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Bousquet, L., Fainsod, S., Decelle, J., Murik, O., Chevalier, F., Gallet, B., Templin, R., Schwab, Y., Avrahami, Y., Koplovitz, G., Ku, C., Frada, M. J. (submitted) Life cycle and morphogenetic differentiation in heteromorphic cell types of a cosmopolitan marine microalga. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.03.601694v1
Kao,T.T., Lai, M.W., Wang, T.H., Yang, C.L., Frada, M.J., Ku, C. (submitted) Haplotype-aware multiomics unveils the regulatory basis of haplodiplontic life-cycle differentiation in a cosmopolitan marine alga. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.26.595999v1.full.pdf
Avrahami, Y., Koplovitz, G., Frada M.J. (submitted) Marked seasonal succession and′ boom-bust′ bloom dynamics of diatoms in the sub-tropical Gulf of Aqaba in the Northern Red Sea. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2024/04/20/2024.04.17.589857.full.pdf
2024
Rizos, I., Frada, M.J., Bittner, L., Not, F. (accepted) Life cycle strategies in free-living unicellular eukaryotes: diversity, evolution and current molecular tools to unravel the private life of microorganisms. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.
Dikstein, T., Antler, G., Pellerin, A., Sharoni, S., Frada, M.J. (2024) Viral infection of coccolithophore host induces shifts in particulate organic matter stoichiometry. Limnology & Oceanography. https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.12609
2023
Câmara dos Reis, M., Romac, S., Le Gall, F., Marie, D., Frada, M.J., Koplovitz, G., Cariou, T., Henry, N., de Vargas, C., Jenthon, C. (2023) Exploring the phycosphere of Emiliania huxleyi: from bloom dynamics to microbiome assembly experiments. Molecular Ecology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.16829
Keuter, S., Koplovitz, G., Torsftein, A., Frada, M.J. (2023) Two-year seasonality (2017, 2018), export and long-term changes in coccolithophore communities in the subtropical ecosystem of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Deep-Sea Research 1. Vol.191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103919
2022
Kolodny, Y., Avrahami, Y., Zer, H., Frada, M.J., Paltiel, Y., Keren, N. (2022) Phycobilisome light-harvesting efficiency in natural populations of the marine cyanobacteria Synechococcus increases with depth. Communications Biology. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03677-2.
Keuter, S., Silverman J., Krom, M.D., Sisma-Ventura, G., Yu, J., Tsemel, A., Ben-Ezra, T., Sher, D., Reich, T., Koplovitz, G., Frada, M.J. (2022) Seasonal patterns of coccolithophores in the ultra-oligotrophic South-East Levantine Basin, Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Marine Micropaleontology Vol 175, 102153 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2022.102153
Reich, T, Ben-Ezra, T., Belkin, N., Tsemel, A., Aharonovich, D., Roth-Rosenberg, D., Givati, S., Bialik, O., Herut, B., Berman-Frank, I., Frada, M., Krom, M.D., Lehahn, Y., Rahav, E., Sher, D. (2022) A year in the life of the Eastern Mediterranean: Monthly dynamics of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in an ultra-oligotrophic sea. Deep-Sea Research I. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103720
2021
Frada, M.J., Keuter, S., Koplovitz, G., Avrahami, Y. (2021) Divergent fate of coccolithophores in a warming tropical ecosystem. Global Change Biology Vol 28, 1560–1568. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16007
Shemi, A., Alcolombri, U., Schatz, D., Farstey, V., Vincent, V., Rotkopf, R., Ben-Dor, S., Frada, M.J., Tawfik, D. S., Vardi, A. (2021) Dimethyl sulfide mediates microbial predator-prey interactions between zooplankton and algae in the ocean. Nature Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00971-3
Keuter, S., Young, J., Koplovitz, G., Zingone, A., Frada, M.J. (2021) Novel heterococcolithophores, holococcolithophores and life-cycle combinations from the families Syracosphaeraceae and Papposphaeraceae and the genus Florisphaera. Journal of Micropaleontology Vol 40, 75-99. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-40-75-2021
2020
Avrahami, Y., Frada, M.J. (2020) Detection of phagotrophy in the marine phytoplankton group of the coccolithophores (Calcihaptophycidae, Haptophta) during nutrient-replete and phosphate-limited growth. Journal of Phycology Vol 54: 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12997
2019
Mescioglu, E., Rahav, E., Frada, M.J., Rosenfeld, S., Raveh, O., Galletti, Y., Santinelli, C., Herut, B., Paytan, A. (2019) Dust-associated airborne microbes affect primary and bacterial production rates, and eukaryotes diversity, in the northern Red Sea: a mesocosm approach. Atmosphere Vol 10: 358. doi:10.3390/atmos10070358.
