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Carter, Dee A., Oberbeckmann, Sonja, Osborn, A. Mark and Duhaime, Melissa B. (2016) Microbes on a bottle: substrate, season and geography influence community composition of microbes colonizing marine plastic debris. PLOS ONE, 11 (8). e0159289. ISSN 1932-6203

Laverock, B., Tait, K., Gilbert, J. A., Osborn, A. M. and Widdicombe, S. (2014) Impacts of bioturbation on temporal variation in bacterial and archaeal nitrogen-cycling gene abundance in coastal sediments. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 6 (1). pp. 113-121. ISSN 1758-2229

Laverock, B., Kitidis, V., Tait, K., Gilbert, J. A., Osborn, A. M. and Widdicombe, S. (2013) Bioturbation determines the response of benthic ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms to ocean acidification. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368 (1627). n/a. ISSN 0962-8436

Cameron, Karen A., Hodson, Andrew J. and Osborn, A. Mark (2012) Structure and diversity of bacterial, eukaryotic and archaeal communities in glacial cryoconite holes from the Arctic and the Antarctic. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 82 (2). pp. 254-267. ISSN 0168-6496

Cameron, Karen A., Hodson, Andrew J. and Osborn, A. Mark (2012) Carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycling potentials of supraglacial cryoconite communities. Polar Biology, 35 (9). pp. 1375-1393. ISSN 0722-4060

Sekar, R., Deines, P., Machell, J., Osborn, M. A., Biggs, C. A. and Boxall, J. B. (2012) Bacterial water quality and network hydraulic characteristics: a field study of a small, looped water distribution system using culture-independent molecular methods. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 112 (6). pp. 1220-1234. ISSN 1364-5072

Kitidis, Vassilis, Laverock, Bonnie, McNeill, Louise C., Beesley, Amanda, Cummings, Denise, Tait, Karen, Osborn, Mark A. and Widdicombe, Stephen (2011) Impact of ocean acidification on benthic and water column ammonia oxidation. Geophysical Research Letters, 38 (21). pp. 21603-21607. ISSN 0094-8276

Laverock, Bonnie, Gilbert, Jack A., Tait, Karen, Osborn, A. Mark and Widdicombe, Steve (2011) Bioturbation: impact on the marine nitrogen cycle. Biochemical Society Transactions, 39 (1). pp. 315-320. ISSN 0300-5127

Dong, Liang F., Sobey, Milika Naqasima, Smith, Cindy J., Rusmana, Iman, Phillips, Wayne, Stott, Andrew, Osborn, A. Mark and Nedwell, David B. (2011) Dissimilatory reduction of nitrate to ammonium, not denitrification or anammox, dominates benthic nitrate reduction in tropical estuaries. Limnology and Oceanography, 56 (1). pp. 279-291. ISSN 0024-3590

Deines, P., Sekar, P., Jensen, H. S., Tait, S., Boxall, J. B., Osborn, A. M. and Biggs, C. A. (2010) MUWS (Microbiology in urban water systems): an interdisciplinary approach to study microbial communities in urban water systems. Drinking Water Engineering and Science, 3 (2). pp. 91-99. ISSN 1996-9457

Etebu, Ebimieowei and Osborn, A. Mark (2010) Molecular quantification of the pea footrot disease pathogen (Nectria haematococca) in agricultural soils. Phytoparasitica, 38 (5). pp. 447-454. ISSN 0334-2123

Hassan, Muhammad Nadeem, Osborn, A. Mark and Hafeez, Fauzia Yusuf (2010) Molecular and biochemical characterization of surfactin producing Bacillus species antagonistic to Colletotrichum falcatum Went causing sugarcane red rot. African Journal of Microbiology Research, 4 (20). pp. 2137-2142. ISSN 1996-0808

