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Mohamed, N. M., A. S. Colman, Y. Tal, and R. T. Hill. 2008. Diversity and expression of nitrogen fixation genes in bacterial symbionts of marine sponges. Environ. Microbiol.10:2910-2921.

Na, M., D. A. F. Meujo, D. Kevin, M. T. Hamann, M. Anderson, and R. T. Hill. 2008. A new antimalarial polyether from a marine Streptomyces sp. H668. Tetrahedron Lett. 49:6282-6285.

Mohamed, N. M., V. Rao, M. T. Hamann, M. Kelly and R. T. Hill. 2008. Monitoring bacterial diversity and metabolite production of the marine sponge Ircinia strobilina on transfer into aquaculture. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:4133-4143.

Mohamed, N. M., J. J. Enticknap, J. E. Lohr, S. M. McIntosh, and R. T. Hill. 2008. Changes in bacterial communities of the marine sponge Mycale laxissima on transfer into aquaculture. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:1209-1222.

Lampert, Y., D. Kelman, Y. Nitzan, Z. Dubinsky, A. Behar and R. T. Hill. 2008. Phylogenetic diversity of bacteria associated with the mucus of Red Sea corals. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 64:187-198.

Hilyard, E. J., J. M. Jones-Meehan, B. J. Spargo and R. T. Hill. 2008. Enrichment, isolation and phylogenetic identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria from Elizabeth River sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:1176-1182.

Ries, J. B., M. A. Anderson and R. T. Hill. 2008. Seawater Mg/Ca influences polymorph mineralogy of microbial CaCO3: A proxy for calcite-aragonite seas in Precambrian time. Geobiol. 6:106-119.

Mohamed, N. M., E. M. Cicirelli, J. Kan, F. Chen, C. Fuqua and R. T. Hill. 2007. Diversity and quorum sensing signal production of Proteobacteria associated with marine sponges. Environ. Microbiol. 10:75-86.

Hamann, M. T., S. Roggo and R. T. Hill. 2007. Marine natural products. Key advances to the practical application of this resource in drug development. Chimia 61:313-321.

Taylor, M., R. T. Hill, J. Piel, R. W. Thacker and U. Hentschel. 2007. Soaking it up: The complex lives of marine sponges and their microbial associates. ISME J. 1:187-190.

Lampert, Y., D. Kelman, Z. Dubinsky, Y. Nitzan, and R. T. Hill. 2006. Diversity of culturable bacteria in the mucus of the Red Sea coral Fungia scutaria. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 58:99-108.

Enticknap, J. J., A. Place and R. T. Hill. 2006. Microbial diversity associated with odor modification for production of fertilizers from chicken litter. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:4105-4114.

Newman, D. J and R. T. Hill. 2006. New drugs from marine microbes: The tide is turning. J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 33: 539 - 544.

Enticknap, J. J., M. Kelly Shanks, O. Peraud, and R. T. Hill. 2006. Characterization of a culturable alphaproteobacterial symbiont common to many marine sponges and evidence for vertical transmission through the germline. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:3724-3732.

Montalvo, N. F., N. M. Mohamed, J. J. Enticknap and R. T. Hill. 2005. Novel actinobacteria from marine sponges. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 87:29-36. Special volume on marine actinomycetes.

Lohr, J. E., F. Chen and R. T. Hill. 2005. Genomic analysis of bacteriophage FJL001: Insights into its interaction with a sponge-associated alpha-proteobacterium. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71:1598-1609.

Enticknap, J. J., R. Thompson, O. Peraud, J. E. Lohr, M. T. Hamann and R. T. Hill. 2004. Molecular analysis of a Florida Keys sponge: Implications for natural products discovery. Mar. Biotechnol. 6:S288-293.

Kasanah, N., K. V. Rao, M. Yousaf, D. E. Wedge, R. T. Hill, and M. T. Hamann. 2004. Biotransformation studies of the manzamine alkaloid. Mar. Biotechnol. 6: S268-S272.

