PUBLICATIONS

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2024

• Variation in bacterial pathotype is consistent with the sit-and-wait hypothesis

Microbiology 170:001500.  

Eliza Rayner, Amelie Lavenir, Gemma GR Murray, Marta Matusewska, Alexander W Tucker, John J Welch, Lucy A Weinert

• Prevalence, antimicrobial resistance and genomic comparison of non-typhoidal salmonella isolated from pig farms with different levels of intensification in Yangon Region, Myanmar

PLoS ONE 19(9): e0307868.

Nguyen Vinh Trung, Aung Zaw Moe, Hlaing May Than, Tran Thi Bich Chieu, AS Md Mukarram Hossain, Nguyen Trung Thanh, Huynh Xuan Yen, Phung Le Kim Yen, Nguyen Huu Nghia, Gemma GR Murray, Thiri Su Wai, Min Thein Maw, Hnin Thidar Myint, Ye Tun Win, James Wood, Guy Thwaites, Duncan J Maskell, Alexander W Tucker, Ngo Thi Hoa

2023

• The emergence and diversification of a zoonotic pathogen from within the microbiota of intensively farmed pigs

PNAS 120 (47) e2307773120.  

Murray GGR, Hossain ASMM , Miller E, Bruchmann S, Balmer AJ, Matuszewska M, Herbert J, Hadjirin NF, Mugabi R, Li G, Ferrando ML, Fernades de Oliveira IM, Nguyen T, Yen PLK, Moe AZ, Wai TS, Gottschalk M, Aragon V, Valentin-Weigand P, Heegaard PMH, Vrieling M, Maw MT, Myint HT, Win YT, Hoa NT, Bentley SD, Clavijo MJ, Wells JM, Tucker AW & Weinert LA.

• Mutational spectra are associated with bacterial niche

Nature Communications 14 (1), 7091

Ruis C, Weimann A, Tonkin-Hill G, Prasad Pandurangan A, Matuszewska M, Murray GGR, Lévesque RC, Blundell TL, Floto A & Parkhill J. 

• Genomic epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 16F lineages

Microbial Genomics 9 (11)

Mokaya J, Mellor KC, Murray GGR, Kalizangoma A, Lekhuleni C , Zar HJ, Nicol MP,  McGee L, Bentley SD,  Lo SW & Dube F.

• Absence of Staphylococcus aureus in wild populations of fish supports a spillover hypothesis

Microbiology Spectrum e04858-22  

Matuszewska M, Dabrowska A, Murray GGR, Kett SM, Vick AJA, Banister SC, Pantoja Munoz L, Cunningham P, Cunningham P, Welch JJ, Holmes M & Weinert LA. 

• Transcriptomics in serum and culture medium reveal shared and differential gene regulation in pathogenic and commensal Streptococcus suis

Microbial Genomics 9(4)

Fredriksen S, Ruijten SDE, Murray GGR, Juanpere-Borràs M, van Baarlen P, Boekhorst J & Wells JM. 

• Zooming into the structure of the microbiome

Nature Reviews Microbiology 21 (1), 5-5

Murray GGR & Chaguza C.

2022

• Stable antibiotic resistance and rapid human adaptation in livestock-associated MRSA 

eLife  11, e74819

Matuszewska M*, Murray GGR*, Ba X, Wood R, Holmes M & Weinert LA. 

• A polar bear paleogenome reveals extensive ancient gene flow from polar bears into brown bears 

Nature Ecology and Evolution  6 (7),936-944

Wang M-S, Murray GGR, Mann D, Groves P,  Corbett-Detig R,  Vershinina AO,  Supple M , Kapp JD, Crump S, Stirling I, Laidre K, Kunz M, Dalén L , Green RE & Shapiro B. 

2021

• Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen

PLoS Genetics  17 (11)  e1009864

Murray GGR, Balmer A, Herbert J, Hadjirin N, Kemp C, Matuszewska M, Bruchmann S, Hossain ASMM, Gottschalk M, Tucker AW, Miller EL* & Weinert LA*. 

• Genome reduction is associated with bacterial pathogenicity across different scales of temporal and ecological divergence

Molecular Biology and Evolution   38 (4), 1570–1579

Murray GGR*, Charlesworth J*, Miller EL, Casey MJ, Lloyd CT, Gottschalk M, Tucker AW, Welch JJ & Weinert LA. 

• Large scale genomic analysis of antimicrobial resistance in the zoonotic pathogen Streptococcus suis

BMC Biology  19 (1), 1-17

Hadjirin N, Miller EL, Murray GGR, Yen PLK, Phuc HD, Wileman TM, Hernandez-Garcia J, Williamson SM, Parkhill J, Maskell DJ, Zhou R, Fittipaldi N, Gottschalk M, Tucker AW, Hoa NT, Welch JJ & Weinert LA. 

