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Selected Publications Over Past 5 Years (Kostka lab members in bold):
*Duchesneau, K., Aldeguer Riquelme, B., Petro, C., Makke, G., Green, M., Tfaily, M., Wilson, R., Roth, S.W., Johnston, E.R., Kluber, L.A. and Schadt, C.W., Trejo, J.B., Callister, S.J., Purvine, S.O., Chanton, J.P., Hanson, P.J., Tringe, S., Eloe-Fadrosh, E., Del Rio, T., Konstantinidis, K.T., & J. E. Kostka. 2025. Northern peatland microbial communities exhibit resistance to warming and acquire electron acceptors from soil organic matter. Nature Communications, 16(1), p.6869. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61664-7. (Impact Factor = 15.7).
*Quan, Q., Hanson, P.J., Ricciuto, D., Sebestyen, S.D., Weston, D.J., Chanton, J.P., Wilson, R.M., Kostka, J.E., Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Jiang, L., and Y. Luo. 2025. Drought-induced peatland carbon loss exacerbated by elevated CO2 and warming. Science, 390 (6771), pp.367-370. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adv7104 (Impact Factor = 56.9).
*Wilson, R.M., C. C. Petro, M. M. Tfaily, V. G. Salmon, R. J. Norby, K. Duchesneau, J. Birkebak, K. N. Smith, G. Makke, K. E. Brile, S. H. Bosman, S. B. Hodgkins, T. Song, N. A. Griffiths, S. D. Sebestyen, P. J. Hanson, C. W. Schadt, J. E. Kostka, and J. P. Chanton. 2025.Plant-induced changes mediate below-ground carbon cycling in an experimentally warmed peatland. JGR-Biogeosciences, In review. (Impact Factor = 3.5).
*Bechtold, E., J.B. Ellenbogen, J. A. Villa, D. K. de Melo Ferreira, A. M. Oliverio, J. Kostka, V. I. Rich, R. K. Varner, S. Bansal, E. J. Ward, G. Bohrer, M. A. Borton, K. C. Wrighton, and M. J. Wilkins. 2025. Metabolic interactions underpinning high methane fluxes across terrestrial freshwater wetlands. Nature Communications, 16: 944. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.15.589101. (Impact Factor = 15.7).
*Živković, T., A. A. Carrell, G. Granath, A. J. Shaw, D. A. Pelletier, C. W. Schadt, D. M. Klingeman, M. B. Nilsson, M. Helbig, D. Warshan, I. J. Klarenberg, D. Gilbert, J. E. Kostka, D. J. Weston. 2025. Host species-microbiome interactions contribute to Sphagnum spp. growth acclimation to warming. Global Change Biology, 31:e70066. (Impact Factor = 12.0).
* Du Plessis, I., Snyder, H., Calder, R., Rolando, J.L., Kostka, J.E., Weitz, J.S. and Dominguez-Mirazo, M., 2025. Viral community diversity in the rhizosphere of the foundation salt marsh plant Spartina alterniflora. mSphere, pp.e00234-25 (Impact Factor = 3.1).
*Rajakaruna, S., Makke, G., Grachet, N.G., Ayala-Ortiz, C., Bouranis, J., Hoyt, D.W., Toyoda, J., Denis, E.H., Moran, J.J., Song, T., Sun, X., Eder, E.K., Wong, A.R., Chu, R., Heyman, H., Kolton, M., Chanton, J.P.. Wilson, R.M., Kostka, J., & M. M. Tfaily. 2024. Adding labile carbon to peatland soils triggers deep carbon breakdown. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), p.792. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01954-y. (Impact Factor = 8.9).
*Bullows, J.E., Kanak, A., Shedrick, L., Kiessling, C., Aklujkar, M., Kostka, J. and Chin, K.J., 2024. Anaerobic benzene oxidation in Geotalea daltonii involves activation by methylation and is regulated by the transition state regulator AbrB. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 90(10), pp.e00856-24. (Impact Factor = 3.7).
