The O'Brien Lab - Publications

Evolutionary consequences of microbiomes for hosts: impacts on host fitness, traits, and heritability

Anna M O’Brien, Jason R Laurich, Megan E Frederickson

Evolution · 01 Oct 2023

Accelerated high-throughput imaging and phenotyping system for small organisms

Talha Kose, Tiago F. Lins, Jessie Wang, Anna M. O’Brien, David Sinton, Megan E. Frederickson

PLOS ONE · 21 Jul 2023

plants and microbes automation

Representative subsampling methods for the chemical identification of microplastic particles in environmental samples

Hannah De Frond, Anna M. O'Brien, Chelsea M. Rochman

Chemosphere · 11 Jan 2023

microplastics stress

Harnessing plant-microbiome interactions for bioremediation across a freshwater urbanization gradient

Anna M. O’Brien, Zhu Hao Yu, Clara Pencer, Megan E. Frederickson, Gregory H. LeFevre, Elodie Passeport

Water Research · 01 Sep 2022

plants and microbes urban microbial influence on traits bioremediation

Toxicity of nanoplastics to zooplankton is influenced by temperature, salinity, and natural particulate matter

Tiago F. Lins, Anna M. O'Brien, Talha Kose, Chelsea M. Rochman, David Sinton

Environmental Science: Nano · 23 Jun 2022

nanoplastics

Nanoplastic State and Fate in Aquatic Environments: Multiscale Modeling

Tiago F. Lins, Anna M. O’Brien, Mohammad Zargartalebi, David Sinton

Environmental Science & Technology · 19 Mar 2022

nanoplastics

Why do sunflowers have invisible colors?

Jason Laurich, Anna M O'Brien

eLife · 21 Jan 2022

adaptation climate opinion

Microplastics shift impacts of climate change on a plant-microbe mutualism: Temperature, CO2, and tire wear particles

Anna M. O'Brien, Tiago F. Lins, Yamin Yang, Megan E. Frederickson, David Sinton, Chelsea M. Rochman

Environmental Research · 01 Jan 2022

microplastics plants and microbes

Microbial effects on plant phenology and fitness

Anna M. O'Brien, Nichole A. Ginnan, María Rebolleda‐Gómez, Maggie R. Wagner

American Journal of Botany · 16 Sep 2021

phenology plants and microbes

Host match improves root microbiome growth

A. M. O’Brien, T. L. Harrison

Nature Microbiology · 18 Aug 2021

opinion

Effects of Hydrogen Peroxide on Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa in the Presence of Nanoplastics

Yawen Guo, Anna M. O’Brien, Tiago F. Lins, René Sahba Shahmohamadloo, Xavier Ortiz Almirall, Chelsea M. Rochman, David Sinton

ACS ES&T Water · 17 Jun 2021

nanoplastics

A Deep Dive into the Complex Chemical Mixture and Toxicity of Tire Wear Particle Leachate in Fathead Minnow

Leah Chibwe, Joanne L. Parrott, Kallie Shires, Hufsa Khan, Stacey Clarence, Christine Lavalle, Cheryl Sullivan, Anna M. O'Brien, Amila O. De Silva, Derek C.G. Muir, Chelsea M. Rochman

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry · 14 Jun 2021

microplastics

Strengthened mutualistic adaptation between teosinte and its rhizosphere biota in cold climates

Anna M. O’Brien, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Jaime Gasca-Pineda, Ivan Baxter, Luis E. Eguiarte, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Sharon Y. Strauss

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · 02 Apr 2021

plant-rhizosphere

Whose trait is it anyways? Coevolution of joint phenotypes and genetic architecture in mutualisms

Anna M. O’Brien, Chandra N. Jack, Maren L. Friesen, Megan E. Frederickson

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · 13 Jan 2021

host-microbiome

Experimental evolution makes microbes more cooperative with their local host genotype

Rebecca T. Batstone, Anna M. O’Brien, Tia L. Harrison, Megan E. Frederickson

Science · 23 Sep 2020

plants and microbes experimental evolution

Mutualistic Outcomes Across Plant Populations, Microbes, and Environments in the Duckweed Lemna minor

Anna M. O’Brien, Jason Laurich, Emma Lash, Megan E. Frederickson

Microbial Ecology · 02 Mar 2020

plants and microbes stress

Biological Responses to Climate Change and Nanoplastics Are Altered in Concert: Full-Factor Screening Reveals Effects of Multiple Stressors on Primary Producers

Yamin Yang, Yawen Guo, Anna M. O’Brien, Tiago F. Lins, Chelsea M. Rochman, David Sinton

Environmental Science & Technology · 27 Jan 2020

nanoplastics

Resilience to multiple stressors in an aquatic plant and its microbiome

Anna M. O'Brien, Zhu Hao Yu, Dian‐ya Luo, Jason Laurich, Elodie Passeport, Megan E. Frederickson

American Journal of Botany · 26 Dec 2019

plants and microbes stress salt

Adaptive phenotypic divergence in an annual grass differs across biotic contexts*

Anna M. O'Brien, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Sharon Y. Strauss, Jeffrey Ross‐Ibarra

Evolution · 07 Aug 2019

plant-rhizosphere microbial influence on traits

Journal

Importance of plant‐ and microbe‐driven metabolic pathways for plant defence

Anna M. O'Brien

Molecular Ecology · 10 Apr 2019

opinion plants and microbes

Evolutionary Responses to Conditionality in Species Interactions across Environmental Gradients

Anna M. O’Brien, Ruairidh J. H. Sawers, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Sharon Y. Strauss

The American Naturalist · 25 Sep 2018

mutualism co-adaptation stress

Candidatus Frankia Datiscae Dg1, the Actinobacterial Microsymbiont of Datisca glomerata, Expresses the Canonical nod Genes nodABC in Symbiosis with Its Host Plant

Tomas Persson, Kai Battenberg, Irina V. Demina, Theoden Vigil-Stenman, Brian Vanden Heuvel, Petar Pujic, Marc T. Facciotti, Elizabeth G. Wilbanks, Anna O'Brien, Pascale Fournier, Maria Antonia Cruz Hernandez, Alberto Mendoza Herrera, Claudine Médigue, Philippe Normand, Katharina Pawlowski, Alison M. Berry

PLOS ONE · 28 May 2015

plants and microbes

Resolving the Genera Aloysia and Acantholippia within tribe Lantaneae (Verbenaceae), using Chloroplast and Nuclear Sequences

Patricia Lu-Irving, Nataly O'Leary, Anna O'Brien, Richard G. Olmstead

Systematic Botany · 01 Jun 2014

Conifer growth and reproduction in urban forest fragments: Predictors of future responses to global change?

Anna M. O’Brien, Ailene K. Ettinger, Janneke HilleRisLambers

Urban Ecosystems · 12 Jul 2012

urban stress

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