Rosenwasser, S., Sheyn, U., Frada, M.J., Pilzer, D., Rotkopf, R., Vardi, A. (2019) Unmasking cellular response of a bloom-forming alga to viral infection by resolving expression profiles at a single-cell level. PLoS Pathogens 15(4): e1007708. doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007708.
Keuter, S., Young, J.R., Frada, M.J. (2019) Life cycle association of the coccolithophore Syracosphaera gaarderae comb. nov. (ex Alveosphaera bimurata): taxonomy, ecology and evolutionary implications. Marine Micropaleontology. Vol. 148: 58-64. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.03.007.
Frada, M.J., Bendif, E-M., Keuter, S., Probert, I. (2019) The private life of coccolithophores. Perspectives in Phycology. doi: 10.1127/pip/2018/0083.
2018
Barak-Gavish, N., Frada, M.J., Ku, C., Lee, P.A., DiTullio, G.R., Malitsky, S., Aharoni, A., Green, S.J., Rotkopf, R., Kartvelishvily, E., Sheyn, U., Schatz, D., Vardi, A. (2018) Bacterial virulence against an oceanic bloom-forming phytoplankter is mediated by algal DMSP. Science Advances Vol. 4 (10): eaau57164. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau5716
Trainic, M., Koren, I., Sharoni, S.,Frada, M., Segev, L., Rudich, Y., Vardi, A. (2018) Infection dynamics of a bloom-forming alga and its virus determine airborne coccolith emission from seawater (2018). iScience. doi: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3188480.
Johnson, M.D., Beaudoin, D., Frada, M.J., Brownlee, E., Stoecker, D.K. (2018) High grazing rates on cryptophyte algae in Chesapeake Bay. Frontiers in Marine Science. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00241
Laber, C.P., Hunter, J.E., Carvalho, F., Collins J.R., Hunter, E., Schieler, B., Boss, E., More, K., Frada, M., Thamatrakoln, K., Brown, C.B., Haramaty, L., Ossolinski, J., Fredricks, H., Nissimov, J.I., Vandzura, R., Sheyn, U., Lehahn, Y., Chant, R.J., Martins, A.M., Coolen, M.J.L., Vardi, A., DiTullio, G.R., Van Mooy, B.A.S., and Bidle, K.D. (2018) Coccolithovirus facilitation of carbon export in the North Atlantic. Nature Microbiology Vol. 3 (5): 537-547. doi: 10.1038/s41564-018-0128-4.
2017
Frada M.J., Rosenwasser S., Ben-Dor S., Shemi A., Sabanay H., Vardi A. (2017) Morphological switch to a resistant subpopulation in response to viral infection in the bloom-forming coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi. PLoS Pathogens13 (12): e1006775. doi: doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006775.
2015
Hunter, J., Frada, M.J., Fredericks, H. F., Vardi, A., Von Mooy, B. (2015) Molecular insights on viral infection and life cycle differentiation in Emiliania huxleyi from targeted and untargeted lipidomics. Frontiers Marine Science. 2:81. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00081.
