Publications
Selected recent papers
For a complete list, including the latest preprints, please see Google Scholar.
2025
Cuenod A et al. Prevalent chromosome fusion in Vibrio cholerae O1. Nature Communications. * Blog post
Naderi S, Sagan SM & Shapiro BJ. Within-host genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 across animal species. Virus Evolution.
2024
Madi N et al. Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients. Science.
Douglas GM & Shapiro BJ. Pseudogenes act as a neutral reference for detecting selection in prokaryotic pangenomes. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Sutcliffe SG et al. Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater: an assessment of nine computational tools using simulated genomic data. Microbial Genomics.
Lypaczewski P, Chac D et al. Vibrio cholerae O1 experiences mild bottlenecks through the gastrointestinal tract in some but not all cholera patients. Microbiology Spectrum.
2023
N’Guessan A et al. Selection for immune evasion in SARS-CoV-2 revealed by high-resolution epitope mapping and sequence analysis. iScience.
Madi N, Chen D, Wolff R, Shapiro BJ & Garud N. Community diversity is associated with intra-species genetic diversity and gene loss in the human gut microbiome. eLife.
Naderi S, Chen PE, Murall CL, Poujol R, Kraemer SA, Pickering BS, Sagan SM & Shapiro BJ. Zooanthroponotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and host-specific viral mutations revealed by genome-wide phylogenetic analysis. eLife
Saber MM, Donner M et al. Single nucleotide variants in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations from sputum correlate with baseline lung function and predict disease progression in individuals with cystic fibrosis. Microbial Genomics
Douglas GM, Kim S, Langille MGI & Shapiro BJ. Efficient computation of contributional diversity metrics from microbiome data with FuncDiv. Bioinformatics.
2022
Leducq J-B et al. Fine-scale adaptations to environmental variation and growth strategies drive phyllosphere Methylobacterium diversity. mBio
Barbosa da Costa N et al. A glyphosate-based herbicide cross-selects for antimicrobial resistance genes in bacterioplankton communities. mSystems
Creasy-Marrazzo A, Saber MM et al. Genome-wide association studies reveal distinct genetic correlates and increased heritability of antimicrobial resistance in Vibrio cholerae under anaerobic conditions. Microbial Genomics
2021
Murall CL et al. A small number of early introductions seeded widespread transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Quebec, Canada. Genome Medicine
Douglas GM & Shapiro BJ. Genic selection within prokaryotic pangenomes. Genome Biology & Evolution
Levade I, Saber MM, Midani F, Chowdhury F, Khan AI, Begum YA, Ryan ET, David LA, Calderwood SB, Harris JB, LaRocque RC, Qadri F, Shapiro BJ, Weil AA. Predicting Vibrio cholerae infection and disease severity using metagenomics in a prospective cohort study. The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Levade I et al. A combination of metagenomic and cultivation approaches reveal hypermutator phenotypes within Vibrio cholerae infected patients. mSystems
Barbosa da Costa N, V Fugère, M Hébert, CC Xu, RD Barrett, B Beisner, G Bell, V Yargeau, GF Fussmann, A Gonzalez, BJ Shapiro. Resistance, resilience, and functional redundancy of freshwater microbial communities facing multiple agricultural stressors in a mesocosm experiment. Molecular Ecology
Olga M. Pérez-Carrascal, N Tromas, Y Terrat, E Moreno, A Giani, Laisa CB Marques, N Fortin, BJ Shapiro. Single-colony sequencing reveals microbe-by-microbiome phylosymbiosis between the cyanobacterium Microcystis and its associated bacteria. Microbiome
N’Guessan A, Brito IL, Serohijos AWR, Shapiro BJ. Mobile gene sequence evolution within individual human gut microbiomes is better explained by gene-specific than host-specific selective pressures. Genome Biology & Evolution
2020
Madi N, Vos M, Murall CL, Legendre P, Shapiro BJ. Does diversity beget diversity in microbiomes? eLife
Saber MM, Shapiro BJ. Benchmarking genome-wide association study (GWAS) methods using simulated genomes and phenotypes. Microbial Genomics
Tromas N, Castelli M, Taranu ZE, Pimentel J, Pereira D, Marcoz R, Giani A, Shapiro BJ. The evolution of realized niches in freshwater Synechococcus. Environmental Microbiology
Terrat Y, Farnaes L, Bradley J, Tromas N, Shapiro BJ. Two cases of type-a Haemophilus influenzae meningitis within the same week in the same hospital are phylogenetically unrelated but recently exchanged capsule genes. Microbial Genomics