Publications: George McManus

• 2023

• Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities.
  Millette NC, Gast RJ, Luo JY, Moeller HV, Stamieszkin K, Andersen KH, Brownlee EF, Cohen NR, Duhamel S, Dutkiewicz S, Glibert PM, Johnson MD, Leles SG, Maloney AE, Mcmanus GB, Poulton N, Princiotta SD, Sanders RW, Wilken S
  Journal of plankton research (2023) 45(4):576-596 PMC2722351 10.1038/nature07236
• The Mixoplankton Database - diversity of photo-phago-trophic plankton in form, function and distribution across the global ocean.
  Mitra A, Caron DA, Faure E, Flynn KJ, Gonçalves Leles S, Hansen PJ, McManus GB, Not F, do Rosario Gomes H, Santoferrara L, Stoecker DK, Tillmann U
  The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology (2023) :e12972 10.1111/jeu.12972

• 2022

• Genetic differentiation and phylogeography of rotifer and populations between Southeastern China and eastern North America: High intercontinental differences.
  Liang D, McManus GB, Wang Q, Sun X, Liu Z, Lin S, Yang Y
  Ecology and evolution (2022) 12(5):e8912 PMC3810850 10.1007/s10750-017-3407-9

• 2021

• Distribution Patterns of Ciliate Diversity in the South China Sea.
  Liu W, McManus GB, Lin X, Huang H, Zhang W, Tan Y
  Frontiers in microbiology (2021) 12:689688 PMC8446678 10.3389/fmicb.2021.689688

• 2020

• Combined Genome and Transcriptome Analyses of the Ciliate Schmidingerella arcuata (Spirotrichea) Reveal Patterns of DNA Elimination, Scrambling, and Inversion.
  Smith SA, Maurer-Alcalá XX, Yan Y, Katz LA, Santoferrara LF, McManus GB
  Genome biology and evolution (2020) 12(9):1616-1622 PMC7523726 10.1093/gbe/evaa185
• Perspectives from Ten Years of Protist Studies by High-Throughput Metabarcoding.
  Santoferrara L, Burki F, Filker S, Logares R, Dunthorn M, McManus GB
  The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology (2020) 67(5):612-622 10.1111/jeu.12813

• 2019

• Incubation and grazing effects on spirotrich ciliate diversity inferred from molecular analyses of microcosm experiments.
  Grattepanche JD, Juarez DL, Wood CC, McManus GB, Katz LA
  PloS one (2019) 14(5):e0215872 PMC6502329 10.1371/journal.pone.0215872

• 2017

• Distribution of Abundant and Active Planktonic Ciliates in Coastal and Slope Waters Off New England.
  Tucker SJ, McManus GB, Katz LA, Grattepanche JD
  Front Microbiol (2017) 8:2178 (PMC5715329)
• Dartintinnus alderae n. g., n. sp., a Brackish Water Tintinnid (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) with Dual-ended Lorica Collapsibility.
  Smith SA, Song W, Gavrilova NA, Kurilov AV, Liu W, McManus GB, Santoferrara LF
  J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. (2017) 65(3):400-411 10.1111/jeu.12485
• The diversity and biogeography of abundant and rare intertidal marine microeukaryotes explained by environment and dispersal limitation.
  Zhang W, Pan Y, Yang J, Chen H, Holohan B, Vaudrey J, Lin S, McManus GB
  Environ. Microbiol. (2017) 20(2):462-476 10.1111/1462-2920.13916
• Oceanic protists with different forms of acquired phototrophy display contrasting biogeographies and abundance.
  Leles SG, Mitra A, Flynn KJ, Stoecker DK, Hansen PJ, Calbet A, McManus GB, Sanders RW, Caron DA, Not F, Hallegraeff GM, Pitta P, Raven JA, Johnson MD, Glibert PM, Våge S
  Proc. Biol. Sci. (2017) 284(1860): (PMC5563798)
• Integrating dimensions of biodiversity in choreotrichs and oligotrichs of marine plankton.
  Santoferrara LF, McManus GB
  Eur. J. Protistol. (2017) 61(Pt B):323-330
• Phylogeny, classification and diversity of Choreotrichia and Oligotrichia (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea).
  Santoferrara LF, Alder VV, McManus GB
  Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. (2017) 112:12-22