2020

• The evolutionary genomics of host specificity in Staphylococcus aureus

Trends in Microbiology  28 (6), 465-477

Matuszewska M, Murray GGR, Harrison EM, Holmes MA & Weinert LA.

• Inference of natural selection from ancient DNA

Evolution Letters  19 (1), 1-17

Dehasque M, Ávila-Arcos MC, Díez-del-Molino D, Fumagalli M, Guschanski K, Lorenzen  ED, Malaspinas A-S, Marques-Bonet T, Martin MD, Murray GGR, Papadopulos  AST, Therkildsen NO, Wegmann D, Dalén L, Foote AD. 

• A detailed life history of a Pleistocene steppe bison (Bison priscus) skeleton unearthed in Arctic Alaska 

Quaternary Science Reviews  249, 106578

Funck J, Heintzman PD, Murray GGR, Shapiro B, McKinney H, Bigelow N, Huchet J-B, Druckenmiller P, Wooller KJ. 

2018

• A probable prehistoric case of meningococcal disease from San Francisco Bay: next generation sequencing of Neisseria meningitidis from dental calculus and osteological evidence 

International Journal of Paleopathology   22, 173-180

Eerkens J, Nichols R, Murray GGR, Perez K, Murga E, Kaijankoski P, Rosentahl J, Engbring L & Shapiro B.

2017

• Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity

Science  358 (6365), 951-954

Murray GGR*, Soares AER*, Novak BJ, Schaefer NK, Cahill JA, Baker AJ, Demboski J, Doll A, Da Fonseca RR, Fulton TL, Gilbert MTP, Heintzman PD, Letts B, McIntosh G, O’Connell BL, Peck M, Pipes M-L, Rice ES, Santos KM, Sohrweide AG, Vohr SH, Corbett-Detig RB, Green RE & Shapiro B.

• Ancient DNA Resolves the History of Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) Spiders on Rapa Nui

Genes   8 (12), 403

Cotoras DD, Murray GGR, Kapp J, Gillespie RG, Griswold C, Simison WB, Green RE & Shapiro B.

2016

• The phylogeny of Rickettsia using different evolutionary signatures: How tree-like is bacterial evolution? 

Systematic Biology  65 (2), 265-279

Murray GGR, Weinert LA, Rhule EL & Welch JJ. 

• The effect of genetic structure on molecular dating and tests for temporal signal

Methods in ecology and evolution  7 (1), 80-89

Murray GGR, Wang F, Harrison EM, Paterson GK, Mather AE, Harris SR, Holmes MA, Rambaut A & Welch JJ. 

2015

• Capturing the cloud of MRSA diversity after transmission and during infection reveals complex and heterogenous carriage and transmission

Nature Communications   6 (6560)

Paterson GK*, Harrison EM*, Murray GGR, Welch JJ, Warland JH, Holden MTG, Morgan FJE, Ba X, Koop G, Harris SR, Maskell DJ, Peacock SJ, Herrtage ME, Parkhill J & Holmes MA

• The evolution, diversity and host associations of rhabdoviruses 

Virus Evolution  1 (1)

Longdon B, Murray GGR, Palmer W, Day J, Parker D, Welch JJ, Obbard DJ & Jiggins FJ. 

• Coinfections determine patterns of mortality in populations exposed to parasite infection

Science Advances  1 (2), e1400026

Woolhouse MEJ, Thumbi SM, Jennings A, Chase-Topping M, Callaby R, Kiara H, Oosthuizen M, Ndila M, Conradie I, Handel IG, Poole EJ, Njiri E, Collins NE, Murray GGR, Tapio M, Tosas Auguet O, Weir W, Morrison WI, Kruuk LEB, Bronsvoort BM de C, Hanotte O, Coetzer K & Toye PG.

2013

• Suppressors of RNAi from plant viruses are subject to episodic positive selection

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences  280 (1765), 20130965

Murray GGR, Kosakovsky Pond SL & Obbard DJ.

• Genetic susceptibility to infectious disease in East African Shorthorn Zebu: a genome-wide analysis of the effect of heterozygosity and exotic introgression

BMC evolutionary biology  13 (1), 1-8

Murray GGR, Woolhouse MEJ, Tapio M, Mbole-Kariuki MN, Sonstegard TS, Thumbi SM, Jennings AE, Conradie van Wyk I, Chase-Topping M, Kiara H, Toye P, Coetzer K, Bronsvoort BM deC & Hanotte O.