric Boyd, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and William Leavitt: “Distribution and abundance of tetraether lipid cyclization genes in terrestrial hot springs reflect pH”, Environmental Microbiology 2023 (E-pub ahead of print). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16375).
  3. Anne A Farrell, Olga Zhaxybayeva and Camilla L Nesbø: “Complete Genome Sequence of Oceanotoga sp. Strain T3B (DSM 15011).” Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023, 12: e0002223. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00022-23.
  4. Roman Kogay and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Selection for translational efficiency in genes associated with alphaproteobacterial gene transfer agents”, mSystems 2022, 7: e0089222
  5. Roman Kogay, Sonja Koppenhöfer, J. Thomas Beatty, Jens H. Kuhn, Andrew S. Lang, Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Formal Recognition and Classification of Gene Transfer Agents as Viriforms”, Virus Evolution 2022, 8: veac100
  6. Zhengshuang Hua, Matthew Ouellette, Andrea M. Makkay, R. Thane Papke, and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Nutrient supplementation experiments with saltern microbial communities implicate utilization of DNA as a source of phosphorus”, ISME Journal, 2021, 15: 2843-2864.
  7. Emma S. Esterman, Yuri I. Wolf, Roman Kogay, Eugene V. Koonin, and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Evolution of DNA packaging in gene transfer agents”, Virus Evolution, 2021, 7: veab015.
  8. Roman Kogay, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin, Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Selection for reducing energy cost of protein production drives the GC content and amino acid composition bias in gene transfer agents”, mBio, 2020, 11: e01206-20.
  9. Chase WR, Zhaxybayeva O, Rocha J, Cosgrove DJ, Shapiro LR. Global cellulose biomass, horizontal gene transfers and domain fusions drive microbial expansin evolution. New Phytol. 2020, 226:921-938. [PubMed]
  10. Kogay R, Neely TB, Birnbaum DP, Hankel CR, Shakya M, Zhaxybayeva O.: “Machine-learning classification suggests that many alphaproteobacterial prophages may instead be gene transfer agents”, Genome Biol Evol. 2019, evz206. [PubMed]
  11. Bauer KM, Dicovitsky R, Pellegrini M, Zhaxybayeva O, Ragusa MJ.: “The structure of a highly-conserved picocyanobacterial protein reveals a Tudor domain with an RNA-binding function”, J Biol Chem. 2019, 294:14333-14344. [PubMed]
  12. Shapiro LR, Paulson JN, Arnold BJ, Scully ED, Zhaxybayeva O, Pierce NE, Rocha J, Klepac-Ceraj V, Holton K, Kolter R.: “An Introduced Crop Plant Is Driving Diversification of the Virulent Bacterial Pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila“, MBio, 2018, 9: e01307-18. [PubMed]
  13. Migun Shakya, Shannon M. Soucy, and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Insights into Origin and Evolution of alpha-proteobacterial Gene Transfer Agents”, Virus Evolution 2017, 3: vex036. [Open Access] [Supplementary Data on FigShare]
  14. Stephen M. J. Pollo, Abigail A. Adebusuy, Timothy J. Straub, Julia M. Foght, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Camilla L. Nesbo: “Genomic insights and temperature-dependent transcriptional responses of Kosmotoga olearia, a deep-biosphere bacterium that can grow from 20C to 79C”, Extremophiles, 2017, 21:963-979 [PubMed] [Open Access Article]
  15. Straub TJ and Zhaxybayeva O: “A null model for microbial diversification”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017, 114:E5414-E5423. [PubMed] [Free Full Text][Supplementary Data on FigShare]
  16. Hynes AP, Shakya M, Mercer RG, Grull MP, Bown L, Davidson F, Steffen E, Matchem H, Peach ME, Berger T, Grebe K, Zhaxybayeva O, Lang AS. Functional and Evolutionary Characterization of a Gene Transfer Agent’s Multilocus “Genome”. Mol Biol Evol. 2016, 33: 2530-2543. [Open Access Article] [Suplementary Data on FigShare]
  17. Lori R. Shapiro, Erin D. Scully, Timothy J. Straub, Jihye Park, Andrew G. Stephenson, Gwyn Beattie, Mark Gleason, Roberto Kolter, Miguel C. Coelho, Consuelo M. DeMoraes, Mark C. Mescher, and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Horizontal Gene Acquisitions, Mobile Element Proliferation, and Genome Decay in the Host-Restricted Plant Pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila“, Genome Biol Evol. 2016, 8:649-664. [Open Access Article]
  18. Pollo SM, Zhaxybayeva O, Nesbo CL: “Insights into thermoadaptation and the evolution of mesophily from the bacterial phylum Thermotogae.” Can J Microbiol. 2015, 61:655-70. [PubMed] [Free Full Text]
