Ian Hewson
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Ian Hewson's Degrees
- PhD Marine Science University of California, Santa Barbara
- Masters Oceanography University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ian Hewson is an Australian American biological oceanographer and marine ecologist who is a professor of microbiology at Cornell University. He leads the Cornell Marine Mass Mortality Laboratory, where he studies the drives of marine mass mortalities. He is leader of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Department of Microbiology.
Ian Hewson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community from Human Feces (2003) (730)
- A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria (2008) (593)
- Annually reoccurring bacterial communities are predictable from ocean conditions (2006) (566)
- Marine bacterial, archaeal and protistan association networks reveal ecological linkages (2011) (508)
- Unicellular Cyanobacterial Distributions Broaden the Oceanic N2 Fixation Domain (2010) (386)
- Globally Distributed Uncultivated Oceanic N2-Fixing Cyanobacteria Lack Oxygenic Photosystem II (2008) (319)
- Comparative day/night metatranscriptomic analysis of microbial communities in the North Pacific subtropical gyre. (2009) (287)
- Coupling 16S-ITS rDNA clone libraries and automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis to show marine microbial diversity: development and application to a time series. (2005) (273)
- Virus and prokaryote enumeration from planktonic aquatic environments by epifluorescence microscopy with SYBR Green I (2007) (266)
- Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality (2014) (248)
- Richness and Diversity of Bacterioplankton Species along an Estuarine Gradient in Moreton Bay, Australia (2004) (248)
- Coral-associated bacterial assemblages: current knowledge and the potential for climate-driven impacts. (2010) (237)
- Virus‐like particle distribution and abundance in sediments and overlying waters along eutrophication gradients in two subtropical estuaries (2001) (191)
- Experiments linking nitrogenase gene expression to nitrogen fixation in the North Pacific subtropical gyre (2007) (137)
- Virome Diversity Correlates with Intestinal Microbiome Diversity in Adult Monozygotic Twins. (2019) (131)
- Bacterial Diversity in Shallow Oligotrophic Marine Benthos and Overlying Waters: Effects of Virus Infection, Containment, and Nutrient Enrichment (2003) (119)
- Seasonal and ontogenetic variation of skin microbial communities and relationships to natural disease dynamics in declining amphibians (2015) (108)
- Viral effects on bacterial community composition in marine plankton microcosms (2004) (107)
- Improved Strategy for Comparing Microbial Assemblage Fingerprints (2006) (103)
- Evidence of Trichodesmium viral lysis and potential significance for biogeochemical cycling in the oligotrophic ocean (2004) (101)
- Abundance and distribution of major groups of diazotrophic cyanobacteria and their potential contribution to N₂ fixation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. (2010) (100)
- Temporal and spatial scales of variation in bacterioplankton assemblages of oligotrophic surface waters (2006) (98)
- Microbial community gene expression within colonies of the diazotroph, Trichodesmium, from the Southwest Pacific Ocean (2009) (98)
- Viriobenthos Production and Virioplankton Sorptive Scavenging by Suspended Sediment Particles in Coastal and Pelagic Waters (2003) (95)
- Diversity and biogeography of bacterial assemblages in surface sediments across the San Pedro Basin, Southern California Borderlands. (2007) (89)
- Remarkable heterogeneity in meso‐ and bathypelagic bacterioplankton assemblage composition (2006) (85)
- Analogous nutrient limitations in unicellular diazotrophs and Prochlorococcus in the South Pacific Ocean (2011) (80)
- Spatial and vertical biogeography of coral reef sediment bacterial and diazotroph communities (2006) (76)
- In situ transcriptomic analysis of the globally important keystone N2-fixing taxon Crocosphaera watsonii (2009) (74)
- Molecular and microscopic evidence of viruses in marine copepods (2013) (72)
- Characteristics of diazotrophs in surface to abyssopelagic waters of the Sargasso Sea (2007) (56)
- Virus-like particles associated with Lyngbya majuscula (Cyanophyta; Oscillatoriacea) bloom decline in Moreton Bay, Australia (2001) (54)
- Effects of Concentrated Viral Communities on Photosynthesis and Community Composition of Co-Occurring Benthic Microalgae and Phytoplankton (2001) (54)
- Diazotrophic bacterioplankton in a coral reef lagoon: phylogeny, diel nitrogenase expression and response to phosphate enrichment (2007) (53)
- Investigating the Complex Association Between Viral Ecology, Environment, and Northeast Pacific Sea Star Wasting (2018) (53)
- Covariation of viral parameters with bacterial assemblage richness and diversity in the water column and sediments (2007) (52)
- Misannotations of rRNA can now generate 90% false positive protein matches in metatranscriptomic studies (2011) (49)
