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10) Breyer E., C. Stix, S. Kilker, B.R.K Roller, F. Panagou, C. Doebke, C. Amano, G. Coll Garcia, B. Mähnert, J. Dachs, M. Villa-Costa, M.C. Sobrino Garcia, A. Fuentes Lema, F. Berthiller, M.F. Polz, F. Baltar. Pelagic fungi are relevant contributors to biomass in the ocean. Cell, 188: 3992-4002 (2025). Full text access.
9) Keegstra J.M., Z.C. Landry, S.T. Zweifel, B.R.K. Roller, F. Carrara, C. Martínez-Pérez, E.E. Clerc, M. Ackermann, R. Stocker. Risk-reward trade-off in motility endurance generates dichotomy in search strategies among copiotrophic marine bacteria. Nature Microbiology, 10: 1393-1403 (2025). Full text access.
8) T.P Miettinen, A.L. Gomez, Y. Wu, W. Wu, T.R. Usherwood, Y. Hwang, B.R.K. Roller, M.F. Polz, S.R. Manalis. Cell size, density, and nutrient dependency of unicellular algal gravitational sinking velocities. Science Advances, 10(27): eadn8356. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adn8356. Full text access.
7) T. Schmider, A.G. Hestnes, J. Brzykcy, H. Schmidt, A. Schintlmeister, B.R.K. Roller, E.J. Teran, A. Söllinger, O. Schmidt, M.F. Polz, A. Richter, M.M. Svenning, A.T. Tveit. Physiological basis for atmospheric methane oxidation and methanotrophic growth on air. Nature Communications, 15(1): 4151, (2024). doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48197-1. Full text access.
6) B.R.K Roller, C. Hellerschmied, Y. Wu, T.P. Miettinen, A.L. Gomez, S.R. Manalis, M.F. Polz. Single-cell mass distributions reveal simple rules for achieving steady-state growth. mBio, 14(5): e01585-23 (2023). doi: 10.1128/mbio.01585-23. Full text access.
5) Schwartzman J.A., A. Ebrahimi, G. Chadwick, Y. Sato, B.R.K. Roller, V.J. Orphan, O.X. Cordero. Bacterial growth in multicellular aggregates leads to the emergence of complex life cycles. Current Biology, 32: 3059-3069, (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.011. Full text access.
4) Courcol J.-D., C.F. Invernizzi, Z.C. Landry, M. Minisini, D.A. Baumgartner, S. Bonhoeffer, B. Chabriw, E.E. Clerc, M. Daniels, P. Getta, M. Girod, K. Kazala, H. Markram, A. Pasqualini, C. Martínez-Pérez, F.J. Peaudecerf, M.S. Peaudecerf, U. Pfreundt, B.R.K. Roller, J. Słomka, M. Vasse, J.D. Wheeler, C.M.J.A. Metzger, R. Stocker and F. Schürmann. ARC: An Open Web-Platform for Request/Supply Matching for a Prioritized and Controlled COVID-19 Response. Frontiers in Public Health, 9: 607677, (2021). doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.607677. Full text access.
3) Roller, B.R.K., S.F. Stoddard, and T.M. Schmidt. Exploiting rRNA operon copy number to investigate bacterial reproductive strategies. Nature Microbiology, 1, 16160 (2016). doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.160. Full text access.
2) Roller, B.R.K. and T.M. Schmidt. The physiology and ecological implications of efficient growth. The ISME Journal, 9: 1481-1487, (2015). doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.235. Full text access.
1) Stoddard, S.F., B.J. Smith, R. Hein, B.R.K. Roller, and T.M. Schmidt. rrnDB: improved tools for interpreting rRNA gene abundance in Bacteria and Archaea and a new foundation for future development. Nucleic Acids Research (2014) 43(D1): D593-D598, doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1201. Full text access.
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1 Wu, Y.†, Roller, B.R.K†, C. Hellerschmied, A. Sichert, A.L. Gomez, N. Bartlau, J. Séneca, E. Danilyan, M. Wolfram, M. Mußmann, T.P. Miettinen, M.F. Polz*, & S.R. Manalis*. Single-cell mass accumulation reveals bacterioplankton growth rate in native seawater. bioRxiv. In review, submitted August 2025. Full text access.
†co-first authors, equal contribution to this work.
*co-corresponding authors.
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Nelson, M.B., A.B. Chase, J.B.H. Martiny, R. Stocker, J. Nguyen, K. Lloyd, R.T. Oshiro, D.B. Kearns, J.P. Schneider, P.D. Ringel, M. Basler, C.A. Olson, H.E. Vuong, E.Y. Hsiao, B.R.K. Roller, M. Ackermann, C. Smillie, D. Chien, E. Alm, and A.J. Jermy. The Microbial Olympics 2016. Nature Microbiology, 1, 16122 (2016). doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.122
Roller, B.R.K., Z.M. Lee, K.E. Studer-Rabeler, T.M. Schmidt. Measuring the aerobic respiration of complex microbial communities. Application note. PreSens Precision Sensing GmbH, Regensburg, Germany 2011.
Benjamin R.K. Roller 