Speare Lab
Marine Microbial Ecology
2025
RL Vega Thurber, D Silva, L Speare, A Croquer, AJ Veglia, L Alvarez-Filip, JR Zaneveld, EM Muller, and AMS Correa. Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience. Annual Reviews of Marine Science (Accepted; available in 2025)
2022
L Speare and DL Distel. Cultivation and fluorescent in situ hybridization suggest that some shipworm species acquire endosymbiotic bacteria through indirect horizontal transmission. bioRxiv (2022)
L Speare, A Jackson, and AN Septer. Calcium promotes Vibrio fischeri type VI secretion system activity in a low-viscosity liquid environment. Microbiology Spectrum (2022)
AM Suria, S Smith, L Speare, Y Che, I Chien‡, EG Clark‡, M Kruger‡, AM Warwick‡, H Wilkins‡, AN Septer. Prevalence of Type VI secretion Systems in a Model Beneficial Symbiosis. Frontiers Microbiology. (2022)
L Speare, M Woo‡, AK Dunn, and AN Septer. A putative lipoprotein mediates cell-cell contact for type VI secretion system-dependent killing of specific competitors. mBio. (2022)
2021
L Speare, M Woo‡, KM Bultman, MJ Mandel, MS Wollenberg, and AN Septer. Host-like conditions are required for T6SS-mediated competition among Vibrio fischeri light organ symbionts. mSphere. (2021)
CN Dial, L Speare, GC Sharpe, AN Septer, and KL Visick. Para-aminobenzoic acid, calcium, and c-di-GMP induce formation of cohesive, Syp-polysaccharide-dependent biofilms in Vibrio fischeri. mBio. (2021)
2020
L Speare, S Smith, F Salvato, M Kleiner, and AN Septer. Environmental viscosity modulates interbacterial killing during habitat transition. mBio. (2020)
L Speare, SW Davies, JP Balmonte, J Baumann, and KD Castillo. Patterns of environmental variability influence coral-associated bacterial and algal communities on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Molecular Ecology. (2020)
AN Septer, L Speare, C Coleman, S Smith, C Dorsey, T Wilson, and SM Gifford. Draft genome sequence of a Harveyi clade bacterium isolated from Lolliguncula brevis squid. Microbiology Resource Announcements. (2020)