- Metagenomic potential of microbial assemblages in the surface waters of the central Pacific Ocean tracks variability in oceanic habitat (2009) (48)
- Viral impacts upon marine bacterioplankton assemblage structure (2006) (47)
- Temporal Dynamics and Decay of Putatively Allochthonous and Autochthonous Viral Genotypes in Contrasting Freshwater Lakes (2012) (45)
- Spatial patterns and light-driven variation of microbial population gene expression in surface waters of the oligotrophic open ocean. (2010) (43)
- Up in Arms: Immune and Nervous System Response to Sea Star Wasting Disease (2015) (41)
- Discovery of urchin-associated densoviruses (family Parvoviridae) in coastal waters of the Big Island, Hawaii. (2014) (40)
- Investigation of viruses in Diporeia spp. from the Laurentian Great Lakes and Owasco Lake as potential stressors of declining populations (2013) (38)
- Metagenomic identification, seasonal dynamics, and potential transmission mechanisms of a Daphnia‐associated single‐stranded DNA virus in two temperate lakes (2013) (35)
- Metaproteomic Survey of Six Aquatic Habitats: Discovering the Identities of Microbial Populations Active in Biogeochemical Cycling (2014) (32)
- Coronaviruses in the Sea (2020) (30)
- Viral and bacterial assemblage covariance in oligotrophic waters of the West Florida Shelf (Gulf of Mexico) (2006) (30)
- Metatranscriptomic Analyses of Plankton Communities Inhabiting Surface and Subpycnocline Waters of the Chesapeake Bay during Oxic-Anoxic-Oxic Transitions (2013) (29)
- Influence of Amazon and Orinoco offshore surface water plumes on oligotrophic bacterioplankton diversity in the west tropical Atlantic (2006) (29)
- Description of viral assemblages associated with the Gorgonia ventalina holobiont (2011) (25)
- Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages (2022) (25)
- Characterization of Lysogens in Bacterioplankton Assemblages of the Southern California Borderland (2007) (24)
- Discovery of a novel circular DNA virus in the Forbes sea star, Asterias forbesi (2015) (24)
- Perspective: Something Old, Something New? Review of Wasting and Other Mortality in Asteroidea (Echinodermata) (2019) (23)
- Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Pycnopodia helianthoides (Asteroidea) Affected by Sea Star Wasting Disease (2015) (22)
- The Effects of Oxygen Transition on Community Respiration and Potential Chemoautotrophic Production in a Seasonally Stratified Anoxic Estuary (2014) (22)
- Ammonia oxidizer populations vary with nitrogen cycling across a tropical montane mean annual temperature gradient. (2017) (22)
- The Microbial Landscape of Sea Stars and the Anatomical and Interspecies Variability of Their Microbiome (2018) (21)
- Evidence That Microorganisms at the Animal-Water Interface Drive Sea Star Wasting Disease (2021) (20)
- Comparative Metagenomics of Viral Assemblages Inhabiting Four Phyla of Marine Invertebrates (2016) (19)
- A Highly Prevalent and Pervasive Densovirus Discovered among Sea Stars from the North American Atlantic Coast (2019) (18)
- Key respiratory genes elucidate bacterial community respiration in a seasonally anoxic estuary. (2015) (18)
- Novel Circular Single-Stranded DNA Viruses among an Asteroid, Echinoid and Holothurian (Phylum: Echinodermata) (2016) (17)
- Diversity of Sea Star-Associated Densoviruses and Transcribed Endogenous Viral Elements of Densovirus Origin (2020) (16)
- Occurrence and seasonal dynamics of RNA viral genotypes in three contrasting temperate lakes (2018) (14)
- Characterization of Trichodesmium-associated viral communities in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. (2013) (14)
- An Unconventional Flavivirus and Other RNA Viruses in the Sea Cucumber (Holothuroidea; Echinodermata) Virome (2020) (12)
- A low-latitude bloom of the surf-zone diatom, Anaulus australis (Centrales, Bacillariophyta) on the coast of Southern Queensland (Australia) (2001) (12)
- Molecular biology techniques and applications for ocean sensing (2008) (11)
- Distribution of circular single‐stranded DNA viruses associated with benthic amphipods of genus Diporeia in the Laurentian Great Lakes (2017) (10)
- Viruses, Bacteria, and the Microbial Loop (2008) (10)
- Nucleopolyhedrovirus Detection and Distribution in Terrestrial, Freshwater, and Marine Habitats of Appledore Island, Gulf of Maine (2011) (10)
- Distribution and Inferred Evolutionary Characteristics of a Chimeric ssDNA Virus Associated with Intertidal Marine Isopods (2017) (10)
- Virome Variation during Sea Star Wasting Disease Progression in Pisaster ochraceus (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) (2020) (9)
- Abundance of Two Pelagibacter ubique Bacteriophage Genotypes along a Latitudinal Transect in the North and South Atlantic Oceans (2016) (9)
- Technical pitfalls that bias comparative microbial community analyses of aquatic disease Ian Hewson. (2019) (9)
- Widespread detection of circular replication initiator protein (rep)-encoding ssDNA viral genomes in estuarine, coastal and open ocean net plankton (2013) (9)
