Publications

2024

Leung PM, Grinter R, Tudor-Matthew E, Lingford JP, Jimenez L, Lee H-C, Milton M, Hanchapola I, Tanuwidjaya E, Kropp A et al. 2024. Trace gas oxidation sustains energy needs of a thermophilic archaeon at suboptimal temperatures. Nature Communications, 15(1): 3219. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47324-2

Massiot C, Adam L, Boyd ES, Cary SC, Colman DR, Cox A, Hughes E, Kilgour G, Lelli M, Liotta D, et al. 2024. CALDERA: a scientific drilling concept to unravel connections among life, geo-dynamics and eruptions in a rifting arc caldera, Okataina Volcanic Centre, Aotearoa New Zealand. Scientific Drilling, 33(1): 67-88. https://sd.copernicus.org/articles/33/67/2024/

Power JF, Carere CR, Welford HE, Hudson DT, Lee KC, Moreau JW, Ettema TJG, Reysenbach AL, Lee CK, Colman DR, et al. 2024. A genus in the bacterial phylum Aquificota appears to be endemic to Aotearoa-New Zealand. Nature Communications, 15(1): 179. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38167814

Manners SH, Carere CR, Dhami MK, Dobson RCJ, Stott MB. 2024. Draft genome sequence of Thermococcus waiotapuensis WT1T, a thermophilic sulfur-dependent archaeon from the order Thermococcales. Microbiology Resource Announcements. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06186-2

2023

Houghton KM, Carere CR, Stott MB, McDonald IR. 2023. Thermophilic methane oxidation is widespread in Aotearoa-New Zealand geothermal fields. Frontiers of Microbiology, 14: 1253773. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1253773.

Le Lay C, Stott MB, Shi M, Sadiq S, Holmes EC. 2023. A metatranscriptomic analysis of geothermal hot springs reveals diverse RNA viruses including the phylum Lenarviricota. Virology, 587:109873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2023.109873.

Eme L, Tamarit D, Caceres EF, Stairs CW, De Anda V, Schon ME, Seitz KW, Dombrowski N, Lewis WH, Homa F, et al. 2023. Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes. Nature, 618:992-999. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06186-2

Power JF, Lowe CL, Carere CR, McDonald IR, Cary SC, Stott MB. 2023. Temporal dynamics of geothermal microbial communities in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Frontiers of Microbiology, 14: 1094311. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1094311.

Power JF, Welford HE, Carere CR, McDonald IR, Cary SC, Stott MB. 2023. Draft genome sequence of Venenivibrio stagnispumantis CP.B2T, isolated from Champagne Pool, Waiotapu, Aotearoa-New Zealand. Microbiology Resource Announcements: e0107422. http://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01074-22.

Rowe SP, Stott MB, Brett B, Dhami MK. 2023. A PCR-based assay for screening substrates for Aspergillus fumigatus for application in kiwi hatcheries. Notornis, 70: 31-38. [link]

Viver T, Conrad RE, Lucio M, Harir M, Urdiain M, Gago JF, Suarez-Suarez A, Bustos-Caparros E, Sanchez-Martinez R, Mayol E, et al. 2023. Description of two cultivated and two uncultivated new Salinibacter species, one named following the rules of the bacteriological code: Salinibacter grassmerensis sp. nov.; and three named following the rules of the SeqCode: Salinibacter pepae sp. nov., Salinibacter abyssi sp. nov., and Salinibacter pampae sp. nov. Systematics and Applied Microbiology, 46: 126416. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2023.126416.

2022

Buessecker S, Palmer M, Lai D, Dimapilis J, Mayali X, Mosier D, Jiao J-Y, Colman DR, Keller LM, St. John E, et al. 2022. An essential role for tungsten in the ecology and evolution of a previously uncultivated lineage of anaerobic, thermophilic Archaea. Nature Communications, 13: 3773. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31452-8.

