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R. Gast

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h-index: 38
Works: 97
Citations: 5,076

Most-cited papers

The Evolutionary History of the Genus Acanthamoeba and the Identification of Eight New 18S rRNA Gene Sequence Types
Diane R. Stothard, J. M. Schroeder-Diedrich, M. Awwad, R. Gast +5 more
1998Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology406 citations Open access
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The coastal environment and human health: microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs
J. R. Stewart, R. Gast, R. Fujioka, H. Solo-Gabriele +9 more
2008Environmental Health290 citations Open access
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Mixotrophy : a widespread and important ecological strategy for planktonic and sea-ice nanoflagellates in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
S. Moorthi, David A. Caron, R. Gast, R. W. Sanders
2009244 citations Open access
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Protistan Diversity Estimates Based on 18S rDNA from Seawater Incubations in the Western North Atlantic 1
P. Countway, R. Gast, Pratik Savai, David A. Caron
2005Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology217 citations
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Marine subsurface eukaryotes: the fungal majority.
V. Edgcomb, D. Beaudoin, R. Gast, J. Biddle +1 more
2011Environmental Microbiology215 citations
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Subgenus Systematics of Acanthamoeba: Four Nuclear 18S rDNA Sequence Types
R. Gast, Dolena R. Ledee, P. Fuerst, T. J. Byers
1996Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology214 citations
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Bacteria in beach sands: an emerging challenge in protecting coastal water quality and bather health
E. Halliday, R. Gast
2010Environmental Science and Technology194 citations Open access
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Defining DNA-Based Operational Taxonomic Units for Microbial-Eukaryote Ecology
D. Caron, P. Countway, Pratik Savai, R. Gast +5 more
2009Applied and Environmental Microbiology190 citations Open access
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Characterization of Protistan Assemblages in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis
R. Gast, M. Dennett, D. Caron
2004Applied and Environmental Microbiology164 citations Open access
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Distinct protistan assemblages characterize the euphotic zone and deep sea (2500 m) of the western North Atlantic (Sargasso Sea and Gulf Stream).
P. Countway, R. Gast, M. Dennett, Pratik Savai +2 more
2007Environmental Microbiology158 citations
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Kleptoplasty in an Antarctic dinoflagellate: caught in evolutionary transition?
R. Gast, Dawn M. Moran, M. Dennett, D. Caron
2007Environmental Microbiology138 citations
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Victims or vectors: a survey of marine vertebrate zoonoses from coastal waters of the Northwest Atlantic
A. Bogomolni, R. Gast, J. Ellis, M. Dennett +3 more
2008Diseases of Aquatic Organisms117 citations Open access
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Development of an Acanthamoeba-specific Reverse Dot-Blot and the Discovery of a New Ribotype
R. Gast
2001Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology116 citations
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Impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the microbial landscape of the New Orleans area
C. Sinigalliano, M. Gidley, T. Shibata, D. Whitman +15 more
2007Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America107 citations Open access
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Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates from planktonic foraminifera and radiolaria.
R. Gast, David A. Caron
1996Molecular biology and evolution107 citations Open access
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Ecological strategies of protists and their symbiotic relationships with prokaryotic microbes.
R. Gast, R. Sanders, D. Caron
2009Trends in Microbiology105 citations
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Sequence variations in small-subunit ribosomal RNAs of Hartmannella vermiformis and their phylogenetic implications.
P. Weekers, R. Gast, P. Fuerst, T. J. Byers
1994Molecular biology and evolution103 citations Open access
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Bacterivory by phototrophic picoplankton and nanoplankton in Arctic waters.
R. Sanders, R. Gast
2012FEMS Microbiology Ecology93 citations Open access
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Investigating Microbial Eukaryotic Diversity from a Global Census: Insights from a Comparison of Pyrotag and Full-Length Sequences of 18S rRNA Genes
Alle A. Y. Lie, Zhen-Feng Liu, Sarah K. Hu, A. Jones +8 more
2014Applied and Environmental Microbiology84 citations Open access
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Lethal marine snow: Pathogen of bivalve mollusc concealed in marine aggregates
M. Lyons, J. E. Ward, Kevin R. Uhlinger, R. Gast +1 more
200582 citations Open access
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Occurrence and patterns of antibiotic resistance in vertebrates off the Northeastern United States coast
J. Rose, R. Gast, A. Bogomolni, J. Ellis +3 more
2009FEMS Microbiology Ecology77 citations Open access
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A kleptoplastidic dinoflagellate and the tipping point between transient and fully integrated plastid endosymbiosis
E. Hehenberger, R. Gast, P. Keeling
2019Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America75 citations Open access
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Comparison of Bacterial Communities in Sands and Water at Beaches with Bacterial Water Quality Violations
E. Halliday, S. McLellan, L. Amaral-Zettler, M. Sogin +1 more
2014PLoS ONE73 citations Open access
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Depth matters: Microbial eukaryote diversity and community structure in the eastern North Pacific revealed through environmental gene libraries
A. Schnetzer, S. Moorthi, P. Countway, R. Gast +2 more
201169 citations
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ABUNDANCE OF A NOVEL DINOFLAGELLATE PHYLOTYPE IN THE ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA 1
R. Gast, Dawn M. Moran, D. Beaudoin, Jonathan N. Blythe +2 more