Kishore, P. H., M. Yousaf, K. V. Rao, M. Kelly, R. T. Hill, S. G. Franzblau and M. T. Hamann. 2004. Solving limited supplies of marine pharmaceuticals through the rational and high-throughput modification of high-yielding marine natural product scaffolds. Mar. Biotechnol. 6:S273-280.

Domart-Coulon, I., C. S. Sinclair, R. T. Hill, S. Tambutté, S. Puverel, G. K. Ostrander. 2004. A basidiomycete fungus isolated from the skeleton of healthy Pocillopora damicornis hard coral selectively stimulates the short-term survival of coral skeletogenic cells. Mar. Biol. 144:583-592.

Tramper, J., C. Battershill, W. Brandenburg, G. Burgess, R. Hill, E. Luiten, W. Müller, R. Osinga, G. Rorrer, M. Tredici, M. Uriz, P. Wright, R. Wijffels, R. 2003. "What to do in Marine Biotechnology?" Biomol. Eng. 20: 467-471.

Peng, J., J. Hu, A. B. Kazi, Z. Li, M. Avery, O. Peraud, R. T. Hill, S. G. Franzblau, F. Zhang, R.F. Schinazi, S. S. Wirtz, P. Tharnish, M. Kelly, S. Wahyuono and M. T. Hamann. 2003. Manadomanzamines A and B, a novel alkaloid ring system with potent activity against mycobacteria and HIV-1. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125:13382-13386.

Enticknap, J.J., O. Peraud, J. E. Lohr, M. T. Hamann and R. T Hill. 2003.

The diversity of microbes associated with sponges: New approaches to an old mystery. Integ. Comp. Biol. 43:1069-1069.

Johnson, J. E. and R. T. Hill. 2003. Sediment microbes of deep-sea bioherms on the northwest shelf of Australia. Microb. Ecol. 46:55-61.

Webster, N. S., A. P. Negri, R. I. Webb and R. T. Hill. 2002. A spongin-boring α-proteobacterium is the etiological agent of disease in the Great Barrier Reef sponge, Rhopaloeides odorabile. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 323:305-309.

Yousaf, M., K. A. El Sayed, K. V. Rao, C. W. Lim, M. Kelly, S. G. Franzblau, F. Zhang O. Peraud, R. T. Hill and M. T. Hamann. 2002. 12,34-Oxamanzamines, novel biocatalytic and natural products from manzamine producing Indo-Pacific sponges. Tetrahedron 58:7397-7402.

Rogers, E. J., M. S. Rahman, R. T. Hill and P. S. Lovett. 2002. The chloramphenicol inducible catB gene in Agrobacterium tumefaciens is regulated by attenuation. J. Bacteriol. 184:4296-4300.

Ramaiah, N., J. Ravel, W. L. Straube, R. T. Hill and R. R. Colwell. 2002. Entry of Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio fischeri into the viable but nonculturable state. J. Appl. Microbiol. 92:1-9.

Webster, N. S. and R. T. Hill. 2001. The culturable microbial community of the Great Barrier Reef sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile is dominated by an a-Proteobacterium. Mar. Biol. 138:843-851.

Webster, N. S., K. J. Wilson, L. L. Blackall, and R. T. Hill. 2001. Phylogenetic diversity of bacteria associated with the marine sponge, Rhopaloeides odorabile. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.67:434-444.

Webster, N. S., J. E. M. Watts and R. T. Hill. 2001. Detection and phylogenetic analysis of novel crenarchaeote and euryarchaeote sequences from a Great Barrier Reef sponge. Mar. Biotechnol. 3:600-608.

Amoroso, M. J., G. R. Castro, A. Durán, O. Peraud, G. Olivier, and R. T. Hill. 2001. Chromium accumulation by two Streptomyces spp. isolated from riverine sediments. J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 26: 210-215.

Webster N. S. and R. T. Hill. 2001. Marine Microbial Metropolis. Life Science 13:40-44.

Burja, A. M. and R. T. Hill. 2001. Microbial symbionts of the Australian Great Barrier Reef sponge, Candidaspongia flabellata. Hydrobiologia 461:41-47.