Noell SE, Baptista MS, Smith E, McDonald IR, Lee CK, Stott MB, Amend JP, Cary SC. 2022. Unique geothermal chemistry shapes microbial communities on Mt. Erebus, Antarctica. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.836943.

2021

Carere CR, Hards K, Wigley K, Carman L, Houghton KM, Cook GM, Stott MB. 2021. Growth on formic acid is dependent on intracellular pH homeostasis for the thermoacidophilic methanotroph Methylacidiphilum sp. RTK17.1. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.651744.

Colman DR, Lindsay MR, Harnish A, Bilbrey EM, Amenabar MJ, Selensky MJ, Fecteau KM, Debes II RV, Stott MB, Shock EL, Boyd ES. 2021. Seasonal hydrologic and geologic forcing drive hot spring geochemistry and microbial biodiversity. Environmental Microbiology, 23: 4034-4053. http://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15617.

Hudson M, Thompson A, Wilcox P, Mika J, Battershill C, Stott MB, Brooks RT, Warbrick L. 2021. Te Nohonga Kaitiaki: Guidelines for genomic research on taonga species. Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. ISBN: 978-0-9951290-6-1.

2020

Beam JP, Becraft ED, Brown JM, Schulz F, Jarett JK, Bezuidt O, Poulton NJ, Clark K, Dunfield PF, Ravin NV, et al. 2020. Ancestral absence of electron transport chains in Patescibacteria and DPANN. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01848.

Carere CR, Steen JA, Hugenholtz P, Stott MB. 2020. Draft genome sequence of Limisphaera ngatamarikiensis NGM72.4T, a moderately alkaliphilic thermophile belonging to the class Verrucomicrobiae. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 9: e00225-00220. http://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00225-20.

Compton B, Lagutin K, Dyer B, Ryan J, MacKenzie A, Stott M, Nekrasov E, Painter G, Vyssotski M. 2020. Isolation and synthesis of glycophospholipids from the extremophile Chthonomonas calidirosea. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 9. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajoc.202000357.

Cullings K, Stott MB, Marinkovich N, DeSimone J, Bhardwaj S. 2020. Phylum-level diversity of the microbiome of the extremophilic basidiomycete fungus Pisolithus arhizus (Scop.) Rauschert: An island of biodiversity in a thermal soil desert. MicrobiologyOpen: e1062. http://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1062.

Gionfriddo CM, Stott MB, Power JF, Ogorek JM, Krabbenhoft DP, Wick R, Holt K, Chen L-X, Thomas BC, Banfield JF, Moreau JW. 2020. Genome-resolved metagenomics and detailed geochemical speciation analyses yield new insights into microbial mercury cycling in geothermal springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86: e00176-00120. http://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00176-20.

Hudson M, Garrison NA, Sterling R, Caron NR, Fox K, Yracheta J, Anderson J, Wilcox P, Arbour L, Brown A, et al. 2020. Rights, interests and expectations: Indigenous perspectives on unrestricted access to genomic data. Natrue Reviews Genetics, 21: 377–384. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-020-0228-x.

Murray AE, Freudenstein J, Gribaldo S, Hatzenpichler R, Hugenholtz P, Kämpfer P, Konstantinidis KT, Lane CE, Papke RT, Parks DH, et al. 2020. Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria. Nature Microbiology, 5: 987-994. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0733-x.

Stott MB, Houghton KM, Carere CR, Hanada S. 2020. Thermoflavifilum, p 1-9. In Trujillo ME, Dedysh S, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Kämpfer P, Rainey FA, Whitman WB (ed), Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01805.

2019

Carere CR, McDonald B, Peach HA, Greening C, Gapes DJ, Collet C, Stott MB. 2019. Hydrogen oxidation influences glycogen accumulation in a verrucomicrobial methanotroph. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01873.

Gardner PP, Watson RJ, Morgan XC, Draper JL, Finn RD, Morales SE, Stott MB. 2019. Identifying accurate metagenome and amplicon software via a meta-analysis of sequence to taxonomy benchmarking studies. PeerJ, 7: e6160. http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6160.

