Publications

  • McLain, Nathan, Lorenzo Camargo, Christine R. Whitcraft and Jesse G. Dillon. 2020. Metrics for evaluating inundation impacts on the decomposer communities in a Southern California coastal salt marsh. Wetlands 40: 2443-2459. doi: 10.1007/s13157-020-01361-x.
  • Hernandez, Rebecca, Ismael Acedo, and Jesse Dillon. 2020. Impact of wave action and rainfall on incidence and antibiotic resistance of total coliforms in southern California beaches. Journal of Water & Health 18.5: 766-775. doi: 10.2166/wh.2020.100.
  • Ziegler, Alexander, Ariel Gilligan, Jesse Dillon, Bruno Pernet. 2020. Schizasterid heart urchins host microorganisms in an ancient digestive symbiosis. Frontiers in Microbiology (Microbial Symbioses Specialty Section). 11: epub. doi: 0.3389/fmicb.2020.01697.
  • Rodela, Meghan, Shereen Sabet, Allison Peterson, and Jesse Dillon. 2019. Broad environmental tolerance for a Salicola host-phage pair isolated from the Cargill Solar Saltworks, Newark, CA, USA. Microorganisms. 7. epub 106; doi: 10.3390/microorganisms7040106.
  • Miranda, Priscilla, Nathan McLain, Roland Hatzenpichler, Victoria J. Orphan, and Jesse G. Dillon. 2016. Evidence for coupled sulfur cycling in chemosynthetic microbial mats associated with intertidal hydrothermal sulfur vents in Palos Verdes Peninsula, San Pedro, CA, USA. Frontiers in Microbiology (Microbiological Chemistry and Geomicrobiology Specialty Section). 7. epub. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01163. PMC4961709.
  • Dawson, Katherine S., Silvan Scheller, Jesse G. Dillon, Victoria J. Orphan. 2016. Stable isotope phenotyping via cluster analysis of NanoSIMS data as a method for characterizing distinct microbial ecophysiologies and sulfur-cycling in the environment. Frontiers in Microbiology (Microbiological Chemistry and Geomicrobiology Specialty Section). 7. epub. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00774. PMC4881376.
  • Jackson, Karen, Christine Whitcraft and Jesse Dillon. 2014. Diversity of Desulfobacteriaceae and overall activity of sulfate-reducing microorganisms in and around a salt pan in a southern California coastal wetland. Wetlands. 24: 969-977.
  • Darjany, Lindsay, Christine Whitcraft and Jesse Dillon. 2014. Lignocellulose-responsive bacteria in a southern California salt marsh identified by stable isotope probing. Frontiers in Microbiology (Aquatic Microbiology) 5. epub. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00263.
  • Dillon, Jesse, Mark Carlin, Abraham Gutierrez, Vivian Nguyen & Nathan McLain. 2013. Patterns of microbial diversity along a salinity gradient in the Guerrero Negro solar saltern, Baja CA Sur, Mexico. Frontiers in Microbiology (Extreme Microbiology) 4. epub. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00399.
  • Dillon, Jesse. 2011. The role of sulfate reduction in stromatolites and microbial mats: ancient and modern perspectives. In Stromatolites. J. Seckbach & V. Tewari (Eds.). Springer, Berlin.
  • Dillon, Jesse, Lisa McMath, & Amber Trout. 2009. Seasonal changes in bacterial diversity in the Salton Sea. Hydrobiologia 632:49-64.
  • Shereen Sabet, Lamine Diallo, Woosung Jung, Lauren Hays, & Jesse Dillon. 2009. Characterization of halophiles isolated from solar salterns in Baja California, Mexico. Extremophiles 13: 643-656.
  • Dillon, Jesse G., Scott R. Miller, Brad M. Bebout, Meredith Hullar, Nicolas Pinel & David A. Stahl. 2009. Spatial and Temporal Variability in a Stratified Hypersaline Microbial Mat Community. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 68: 46-58.
  • Dillon, Jesse G., Susan Fishbain, Scott R. Miller, Brad M. Bebout, Kirsten S. Habicht, Samuel M. Webb, & David A. Stahl. 2007. High rates of sulfate reduction in a low sulfate hot spring microbial mat are driven by a low level of diversity of sulfate-respiring microorganisms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73: 5218-5226.
  • Dillon, Jesse G., Scott R. Miller and Richard W. Castenholz. 2003. UV-acclimation response in natural populations of cyanobacteria (Calothrix sp.). Environmental Microbiology. 5:473-483.
  • Dillon, Jesse G. and Richard W. Castenholz. 2003. The synthesis of the UV-screening pigment, scytonemin, and photosynthetic performance in isolates from closely related natural populations of cyanobacteria (Calothrix sp.). Environmental Microbiology. 5:484-491.
  • Fishbain, S., J.G. Dillon, H.L. Gough and D.A. Stahl. 2003. Linkage of high rates of sulfate reduction in Yellowstone hot springs to unique sequence types in the dissimilatory sulfate respiration pathway. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 3663-3667.
  • Dhillon, Ashita, Andreas Teske, Jesse Dillon, David Stahl and Mitchell Sogin. 2003. Molecular characterization of sulfate reducing bacteria in the Guaymas basin. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 2765-2772.
  • Dillon, Jesse G., Cecilia M. Tatsumi, Patrick G. Tandingan and Richard W. Castenholz. 2002. Effect of environmental factors on the synthesis of scytonemin, a UV screening pigment, in cyanobacteria (Chroococcidiopsis sp.). Archives of Microbiology. 177: 322-331
  • Dillon, Jesse G. and Richard W. Castenholz. 1999. Scytonemin, a cyanobacterial sheath pigment, protects against UVC radiation: Implications for early photosynthetic life. Journal of Phycology 35: 673-681
  • Dillon, Jesse. and Annick Wilmotte. 1999. Cyanobacterial sequences retrieved directly from the Great Sippewissett Salt Marsh, MA, USA. in Marine Cyanobacteria. Charpy, L. and A.W.D. Larkum (Eds.) Bulletin de l’Institut Océanographique, Monaco. 47-51