  19. Lori Shapiro, Erin Scully, Dana Roberts, Timothy Straub, Scott Geib, Jihye Park, Andrew Stephenson, Erika Salaau Rojas, Qian Liu, Gwyn Beattie, Mark Gleason, Consuelo De Moraes, Mark Mescher, Shelby Fleischer, Roberto Kolter, Naomi Pierce, and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Draft genome sequence of Erwinia tracheiphila, an economically important bacterial pathogen of cucurbits”. Genome Announcements 2015, 3: e00482-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00482-15 [Free Full Text]
  20. Lossouarn J, Nesbo CL, Mercier C, Zhaxybayeva O, Johnson MS, Charchuck R, Farasin J, Bienvenu N, Baudoux AC, Michoud G, Jebbar M, Geslin C. “Menage a trois”: a selfish genetic element uses a virus to propagate within Thermotogales. Environ Microbiol. 2015, 17:3278-88. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12783.[PubMed] [Free Full Text]
  21. Nesbo CL, S Swithers K, Dahle H, Haverkamp TH, Birkeland NK, Sokolova T, Kublanov I, Zhaxybayeva O.: “Evidence for extensive gene flow and Thermotoga subpopulations in subsurface and marine environments.” ISME J. 2015, 9:1532-42. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.238. [PubMed] [Free Full Text in PMC]
  22. Caroline E. Whidden, Katrina G. DeZeeuw, Jackie K. Zorz, Andrew P. Joy, David A. Barnett, Milo S. Johnson’13, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and Amanda M. Cockshutt: “Quantitative and Functional Characterization of the Hyper-Conserved Protein of Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus“, PLoS ONE, 2014, 9: e109327. [Open Access]
  23. Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Anciently duplicated genes reduce uncertainty in molecular clock estimates”, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2013, 110:12168-9, E-pub July 10. [Free Full Text]
  24. Douglas A. Campbell, Zakir Hossain, Amanda M. Cockshutt, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Hongyan Wu, and Gang Li “Photosystem II protein clearance and FtsH function in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana“, Photosynthesis Research, 2013, 115:43-54. [PubMed]
  25. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Nikhil R. Mohan, and R. Thane Papke: “Cell sorting analysis of geographically separated hypersaline environments”, Extremophiles, 2013, 17:265-75. [PubMed]
  26. Olga Zhaxybayeva: “The Mystery of Eukaryotic Cell Origin”. Book review of “Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells and Complex Life” by Martin Brasier (Oxford University Press). BioScience, 2012, 62: 997-998.
  27. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Kristen S. Swithers, Julia Foght, Anna Green, Brittany Held, David Bruce, Chris Detter, Shunsheng Han, Hazuki Teshima, James Han, Tanja Woyke, Sam Pitluck, Len Pennacchio, Matt Nolan, Natalia Ivanova, Amrita Pati, Miriam L. Land, Marlena Dlutek, W. Ford Doolittle, Kenneth M. Noll and Camilla L. Nesbo: “Genome sequence of the mesophilic Thermotogales bacterium Mesotoga prima MesG1.Ag.4.2 reveals largest Thermotogales genome to-date”, Genome Biology and Evolution, 2012, 4: 700-708. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evs059. [Open Access]
  28. Andrew S. Lang, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and J. Thomas Beatty: “Gene Transfer Agents: phage-like elements of genetic exchange”, Nature Reviews in Micriobiology, 2012, 10: 472-482. [PubMed] [Free Full Access in PMC]
  29. Feglou Mao, David Williams, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Maria Poptsova, J. Peter Gogarten and Ying Xu: “Quartet Decomposition Server: A Platform for Analyzing Phylogenetic Trees”, BMC Bioinformatics, 2012, 13:123.[Open Access]
  30. Olga Zhaxybayeva and W. Ford Doolittle: “Lateral Gene Transfer. A Primer”, Current Biology, 2011, 21: R242-6. [PubMed] [Free Full Text]
  31. W. Ford Doolittle and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Metagenomics and the units of biological organization”, BioScience, 2010, 60: 102-112. [Free Full Text]
  32. Olga Zhaxybayeva, W. Ford Doolittle, R. Thane Papke and J. Peter Gogarten: “Intertwined Evolutionary Histories of Marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus marinus“, Genome Biology and Evolution, 2009, 1: 325–339. [Open Access]
  33. W. Ford Doolittle and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “On the origin of prokaryotic species”, Genome Research 2009, 19:744-56. [PubMed] [Free Full Text]
  34. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Kristen Swithers, Pascal Lapierre, Greg Fournier, Derek Bickhard, Robert T. DeBoy, Karen E. Nelson, Camilla L. Nesbo, W. Ford Doolittle, J. Peter Gogarten and Kenneth M. Noll: “On the Chimeric Nature, Thermophilic Origin and Phylogenetic Placement of the Thermotogales”, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2009, 106:5865-70. [PubMed] [Free Full Text]