*Rolando, J.L., Kolton, M., Song, T., Liu, Y., Pinamang, P., Conrad, R., Morris, J.T., Konstantinidis, K.T. and Kostka, J.E., 2024. Sulfur oxidation and reduction are coupled to nitrogen fixation in the roots of the salt marsh foundation plant Spartina alterniflora. Nature Communications, 15(1), p.3607. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47646-1 (Impact Factor = 15.7).
*Duchesneau, K., Defrenne, C.E., Petro, C., Malhotra, A., Moore, J.A., Childs, J., Hanson, P.J., Iversen, C.M. and Kostka, J.E., 2024. Responses of vascular plant fine roots and associated microbial communities to whole‐ecosystem warming and elevated CO2 in northern peatlands. New Phytologist, 242(3), pp.1333-1347. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19690 (Impact Factor = 8.1).
*Berg, G., C. Dorador, D. Egamberdieva, J.E. Kostka, C.-M. Ryu, B. Wassermann. 2024. Shared governance in the plant holobiont and implications for one health. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 100(3), fiae004 https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae004 (Impact Factor = 3.5).
*Petro, C., A. Carrell, R. M. Wilson, K. Duchesneau, S. Noble-Kuchera, T. Song, C. M. Iversen, J. Childs, G. Schwaner, J. Chanton, R. J. Norby, P. Hanson, J. B. Glass, D. Weston, J. E. Kostka. 2023. Climate drivers alter nitrogen availability in surface peat and decouple N2 fixation from CH4 oxidation in the Sphagnum moss microbiome. Global Change Biology 00:118. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16651 (Impact Factor = 12.0).
Ofiti, N.O.E., M.W.I. Schmidt, S. Abiven, P.J. Hanson, C.M. Iversen, R. M. Wilson, J. E. Kostka, G.L.B. Wiesenberg, A. Malhotra. 2023. Climate warming and elevated CO2 alter peatland soil carbon sources and stability. Nature Communications, 14:7533, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43410-z (Impact Factor = 15.7).
*Song, T., Y. Liu, M. Kolton, R. Wilson, J. Keller, J. Rolando, J. Chanton, and J.E. Kostka. 2023. Porewater constituents inhibit microbially mediated greenhouse gas production (GHG) and regulate the response of soil organic matter decomposition to warming in anoxic peat from a Sphagnum-dominated bog. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 99(7), p.fiad060. (Impact Factor = 3.5).
*Rolando, J.L., Hodges, M., Garcia, K., Krueger, G., Williams, N., Carr Jr, J., Robinson, J., George, A., Morris, J. and Kostka, J.E., 2023. Restoration and resilience to sea level rise of a salt marsh affected by dieback events. Ecosphere, 14(4), p.e4467. (Impact Factor = 2.9).
*Shaw, A.J., Duffy, A.M., Nieto-Lugilde, M., Aguero, B., Schuette, S., Robinson, S., Loveland, J., Hicks, K., Weston, D., Piatkowski, B., Kolton, M., Kostka, J.E., and A. Healey. 2023. Clonality, local population structure, and gametophyte sex ratios in cryptic species of the Sphagnum magellanicum complex. Annals of Botany 132: 77–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad077
*Rolando, J.L., M. Kolton, T. Song, and J.E. Kostka. 2022. The core root microbiome of Spartina alterniflora is predominated by sulfur-oxidizing and sulfate-reducing bacteria in Georgia salt marshes, USA. Microbiome 10, 37 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01187-7(Impact factor = 14.3).
*Neri, U., Y. I. Wolf, S. Roux, A. P. Camargo, B. Lee, D. Kazlauskas, I. Min Chen, N. Ivanova, L. Z. Allen, D. Paez-Espino, D. A. Bryant, D. Bhaya, RNA Virus Discovery Consortium, M. Krupovic, V. V. Dolja, N. C. Kyrpides, E. V. Koonin, U. Gophna. 2022. Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell 185: 4023-4037. (Kostka participated as part of the RNA Virus Discovery Consortium). (Impact Factor = 66.85).