• 2016

• Patchiness of Ciliate Communities Sampled at Varying Spatial Scales along the New England Shelf.
  Grattepanche JD, McManus GB, Katz LA
  PLoS ONE (2016) 11(12):e0167659 (PMC5147948)
• Unexpected biodiversity of ciliates in marine samples from below the photic zone.
  Grattepanche JD, Santoferrara LF, McManus GB, Katz LA
  Mol. Ecol. (2016) 25(16):3987-4000
• Patterns and processes in microbial biogeography: do molecules and morphologies give the same answers?
  Santoferrara LF, Grattepanche JD, Katz LA, McManus GB
  ISME J (2016) 10(7):1779-90 (PMC4918432)

• 2015

• Space station image captures a red tide ciliate bloom at high spectral and spatial resolution.
  Dierssen H, McManus GB, Chlus A, Qiu D, Gao BC, Lin S
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2015) 112(48):14783-7 (PMC4672822)
• Discrimination of closely related species in tintinnid ciliates: new insights on crypticity and polymorphism in the genus Helicostomella.
  Santoferrara LF, Tian M, Alder VA, McManus GB
  Protist (2015) 166(1):78-92

• 2014

• De novo transcriptomes of a mixotrophic and a heterotrophic ciliate from marine plankton.
  Santoferrara LF, Guida S, Zhang H, McManus GB
  PLoS ONE (2014) 9(7):e101418 (PMC4077812)
• Diversity of diversity: conceptual and methodological differences in biodiversity estimates of eukaryotic microbes as compared to bacteria.
  Grattepanche JD, Santoferrara LF, McManus GB, Katz LA
  Trends Microbiol. (2014) 22(8):432-7
• Pyrosequencing for assessing diversity of eukaryotic microbes: analysis of data on marine planktonic ciliates and comparison with traditional methods.
  Santoferrara LF, Grattepanche JD, Katz LA, McManus GB
  Environ. Microbiol. (2014) 16(9):2752-63

• 2012

• Chloroplast symbiosis in a marine ciliate: ecophysiology and the risks and rewards of hosting foreign organelles.
  McManus GB, Schoener DM, Haberlandt K
  Front Microbiol (2012) 3:321 (PMC3432870)
• Phylogeny of the order Tintinnida (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) inferred from small- and large-subunit rRNA genes.
  Santoferrara LF, McManus GB, Alder VA
  J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. (2012) 59(4):423-6
• Utility of genetic markers and morphology for species discrimination within the order Tintinnida (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea).
  Santoferrara LF, McManus GB, Alder VA
  Protist (2012) 164(1):24-36

• 2010

• Genetic identities of Cryptic species in the Strombidium stylifer/apolatum/oculatum cluster, including a description of Strombidium rassoulzadegani n. sp.
  McManus GB, Xu D, Costas BA, Katz LA
  J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. (2010) 57(4):369-78
• Diversity of oligotrichia and choreotrichia ciliates in coastal marine sediments and in overlying plankton.
  Doherty M, Tamura M, Vriezen JA, McManus GB, Katz LA
  Appl. Environ. Microbiol. (2010) 76(12):3924-35 (PMC2893510)
• Ciliate diversity and distribution across an environmental and depth gradient in Long Island Sound, USA.
  Doherty M, Tamura M, Costas BA, Ritchie ME, McManus GB, Katz LA
  Environ. Microbiol. (2010) 12(4):886-98

• 2002

• Insights into the diversity of choreotrich and oligotrich ciliates (Class: Spirotrichea) based on genealogical analyses of multiple loci.
  Snoeyenbos-West OL, Salcedo T, McManus GB, Katz LA
  Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2002) 52(Pt 5):1901-13