Frederick M. Cohan

Professor of Biology

Wesleyan University

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Speedy speciation in a bacterial microcosm: new species can arise as frequently as adaptations within a species (with Alexander F. Koeppel, Joel O. Wertheim, Laura Barone, Nicole Gentile, and Danny Krizanc), ISME Journal (2013)
 

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Demarcation of bacterial ecotypes from DNA sequence data: A comparative analysis of four algorithms (with Juan Carlos Francisco and Danny Krizanc), 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) (2012)
 

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Diversity of Bacteria and Archaea in hypersaline sediment from Death Valley National Park, California (with J.-S. Kim, M. Makama, J. Petito, N.-H. Park, and R. S. Dungan), MicrobiologyOpen (2012)
 

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Diversity of Bacteria and Archaea in hypersaline sediment from Death Valley National Park, California (with J.-S. Kim, M. Makama, J. Petito, N.-H. Park, and R. S. Dungan), MicrobiologyOpen (2012)
 

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The quorum sensing diversity within and between ecotypes of Bacillus subtilis (with Polonca Stefanic, Francesca Decorosi, Carlo Viti, Janine Petito, and Ines Mandic-Mulec), Environmental Microbiology (2012)
 

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The variable subdomain of Escherichia coli SecA functions to regulate SecA ATPase activity and ADP release (with Sanchaita Das, Lorry M. Grady, Jennifer Michtavy, Yayan Zhou, Manju M. Hingorani, and Donald B. Oliver), Journal of Bacteriology (2012)
 

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Community ecology of hot spring cyanobacterial mats: predominant populations and their functional potential (with C. G. Klatt, J. M. Wood, D. B. Rusch, M. M. Bateson, N. Hamamura, J. F. Heidelberg, A. R. Grossman, D. Bhaya, M. Kuhl, D. A. Bryant, and D. M. Ward), ISME Journal (2011)
 

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Fine-scale distribution patterns of Synechococcus ecological diversity in the microbial mat of Mushroom Spring, Yellowstone National Park (with Eric D. Becraft, Michael Kuhl, Sheila I. Jensen, and David M. Ward), Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2011)
 

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Influence of molecular resolution on sequence-based discovery of ecological diversity among Synechococcus populations in an alkaline siliceous hot spring microbial mat (with Melanie C. Melendrez, R. K. Lange, and David M. Ward), Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2011)
 

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Origins of bacterial diversity through horizontal gene transfer and adaptation to new ecological niches (with Jane Wiedenbeck), FEMS Microbiology Reviews (2011)
 

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The ecology of speciation in Bacillus (with Nora Connor, Johannes Sikorski, Alejandro P. Rooney, Sarah Kopac, Alexander F. Koeppel, Andrew Burger, Scott G. Cole, Elizabeth B. Perry, Danny Krizanc, Nicholas C. Field, and Michele Slaton), Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2010)
 

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Tracking bacterial responses to global warming with an ecotype-based systematics, Clinical Microbiology and Infection (2009)
 

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Genomics, environmental genomics and the issue of microbial species (with D. M. Ward, D. Bhaya, J. F. Heidelberg, M. Kuhl, and A. Grossman), Heredity (2008)
 

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Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity: A paradigm shift to incorporate ecology into bacterial systematics (with A. F. Koeppel, E. B. Perry, J. Sikorski, A. Warner, D. M. Ward, A. P. Rooney, E. Brambilla, N. Connor, E. Nevo, and R. M. Ratcliff), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (2008)
 

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The origins of ecological diversity in prokaryotes (with A. F. Koeppel), Current Biology (2008)
 

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A systematics for identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity (with E. B. Perry), Current Biology (2007)
 

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Estimating bacterial diversity from environmental DNA: A maximum likelihood approach (with D. Krizanc and Y. Lu), International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (2007)
 

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Mass spectroscopic analysis of lipopeptides from Bacillus strains isolated from diverse geographical locations (with N. Price, A. P. Rooney, J. L. Swezey, and E. Perry), FEMS Microbiology Letters (2007)
 

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Population level functional diversity in a microbial community revealed by comparative genomic and metagenomic analyses (with D. Bhaya, A. R. Grossman, A. Steunou, N. Khuri, N. Hamamura, M. C. Melendrez, M. M. Bateson, D. M. Ward, and J. F. Heidelberg), ISME Journal (2007)
 

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Cyanobacterial ecotypes in the microbial mat community of Mushroom Spring (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming) as species-like units linking microbial community composition, structure and function (with D. M. Ward, M. M. Bateson, M. J. Ferris, M. Kuhl, A. Wieland, and A. Koeppel), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B (2006)
 

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Toward a conceptual and operational union of bacterial systematics, ecology, and evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B (2006)
 