Houghton KM, Carere CR, Stott MB, McDonald IR. 2019. Thermophilic methanotrophs: in hot pursuit. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95. http://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz125.

Islam ZF, Cordero PRF, Feng J, Chen Y-J, Bay SK, Jirapanjawat T, Gleadow RM, Carere CR, Stott MB, Chiri E, Greening C. 2019. Two Chloroflexi classes independently evolved the ability to persist on atmospheric hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The ISME Journal, 13: 1801-1813. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0393-0.

St John E, Liu Y, Podar M, Stott MB, Meneghin J, Chen Z, Lagutin K, Mitchell K, Reysenbach AL. 2019. A new symbiotic nanoarchaeote (Candidatus Nanoclepta minutus) and its host (Zestosphaera tikiterensis gen. nov., sp. nov.) from a New Zealand hot spring. Systematics and Applied Microbiology, 42: 94-106. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2018.08.005.

Tomazini A, Higasi P, Manzine LR, Stott M, Sparling R, Levin DB, Polikarpov I. 2019. A novel thermostable GH5 beta-xylosidase from Thermogemmatispora sp. T81. New Biotechnology. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2019.07.002.

2018

Oliverio AM, Power JF, Washburne A, Cary SC, Stott MB, Fierer N. 2018. The ecology and diversity of microbial eukaryotes in geothermal springs. The ISME Journal, 12: 1918-1928. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0104-2.

Power JF, Carere CR, Lee CK, Wakerley GLJ, Evans DW, Button M, White D, Climo MD, Hinze AM, Morgan XC, et al. 2018. Microbial biogeography of 925 geothermal springs in New Zealand. Nature Communications, 9: 2876. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05020-y.

Reysenbach AL, Donaho JA, Hinsch TM, Kelley JF, Kouba K, Podar M, Stott MB. 2018. Draft genome sequence of a novel Thermofilum sp. from a New Zealand hot spring enrichment culture. Genome Announcements, 6: e00005-00018. http://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00005-18.

Reysenbach AL, Donaho JA, Kelley JF, St John E, Turner C, Podar M, Stott MB. 2018. Draft genome sequence of a Dictyoglomus sp. from an enrichment culture of a New Zealand geothermal spring. Genome Announcements, 6: e00150-00118. http://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00150-18.

Stewart LC, Houghton K, Carere CR, Power JF, Chambefort I, Stott MB. 2018. Interaction between ferruginous clay sediment and an iron-reducing hyperthermophilic Pyrobaculum sp. in a terrestrial hot spring. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94: fiy160-fiy160. http://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy160.

Stewart LC, Stucker VK, Stott MB, de Ronde CEJ. 2018. Marine-influenced microbial communities inhabit terrestrial hot springs on a remote island volcano. Extremophiles, 22: 687-698. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-018-1029-4.

Stott MB, Carere CR, Greening C, Morgan XC. 2018. Pyrinomonas. In Whitman WB, Rainey F, Kämpfer P, Trujillo M, Chun J, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Dedysh SN (ed), Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01533.

Stott MB, Lee C-Y, Morgan XC, Carere CR. 2018. Chthonomonadales. In Whitman WB, Rainey F, Kämpfer P, Trujillo M, Chun J, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Dedysh SN (ed), Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.obm00136.

Stott MB, Lee C-Y, Morgan XC, Carere CR. 2018. Chthonomonadaceae. In Whitman WB, Rainey F, Kämpfer P, Trujillo M, Chun J, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Dedysh SN (ed), Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00299.

Stott MB, Lee C-Y, Morgan XC, Carere CR. 2018. Chthonomonadetes. In Whitman WB, Rainey F, Kämpfer P, Trujillo M, Chun J, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Dedysh SN (ed), Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley and Sons. http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.cbm00062.

Stott MB, Lee KC-Y, Morgan XC, Carere CR. 2018. Chthonomonas. In Whitman WB, Rainey F, Kämpfer P, Trujillo M, Chun J, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Dedysh SN (ed), Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01476.