  35. Camilla L. Nesbo, Eric Bapteste, Bruce Curtis, Hakon Dahle, Philippe Lopez, Dave Macleod, Marlena Dlutek, Sharen Bowman, Angie Lewis, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Nils-KÃ¥re Birkeland and W. Ford Doolittle: “The genome of Thermosipho africanus TCF52B: lateral genetic connections to the Firmicutes and Archaea”, J.Bact. 2009, 191:1974-8. [PubMed] [Free Full Text]
  36. Lutz Hamel, Neha Nahar, Maria S. Poptsova, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: “Unsupervised Learning in Detection of Gene Transfer”, Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, 2008, 2008: 472719. [Open Access]
  37. Adrian K. Sharma, Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke and W.Ford Doolittle: “Actinorhodopsins: proteorhodopsin-like gene sequences found predominantly in non-marine environments”, Environmental Microbiology, 2008, 10: 1039-1056. [PubMed]
  38. Jeremy Koenig, Yan Boucher, Robert Charlebois, Camilla Nesbo, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Eric Bapteste, Matthew Spencer, H. W. Stokes and W. Ford Doolittle: “Integron-associated gene cassettes in Halifax Harbour: assessment of a mobile gene pool in marine sediments”, Environmental Microbiology, 2008, 10: 1024-1038. [PubMed]
  39. J Peter Gogarten, Gregory Fournier and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Gene transfer and the reconstruction of life’s early history from the molecular record”, Space Science Reviews, 2008, 135: 115-131.
  40. Lutz Hamel, Neha Nahar, Maria S. Poptsova, J. Peter Gogarten and Olga Zhaxybayeva “Unsupervised Learning in Spectral Genome Analysis”, Proceeding of the IEEE Conference Frontiers in the Convergence of Bioscience and Information Technologies (FBIT 2007), October 2007, pp317 – 321, IEEE Press, ISBN 0-7695-2999-2. [Reprint]
  41. R. Thane Papke, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Edward Feil, Katrin Sommerfeld, Denise Muise, W. Ford Doolittle: “Searching for species in haloarchaea”, PNAS 2007 104: 14092-14097. [Free Full Text]
  42. Olga Zhaxybayeva, J Peter Gogarten and W. Ford Doolittle: “A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus”, FEMS Microbiol Lett, 2007, 274: 30-34. [Free Full Text]
  43. W. Ford Doolittle and Olga Zhaxybayeva: “Evolution: reducible complexity – the case for bacterial flagella”, Current Biology, 2007, 17: R510-R512. [Free Full Text]
  44. Sara Cuadros-Orellana, Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, Boris Legault, Giuseppe D’Auria, Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera: “Genomic Plasticity in Prokaryotes: the Case of the Square Haloarchaeon”, ISME Journal, 2007, 1, 235-245.[Free Full Text]
  45. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Camilla L. Nesbo and W.Ford Doolittle: “Systematic overestimation of gene gain through false diagnosis of gene absence”, Genome Biology, 2007, 8:402. [Open Access]
  46. “The Astrobiology Primer: An Outline of General Knowledge. Version 1, 2006”. Editors: L.J. Mix, J.C. Armstrong, A.M. Mandell, A.C. Mosier, J. Raymond, S.N. Raymond, F.J. Stewart, K. von Braun, and O. Zhaxybayeva, Authors: L. Billings, V. Cameron, M. Claire, G.J. Dick, S.D. Domagal-Goldman, E.J. Javaux, O.J. Johnson, C. Laws, M.S. Race, J. Rask, J.D. Rummel, R.T. Schelble, and S. Vance, Astrobiology, 2006, 6: 735-813. [Open Access]
  47. Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Robert L. Charlebois, W. Ford Doolittle and R. Thane Papke: “Phylogenetic Analyses Of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification Of Horizontal Gene Transfer Events”, Genome Research, 2006, 16:1099-1108. [Free Full Text] [Supplementary Data]
  48. Camilla L. Nesbo, Marlena Dlutek, Olga Zhaxybayeva and W. Ford Doolittle: “Evidence for the existence of mesotogas – members of the Thermotogales adapted to low temperature environments”, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2006, 72:5061-5068. [Free Full Text]
  49. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Pascal Lapierre and J. Peter Gogarten: “Ancient Gene Duplications and the Root(s) of the Tree of Life”, Protoplasma, 2006, 227:53-64. [PubMed]
  50. Alessia Morandi, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten and Joerg Graf: “Evolutionary and Diagnostic Implications of Intragenomic Heterogeneity in the 16S rRNA Gene in Aeromonas Strains”, J. Bact., 2005, 187:6561-4. [Free Full Text]
  51. Lutz Hamel, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: “PentaPlot: A software tool for the illustration of genome mosaicism”, BMC Bioinformatics, 2005, 6: 13.