- Biogeography of planktonic and benthic cyanobacteria in coastal waters of the Big Island, Hawai'i. (2014) (8)
- Characterization of Thrombolitic Bioherm Cyanobacterial Assemblages in a Meromictic Marl Lake (Fayetteville Green Lake, New York) (2012) (8)
- Gene expression of benthic amphipods (genus: Diporeia) in relation to a circular ssDNA virus across two Laurentian Great Lakes (2017) (6)
- Ecological Role of Viruses in Aquatic Ecosystems (2010) (5)
- Evidence for boundary layer oxygen diffusion limitation as a key driver of asteroid wasting (2020) (5)
- Sea star wasting disease pathology in Pisaster ochraceus shows a basal-to-surface process affecting color phenotypes differently. (2021) (5)
- Influence of habitat confluence on aquatic microbial assemblages in experimental mesocosms (2012) (4)
- Microbial respiration in the asteroid diffusive boundary layer influenced sea star wasting disease during the 2013-2014 northeast Pacific Ocean mass mortality event (2021) (4)
- Antibiotic-Induced Gut Microbiota Depletion Accelerates the Recovery of Radiation-Induced Oral Mucositis in Rats. (2022) (3)
- Evidence that non-pathogenic microorganisms drive sea star wasting disease through boundary layer oxygen diffusion limitation (2020) (3)
- Aquatic bacterial assemblage variability in the supra littoral zone of Appledore Island, Gulf of Maine. (2012) (2)
- A Review of Asteroid Biology in the Context of Sea Star Wasting: Possible Causes and Consequences (2022) (2)
- Ecophysiology of a common unannotated gene transcript in surface water microbial assemblages of the oligotrophic open ocean (2010) (2)
- Surveillance of densoviruses and mesomycetozoans inhabiting grossly normal tissues of three Aotearoa New Zealand asteroid species (2021) (2)
- The first records of sea star wasting disease in Crossaster papposus in Europe (2022) (1)
- A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean Sea (2023) (1)
- The virome in adult monozygotic twins with concordant or discordant gut microbiomes (2019) (1)
- Discovery of a novel circular DNA virus in the Forbes sea star, Asterias forbesi (2015) (1)
- The RNA Virome of Echinoderms (2022) (1)
- Circular Rep encoding single stranded (CRESS) DNA virus-like sequences detected in quagga mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) and sediments from the central Lake Michigan benthos (2020) (1)
- Graphical representation of pathways that were significantly higher in symptomatic or in asymptomatic sea stars. (2015) (0)
- 1 An Unconventional Flavivirus and other RNA 2 Viruses in the Sea Cucumber ( Holothuroidea ; 3 Echinodermata ) Virome 4 (2020) (0)
- Circoviruses of Crustaceans (2016) (0)
- Putative Invertebrate, Plant, and Wastewater Derived ssRNA Viruses in Plankton of the Anthropogenically Impacted Anacostia River, District of Columbia, USA (2022) (0)
- Graphical representation of genes that were significantly over- and under-represented amongst all genes in syptomatic and asymptomatic metatranscriptomes. (2015) (0)
- Abundance of Gamma-A nifH genes of diazotrophic cyanobacteria in the tropical Atlantic Ocean (2013) (0)
- Description of viral assemblages associated with the Gorgonia ventalina holobiont (2011) (0)
- Common Sea Star (Asterias rubens) Coelomic Fluid Changes in Response to Short-Term Exposure to Environmental Stressors (2023) (0)
- Mean Annual Temperature Drives Microbial Nitrogen Cycling and Fine Root Nutrient Foraging Across a Tropical Montane Wet Forest Elevation Gradient (2017) (0)
- Metaproteomic Survey of Six Aquatic Habitats: Discovering the Identities of Microbial Populations Active in Biogeochemical Cycling (2014) (0)
- Virome Temporal Variation During Sea Star Wasting Disease Progression in Pisaster ochraceus (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) (2020) (0)
- Soil nitrogen cycling and availability are linked to ammonia oxidizer abundance across a tropical mean annual temperature gradient (2016) (0)
- Characterization of Circular ssDNA Viruses within the Echinoderm Nanobiome (2016) (0)
- Wasting syndrome in sea stars along the west coast of North America. (2014) (0)
- Similarity between overall metatranscriptomic profiles based on Manhattan Distance. (2015) (0)
- Dynamics of Marine Viruses along Eutrophication Gradients in Australian Subtropical Estuaries (2000) (0)
- Captive and free-ranging sea star disease findings from the Seattle, Washington, waterfront during the 2013 sea star ‘wasting disease’ unusual mortality event (2014) (0)
- Persistence, Prevalence, and Load of Circoviruses in Marine and Lacustrine Amphipods (2016) (0)
- Biomarkers: d13C and d15N Distribution Tightly Coupled to Nutrient Dynamics and Viral Lysing in a Microbial Mat From Death Valley, California (2002) (0)
- Sea Star Wasting Disease 2 Years On: What We know, What We Don't Yet Know, and What We are Doing Now to Understand the Disease (2016) (0)
- Surveillance of densoviruses and mesomycetozoans inhabiting grossly normal tissues of three New Zealand asteroid species (2020) (0)
- Abundance of Gamma-A nifH genes of the southern Pacific (2013) (0)
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