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Alexandre J Poulain; Tamar Barkay
Environmental science. Cracking the mercury methylation code.
Yanping Wang; Heather A Wiatrowski; Nathan Yee; Lily Y Young; Ria John; Lee J Kerkhof; Chu-Ching Lin; Tamar Barkay
Impact of mercury on denitrification and denitrifying microbial communities in nitrate enrichments of subsurface sediments.
Zachary Freedman; Chengsheng Zhu; Tamar Barkay
Mercury resistance and mercuric reductase activities and expression among chemotrophic thermophilic Aquificae.

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2013: Alexandre J Poulain; Tamar Barkay
Environmental science. Cracking the mercury methylation code.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2013;339(6125):1280-1.
2013: Yanping Wang; Heather A Wiatrowski; Nathan Yee; Lily Y Young; Ria John; Lee J Kerkhof; Chu-Ching Lin; Tamar Barkay
Impact of mercury on denitrification and denitrifying microbial communities in nitrate enrichments of subsurface sediments.
Biodegradation 2013;24(1):33-46.
2012: Zachary Freedman; Chengsheng Zhu; Tamar Barkay
Mercury resistance and mercuric reductase activities and expression among chemotrophic thermophilic Aquificae.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2012;78(18):6568-75.
2012: Ri-Qing Yu; J R Flanders; E Erin Mack; M Bilal Mirza; Ralph Turner; Tamar Barkay
Contribution of coexisting sulfate and iron reducing bacteria to methylmercury production in freshwater river sediments.
Environmental science & technology 2012;46(5):2684-91.
2011: Yanping Wang; Eric Boyd; Sharron Crane; John Dighton; Gill Geesey; Susan King; David Krabbenhoft; Patricia Lu-Irving; Tamar Barkay
Environmental conditions constrain the distribution and diversity of archaeal merA in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A.
Microbial ecology 2011;62(4):739-52.
2011: Stéphanie Hamelin; Marc Amyot; Tamar Barkay; Yanping Wang; Dolors Planas
Methanogens: principal methylators of mercury in lake periphyton.
Environmental science & technology 2011;45(18):7693-700.
2010: Ri-Qing Yu; Isaac Adatto; Mario R Montesdeoca; Charles T Driscoll; Mark E Hines; Tamar Barkay
Mercury methylation in Sphagnum moss mats and its association with sulfate-reducing bacteria in an acidic Adirondack forest lake wetland.
FEMS microbiology ecology 2010;74(3):655-68.
2010: Tamar Barkay; K Kritee; Eric Boyd; Gill Geesey
A thermophilic bacterial origin and subsequent constraints by redox, light and salinity on the evolution of the microbial mercuric reductase.
Environmental microbiology 2010;12(11):2904-17.
2010: Sharron Crane; John Dighton; Tamar Barkay
Growth responses to and accumulation of mercury by ectomycorrhizal fungi.
Fungal biology 2010;114(10):873-80.
2009: Heather A Wiatrowski; Soumya Das; Ravi Kukkadapu; Eugene S Ilton; Tamar Barkay; Nathan Yee
Reduction of Hg(II) to Hg(0) by magnetite.
Environmental science & technology 2009;43(14):5307-13.
2009: Melitza Crespo-Medina; Aspassia Chatziefthimiou; Ramaydalis Cruz-Matos; Ileana Pérez-Rodríguez; Tamar Barkay; Richard A Lutz; Valentin Starovoytov; Costantino Vetriani
Salinisphaera hydrothermalis sp. nov., a mesophilic, halotolerant, facultatively autotrophic, thiosulfate-oxidizing gammaproteobacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and emended description of the genus Salinisphaera.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 2009;59(Pt 6):1497-503.
2009: Yanping Wang; Zachary Freedman; Patricia Lu-Irving; Rachel Kaletsky; Tamar Barkay
An initial characterization of the mercury resistance (mer) system of the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27.
FEMS microbiology ecology 2009;67(1):118-29.
2008: K Kritee; Joel D Blum; Tamar Barkay
Mercury stable isotope fractionation during reduction of Hg(II) by different microbial pathways.
Environmental science & technology 2008;42(24):9171-7.
2008: Nof Atamna-Ismaeel; Gazalah Sabehi; Itai Sharon; Karl-Paul Witzel; Matthias Labrenz; Klaus Jürgens; Tamar Barkay; Maayke Stomp; Jef Huisman; Oded Beja
Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems.
The ISME journal 2008;2(6):656-62.
2007: Tamara Cardona-Marek; Jeffra Schaefer; Kristie Ellickson; Tamar Barkay; John R Reinfelder
Mercury speciation, reactivity, and bioavailability in a highly contaminated estuary, Berry's Creek, New Jersey Meadowlands.
Environmental science & technology 2007;41(24):8268-74.
2007: George R Golding; Carol A Kelly; Richard Sparling; Peter C Loewen; Tamar Barkay
Evaluation of mercury toxicity as a predictor of mercury bioavailability.
Environmental science & technology 2007;41(16):5685-92.
2007: Aspassia D Chatziefthimiou; Melitza Crespo-Medina; Yanping Wang; Costantino Vetriani; Tamar Barkay
The isolation and initial characterization of mercury resistant chemolithotrophic thermophilic bacteria from mercury rich geothermal springs.
Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions 2007;11(3):469-79.
2007: Alexandre J Poulain; Sinéad M Ní Chadhain; Parisa A Ariya; Marc Amyot; Edenise Garcia; Peter G C Campbell; Gerben J Zylstra; Tamar Barkay
Potential for mercury reduction by microbes in the high arctic.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2007;73(7):2230-8.