Stott MB, Lueders T. 2018. Deep life, kia ora! FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy176.

Tomazini A, Lal S, Munir R, Stott M, Henrissat B, Polikarpov I, Sparling R, Levin DB. 2018. Analysis of carbohydrate-active enzymes in Thermogemmatispora sp. strain T81 reveals carbohydrate degradation ability. Canadian Journal of Microbiology: 1-12. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1139/cjm-2018-0336.

Wushke S, Fristensky B, Zhang XL, Spicer V, Krokhin OV, Levin DB, Stott MB, Sparling R. 2018. A metabolic and genomic assessment of sugar fermentation profiles of the thermophilic Thermotogales, Fervidobacterium pennivorans. Extremophiles, 22: 965-974. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-018-1053-4.

Xu B, Aitken EJ, Baker BP, Turner CA, Harvey JE, Stott MB, Power JF, Harris PWR, Keyzers RA, Brimble MA. 2018. Genome mining, isolation, chemical synthesis and biological evaluation of a novel lanthipeptide, tikitericin, from the extremophilic microorganism Thermogemmatispora strain T81. Chemical Science, 9: 7311-7317. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sc02170h.

2017

Carere CR, Hards K, Houghton KM, Power JF, McDonald B, Collet C, Gapes DJ, Sparling R, Boyd ES, Cook GM, et al. 2017. Mixotrophy drives niche expansion of verrucomicrobial methanotrophs. The ISME Journal, 11: 2599-2610. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.112.

Ji M, Greening C, Vanwonterghem I, Carere CR, Bay SK, Steen JA, Montgomery K, Lines T, Beardall J, van Dorst J, et al. 2017. Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil. Nature, 552: 400-403. http://doi.org/10.1038/nature25014.

Ney B, Ahmed FH, Carere CR, Biswas A, Warden AC, Morales SE, Pandey G, Watt SJ, Oakeshott JG, Taylor MC, et al. 2017. The methanogenic redox cofactor F420 is widely synthesized by aerobic soil bacteria. The ISME Journal, 11: 125-137. http://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.100.

Ney B, Carere CR, Sparling R, Jirapanjawat T, Stott MB, Jackson CJ, Oakeshott JG, Warden AC, Greening C. 2017. Cofactor tail length modulates catalysis of bacterial F420-dependent oxidoreductases. Frontiers of Microbiology, 8: 1902. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01902.

Ward L, Taylor MW, Power JF, Scott BJ, McDonald IR, Stott MB. 2017. Microbial community dynamics in Inferno Crater Lake, a thermally fluctuating geothermal spring. The ISME Journal, 11: 1158-1167. http://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.193.

Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. 2017. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature, 541: 353-358. http://doi.org/10.1038/nature21031.

2016

Greening C, Biswas A, Carere CR, Jackson CJ, Taylor MC, Stott MB, Cook GM, Morales SE. 2016. Genomic and metagenomic surveys of hydrogenase distribution indicate H2 is a widely utilised energy source for microbial growth and survival. The ISME Journal, 10: 761-777. http://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.153.

Lee KC, Stott MB, Dunfield PF, Huttenhower C, McDonald IR, Morgan XC. 2016. The Chthonomonas calidirosea genome is highly conserved across geographic locations and distinct chemical and microbial environments in New Zealand’s Taupō Volcanic Zone. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82: 3572-3581. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.00139-16

Stott MB, Taylor MW. 2016. Microbial ecology research in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 40: 12-28. https://doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.40.2

2015

Anders H, Power JF, MacKenzie AD, Lagutin K, Vyssotski M, Hanssen E, Moreau JW, Stott MB. 2015. Limisphaera ngatamarikiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, pink-pigmented coccus isolated from subaqueous mud of a geothermal hotspring. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 65: 1114-1121. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000063

