Olga Zhaxybayeva

Selected Publications

• Zhengshuang Hua, Matthew Ouellette, Andrea M. Makkay, R. Thane Papke, and Olga Zhaxybayeva (2021): “Nutrient supplementation experiments with saltern microbial communities implicate utilization of DNA as a source of phosphorus”, ISME Journal, online ahead of print, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-00960-8

• Emma S. Esterman, Yuri I. Wolf, Roman Kogay, Eugene V. Koonin, and Olga Zhaxybayeva (2021): “Evolution of DNA packaging in gene transfer agents”, Virus Evolution, 7: veab015.

• Roman Kogay, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin, and Olga Zhaxybayeva (2020): "Selection for Reducing Energy Cost of Protein Production Drives the GC Content and Amino Acid Composition Bias in Gene Transfer Agents", mBio, 11:e01206-20.

• Chase WR, Zhaxybayeva O, Rocha J, Cosgrove DJ, Shapiro LR. (2020) "Global cellulose biomass, horizontal gene transfers and domain fusions drive microbial expansin evolution." New Phytol., 226:921-938.

• Kogay R, Neely TB, Birnbaum DP, Hankel CR, Shakya M, Zhaxybayeva O. (2019): "Machine-learning classification suggests that many alphaproteobacterial prophages may instead be gene transfer agents", Genome Biol Evol., evz206.

• Bauer KM, Dicovitsky R, Pellegrini M, Zhaxybayeva O, Ragusa MJ. (2019): "The structure of a highly-conserved picocyanobacterial protein reveals a Tudor domain with an RNA-binding function", J Biol Chem., 294:14333-14344.

• Stephen M. J. Pollo, Abigail A. Adebusuy, Timothy J. Straub, Julia M. Foght, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Camilla L. Nesbo (2017) "Genomic insights and temperature-dependent transcriptional responses of Kosmotoga olearia, a deep-biosphere bacterium that can grow from 20C to 79C", Extremophiles, 21:963-979.

• Complete list of publications is available at https://labofoz.host.dartmouth.edu/pubs.html