Webster, N. S., R. I. Webb, M. J. Ridd, R. T. Hill, and A. P. Negri. 2001. The effects of copper on the microbial community of a coral reef sponge. Environ. Microbiol. 3:19-31.

Negri, A. P., N. S Webster, R. T. Hill and A. J. Heyward. 2001. Metamorphosis of broadcast spawning corals in response to bacteria isolated from crustose algae. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 223: 121-131.

Baer, M. L., J. Ravel, J. Chun, R. T. Hill, and H. N. Williams. 2000. A proposal for the re-classification of Bdellovibrio stolpii and Bdellovibrio starrii into a new genus, Bacteriovorax gen. nov. as Bacteriovorax stolpii and Bacteriovorax starrii. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50:219-224.

Ravel, J., E. M. H. Wellington, and R. T. Hill. 2000. Interspecific transfer of Streptomyces giant linear plasmids in sterile amended soil microcosms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66: 529-534.

Ramaiah, N., R. T. Hill, J. Chun, J. Ravel, W. L. Straube, and R. R. Colwell. 2000. Use of a chiA probe for detection of chitinase genes in bacteria from the Chesapeake Bay. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 34:63-71.

Ramaiah, N., J. Chun, J. Ravel, W. L. Straube, R. T. Hill, and R. R. Colwell. 2000. Detection of luciferase gene sequences in non-luminous bacteria from the Chesapeake Bay. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 33:27-34.

Ravel, J., J. DiRuggiero, F. T. Robb, and R. T. Hill. 2000. Cloning and sequence analysis of the mercury resistance operon of Streptomyces sp. strain CHR28 reveals a novel putative second regulatory element. J. Bacteriol. 182:2345-2349.

Ramsay, M. A., R. P. J. Swannell, W. A. Shipton, N. C. Duke, and R. T. Hill. 2000. Effect of bioremediation on the microbial community in oiled mangrove sediments. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 41:413-419.

Wommack, K. E., J. Ravel, R. T. Hill, J. Chun, and R. R. Colwell. 1999. Population dynamics of Chesapeake Bay virioplankton: total-community analysis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:231-240.

Wommack, K. E., J. Ravel, R. T. Hill, and R. R. Colwell. 1999. Hybridization analysis of Chesapeake Bay virioplankton. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:241-250.

Burja, A. M., N. S. Webster, P. T. Murphy, and R. T. Hill. 1999. Microbial symbionts of Great Barrier Reef sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 44:63-75.

Amoroso, M. J., G. R. Castro, F. J. Carlino, N. C. Romero, R. T. Hill, and G. Oliver. 1998. Screening of heavy metal-tolerant actinomycetes isolated from the Sali River. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 44:129-132.

Boccuzzi, V. M., W. L. Straube, J. Ravel, R. R. Colwell, and R. T. Hill. 1998. Preparation of DNA extracted from environmental water samples for PCR amplification. J. Microbiol. Methods. 31:193-199.

Ravel, J., M. J. Amoroso, R. R. Colwell, and R. T. Hill. 1998. Mercury-resistant actinomycetes from the Chesapeake Bay. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 162:177-184.

Ravel, J., H. Schrempf, and R. T. Hill. 1998. Mercury resistance is encoded by transferrable giant linear plasmids in two Chesapeake Bay Streptomyces strains. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:3383-3388.

Hill, R. T., W. L. Straube, A. C. Palmisano, and R. R. Colwell. 1996. Distribution of sewage indicated by Clostridium perfringens at a deep water dumpsite after cessation of sewage disposal. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:1741-1746.

Wright, A. C., R. T. Hill, J. A. Johnson, R. R. Colwell, and J. G. Morris, Jr. 1996. Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus in the Chesapeake Bay. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:717-724.

Wommack, K. E., T. Muller, R. T. Hill, and R. R. Colwell. 1996. Effect of sunlight on bacteriophage viability and structure. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:1336-1341.