200665 citations
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Molecular characterization of Giardia intestinalis haplotypes in marine animals: variation and zoonotic potential
E. Lasek-Nesselquist, A. Bogomolni, R. Gast, D. B. Mark Welch +3 more
2008Diseases of Aquatic Organisms64 citations Open access
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Physiological Responses of Three Species of Antarctic Mixotrophic Phytoflagellates to Changes in Light and Dissolved Nutrients
Z. McKie-Krisberg, R. Gast, R. Sanders
2015Microbial Ecology62 citations
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Linking the oceans to public health: current efforts and future directions
H. Kite-Powell, L. Fleming, L. Backer, E. Faustman +5 more
2008Environmental Health62 citations Open access
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Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities
N. Millette, R. Gast, Jessica Y. Luo, H. Moeller +15 more
2023Journal of Plankton Research59 citations Open access
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A Description of Seven Antarctic Marine Gymnamoebae Including a New Subspecies, Two New Species and a New Genus: Neoparamoeba aestuarina antarctica n. subsp., Platyamoeba oblongata n. sp., Platyamoeba contorta n. sp. and Vermistella antarctica n. gen. n. sp.
Dawn M. Moran, O. Anderson, M. Dennett, David A. Caron +1 more
2007Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology53 citations
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Changes in microbial community structure in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
L. Amaral-Zettler, J. Rocca, Michael G. Lamontagne, M. Dennett +1 more
2008Environmental Science and Technology52 citations Open access
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Photosymbiotic associations in planktonic foraminifera and radiolaria
R. Gast, D. Caron
2001Hydrobiologia51 citations
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Estimating Protistan Diversity Using High‐Throughput Sequencing
Sarah K. Hu, Zhen-Feng Liu, Alle A. Y. Lie, P. Countway +7 more
2015Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology50 citations
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Amoebae and Legionella pneumophila in saline environments
R. Gast, Dawn M. Moran, M. Dennett, W. Wurtsbaugh +1 more
2011Journal of Water and Health47 citations Open access
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srDna‐based taxonomic affinities of algal symbionts from a planktonic foraminifer and a solitary radiolarian
R. Gast, Tracey A. McDonnell, David A. Caron
200040 citations
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Extracellular superoxide production by key microbes in the global ocean
K. Sutherland, A. Coe, R. Gast, Sydney Plummer +5 more
2019Limnology and Oceanography39 citations Open access
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Evidence of concurrent local adaptation and high phenotypic plasticity in a polar microeukaryote.
Karin Rengefors, R. Logares, J. Laybourn-Parry, R. Gast
2015Environmental Microbiology39 citations Open access
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NUCLEAR SMALL-SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE-BASED CHARACTERIZATION, MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY AND PCR DETECTION OF THE NEOPARAMOEBA FROM WESTERN LONG ISLAND SOUND LOBSTER
T. Mullen, Kathleen R. Nevis, C. O'Kelly, R. Gast +1 more
200539 citations Open access
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Microheterogeneity and Coevolution: An Examination of rDNA Sequence Characteristics in Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis and Its Prokinetoplastid Endosymbiont
Charles G. B. Caraguel, C. O'Kelly, P. Legendre, S. Frasca +4 more
2007Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology34 citations
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Impact of erosion and accretion on the distribution of enterococci in beach sands
R. Gast, L. Gorrell, B. Raubenheimer, S. Elgar
2011Continental Shelf Research33 citations Open access
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Antarctic mixotrophic protist abundances by microscopy and molecular methods.
R. Gast, Z. McKie-Krisberg, Scott A. Fay, J. Rose +1 more
2014FEMS Microbiology Ecology32 citations
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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE HETEROTROPHIC CHRYSOPHYTE GENUS PARAPHYSOMONAS (CHRYSOPHYCEAE), AND THE DESIGN OF rRNA‐TARGETED OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES FOR TWO SPECIES
David A. Caron, E. Lim, M. Dennett, R. Gast +2 more
199931 citations
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Protistan community structure: molecular approaches for answering ecological questions
David A. Caron, R. Gast, E. Lim, M. Dennett
1999Hydrobiologia31 citations
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Effects of temperature on growth rate and gross growth efficiency of an Antarctic bacterivorous protist
J. Rose, Neil M. Vora, P. Countway, R. Gast +1 more
2009The ISME Journal30 citations
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Heterotrophic Protists Associated with Sea Ice
D. Caron, R. Gast
201029 citations
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Selective feeding and foreign plastid retention in an Antarctic dinoflagellate
C. Sellers, R. Gast, R. Sanders
2014Journal of Phycology28 citations
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Environmental distribution and persistence of Quahog Parasite Unknown (QPX).
R. Gast, Dawn M. Moran, C. Audemard, M. Lyons +4 more
2008Diseases of Aquatic Organisms28 citations Open access
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Mixotrophic Activity and Diversity of Antarctic Marine Protists in Austral Summer
R. Gast, Scott A. Fay, R. Sanders
2018Frontiers in Marine Science25 citations Open access
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The genome of an endosymbiotic methanogen is very similar to those of its free‐living relatives
R. Beinart, Johana Rotterová, Ivan Čepička, R. Gast +1 more
2018Environmental Microbiology25 citations
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Parasitic infections by Group II Syndiniales target selected dinoflagellate host populations within diverse protist assemblages in a model coastal pond.
Taylor R. Sehein, R. Gast, M. Pachiadaki, L. Guillou +1 more
2022Environmental Microbiology24 citations
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