| Gill bacteria enable a novel digestive strategy in a wood-feeding mollusk RM O’Connor, JM Fung, KH Sharp, JS Benner, C McClung, S Cushing, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (47), E5096-E5104, 2014 | 108 | 2014 |
| Discovery of chemoautotrophic symbiosis in the giant shipworm Kuphus polythalamia (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) extends wooden-steps theory DL Distel, MA Altamia, Z Lin, JR Shipway, A Han, I Forteza, R Antemano, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (18), E3652-E3658, 2017 | 83 | 2017 |
| A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines JR Shipway, MA Altamia, G Rosenberg, GP Concepcion, MG Haygood, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1905), 20190434, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| Genetic differentiation among isolates of Teredinibacter turnerae, a widely occurring intracellular endosymbiont of shipworms MA Altamia, N Wood, JM Fung, S Dedrick, EW Linton, GP Concepcion, ... Molecular ecology 23 (6), 1418-1432, 2014 | 20 | 2014 |
| Observations on the Life History and Geographic Range of the Giant Chemosymbiotic Shipworm Kuphus polythalamius (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) JR Shipway, MA Altamia, T Haga, M Velásquez, J Albano, R Dechavez, ... The Biological Bulletin 235 (3), 167-177, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Secondary metabolism in the gill microbiota of shipworms (Teredinidae) as revealed by comparison of metagenomes and nearly complete symbiont genomes MA Altamia, Z Lin, AE Trindade-Silva, ID Uy, JR Shipway, DV Wilke, ... Msystems 5 (3), 10.1128/msystems. 00261-20, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Thiosocius teredinicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotrophic endosymbiont cultivated from the gills of the giant shipworm, Kuphus polythalamius MA Altamia, JR Shipway, GP Concepcion, MG Haygood, DL Distel International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 69 (3 …, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| Teredinibacter waterburyi sp. nov., a marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacterium isolated from the gills of the wood-boring mollusc Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae … MA Altamia, JR Shipway, D Stein, MA Betcher, JM Fung, G Jospin, ... International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 70 (4 …, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| Teredinibacter haidensis sp. nov., Teredinibacter purpureus sp. nov. and Teredinibacter franksiae sp. nov., marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacteria isolated from the gills of the wood … MA Altamia, JR Shipway, D Stein, MA Betcher, JM Fung, G Jospin, ... International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 71 (2), 004627, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Tamilokus mabinia, a new, anatomically divergent genus and species of wood-boring bivalve from the Philippines JR Shipway, MA Altamia, G Rosenberg, GP Concepcion, MG Haygood, ... PeerJ 7, e6256, 2019 | 7 | 2019 |
| Transport of symbiont-encoded cellulases from the gill to the gut of shipworms via the enigmatic ducts of Deshayes: a 174-year mystery solved MA Altamia, DL Distel Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289 (1986), 20221478, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| A conserved biosynthetic gene cluster is regulated by quorum sensing in a shipworm symbiont JMD Robes, MA Altamia, EG Murdock, GP Concepcion, MG Haygood, ... Applied and Environmental Microbiology 88 (11), e00270-22, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Contrasting modes of mitochondrial genome evolution in sister taxa of wood-eating marine bivalves (Teredinidae and Xylophagaidae) Y Li, MA Altamia, JR Shipway, MR Brugler, AF Bernardino, TL de Brito, ... Genome Biology and Evolution 14 (6), evac089, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Versatile bacterial symbionts of shipworms contribute to wood digestion, fix nitrogen and produce secondary metabolites M Haygood, M Altamia, S Elshahawi, A Han, Z Lin, M Betcher, ... Planta Medica 81 (11), IL43, 2015 | 2 | 2015 |
| Outer membrane vesicles can contribute to cellulose degradation in Teredinibacter turnerae, a cultivable intracellular endosymbiont of shipworms MT Gasser, A Liu, M Altamia, BR Brensinger, SL Brewer, R Flatau, ... bioRxiv, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Wooden steps to shallow depths: A new bathymodiolin mussel, Vadumodiolus teredinicola, inhabits shipworm burrows in an ancient submarine forest MA Altamia, HJ Appiah-Madson, R Falco-Poulin, B Huettel, M Rubin-Blum, ... Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 204, 104220, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Closing the genome of Teredinibacter turnerae T7902 by long-read nanopore sequencing MT Gasser, A Liu, R Flatau, MA Altamia, CM Filone, DL Distel bioRxiv, 2024.07. 30.605897, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Correction for Altamia et al.,“Secondary Metabolism in the Gill Microbiota of Shipworms (Teredinidae) as Revealed by Comparison of Metagenomes and Nearly Complete Symbiont Genomes” MA Altamia, Z Lin, AE Trindade-Silva, ID Uy, JR Shipway, DV Wilke, ... Msystems 6 (2), 10.1128/msystems. 00288-21, 2021 | | 2021 |
| Rock-Eating Shipworms D Distel, R Shipway, MA Altamia, G Rosenberg, G Concepcion, ... NATURAL HISTORY 127 (9), 12-15, 2019 | | 2019 |
| Bacterial Endosymbionts of Kuphus Polythalamia, the World's Largest Shipworm M Altamia, M Betcher, J Albano | | 2011 |
