Rachel J. Whitaker

Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 601 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

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Killer Archaea: Virus-Mediated Antagonism to CRISPR-Immune Populations Results in Emergent Virus-Host Mutualism

Samantha J DeWerff, Maria A Bautista, Matthew Pauly, Changyi Zhang,Rachel J Whitaker

MBIO, no. 2 (2020)

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Surface resistance to SSVs and SIRVs in pilin deletions of Sulfolobus islandicus

Elizabeth F Rowland, Maria A Bautista, Changyi Zhang,Rachel J Whitaker

MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY, no. 4.0 (2020): 718.0-727.0

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Discovering the Molecular Determinants of Phaeobacter inhibens Susceptibility to Phaeobacter Phage MD18

Guillaume Urtecho, Danielle E Campbell, David M Hershey, Fatima A Hussain,Rachel J Whitaker,George A O'Toole

mSphere, no. 6 (2020)

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An anti-CRISPR viral ring nuclease subverts type III CRISPR immunity

Januka S Athukoralage,Stephen A McMahon, Changyi Zhang, Sabine Grüschow,Shirley Graham,Mart Krupovic,Rachel J Whitaker, Tracey M Gloster,Malcolm F White

Nature, no. 7791 (2020): 572-575

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Discovering the Molecular Determinants of Phaeobacter inhibens susceptibility to Phaeobacter phage MD18

Guillaume Urtecho, Danielle E. Campbell, David M. Hershey,Rachel J. Whitaker,George A. O’Toole

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The structure of the periplasmic FlaG-FlaF complex and its essential role for archaellar swimming motility

Chi-Lin Tsai, Patrick Tripp, Shamphavi Sivabalasarma, Changyi Zhang, Marta Rodriguez-Franco, Rebecca L Wipfler,Paushali Chaudhury,Ankan Banerjee,Morgan Beeby,Rachel J Whitaker,John A Tainer,Sonja-Verena Albers

Nature microbiology, (2019)

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Modeling the control of bacterial infections via antibiotic-induced proviruses

Sara M. Clifton, Ted Kim, Jayadevi H. Chandrashekhar,George A. O’Toole, Zoi Rapti,Rachel J. Whitaker

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The network structure and eco-evolutionary dynamics of CRISPR-induced immune diversification

Shai Pilosof, Sergio A. Alcala-Corona, Tong Wang, Ted Kim,Sergei Maslov,Rachel Whitaker,Mercedes Pascual

Nature ecology & evolution, no. 12 (2019): 1-48

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A viral ring nuclease anti-CRISPR subverts type III CRISPR immunity

Januka S Athukoralage,Stephen McMahon,Changyi Zhang,Sabine Grüschow,Shirley Graham,Mart Krupovic,Rachel J Whitaker, Tracey Gloster,Malcolm F White

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Lying in Wait: Modeling the Control of Bacterial Infections via Antibiotic-Induced Proviruses

Sara M Clifton, Ted Kim, Jayadevi H Chandrashekhar,George A O'Toole, Zoi Rapti,Rachel J Whitaker

mSystems, no. 5 (2019)

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Viral invasion fitness across a continuum from lysis to latency

Joshua S Weitz, Guanlin Li,Hayriye Gulbudak,Michael H Cortez,Rachel J Whitaker

Virus evolution, no. 1 (2019): 296897

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The population structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is characterized by genetic isolation of exoU+ and exoS+ lineages

Egon A Ozer, Ekpeno Nnah, Xavier Didelot,Rachel J Whitaker,Alan R Hauser

Genome biology and evolution, no. 1 (2019): 1780-1796

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Diversified local CRISPR-Cas immunity to viruses of Sulfolobus islandicus

Matthew D Pauly,Maria A Bautista, Jesse A Black,Rachel J Whitaker

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, no. SP1772 (2019): 20180093

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Cell Structure Changes in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus Lacking the S-Layer

Changyi Zhang, Rebecca L Wipfler, Yuan Li, Zhiyu Wang, Emily N Hallett,Rachel J Whitaker

MBIO, no. 4 (2019)

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The ecology and evolution of microbial CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems

Edze R Westra,Stineke van Houte,Sylvain Gandon,Rachel Whitaker

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, no. SP1772 (2019): 20190101

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Drinking water microbiome assembly induced by water stagnation

Fangqiong Ling,Rachel Whitaker,Mark W LeChevallier,Wen-Tso Liu

The ISME journal, (2018)

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The essential genome of the crenarchaeal model Sulfolobus islandicus

Changyi Zhang, Alex P R Phillips, Rebecca L Wipfler,Gary J Olsen,Rachel J Whitaker

Nature communications, no. 1 (2018): 4908-27

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Revealing S-layer Functions in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus

Changyi Zhang, Rebecca L. Wipfler, Yuan Li, Zhiyu Wang, Emily N Hallett,Rachel J. Whitaker

bioRxiv, pp.444406-29, (2018)

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A virus or more in (nearly) every cell: ubiquitous networks of virus-host interactions in extreme environments

Jacob H Munson-McGee, Shengyun Peng, Samantha Dewerff,Ramunas Stepanauskas,Rachel J Whitaker,Joshua S Weitz,Mark J Young

The ISME journal, (2018)

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Microhomology Mediated High-throughput Gene Inactivation Strategy for Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus

Changyi Zhang,Rachel J Whitaker

APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, no. 1 (2018)

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