Selected publications

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

microbial oceanography • computational biology • metagenomics 


*eq. contribution


Eppley J, Biller S*, Luo E*, Burger A, DeLong E. 2022. Marine viral particles reveal an expansive repertoire of phage-parasitizing mobile elements. PNAS 119 (43) e2212722119


Luo E, Leu A, Eppley J, Karl D, DeLong E. 2022. Diversity and origins of bacterial and archaeal viruses on sinking particles reaching the abyssal open ocean. ISME Journal 16: 1627-1635


Luo E, Eppley J, Romano A, Mende D, DeLong E. 2020. Virioplankton population dynamics and reproductive strategies in the oligotrophic open ocean water column. ISME Journal 14: 1304-1315


Beaulaurier J,* Luo E*, Eppley J*, Den Uyl P, Dai X, Turner D, Pendelton M, Juul S, Harrington E, DeLong E. 2020. Assembly-free single-molecule sequencing recovers complete virus genomes from natural microbial communities. Genome Research 30(3): 437-446


Coenen A*, Hu S*, Luo E*, Muratore D*, Weitz J. 2020. A primer for microbiome time-series analysis. Frontiers in Genetics 11: 310


McMullen A*, Luo E*, Martinez-Hernandez F, Tominaga K, Ogata H, Yoshida T, DeLong E, Martinez-Garcia M. 2020. Diel cycling of the cosmopolitan abundant Pelagibacter virus 37-F6: one of the most abundant viruses on Earth. Environmental Microbiology Reports 12(2): 214-219


Luo E, Aylward F, Mende D, DeLong E. 2017. Bacteriophage distributions and temporal variability in the ocean's interior. mBio 8(6): 01903-17