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Re-evaluating prokaryotic species (with D. Gevers, J. Lawrence, B. G. Spratt, T. Coenye, E. J. Feil, E. Stackebrandt, Y. Van de Peer, P. Vandamme, F. L. Thompson, and J. Swings), Nature Reviews Microbiology (2005)
 

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Which species concept for bacteria?â€"An E-debate (with S. Godreuil, H. Shah, and M. Tibayrenc), Infection, Genetics and Evolution (2005)
 

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Gradual evolution in bacteria: Evidence from Bacillus systematics (with M. Feldgarden and N. Byrd), Microbiology (2003)
 

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What are bacterial species?, Annual Review of Microbiology (2002)
 

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Bacillus sonorensis sp. nov., a close relative of Bacillus licheniformis, isolated from soil in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona (with M. M. Palmisano, L. K. Nakamura, K. E. Duncan, and C. A. Istock), International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2001)
 

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Bacterial species and speciation, Systematic Biology (2001)
 

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Barriers to genetic exchange between bacterial species: Streptococcus pneumoniae transformation (with J. Majewski, P. Zawadzki, P. Pickerill, and C. W. Dowson), Journal of Bacteriology (2000)
 

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Protein-coding genes as molecular markers for ecologically distinct populations: the case of two Bacillus species (with T. Palys, E. Berger, I. Mitrica, and L. K. Nakamura), International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2000)
 

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Adapt globally, act locally: The effect of selective sweeps on bacterial sequence diversity (with J. Majewski), Genetics (1999)
 

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DNA sequence similarity requirements for interspecific recombination in Bacillus (with J. Majewski), Genetics (1999)
 

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Relationship between the Bacillus subtilis clades associated with strains 168 and W23: a proposal for B. subtilis subsp. subtilis and B. subtilis subsp. spizizenii (with L. K. Nakamura and M. S. Roberts), International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1999)
 

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The effect of mismatch repair and heteroduplex formation on sexual isolation in Bacillus (with Jacek Majewski), Genetics (1998)
 

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Discovery and classification of ecological diversity in the bacterial world: the role of DNA sequence data (with T. Palys and L. K. Nakamura), International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1997)
 

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Bacillus vallismortis sp. nov., a close relative of Bacillus subtilis, isolated from soil in Death Valley, California (with Michael S. Roberts and Lawrence K. Nakamura), International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1996)
 

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Homology among nearly all plasmids infecting three Bacillus species (with Piotr Zawadzki and Margaret A. Riley), Journal of Bacteriology (1996)
 
The role of genetic exchange in bacterial evolution, ASM News (1996)
 

Book chapters

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Are species cohesive?â€"A view from bacteriology, Bacterial Population Genetics: A Tribute to Thomas S. Whittam (2011)
 

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A theory-based pragmatism for discovering and classifying newly divergent bacterial species (with Sarah Kopac), Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (2011)
 

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Functional genomics in an ecological and evolutionary context: Maximizing the value of genomes in systems biology (with D. M. Ward, C. G. Klatt, J. Wood, and D. A. Bryant), Functional Genomics and Evolution of Photosynthetic Systems (2011)
 

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Metagenomic approaches for the identification of microbial species (with D. M. Ward, M. C. Melendrez, E. D. Becraft, C. G. Klatt, and J. Wood), Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology, Volume I: Metagenomics and Complementary Approaches (2011)
 

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Sequence-based discovery of ecological diversity within Legionella (with A. Koeppel and D. Krizanc), Legionella: State of the Art 30 Years after Its Recognition (2006)
 

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Microbial diversity in hot spring cyanobacterial mats: pattern and prediction (with D. M. Ward), Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park (2005)
 

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Periodic selection and ecological diversity in bacteria, Selective Sweep (2005)
 

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Concepts of bacterial biodiversity for the age of genomics, Microbial Genomes (2004)
 

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Clonal structure: an overview, Encyclopedia of Evolution (2002)
 

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Clonal structure: population structure and clonality of bacteria, Encyclopedia of Evolution (2002)
 

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Genetic structure of bacterial populations, Evolutionary Genetics from Molecules to Morphology (1999)
 

Short reviews of articles

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Comment on "Population genomics of early events in the ecological differentiation of bacteria" (with Sarah M. Kopac), Science (2012)
 

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Prokaryotic sex: Eukaryote-like qualities of recombination in an Archaean lineage (with Stephanie Aracena), Current Biology (2012)
 

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Microbial genomics: E. coli relatives out of doors and out of body (with S. Kopac), Current Biology (2011)
 

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Synthetic genome: Now that we’re creators, what should we create?, Current Biology (2010)
 

Popular press

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Science needs more Moneyball, American Scientist (2012)
 

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Koufax's perfect game--the tale of the data, Los Angeles Times (2011)
 

Interview

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Q & A: Frederick Cohan, Current Biology (2011)
 

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