    [Open Access] [Accompanying Software – PentaPlot]
  52. Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Review of “Cladistics: a practical primer on CD-ROM” by Peter Skelton and Andrew Smith. Origin of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2005, 35: 69-71 [DOI]
  53. Brianna L. Sollod, David Wilson, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Roger Drinkwater, and Glenn F. King: “Were arachnids the first to use combinatorial peptide libraries?”, Peptides, 2005, 26: 131-139. [PubMed]
  54. Zhaxybayeva, O., Lapierre, P. and Gogarten J.P.: “Genome Mosaicism and Organismal Lineages”, Trends in Genetics, 2004, 20(5): 254-260. [DOI link]
  55. O. Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life. Trends in Genetics 2004, 20(4): 182-187. [DOI link]
  56. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lutz Hamel, Jason Raymond, and J. Peter Gogarten: Visualization of Phylogenetic content of Five Genomes with Dekapentagonal Maps. Genome Biology 2004, 5: R20
    [Open Access] [Accompanying Software – PentaPlot]
  57. Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Spliceosomal Introns: New Insights into Their Evolution. Current Biology 2003, 13: R764-766 [Free Full Text]
  58. Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. An Improved Probability Mapping Approach to Assess Genome Mosaicism, BMC Genomics 2003 4: 37 [Open Access]
  59. Jason Raymond, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten and Robert E. Blankenship. Evolution of photosynthetic prokaryotes: a maximum-likelihood mapping approach. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 2003, 358: 223-230. [Free Full Text]
  60. RAYMOND, J.#, ZHAXYBAYEVA, O.#, GOGARTEN, J.P., GERDES, S., BLANKENSHIP, R.E.: Whole Genome Analysis of Photosynthetic Prokaryotes. Science 2002, 298: 1616-1620.
    [Free with Registration] [Supplementary Data]

    #– these authors contributed equally to the published work
  61. J. Peter Gogarten, Alireza G. Senejani, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski, and Elena Hilario. Inteins: Structure, Function, and Evolution. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 2002, 56: 263-287 [Link to Full Text]
  62. Olga Zhaxybayeva, J Peter Gogarten. Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses. BMC Genomics 2002, 3:4. [Open Access] [Supplementary Data]
  63. Olendzenski, L., Liu, L., Zhaxybayeva, O., Murphey, R., Shin, D.G., and Gogarten, J.P. 2000. Horizontal Transfer of Archaeal Genes into the Deinococcaceae: Detection by molecular and computer based approaches. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 51(6): 587-599. [PubMed] [Link to Full Text] [Supplementary Data].

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Stéphane L’Haridon, Camilla Nesbø, Anne A. Farrell, and Olga Zhaxybayeva:“Family Mesoaciditogaceae”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, accepted.
  2. Stéphane L’Haridon, Camilla Nesbø, Anne A. Farrell, and Olga Zhaxybayeva:“Genus Athalassotoga”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, accepted.
  3. Stéphane L’Haridon, Camilla Nesbø, Anne A. Farrell, and Olga Zhaxybayeva:“Genus Mesoaciditoga”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, accepted.