Greening C, Carere CR, Rushton-Green R, Harold LK, Hards K, Taylor MC, Morales SE, Stott MB, Cook GM. 2015. Persistence of the dominant soil phylum Acidobacteria by trace gas scavenging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 112: 10497-10502. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.150838511

Houghton KM, Morgan XC, Lagutin K, MacKenzie AD, Vyssotskii M, Mitchell KA, McDonald IR, Morgan HW, Power JF, Moreau JW, et al. 2015. Thermorudis pharmacophila sp. nov., a novel member of the class Thermomicrobia isolated from geothermal soil, and emended descriptions of Thermomicrobium roseum, Thermomicrobium carboxidum, Thermorudis peleae and Sphaerobacter thermophilus. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 65: 4479-4487. http://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000598.

Kaur G, Mountain BW, Stott MB, Hopmans EC, Pancost RD. 2015. Temperature and pH control on lipid composition of silica sinters from diverse hot springs in the Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. Extremophiles, 19: 327-344. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-014-0719-9.

Lagutin K, MacKenzie A, Houghton KM, Stott MB, Vyssotski M. 2015. Novel long-chain diol phospholipids from some bacteria belonging to the class Thermomicrobia. Lipids, 50: 303-311. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-014-3979-3.

Lee KC, Morgan XC, Power JF, Dunfield PF, Huttenhower C, Stott MB. 2015. Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic Acidobacteria, Pyrinomonas methylaliphatogenes type strain K22 T. Standards in Genomic Sciences, 10: 101. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-015-0099-5

2014

Anders H, Dunfield PF, Lagutin K, Houghton KM, Power JF, Mackenzie AD, Vyssotski M, Ryan JL, Hanssen EG, Moreau JW, Stott MB. 2014. Thermoflavifilum aggregans gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic and slightly halophilic filamentous bacterium from the phylum Bacteroidetes. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 64: 1264-1270. http://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.057463-0.

Crowe MA, Power JF, Morgan XC, Dunfield PF, Lagutin K, Rijpstra IC, Vyssotski GN, Sinninghe Damste JS, Houghton KM, Ryan JL, Stott MB. 2014. Pyrinomonas methylaliphatogenes gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel group 4 thermophilic member of the phylum Acidobacteria from geothermal soils. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 64: 220-227. http://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.055079-0.

Hug K, Maher WA, Stott MB, Krikowa F, Foster S, Moreau JW. 2014. Microbial contributions to coupled arsenic and sulfur cycling in the acid-sulfide hot spring Champagne Pool, New Zealand. Frontiers of Microbiology, 5: 569. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00569.

Lagutin K, MacKenzie A, Houghton KM, Stott MB, Vyssotski M. 2014. The identification and quantification of phospholipids from Thermus and Meiothermus bacteria. Lipids, 49: 1133-1141. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-014-3946-z.

Lee KC, Dunfield PF, Stott MB. 2014. The Phylum Armatimonadetes, p 447-458. In Rosenberg E, DeLong E, Lory S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F (ed), The Prokaryotes. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_388

Lee KC, Morgan XC, Dunfield PF, Tamas I, McDonald IR, Stott MB. 2014. Genomic analysis of Chthonomonas calidirosea, the first sequenced isolate of the phylum Armatimonadetes. The ISME Journal, 8: 1522-1533. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.251

Sharp CE, Brady AL, Sharp GH, Grasby SE, Stott MB, Dunfield PF. 2014. Humboldt’s spa: microbial diversity is controlled by temperature in geothermal environments. The ISME Journal, 8: 1166-1174. http://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.237.

Sharp CE, Smirnova AV, Graham JM, Stott MB, Khadka R, Moore TR, Grasby SE, Strack M, Dunfield PF. 2014. Distribution and diversity of Verrucomicrobia methanotrophs in geothermal and acidic environments. Environmental Microbiology, 16: 1867-1878. http://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12454.

