See an up-to-date list of my publications here: Linta Reji - Google Scholar

Pre-prints

  1. Reji L., Darnajoux, R., Zhang, X. 2023. A Genomic View of Environmental and Life History Controls on Microbial Nitrogen Acquisition Strategies. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.10.552805.

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Reji L., Zhang, X. 2022. Genome-Resolved Metagenomics Informs the Functional Ecology of Uncultured Acidobacteria in Redox Oscillated Sphagnum Peat. mSystems. DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00055-22.

  2. Darnajoux, R., Reji L., Zhang X. R., Luxem K. E., Zhang X. 2022. Ammonium sensitivity of biological nitrogen fixation in anaerobic diazotrophs and coastal salt marsh sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127:e2021JG006596. doi: 10.1029/2021JG006596.

  3. Reji L., Cardarelli E.L., Boyce K., Bargar J., Francis C.A. 2022. Diverse ecophysiological adaptations of subsurface Thaumarchaeota in floodplain sediments revealed through genome-resolved metagenomics. ISME J, 16:1140-1152. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01167-7.

  4. Reji, L., Francis, C.A. 2020. Metagenome-assembled genomes reveal unique metabolic adaptations of a basal marine Thaumarchaeota lineage. ISME J. 14: 2105–2115. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-0675-6. Short-listed for the ISME J 2020 Best Paper Award.

  5. Tolar, B. B., L. Reji, J. M. Smith, M. Blum, J. T. Pennington, F. P. Chavez, and C. A. Francis. 2020. Time series assessment of Thaumarchaeota ecotypes in Monterey Bay reveals the importance of water column position in predicting distribution-environment relationships. Limnology and Oceanography. 65(9). DOI: 10.1002/lno.11436.

  6. Reji, L., B. B. Tolar, F. P. Chavez and C. A. Francis. 2020. Depth-differentiation and seasonality of planktonic microbial assemblages in the Monterey Bay upwelling system. Frontiers in Microbiology. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01075. Featured in the Aquatic Microbiology Editor’s Pick 2021 collection.

  7. Reji, L., B. B. Tolar, J. M. Smith, and F. P. Chavez, C. A. Francis. 2019. Depth distributions of nitrite reductase (nirK) gene variants reveal spatial dynamics of thaumarchaeal ecotype populations in coastal Monterey Bay. Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14753.

  8. Reji, L., B. B. Tolar, J. M. Smith, and F. P. Chavez, C. A. Francis. 2019. Differential cooccurrence relationships shaping ecotype diversification within Thaumarchaeota populations in the coastal ocean water column. ISME J. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0311-x.