Publications

Benjamin S Minch, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman (2024). BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering Giant viruses, Polinton-like Viruses, and Virophages in metagenomic data. biorxiv.

Sarah Laperriere, Benjamin S Minch, JL Weissman, Shengwei Hou, Yi-Chun Yeh, J. Cesar Ignacio-Espinoza, Nathan Ahlgren, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Jed Fuhrman (2024). Phylogenetic proximity drives temporal succession of marine giant viruses in a five-year metagenomic time-series. biorxiv.

Benjamin S Minch, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman (2024). Expansion of the genomic and functional diversity of global ocean giant viruses. biorxiv.

Benjamin S Minch, Morgan Chakraborty, Sam Purkis, Mattie Rodrigue, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman (2024). Active prokaryotic and eukaryotic viral ecology across spatial scale in a deep-sea brine pool. ISME Communications.

Laura Perini, Katie Sipes, Athanasios Zervas, Christopher Bellas, Stefanie Lutz, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Rey Mourot, Liane G Benning, Martyn Tranter, Alexandre M Anesio (2024). Giant viral signatures on the Greenland ice sheet. Microbiome, 12(1).

Danae Stephens, Zahra Faghihi, Mohammad Moniruzzaman (2024). Widespread occurrence and diverse origins of polintoviruses influence lineage-specific genome dynamics in stony corals. Virus Evolution, 10(1).

Benjamin S Minch, Salma Akter, Alaina Weinheimer, M Shaminur Rahman, Md Anowar Khasru Parvez, Sabita Rezwana Rahman, Md Firoz Ahmed, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman (2023). Phylogenetic diversity and functional potential of large and cell-associated viruses in the Bay of Bengal. Msphere, 8(6).

Salma Akter, M Shaminur Rahman, Hazrat Ali, Benjamin S Minch, Kaniz Mehzabin, M Moradul Siddique, Syed M Galib, Farida Yasmin, Nafisa Azmuda, Nihad Adnan, Nur A Hasan, Sabita Rezwana Rahman, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Md Firoz Ahmed (2023). Phylogenetic diversity and functional potential of the microbial communities along the Bay of Bengal coast. Scientific Reports.

Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Maria Paula Erazo Garcia, Roxanna Farzad, Anh D Ha, Abdeali Jivaji, Sangita Karki, Uri Sheyn, Joshua Stanton, Benjamin S Minch, Danae Stephens, Dustin C Hancks, Rodrigo AL Rodrigues, Jonatas S Abrahao, Assaf Vardi, Frank O Aylward (2023). Virologs, viral mimicry, and virocell metabolism: the expanding scale of cellular functions encoded in the complex genomes of giant viruses. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 47(5).

Anh D Ha, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Frank O Aylward (2023). Assessing the biogeography of marine giant viruses in four oceanic transects. ISME communications, 3(1).

Frank O Aylward, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman (2022). Viral Complexity. Biomolecules, 12(8).

Md Shaminur Rahman, Md Firoz Ahmed, Md Shariful Islam, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman (2022). A review of the physicochemical features and phytoplankton community of the Bay of Bengal: Bangladesh perspective. Authorea.

Anh D Ha, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Frank O Aylward (2021). High transcriptional activity and diverse functional repertoires of hundreds of giant viruses in a coastal marine system. Msystems, 6(4).

Sangita Karki, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Frank O Aylward (2021). Comparative Genomics and Environmental Distribution of Large dsDNA Viruses in the Family Asfarviridae. Frontiers in microbiology, 12.

Frank O Aylward, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman (2021). ViralRecall—a flexible command-line tool for the detection of giant virus signatures in ‘omic data. Viruses, 13(2).

Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Frank O Aylward (2021). Endogenous giant viruses shape intraspecies genomic variability in the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. bioRxiv.

Robbie M Martin, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Gwendolyn F Stark, Eric R Gann, Dominique S Derminio, Bofan Wei, Ferdi L Hellwger, Ameet Pinto, Gregory L Boyer, Steven W Wilhelm (2020). Episodic Decrease in Temperature Increases mcy Gene Transcription and Cellular Microcystin in Continuous Cultures of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806. Frontiers in microbiology, 11.

Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Alaina R Weinheimer, Carolina A Martinez-Gutierrez, Frank O Aylward (2020). Widespread endogenization of giant viruses shapes genomes of green algae. Nature, 588(7836).

Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Carolina A Martinez-Gutierrez, Alaina R Weinheimer, Frank O Aylward (2020). Dynamic genome evolution and complex virocell metabolism of globally-distributed giant viruses. Nature communications, 11(1).

Syeda Tasneem Towhid, Nadira Naznin Rakhi, AS Arefin, Otun Saha, Sumaiya Mamun, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Md Mizanur Rahaman (2020). COVID-19 and the cardiovascular system: how the first post-modern pandemic ‘weakened’our hearts. Discoveries Reports, 3.

BC Kolody, JP McCrow, L Zeigler Allen, FO Aylward, KM Fontanez, A Moustafa, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, FP Chavez, CA Scholin, EE Allen, Alexandra Z Worden, EF Delong, AE Allen (2019). Diel transcriptional response of a California Current plankton microbiome to light, low iron, and enduring viral infection. The ISME Journal, 13(11).

Robbie M Martin, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Nicholas C Mucci, Anusuya Willis, Jason N Woodhouse, Yuejiao Xian, Chuan Xiao, Corina PD Brussaard, Steven W Wilhelm (2019). Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii Virus and host: genomic characterization and ecological relevance. Environmental microbiology, 21(6).

Joshua MA Stough, Natalya Yutin, Yuri V Chaban, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Eric R Gann, Helena L Pound, Morgan M Steffen, Jenna N Black, Eugene V Koonin, Steven W Wilhelm, Steven M Short (2019). Genome and Environmental Activity of a Chrysochromulina parva Virus and Its Virophages. Frontiers in microbiology, 10(907).

Joshua MA Stough, Natalya Yutin, Yuri V Chaban, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Eric R Gann, Helena L Pound, Morgan M Steffen, Jenna N Black, Eugene V Koonin, Steven W Wilhelm, Steven M Short (2019). Genome and Environmental Activity of a Chrysochromulina parva Virus and Its Virophages. Frontiers in microbiology, 10.

Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Eric R. Gann, Steven W. Wilhelm (2018). Infection by a Giant Virus (AaV) Induces Widespread Physiological Reprogramming in Aureococcus anophagefferens CCMP1984 – A Harmful Bloom Algae. Frontiers in Mircobiology.

William H Wilson, Ilana C Gilg, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Erin K Field, Sergey Koren, Gary R LeCleir, Joaquín Martínez Martínez, Nicole J Poulton, Brandon K Swan, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Steven W Wilhelm (2017). Genomic exploration of individual giant ocean viruses. The ISME journal, 11(8).

Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Louie L Wurch, Harriet Alexander, Sonya T Dyhrman, Christopher J Gobler, Steven W Wilhelm (2017). Virus-host relationships of marine single-celled eukaryotes resolved from metatranscriptomics. Nature Communication, 8(1).

Steven W Wilhelm, Samantha R Coy, Eric R Gann, Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Joshua MA Stough (2016). Standing on the shoulders of giant viruses: five lessons learned about large viruses infecting small eukaryotes and the opportunities they create. PLoS pathogens, 12(8).

Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Eric R Gann, Gary R LeCleir, Yoonja Kang, Christopher J Gobler, Steven W Wilhelm (2016). Diversity and dynamics of algal Megaviridae members during a harmful brown tide caused by the pelagophyte, Aureococcus anophagefferens. FEMS microbiology ecology, 92(5).

Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Gary R LeCleir, Christopher M Brown, Christopher J Gobler, Kay D Bidle, William H Wilson, Steven W Wilhelm (2014). Genome of brown tide virus (AaV), the little giant of the Megaviridae, elucidates NCLDV genome expansion and host–virus coevolution. Virology, 466.

Mohammad 'Monir' Moniruzzaman, Gary R LeCleir, Christopher M Brown, Christopher J Gobler, Kay D Bidle, William H Wilson, Steven W Wilhelm (2014). Genome of brown tide virus (AaV), the little giant of the Megaviridae, elucidates NCLDV genome expansion and host–virus coevolution. Virology, 466.

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