Sinninghe Damste JS, Rijpstra WI, Hopmans EC, Foesel BU, Wust PK, Overmann J, Tank M, Bryant DA, Dunfield PF, Houghton K, Stott MB. 2014. Ether- and ester-bound iso-diabolic acid and other lipids in members of acidobacteria subdivision 4. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80: 5207-5218. http://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01066-14.

2013

Lee KC-Y, Herbold C, Dunfield PF, Morgan XC, McDonald IR, Stott MB. 2013. Phylogenetic delineation of the novel phylum Armatimonadetes (former candidate division OP10) and definition of two novel candidate divisions. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79: 2484-2487. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03333-12

2012

Dunfield PF, Tamas I, Lee KC, Morgan XC, McDonald IR, Stott MB. 2012. Electing a candidate: a speculative history of the bacterial phylum OP10. Environmental Microbiology, 14: 3069-3080. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02742.x.

Sharp CE, Stott MB, Dunfield PF. 2012. Detection of autotrophic verrucomicrobial methanotrophs in a geothermal environment using stable isotope probing. Frontiers of Microbiology, 3: 303. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00303.

Vyssotski M, Ryan J, Lagutin K, Wong H, Morgan XC, Stott MB. 2012. A novel fatty acid, 12,17-dimethyloctadecanoic acid, from the extremophile Thermogemmatispora sp. (strain T81). Lipids, 47: 601-611. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-012-3668-z

2011

Lee KC-Y, Dunfield PF, Morgan XC, Crowe MA, Houghton KM, Vyssotski M, Ryan JL, Lagutin K, McDonald IR, Stott MB. 2011. Chthonomonas calidirosea gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, pigmented, thermophilic microorganism of a novel bacterial class, Chthonomonadetes classis nov., of the newly described phylum Armatimonadetes originally designated candidate division OP10. International Journal of Systematics and Environmental Microbiology, 61: 2482-2490. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.027235-0

Teh AH, Saito JA, Baharuddin A, Tuckerman JR, Newhouse JS, Kanbe M, Newhouse EI, Rahim RA, Favier F, Didierjean C, et al. 2011. Hell’s Gate globin I: an acid and thermostable bacterial hemoglobin resembling mammalian neuroglobin. FEBS Letters, 585: 3250-3258. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2011.09.002.

Vyssotski M, Lee KC-Y, Lagutin K, Ryan J, Morgan XC, Stott MB. 2011. Fatty acids of Chthonomonas calidirosea, of novel class Chthonomonadetes from a recently described phylum Armatimonadetes. Lipids, 46: 1155-1161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-011-3597-2

2005-2010

Chen Y, Crombie A, Rahman MT, Dedysh SN, Liesack W, Stott MB, Alam M, Theisen AR, Murrell JC, Dunfield PF. 2010. Complete genome sequence of the aerobic facultative methanotroph Methylocella silvestris BL2. Journal of Bacteriology, 192: 3840-3841. http://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00506-10.

Tamas I, Dedysh SN, Liesack W, Stott MB, Alam M, Murrell JC, Dunfield PF. 2010. Complete genome sequence of Beijerinckia indica subsp. indica. Journal of Bacteriology, 192: 4532-4533. http://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00656-10.

Op den Camp HJ, Islam T, Stott MB, Harhangi HR, Hynes A, Schouten S, Jetten MS, Birkeland NK, Pol A, Dunfield PF. 2009. Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 1: 293-306. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00022.x.

Takai K, Nunoura T, Horikoshi K, Shibuya T, Nakamura K, Suzuki Y, Stott MB, Massoth GJ, Christenson BW, de Ronde CEJ, et al. 2009. Variability in microbial communities in black smoker chimneys at the NW caldera vent field, Brothers Volcano, Kermadec arc. Geomicrobiology Journal, 26: 552-569.