*Piatkowski, B.T., Carper, D.L., Carrell, A.A., Chen, I.M.A., Clum, A., Daum, C., Eloe-Fadrosh, E.A., Gilbert, D., Granath, G., Huntemann, M., Jawdy, S.S, Klarenberg, I.J., Kostka, J.E., Kyrpides, N.C., Lawrence, T.J., Mukherjee, S., Nilsson, M.B., Palaniappan, K., Pelletier, D.A., Pennacchio, C., Reddy, T.B.K., Roux, S., Shaw, A.J., Warshan, D., Živković, T., and D.J. Weston. 2022. Draft Metagenome Sequences of the Sphagnum (Peat Moss) Microbiome from Ambient and Warmed Environments across Europe. Microbiology Resource Announcements, pp.e00400-22.
*Baysinger MR, Wilson RM, Hanson PJ, Kostka JE, Chanton JP. 2022. Compositional stability of peat in ecosystem-scale warming mesocosms. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0263994. (Impact Factor = 3.752) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263994
*Sun, X., T. Kong, F. Li, M.M. Haggblom, M. Kolton, L. Lan, M.C.Y Lau Vetter, Y. Dong, P. Gao, J.E. Kostka, B. Li, and W. Sun. 2022. Desulfurivibrio spp. mediate sulfur-oxidation coupled to Sb(V) reduction, a novel biogeochemical process. ISME Journal, pp. 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01201-2
(Impact Factor = 10.302).
*Kolton, M., D.J. Weston, X. Mayali, P.K. Weber, K.J. Mcfarlane, J. Pett-Ridge, M.M. Somoza, J. Lietard, J.B. Glass, E.A Lilleskov, A.J. Shaw, S. Tringe, P.J. Hanson, and J.E. Kostka. 2022. Defining the Sphagnum core microbiome across the North American continent reveals a central role for diazotrophic-methanotrophs in the nitrogen and carbon cycles of boreal peatland ecosystems. mBio, 13(1), pp.e03714-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03714-21 (Impact Factor = 7.786)
*Salmon, V.G., Brice, D.J., Bridgham, S., Childs, J., Graham, J., Griffiths, N.A., Hofmockel, K., Iversen, C.M., Jicha, T.M., Kolka, R.K. and Kostka, J.E., 2021. Nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in an ombrotrophic peatland: a benchmark for assessing change. Plant and Soil, 466(1), pp.649-674. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05065-x (Impact factor = 4.192)
*ter Horst, A.M., C. Santos-Medellín, J. W. Sorensen, L. A. Zinke, R. M. Wilson, E. R. Johnston, G. G. Trubl, J. Pett-Ridge, S. J. Blazewicz, P. J. Hanson, J. P. Chanton, C. W. Schadt, J. E. Kostka, and J.B. Emerson. 2021. Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations. Microbiome https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.15.422944 (Impact factor = 14.65)
*Wilson, R.M., Griffiths, N.A., Visser, A., McFarlane, K.J., Sebestyen, S.D., Oleheiser, K.C., Bosman, S., Hopple, A.M., Tfaily, M.M., Kolka, R.K., Hanson, P.J., Kostka, J.E., Bridgham, S.D., Keller, J.K., and J. P. Chanton. 2021. Radiocarbon analyses quantify peat carbon losses with increasing temperature in a whole ecosystem warming experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126, e2021JG006511. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006511 (Impact factor = 3.822)
*Wilson, RM and MM Tfaily, MM Kolton, E Johnson, C Petro, CA Zalman, PJ Hanson, HM Heyman, JE Kyle, DW Hoyte, EK Eder, SO Purvine, RK Kolka, SE Sebestyen, NA Griffiths, CW Schadt, JK Keller, SD Bridgham, JP Chanton, and JE Kostka. 2021. Soil metabolome response to whole ecosystem warming at the SPRUCE and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2004192119 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004192118 (Impact factor = 11.205)