Ravel, J., I. T. Knight, C. E. Monahan, R. T. Hill, and R. R. Colwell. 1995. Temperature induced recovery of Vibrio cholerae from the viable but nonculturable state: growth or resuscitation? J. Gen. Microbiol. 141:377-383.

Wommack, K. E., R. T. Hill and R. R. Colwell. 1995. A simple method for the concentration of viruses from natural water samples. J. Microbiol. Meth. 22:57-67.

Shiba, T., R. T. Hill, W. L. Straube, and R. R. Colwell. 1995. Decrease in culturability of Vibrio cholerae caused by glucose. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:2583-2588.

Bothner, M. H., H. Takada, I. T. Knight, R. T. Hill, B. Butman, J. W. Farrington, R. R. Colwell, and J. F. Grassle. 1994. Indicators of sewage contamination in sediments beneath a deep-ocean dumpsite off New York. Mar. Environ. Res. 38:43-59.

Chowdury, M. A. R., R. T. Hill, and R. R. Colwell. 1994. Zonula occludens toxin: An enterotoxin gene present in Vibrio mimicus and Vibrio cholerae O139. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 119:377-380.

Ravel, J., R. T. Hill, and R. R. Colwell. 1994. Isolation of a Vibrio cholerae transposon mutant with an altered viable but nonculturable response. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 120:57-62.

Hill, R. T., I. T. Knight, M. Anikis, and R. R. Colwell. 1993. Benthic distribution of sewage sludge indicated by Clostridium perfringens at a deep-ocean dumpsite. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59:47-51.

Takizawa, M., R. R. Colwell, and R. T. Hill. 1993. Isolation and diversity of actinomycetes in the Chesapeake Bay. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59:997-1002.

Takizawa, M., W. L. Straube, R. T. Hill, and R. R. Colwell. 1993. Near-bottom pelagic bacteria at a deep-water sewage sludge disposal site. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59:3406-3410.

Wommack, K. E., R. T. Hill, M. Kessel, E. Russek-Cohen, and R. R. Colwell. 1992. Distribution of viruses in the Chesapeake Bay. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58:2965-2970.

Robb, F. T., A. R. Place, and R. T. Hill. 1990. Unusual bacterial flora in Leach's Storm Petrel, Oceanodroma luecorhoa. MDIBL Bulletin 29: 147-148.

Hill, R. T., J. R. Parker, H, J. K. Goodman, D. T. Jones, and D. R. Woods. 1989. Molecular analysis of a novel glutamine synthetase of the anaerobe Bacteroides fragilis. J. Gen. Microbiol. 135: 3271-3279.

Hill, R. T., S. Hart, N. Illing, R. Kirby, and D. R. Woods. 1989. Cloning and expression of Rhodococcus genes encoding pigment production in Escherichia coli. J. Gen. Microbiol. 135: 1507-1513.

Hill, R. T., N. Illing, R. Kirby and D. R. Woods. 1989. Development of pLR591, a Streptomyces-Escherichia coli positive selection shuttle vector. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 57: 223-226.

Illing, N., R. T. Hill, and D. R. Woods. 1988. Purification and characterization of glutamine synthetase from Nocardia corallina. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 54: 497-507.

BOOKS, CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

Lampert, Y., D. Kelman, Z. Dubinsky, Y. Nitzan and R. T. Hill. 2008. The biodiversity of coral-associated bacteria of the Gulf of Eilat. In "Aqaba-Eilat, the Improbable Gulf. Environment, Biodiversity and Preservation". F. D. Por (Ed). Magnes Press. In press.

Webster, N. S. and R. T. Hill. 2007. Vulnerability of marine microbes on the Great Barrier Reef to climate change. In "Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef. A Vulnerability Assessment". J. E. Johnson and P. A. Marshall (Eds). Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Australian Greenhouse Office, Australia.

Hill, R. T. 2006. Report on "Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology – 2006 Annual Meeting". IDrugs 9(10): 690-692.

Hill, R. T. 2004. Microbes from marine sponges: A treasure trove of biodiversity for natural products discovery. In "Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting" ed A. T. Bull. ASM Press. Washington D.C. pp. 177-190.