2007: K Kritee; Joel D Blum; Marcus W Johnson; Bridget A Bergquist; Tamar Barkay
Mercury stable isotope fractionation during reduction of Hg(II) to Hg(0) by mercury resistant microorganisms.
Environmental science & technology 2007;41(6):1889-95.
2007: Tamar Barkay; Alexandre J Poulain
Mercury (micro)biogeochemistry in polar environments.
FEMS microbiology ecology 2007;59(2):232-41.
2006: Heather A Wiatrowski; Paula Marie Ward; Tamar Barkay
Novel reduction of mercury (II) by mercury-sensitive dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria.
Environmental science & technology 2006;40(21):6690-6.
2006: Sinéad M Ní Chadhain; Jeffra K Schaefer; Sharron Crane; Gerben J Zylstra; Tamar Barkay
Analysis of mercuric reductase (merA) gene diversity in an anaerobic mercury-contaminated sediment enrichment.
Environmental microbiology 2006;8(10):1746-52.
2006: Robert J Martinez; Yanling Wang; Melanie A Raimondo; Jonna M Coombs; Tamar Barkay; Patricia A Sobecky
Horizontal gene transfer of PIB-type ATPases among bacteria isolated from radionuclide- and metal-contaminated subsurface soils.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2006;72(5):3111-8.
2005: Jonna M Coombs; Tamar Barkay
New findings on evolution of metal homeostasis genes: evidence from comparative genome analysis of bacteria and archaea.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2005;71(11):7083-91.
2005: Barth Smets; Tamar Barkay
Horizontal gene transfer: perspectives at a crossroads of scientific disciplines.
Nature reviews. Microbiology 2005;3(9):675-8.
2005: Heather A Wiatrowski; Tamar Barkay
Monitoring of microbial metal transformations in the environment.
Current opinion in biotechnology 2005;16(3):261-8.
2005: Tamar Barkay; Irene Wagner-Döbler
Microbial transformations of mercury: potentials, challenges, and achievements in controlling mercury toxicity in the environment.
Advances in applied microbiology 2005;57():1-52.
2005: Costantino Vetriani; Yein S Chew; Susan Miller; Jane Yagi; Jonna M Coombs; Richard A Lutz; Tamar Barkay
Mercury adaptation among bacteria from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2005;71(1):220-6.
2004: Jeffra K Schaefer; Jane Yagi; John R Reinfelder; Tamara Cardona; Kristie M Ellickson; Shoshana Tel-Or; Tamar Barkay
Role of the bacterial organomercury lyase (MerB) in controlling methylmercury accumulation in mercury-contaminated natural waters.
Environmental science & technology 2004;38(16):4304-11.
2004: Jonna M Coombs; Tamar Barkay
Molecular evidence for the evolution of metal homeostasis genes by lateral gene transfer in bacteria from the deep terrestrial subsurface.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2004;70(3):1698-707.
2003: Tamar Barkay; Susan Miller; Anne O Summers
Bacterial mercury resistance from atoms to ecosystems.
FEMS microbiology reviews 2003;27(2-3):355-84.
2003: G Benyehuda; Jonna M Coombs; P L Ward; D Balkwill; Tamar Barkay
Metal resistance among aerobic chemoheterotrophic bacteria from the deep terrestrial subsurface.
Canadian journal of microbiology 2003;49(2):151-6.
2001: Tamar Barkay; J Schaefer
Metal and radionuclide bioremediation: issues, considerations and potentials.
Current opinion in microbiology 2001;4(3):318-23.
1999: Tamar Barkay; Shiri Navon-Venezia; Eliora Z Ron; Eugene Rosenberg
Enhancement of solubilization and biodegradation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons by the bioemulsifier alasan.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1999;65(6):2697-702.
1999: J Radnoti de Lipthay; Tamar Barkay; J Vekova; Søren J Sørensen
Utilization of phenoxyacetic acid, by strains using either the ortho or meta cleavage of catechol during phenol degradation, after conjugal transfer of tfdA, the gene encoding a 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid/2-oxoglutarate dioxygenase.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology 1999;51(2):207-14.
1998: Tamar Barkay; R R Turner; LD Rasmussen; Carol A Kelly; J W Rudd
Luminescence facilitated detection of bioavailable mercury in natural waters.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 1998;102():231-46.
1997: Tamar Barkay; M Gillman; R R Turner
Effects of dissolved organic carbon and salinity on bioavailability of mercury.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1997;63(11):4267-71.
1997: LD Rasmussen; R R Turner; Tamar Barkay
Cell-density-dependent sensitivity of a mer-lux bioassay.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1997;63(8):3291-3.
1993: Tamar Barkay; C Liebert; M Gillman
Conjugal gene transfer to aquatic bacteria detected by the generation of a new phenotype.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1993;59(3):807-14.
1990: Tamar Barkay; M Gillman; C Liebert
Genes encoding mercuric reductases from selected gram-negative aquatic bacteria have a low degree of homology with merA of transposon Tn501.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1990;56(6):1695-701.
1989: Tamar Barkay; C Liebert; M Gillman
Hybridization of DNA probes with whole-community genome for detection of genes that encode microbial responses to pollutants: mer genes and Hg2+ resistance.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1989;55(6):1574-7.
1989: Tamar Barkay; C Liebert; M Gillman
Environmental significance of the potential for mer(Tn21)-mediated reduction of Hg2+ to Hg0 in natural waters.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1989;55(5):1196-202.
1987: Tamar Barkay
Adaptation of aquatic microbial communities to hg stress.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1987;53(12):2725-32.