Publications

†authors contributed equally

Xu, W., Xu, Y., Sun, R., Redondo, E. R., Leung, K. K., Wan, S. H., … & Yung, C. C. (2024). Revealing the intricate temporal dynamics and adaptive responses of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes in the coastal South China Sea. Science of The Total Environment, 176019. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176019)

Thomy, J., Sanchez, F., Prioux, C., Yau, S., Xu, Y., Mak, J., … & Yung, C. C. (2024). Unveiling Prasinovirus diversity and host specificity through targeted enrichment in the South China Sea. ISME Communications, ycae109. (https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae109)

Xu, Y., Leung, S.K., Li, T.W., Yung, C. C., Hidden genomic diversity drives niche partitioning in a cosmopolitan eukaryotic picophytoplankton, The ISME Journal, 2024;, wrae163. (https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae163)

Yung, C. C., Kelly, R. L., Kauffman, K. M., Cunningham, B., Zimmerman, A., Worden, A., & John, S. G. (2024). Iron limitation differentially affects viral replication in key marine microbes. bioRxiv, 2024-07. (https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.22.604475)

Yang, X., Gao, R., Zhang, Q., Yung, C. C., Yin, H., & Li, J. (2024). Quantification of Polyphosphate in Environmental Planktonic Samples Using a Novel Fluorescence Dye JC-D7. Environmental Science & Technology. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c04545)

Rey Redondo, E., Xu, Y., & Yung, C. C. M. (2024). Genomic characterisation and ecological distribution of Mantoniella tinhauana: a novel Mamiellophycean green alga from the Western Pacific. Frontiers in Microbiology15, 1358574. (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1358574)

Harbeitner, R. C., Wittmers, F., Yung, C. C., Eckmann, C. A., Hehenberger, E., Blum, M., … & Worden, A. Z. (2024). Gradients of bacteria in the oceanic water column reveal finely-resolved vertical distributions. Plos one19(4), e0298139. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298139)

Wilken, S., Yung, C. C., Poirier, C., Massana, R., Jimenez, V., & Worden, A. Z. (2023). Choanoflagellates alongside diverse uncultured predatory protists consume the abundant open-ocean cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences120(27), e2302388120. (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2302388120)

Needham, D. M., Poirier, C., Bachy, C., George, E. E., Wilken, S., Yung, C. C., … & Worden, A. Z. (2022). The microbiome of a bacterivorous marine choanoflagellate contains a resource-demanding obligate bacterial associate. Nature microbiology7(9), 1466-1479. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01174-0)

Yung, C. C., Rey Redondo, E., Sanchez, F., Yau, S., & Piganeau, G. (2022). Diversity and evolution of Mamiellophyceae: early-diverging Phytoplanktonic Green algae containing many cosmopolitan species. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering10(2), 240. (https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10020240)

Hamilton, M., Mascioni, M., Hehenberger, E., Bachy, C., Yung, C., Vernet, M., & Worden, A. Z. (2021). Spatiotemporal variations in Antarctic protistan communities highlight phytoplankton diversity and seasonal dominance by a novel cryptophyte lineage. Mbio12(6), e02973-21. (https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02973-21)

†Bachy, C., †Yung, C. C., Needham, D. M., Gazitúa, M. C., Roux, S., Limardo, A. J., … & Worden, A. Z. (2021). Viruses infecting a warm water picoeukaryote shed light on spatial co-occurrence dynamics of marine viruses and their hosts. The ISME Journal15(11), 3129-3147. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-00989-9)

Hoadley, K. D., Hamilton, M., Poirier, C. L., Choi, C. J., Yung, C. M., & Worden, A. Z. (2021). Selective uptake of pelagic microbial community members by Caribbean reef corals. Applied and Environmental Microbiology87(9), e03175-20. (https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03175-20)

Wilken, S., Yung, C. C., Hamilton, M., Hoadley, K., Nzongo, J., Eckmann, C., … & Worden, A. Z. (2019). The need to account for cell biology in characterizing predatory mixotrophs in aquatic environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B374(1786), 20190090. (https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0090)

Needham DM, Yoshizawa S, Hosaka T, Poirier C, Choi CJ, Hehenberger E, Irwin NA, Wilken S, Yung CM, Bachy C, Kurihara R et al. (2019) A distinct lineage of giant viruses brings a rhodopsin photosystem to unicellular marine predators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Sep 18:201907517. (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907517116)

Duan Y, Xie N, Song Z, Ward CS, Yung CM, Hunt DE, Johnson ZI, Wang G. (2018) High-resolution time-series reveals seasonal patterns of planktonic fungi at a temperate coastal ocean site (Beaufort, North Carolina, USA). Applied and environmental microbiology. Aug 24: AEM-00967. (https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00967-18)

Ward CS†, Yung CM†, Davis KM, Blinebry SK, Johnson ZI, Hunt DE. (2017) Annual community patterns are driven by seasonal switching between closely related marine bacteria. The ISME Journal, 11(6), 1412-1422. (https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.4)

Garcia NS†, Yung CM†, Davis KM, Rynearson T, & Hunt DE. (2017) Draft Genome Sequences of Three Bacterial Isolates from Cultures of the Marine Diatom Thalassiosira rotula. Genome Announcements, 5(18), e00316-17. (https://doi.org/10.1128/genomea.00316-17)

Yung CM, Ward CS, Davis KM, Johnson ZI, & Hunt DE. (2016) Insensitivity of Diverse and Temporally Variable Particle-Associated Microbial Communities to Bulk Seawater Environmental Parameters. Applied and environmental microbiology, 82(11), 3431-3437. (https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00395-16)

Yung CM, Vereen MK, Herbert A, Davis KM, Yang J, Kantorowska A, Ward CS, Wernegreen JJ, Johnson ZI & Hunt DE. (2015) Thermally adaptive tradeoffs in closely-related marine bacterial strains. Environmental Microbiology 17:2421–2429. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12714)

Yung CM, Chan YK, Lacap DC, Perez-Ortega S, de los Rios-Murillo A, Lee CK, Cary SC, and Pointing SB. (2014) Characterization of Chasmoendolithic Community in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Microbial Ecology 68:351–359. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-014-0412-7)