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Jiang, X, D.J. Van Horn, J.G. Okie, H.N. Buelow, E. Schwartz, D.R. Colman, K. Feeser, C.D. Takacs-Vesbach. Limits to the Three Domains of Life: Lessons from an Antarctic Salinity Gradient. Extremophiles 26:15. DOI: 10.1007/s00792-022-01262-3. 

Okie, J.G., A.T. Poret-Peterson, Z.M.-P. Lee, L. Eguiarte, A. Richter, L.D. Alcaraz-Peraza, L.E. Eguiarte, J.L. Siefert, V. Souza, C.L. Dupont, and J.J. Elser. 2020. Genomic adaptations in information processing underpin trophic strategy in a whole-ecosystem nutrient experiment. eLife 9:e49816. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.49816. 

Feeser, K.L., D.J. Van Horn, H.N. Buelow, D.R. Colman, T. McHugh, J.G. Okie, E. Schwartz, and C.D. Takacs-Vesbach. 2018. Local and regional scale heterogeneity drive bacterial community diversity and composition in a polar desert. Frontiers in Microbiology 9:1928. 

Bo Wu, F. Liu, M. D. Weiser, D. Ning, J. G. Okie, L. Shen, B. Chai, J. Li, Y. Deng, K. Feng, L. Wu, S. Chen, J. Zhou, and Z. He. Temperature determines the diversity and structure of N2O-reducing microbial assemblages. Functional Ecology 32: 1867-1878. 

Zhang, C., D. Niu, M. Song, J.J. Elser, J.G. Okie, ad H. Fu.  Effects of rainfall manipulations on carbon exchange of cyanobacteria and moss-dominated biological soil crusts. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 124: 24-31.

Okie, J.G., D.J. Van Horn, D. Storch, J.E. Barrett, M.N. Gooseff, L. Kopsova, and C.D. Takacs-Vesbach. 2015. Niche and metabolic principles explain patterns of diversity and distribution: theory and a case study with soil bacterial communities. Proc. Roc. Soc. B 282:20142630.  

Schwartz, E., H.N. Buelow, M.N. Gooseff,  J.E. Barrett, J.G. Okie, C.D. Takacs-Vesbach, and D.J. Van Horn. Characterizationof Growing Bacterial Populations in McMurdo Dry Valley Soils through Stable Isotope Probing with 18O-water. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 89:415-424.

Van Horn, D.J., J.G. Okie, H.N. Buelow, M.N. Gooseff, J.E. Barrett, and C.D. Takacs-Vesbach. 2014. Soil microbial community response to increased moisture and organic resources along a salinity gradient in Antarctica. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80: 3034-3043.

Okie, J.G. 2013. General models for the spectra of surface area scaling strategies of cells and organisms: fractality, geometric dissimilitude, and internalization. American Naturalist 181:421-439. (Appendix). 

Okie, J.G. 2012. Microorganisms, in Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach (eds R.M. Sibly, J.H. Brown, and A. Kodric-Brown), Jon Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.