Laverock, Bonie, Smith, Cindy J., Tait, Karen, Osborn, A. Mark, Widdicombe, Steve and Gilbert, Jack A. (2010) Bioturbating shrimp alter the structure and diversity of bacterial communities in coastal marine sediments. ISME Journal, 4 (12). pp. 1531-1544. ISSN 1751-7362

Deines, Peter, Sekar, Raju, Husband, P. Stewart, Boxall, Joby B., Osborn, A. Mark and Biggs, Catherine A. (2010) A new coupon design for simultaneous analysis of in situ microbial biofilm formation and community structure in drinking water distribution systems. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 87 (2). pp. 749-756. ISSN 0175-7598

Dong, Liang F., Smith, Cindy J., Papaspyrou, Sokratis, Stott, Andrew, Osborn, A. Mark and Nedwell, David B. (2009) Changes in benthic denitrification, nitrate ammonification, and anammox process rates and nitrate and nitrite reductase gene abundances along an estuarine nutrient gradient (the Colne estuary, United Kingdom). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75 (10). pp. 3171-3179. ISSN 0099-2240

Hofmann, Tanja, Hanlon, Astrid R. M., Taylor, Joe D., Ball, Andrew S., Osborn, A. Mark and Underwood, Graham J. C. (2009) Dynamics and compositional changes in extracellular carbohydrates in estuarine sediments during degradation. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 379 . pp. 45-58. ISSN 0171-8630

Etebu, E. and Osborn, A. M. (2009) Molecular assays reveal the presence and diversity of genes encoding pea footrot pathogenicity determinants in nectria haematococca and in agricultural soils. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 106 (5). pp. 1629-1639. ISSN 1364-5072

Smith, Cindy J. and Osborn, A. Mark (2009) Advantages and limitations of quantitative PCR (Q-PCR)-based approaches in microbial ecology. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 67 (1). pp. 6-20. ISSN 0168-6496

Adetutu, E. M., Ball, A. S. and Osborn, A. M. (2008) Azoxystrobin and soil interactions: degradation and impact on soil bacterial and fungal communities. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 105 (6). pp. 1777-1790. ISSN 1364 5072

Haynes, K., Hofmann, T. A., Smith, C. J., Ball, A. S., Underwood, G. J. C. and Osborn, A. M. (2007) Diatom-derived carbohydrates as factors affecting bacterial community composition in estuarine sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73 (19). pp. 6112-6124. ISSN 0099-2240

Smith, C. J., Nedwell, D. B., Dong, L. F. and Osborn, A. M. (2007) Diversity and abundance of nitrate reductase genes (narG and napA), nitrite reductase genes (nirS and nrfA), and their transcripts in estuarine sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73 (11). pp. 3612-3622. ISSN 0099-2240

McKew, Boyd A., Coulon, Frederic, Yakimov, Michail M., Denaro, Renata, Genovese, Maria, Smith, Cindy J., Osborn, A. Mark, Timmis, Kenneth N. and McGenity, Terry J. (2007) Efficacy of intervention strategies for bioremediation of crude oil in marine systems and effects on indigenous hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria. Environmental Microbiology, 9 (6). pp. 1562-1571. ISSN 1462-2912

Prosser, J. I., Bohannan, B. J. M., Curtis, T. P., Ellis, R. J., Firestone, M. K., Freckleton, R. P., Green, J. L., Green, L. E., Killham, K., Lennon, J. J., Osborn, A. M., Solan, M., van der Gast, C. J. and Young, J. P. W. (2007) The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 5 (5). pp. 384-392. ISSN 1740-1526

McKew, B. A., Coulon, F., Osborn, A. M., Timmis, K. N. and McGenity, T. J. (2007) Determining the identity and roles of oil-metabolizing marine bacteria from the Thames estuary, UK. Environmental Microbiology, 9 (1). pp. 165-176. ISSN 1462-2912

Coulon, Frederic, McKew, Boyd A., Osborn, A. Mark, McGenity, Terry J. and Timmis, Kenneth N. (2007) Effects of temperature and biostimulation on oil-degrading microbial communities in temperate estuarine waters. Environmental Microbiology, 9 (1). pp. 177-186. ISSN 1462-2912