Childs AM, Mountain BW, O’Toole R, Stott MB. 2008. Relating microbial community and physicochemical parameters of a hot spring: Champagne Pool, Wai-o-tapu, New Zealand. Geomicrobiology Journal, 25: 441-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490450802413841

de Ronde CEJ, Stott MB. 2008. Treasures of the deep, p 290-293. In Graham IJ (ed), A continent on the move : New Zealand geoscience into the 21st century, vol Geological Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 124. Geological Society of New Zealand in association with GNS Science, Wellington. ISBN: 978-1-877480-47-8

Hou S, Makarova KS, Saw JH, Senin P, Ly BV, Zhou Z, Ren Y, Wang J, Galperin MY, Omelchenko MV. et al. 2008. Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia. Biology Direct, 3: 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-3-26

Saw JH, Mountain BW, Feng L, Omelchenko MV, Hou S, Saito JA, Stott MB, Li D, Zhao G, Wu J. 2008. Encapsulated in silica: genome, proteome and physiology of the thermophilic bacterium Anoxybacillus flavithermus WK1. Genome Biology, 9: R161. https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2008-9-11-r161

Stott MB, Crowe MA, Mountain BW, Smirnova AV, Hou S, Alam M, Dunfield PF. 2008. Isolation of novel bacteria, including a candidate division, from geothermal soils in New Zealand. Environmental Microbiology, 10: 2030-2041. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01.

Dunfield PF, Yuryev A, Senin P, Smirnova AV, Stott MB, Hou S, Ly B, Saw JH, Zhou Z, Ren Y, et al. 2007. Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia. Nature, 450: 879-882. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06411

Sander SG, Koschinsky A, Massoth GJ, Stott MB, Hunter KA. 2007. Organic complexation of copper in deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems. Environmental Chemistry, 4: 81-89. https://doi.org/10.1071/EN06086

1999-2004

Parker A, Klauber C, Stott MB, Watling HR, Van Bronswijk W. 2003. An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of the mechanism of microbially assisted dissolution of chalcopyrite, p 1011-1022. In Tzesos M, Hatzikioseyan A, Remoundaki E (ed), Proceedings of the 15th International Biohydrometallurgical Symposium. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Stott MB, Sutton DC, Watling HR, Franzmann PD. 2003. Comparative leaching of chalcopyrite by selected acidophilic Bacteria and Archaea. . Geomicrobiology Journal, 20: 215-230.

Plumb JJ, Gibbs B, Stott MB, Robertson WJ, Gibson JAE, Nichols PD, Watling HR, Franzmann PD. 2002. Enrichment and characterisation of thermophilic acidophiles for the bioleaching of mineral sulphides. Minerals Engineering, 15: 787-794.

Stott MB, Franzmann PD, Zappia LR, Watling HR, Quan LP, Clark BJ, Houchin MR, Miller PC, Williams TL. 2001. Thiocyanate removal from saline CIP process water by a rotating biological contactor, with reuse of the water for bioleaching. Hydrometallurgy, 62: 93-105.

Stott MB, Watling HR, Franzmann PD, Sutton DC. The effect of solution chemistry on jarosite deposition during the leaching of chalcopyrite by the thermophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus metallicus, p 207-216. In Ciminelli VST, Garcia O, Teixeira MC, de Carvalho RP, Pimentel PF (ed), Proceedings of the International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium, IBS-2001. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Stott MB, Watling HR, Franzmann PD, Sutton DC. 2000. The role of iron-hydroxy precipitates in the passivation of chalcopyrite during bioleaching. Minerals Engineering, 13: 1117-1127.

Stott MB, Zappia LR, Franzmann PD, Miller PC, Watling HR, Houchin MR. Bacterial degradation of thiocyanate in saline process water, p 809-818. In Amils R, Ballester A (ed), 1999. Proceedings of the International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium, IBS-1999. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Watling HR, Quan L, Williams T, Stott MB, Clark BJ, Miller PC, Houchin MR, Franzmann PD. 1999. Recycling CIP process water to bacterial oxidation circuits via a thiocyanate degrading bioreactor, p 799-780. In Amils R, Ballester A (ed), Proceedings of the International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium, IBS-1999. Elsevier, Amsterdam.