Frada, M.J., Vardi, A. (2015) Algal viruses hitchhiking on zooplankton across phytoplankton blooms. Communicative & Integrative Biology 8:3, e1029210. (link)
2014
Frada, M.J., Schatz, D., Farstey, V., Ossolinski, J.E., Sabanay, H., Ben-Dor, S., Vardi, A. (2014) Zooplankton may serve as transmission vectors for viruses infecting phytoplankton blooms in the ocean. Current Biology Vol.24: 2592-2597. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.031.
Lehahn,Y., Koren, I., Schatz, D., Frada, M., Sheyn, U., Boss, E., Efrati, S., Rudich,Y., Trainic, M., Sharoni, S., Laber, C., DiTullio, G.R., Coolen, M.G.L., Martins, A.M., Van Mooy, B. A. S., Bidle, K.D., and Vardi, A. (2014) Decoupling physical from biological processes to assess the impact of viruses on a mesoscale algal bloom. Current Biology Vol. 24: 2041-2046. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.046.
2013
Thamatrakoln, K., Bailleul, B., Brown, C. M., Gorbunov, M., Kustka, A., Frada, M., Joliot, P., Falkowski, P. G. and Bidle, K. D. (2013) Death-specific protein in a marine diatom regulates photosynthetic responses to iron and light availability. Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 110: 20123- 20128. doi: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1304727110.
Guerra, L.T., Levitan, O., Frada, M.J., Sun, J., Falkowski, P.G., Dismukes, G.C. (2013). Regulatory branch points affecting protein and lipid biosynthesis in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Biomass & Bioenergy Vol. 59: 306- 315. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.10.007.
Frada, M.J., Burrows, E.H., Wyman, K., and Falkowski, P. (2013) Quantum requirements for growth and lipid biosynthesis in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae) in nitrogen replete and limited conditions. Journal of Phycology Vol. 49: 381-388. doi: doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12046.
2012
Burrows, E.H., Bennette, N.B., Carrieri, D., Dixon, J.L., Brinker, A., Frada, M., Baldassano, S.N., Falkowski, P., Dismukes, G. C. (2012) Dynamics of lipid biosynthesis and redistribution in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum under nitrate deprivation. Bioenergy Research Vol. 5: 876-885. doi: 10.1007/s12155-012-9201-7.
Frada M.J., Bidle, K.D., Probert, I., de Vargas, C. (2012) In situ survey of life cycle phases of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyta). Environmental Microbiology Vol. 14: 1558-1569. doi: doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02745.x.
2010
Frada M., Young J., Cachão M., Lino S., Martins A., Narciso A., Probert I., de Vargas C., (2010) A guide to extant coccolithophores (Calcihaptophycidae, Haptophyta) using light microscopy. Journal of Nannoplankton Research Vol. 31: 58-112. (link)
2009
Liu H., Probert I., Huitz J., Claustre H., Edvardsen B., Not F., Frada M., Aris-Brosou S. and de Vargas C. (2009) Extreme diversity in noncalcifying haptophytes explains a major pigment paradox in open oceans. Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 106: 12803–12808. doi: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905841106.
Frada M., Percopo I., Young J., Zingone A., de Vargas C. and Probert I. (2009) First observations of heterococcolithophore-holococcolithophore life cycle combinations in the family Pontosphaeraceae (Haptophyta). Marine Micropaleontology Vol. 71: 20-27. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2009.01.001.
2008
Frada M., Probert I., Allen M.J., Wilson W.H. and de Vargas C. (2008) The “Cheshire Cat” escape strategy of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi in response to viral infection. Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 105: 15944–15949. doi: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0807707105.
2006
Frada M., Not F., Probert I. and de Vargas C. (2006) CaCO3 optical detection with fluorescent in situ hybridization: a new method to identify and quantify calcifying microorganisms from the oceans. Journal of Phycology Vol. 42: 1160-1168. doi: doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2006.00276.x.