Smith, Cindy J., Nedwell, David B., Dong, Liang F. and Osborn, A. Mark (2006) Evaluation of quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based approaches for determining gene copy and gene transcript numbers in environmental samples. Environmental Microbiology, 8 (5). pp. 804-815. ISSN 1462-2912

Hanlon, A. R. M., Bellinger, B., Haynes, K., Xiao, G., Hofmann, T. A., Gretz, M. R., Ball, A. S., Osborn, A. M. and Underwood, G. J. C. (2006) Dynamics of extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) production and loss in an estuarine, diatom-dominated, microalgal biofilm over a tidal emersion-immersion period. Limnology and Oceanography, 51 (1 I). pp. 79-93. ISSN 0024-3590

Bossio, D. A., Girvan, M .S., Verchot, L., Bullimore, J., Borelli, T., Albrecht, A., Scow, K. M., Ball, A. S., Pretty, J. N. and Osborn, Mark (2005) Soil microbial community response to land use change in an agricultural landscape of western Kenya. Microbial Ecology, 49 (1). pp. 50-62. ISSN 0095-3628

Hudson-Edwards, K. A., Houghton, S. L. and Osborn, Mark (2004) Extraction and analysis of arsenic in soils and sediments. TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 23 (10-11). pp. 745-752. ISSN 0165-9936

Girvan, Martina S., Bullimore, Juliet, Ball, Andrew S., Pretty, Jules N. and Osborn, A. Mark (2004) Responses of active bacterial and fungal communities in soils under winter wheat to different fertilizer and pesticide regimens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70 (5). pp. 2692-2701. ISSN 0099-2240

Girvan, Martina S., Bullimore, Juliet, Pretty, Jules N., Osborn, A. Mark and Ball, Andrew S. (2003) Soil type is the primary determinant of the composition of the total and active bacterial communities in arable soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69 (3). pp. 1800-1809. ISSN 0099 2240

Mason, Vince P., Syrett, Natalie, Hassanali, Tasneem and Osborn, A. Mark (2002) Diversity and linkage of replication and mobilisation genes in Bacillus rolling circle-replicating plasmids from diverse geographical origins. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 42 (2). pp. 235-241. ISSN 0168-6496

Osborn, A. Mark and Boltner, Dietmar (2002) When phage, plasmids, and transposons collide: genomic islands, and conjugative- and mobilizable-transposons as a mosaic continuum. Plasmid, 48 (3). pp. 202-212. ISSN 0147-619X

Horswell, J., Cordiner, S .J., Maas, E. W., Martin, T. M., Sutherland, B. W., Speir, T .W., Nogales, B. and Osborn, Mark (2002) Forensic comparison of soils by bacterial community DNA profiling. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 47 (2). pp. 350-353. ISSN 0022-1198

Cook, M. A., Osborn, A. M., Bettandorff, J. and Sobecky, P. A. (2001) Endogenous isolation of replicon probes for assessing plasmid ecology of marine sediment microbial communities. Microbiology, 147 (8). pp. 2089-2101. ISSN 1350-0872

Osborn, A. M., da Silva Tatley, F. M., Steyn, L. M., Pickup, R. W. and Saunders, J. R. (2000) Mosaic plasmids and mosaic replicons: Evolutionary lessons from the analysis of genetic diversity in IncFII-related replicons. Microbiology, 146 (9). pp. 2267-2275. ISSN 1350-0872

Osborn, A. Mark, Pickup, Roger W. and Saunders, Jon R. (2000) Development and application of molecular tools in the study of IncN-related plasmids from lakewater sediments. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 186 (2). pp. 203-208. ISSN 0378-1097

Osborn, A. Mark, Moore, Edward R. B. and Timmis, Kenneth N. (2000) An evaluation of terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis for the study of microbial community structure and dynamics. Environmental Microbiology, 2 (1). pp. 39-50. ISSN 1462-2912