  4. Camilla Nesbø, Anne A. Farrell, Olga Zhaxybayeva and Stéphane L’Haridon: (2022) “Genus Thermosipho”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01272.pub2.
  5. Anne A. Farrell, Camilla Nesbø, Olga Zhaxybayeva and Stephane l’Haridon (2021): “Genus Pseudothermotoga”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01861
  6. Camilla Nesbø, Anne A. Farrell, Olga Zhaxybayeva and Stephane l’Haridon (2021): “Family Fervidobacteriaceae”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00360
  7. Stephane l’Haridon, Anne A. Farrell, Olga Zhaxybayeva and Camilla Nesbø (2021): “Genus Fervidobacterium”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01269.pub2
  8. Stephane l’Haridon, Camilla Nesbø, Anne A. Farrell, and Olga Zhaxybayeva (2021): “Genus Kosmotoga”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01863
  9. Camilla Nesbø, Stephane l’Haridon, Anne A. Farrell, and Olga Zhaxybayeva (2021): “Genus Mesotoga”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01862
  10. Camilla Nesbø, Stephane l’Haridon, Olga Zhaxybayeva and Anne A. Farrell (2021): “Family Kosmotogaceae”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00361
  11. Camilla Nesbø, Anne A. Farrell, Olga Zhaxybayeva and Stephane l’Haridon (2019): “Genus Thermotoga”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons; https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01273.pub2
  12. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Camilla Nesbø, Anne A. Farrell, and Stephane l’Haridon (2019): “Thermotogaceae”, Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Jon Wiley and Sons; https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00253.pub2
  13. Doolittle, W.F. and Zhaxybayeva, O. (2013): “What is Prokaryote?”, pp. 21-37 in “The Prokaryotes: Prokaryotic Biology and Symbiotic Associations”, 4th Ed. ( Eds: E. Rosenberg, E. F. DeLong, S. Lory, E. Stackebrandt, F. Thompson), Springer. [Online Access]
  14. Zhaxybayeva, O.: Detection and quantitative assessment of horizontal gene transfer (2009), chapter 11 in “Horizontal Gene Transfer: Genomes in Flux” (Eds. M. Gogarten, L. Olendzenski and JP Gogarten), Humana Press. [Online Access] [PubMed]
  15. Zhaxybayeva, O., Gogarten, J.P. and Olendzenski, L. (2008): Orthologs, Paralogs, and Xenologs in Human and Other Genomes (version 2.0), in “Encyclopedia of Life Sciences”, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005298.pub2. [Online Access]
  16. Gogarten JP and Zhaxybayeva O. (2008): The role of gene transfer in microbial evolution. Chapter 6 in “Computational Methods for Understanding Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes” (eds. Y.Xu and J. P. Gogarten), World Scientific Publishing.
  17. Doolittle WF, Nesbo CL, Bapteste E and Zhaxybayeva O (2007): Lateral Gene Transfer. In “Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics” (eds. M Pagel and A Pomiankowski), Sinauer Associates.
  18. J. Peter Gogarten, Olga Zhaxybayeva (2007). Horizontal gene transfer, gene histories and the root of the tree of life. Chapter 9 in “Planetary systems and the Origins of Life”, RE Pudritz, PG Higgs and J Stone (eds.), Cambridge University Press.
  19. OLENDZENSKI, L. ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., and GOGARTEN JP. (2004) A Brief History on Views of Prokaryotic Evolution and Taxonomy. In “Microbial Genomes”, CM Fraser, T Read and KE Nelson (eds), Humana Press, pp. 143-154 [Humana Press Catalog Entry]
  20. OLENDZENSKI, L., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., and GOGARTEN, J.P. (2003): Orthologs, Paralogs and Xenologs in Human and other Genomes. In “Encyclopedia of the Human Genome”, Nature Publishing Group [Online Version][Catalog Entry]
  21. Olendzenski, L., Zhaxybayeva, O., and Gogarten, J.P. 2002. Horizontal Gene Transfer: A new taxonomic principle? Chapter 34 in: Horizontal Gene Transfer 2nd ed., Syvanen, M. and Kado C.I. (eds.) Academic Press, London. [AP Catalog Entry]
  22. Olendzenski, L., Zhaxybayeva, O., and Gogarten, J.P. 2001. What’s in a Tree?: Does Horizontal Gene Transfer Determine Microbial Taxonomy? In: Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats, Vol 4:Symbioses, Seckbach, J. (ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands. p. 65-78. [Kluwer Catalog Entry]