Hu, J-F., M. T. Hamann, R. T. Hill and M. Kelly. 2003. The manzamine alkaloids. In "The Alkaloids" Vol. 60, ed. G. A. Cordell. Elsevier (USA). pp. 207-285.

Hill, R. T., O. Peraud, J. J. Enticknap and M. T. Hamann. 2002. Molecular analysis of the microbial communities associated with marine sponges: Importance for natural products discovery. Proceedings of the 2002 International Meeting of the Federation of Korean Microbiological Societies. Microbial Diversity and Evolution. Millennium Town, Chungcheongbuk-do. Pp 67-71.

Hill, R. T. 2002. Marine Natural Products Biotechnology. In "Biotechnology" (Ed. Horst W.Doelle) in The Encylopedia of Life Support Systems. EOLSS Publishers Co. Ltd. Oxford, UK.

Robb, F. T. and R. T. Hill. 2000. Bacterial viruses and hosts: influence of culturable state. In R. R. Colwell and D. Jay Grimes (Eds.) Nonculturable microorganisms in the environment. Pp. 199-208. American Society for Microbiology Press. Washington, DC.

R. T. Hill and P. Murphy. 1998. Drugs from the sea (L'océan pharmacien). In French. Biofutur 179: 34-37.

Bourne, D., E. Abou-Mansour, R. T. Hill, and P. Murphy. 1998. Dereplication and profiling of marine bacteria by fatty acid analysis of crude extracts using Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry. In New Developments in Marine Biotechnology, eds. Y. Le Gal and H. O. Halvorson. Pp 65-69. Plenum. New York.

Kurtböke, D.I, L. Evans-Illidge, P. Holloway, R. Hill, T. Lewis, C. A. Mancuso, T. McMeekin, K. Sanderson, and H. G. Wildman. 1998. Accessing Australian diversity for pharmaceutical purposes: towards an improved detection of actinomycetes. Proceedings of the Biotechnology, Biodiversity and Biobusiness Conference, Perth, Western Australia, November 1998, pp: 46-52.

Colwell, R. R., W. L. Straube, R. T. Hill, J. DiRuggiero, and F. Robb. 1995. Molecular approaches to assessment of pollution in the deep sea. Proceedings of the International Summer Seminar on Deep-sea Microorganisms of the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center. Deepstar Group, JAMSTEC. Tokyo.

Colwell, R. R. and R. T. Hill. 1995. Marine biotechnology. In Concepts in Biotechnology, eds. D. Balasubramanian, C. F. A. Bryce, K. Dharmalingam, J. Green and K. Jayaraman. COSTED-IBN Universities Press, Hyderabad, India.

Zilinskas, R. A., R. R. Colwell, D. W. Lipton, and R. T. Hill. 1995. The Global Challenge of Marine Biotechnology. Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, MD.

Colwell, R. R. and R. T. Hill. 1994. Marine biotechnology applications in the coastal oceans. In Coastal Ocean Space Utilization III, eds. N. D. Croce, S. Connell, and R. Abel. Pp 437-454. Chapman and Hall, London.

Chowdhury, M. A. R., J. Ravel, R. T. Hill, A. Huq, and R. R. Colwell. 1994. Physiology and molecular genetics of viable but non-culturable microorganisms. In Biotechnology Risk Assessment: USEPA/USDA Environment Canada, eds. M. Levin, C. Grim, and J. Scott Angle. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

Colwell, R. R. and R. T. Hill. 1993. Microbial Diversity. In Peterson, M. N. A., Ed. Diversity of Ocean Life and Evaluative Review. CSIS Significant Issues Series, vol XIV, no. 12. Center for Strategic and International Studies. Washington, DC.

Colwell, R. R., R. T. Hill, I. T. Knight, W. Straube, M. Takizawa, and M. S. Anikis. 1993. Microbiological effects of dumping domestic wastes in the deep ocean. In Trends in Microbial Ecology. Eds. R. Guerrero and C. Pedros-Alio. Published by Spanish Society for Microbiology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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