Hart, M. C., Elliott, G. N., Osborn, A. Mark, Ritchie, D. A. and Strike, P. (1998) Erratum: Diversity amongst Bacillus merA genes amplified from mercury resistant isolates and directly from mercury polluted soil (FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 27 (1998) (73-84] PII: S0168649698000580). FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 27 (4). p. 395. ISSN 0168-6496

Hart, Mark C., Elliott, Geoff N., Osborn, A. Mark, Ritchie, Donald A. and Strike, Peter (1998) Diversity amongst Bacillus merA genes amplified from mercury resistant isolates and directly from mercury polluted soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 27 (1). pp. 73-84. ISSN 0168-6496

Osborn, A. Mark, Bruce, Kenneth D., Strike, Peter and Ritchie, Donald A. (1997) Distribution, diversity and evolution of the bacterial mercury resistance (mer) operon. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 19 (4). pp. 239-262. ISSN 0168-6445

Speakman, A. J., Binns, S. H., Osborn, Mark, Corkill, J. E., Kariuki, S., Saunders, J. R., Dawson, S., Gaskell, R. M. and Hart, C. A. (1997) Characterization of antibiotic resistance plasmids from Bordetella bronchiseptica. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 40 (6). pp. 811-816. ISSN 0305-7453

Pearson, A. J., Bruce, K. D., Osborn, A. M., Ritchie, D. A. and Strike, P. (1996) Distribution of class II transposase and resolvase genes in soil bacteria and their association with mer genes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 62 (8). pp. 2961-2965. ISSN 0099-2240

Osborn, A. M., Bruce, K. D., Ritchie, D. A. and Strike, P. (1996) The mercury resistance operon of the IncJ plasmid pMERPH exhibits structural and regulatory divergence from other Gram-negative mer operons. Microbiology, 142 (2). pp. 337-345. ISSN 1350-0872

Bruce, K. D., Osborn, A. M., Pearson, A. J., Strike, P. and Ritchie, D. A. (1995) Genetic diversity within mer genes directly amplified from communities of noncultivated soil and sediment bacteria. Molecular Ecology, 4 (5). pp. 605-612. ISSN 0962-1083

Osborn, A. M., Bruce, K. D., Strike, P. and Ritchie, D. A. (1995) Sequence conservation between regulatory mercury resistance genes in bacteria from mercury polluted and pristine environments. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 18 (1). pp. 1-6. ISSN 0723-2020

Lloyd-Jones, Gareth, Osborn, A. Mark, Ritchie, Donald A., Strike, Peter, Hobman, Jon L., Brown, Nigel L. and Rouch, Duncan A. (1994) Accumulation and intracellular fate of tellurite in tellurite-resistant Escherichia coli: a model for the mechanism of resistance. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 118 (1-2). pp. 113-119. ISSN 0378-1097

Osborn, A. M., Bruce, K. D., Strike, P. and Ritchie, D. A. (1993) Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis shows divergence among mer determinants from gram-negative soil bacteria indistinguishable by DNA-DNA hybridization. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 59 (12). pp. 4024-4030. ISSN 0099-2240

Bruce, K. D., Hiorns, W. D., Hobman, J. L., Osborn, A. M., Strike, P. and Ritchie, D. A. (1992) Amplification of DNA from native populations of soil bacteria by using the polymerase chain reaction. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 58 (10). pp. 3413-3416. ISSN 0099-2240

Conference or Workshop contribution

Deines, P., Sekar, R., Jensen, H. S., Tait, S., Boxall, J. B., Osborn, A. M. and Biggs, C. A. (2010) MUWS (Microbiology in Urban Water Systems): an interdisciplinary approach to study microbial communities in urban water systems. In: 10th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry: Integrating Water Systems, CCWI 2009, 1-3 September 2009, Sheffield, UK.