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Unpublished Preprints
Almela, P., Hotaling, S., Giersch, J., Elser, J.J., Hamilton#, T.L. (2024) Influence of sub-surface snow algae blooms on albedo reduction. The Cryosphere. Preprint available at EGUSphere: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2379
Miller, J.B., Frisbee, M.D., Hamilton, T.L., Liljedahl, A.K. Groundwater provides temporary resilience to alpine catchments in glacial retreat. Preprint available at Research Square.
2024
Almela, P., Elser, J.J., Giersch, J., Hotaling, S., Rebbeck, V., Hamilton#, T.L. (2024) Laboratory assessments suggests limited impact of increased nitrogen deposition on snow algae blooms. 16:e70052. Environmental Microbiology Reports. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70052) Preprint available at bioRxiv: https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.07.24.604882v1
Teece, B.L., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L., Barge, L.M. (2024) Geochemical context for hydrothermal organic molecules in terrestrial Mars analog samples. Nature Astronomy. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02435-0)
Preston, D.L., Hotaling, S., Errigo, I., Frandsen, P., Price, T.L., Hamilton, T.L., Anderson, K., Yevak, S., Morse, J. (2024) Alpine stream community structure of glacial, snowmelt, lake outlet, and mixed water source sites in a headwater catchment of the Southern Rocky Mountains. Aquatic Sciences. 87:13. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-024-01134-2)(link)
Boulesteix, D., Buch A., Williams, A.J., Kivrak, L.L., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L., Teece, B.L., He, Y., Freissinet, C., Szopa, C. (2024) Environmental analogs from yellowstone hot springs on geochemical and microbial diversity with implications for the search for life on Mars. Planetary and Space Science. 250: 105953. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2024.105953)(link)
Nersezova, E.E., Rowe, M.C., Campbell, K.A., Langendam, A., Tollemache, C., Lyon, A., Galar, A., Guido, D.M., Teece, B.L., Hamilton, T.L., Galligan, N. (2024) Trace metal and organic biosignatures in digitate stromatolites from terrestrial siliceous hot spring deposits: Implications for the exploration of martian life. Chemical Geology. 661: 122194. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122194)(link)
Grettenberger, C.L., Abou-Shanab, R.A.I., Hamilton#, T.L. (2024) Limiting factors in the operation of photosystem I and II in cyanobacteria. Microbial Biotechnology. 17: e14519. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14519). *Invited Review* (link)
Hošek, J., Pokorný, P., Kvaček, J., Storch, D., Kvaček, J., Havig, J.R., Novák, J., Hájková, P., Jamrichová, E., Brengman, L., Radoměřský, T., Křížek, M., Magna, T., Rapprich, V., Laufek, L., Hamilton, T.L., Pack, A., Di Rocco, T., Horáček., I. (2024) Hot spring oases in the periglacial desert as the Last Glacial Maximum refugia for temperate trees in Central Europe. Science Advances. 10: eado6611. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6611. (link)
Fair, H., Hamilton#, T.L., Smiley Jr., P.C., Qiao, L. (2024) Determinants of microbial community structure in supraglacial pools of the Tibetan Plateau. Microbiology Spectrum. 0:e00754-24. (https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00754-24)(link)
Coehlo, L.F.,, Kaltenegger, L., Zinder, S., Philpot, W., Price, T., Hamilton, T.L. (2024) Purple is the New Green: Biopigments and Spectra of Earth-like Purple Worlds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530: 1363;1368. (https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae601) (link) Preprint available at arXiv
Lentz, D.L., Hamilton, T.L., Meyers, S.A., Dunning, N.P., Reese-Taylor, K., Anaya Hernández, A., Walker, D.S., Tepe, E.J., Flores Esquivel, A., Weiss, A.A. (2024) Psychoactive and other ceremonial plants from a 2,000-year-old Maya ritual deposit at Yaxnohcah, Mexico. PLoS One. 19: e0301497 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301497)(link)
Matsumoto, M., Hanneman, C., Krueger-Hadfield, S.A., Hamilton, T.L., Kmetovic, A., Kodner, R. (2024) Hypothesized life cycle of the snow algae Chlainomonas sp. (Chlamydomonadales, Chlorophyta) from the Cascade Mountains, USA. Journal of Phycology. 60: 724-740. (https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13454)(link)
2023
van Hees, D., Hanneman, C., Paradis, S., Camara, A.G., Matsumoto, M., Hamilton, T.L. Kruger-Hadfield, S., Kodner, R. (2023) Patchy and Pink: Dynamics of a Chlainomonas sp. (Chalmydomonadales, Chlorophyta) algal bloom on Bagley Lake, North Cascades, WA. FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R. (2023) Addition of dissolved inorganic carbon stimulates snow algae primary productivity on glacially eroded carbonate bedrock in the Medicine Bow Mountains, WY, USA. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 99:fiad056. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad056)(link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
2022
Hotaling, S., Price, T.L., Hamilton, T.L. (2022) Summer dynamics of microbial diversity on a mountain glacier. mSphere. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00503-22)(link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
Teece, B.L, Havig, J.R., George, S.C., Hamilton, T.L., Baumgartner, R.J., Hartz, J., Van Kranendonk, M.J. (2022) Biogeochemistry of recently fossilized siliceous hot spring sinters from Yellowstone, USA. Astrobiology. 23:155-171. (doi: 10.1089/ast.2022.0012)(link)
Bennett, A.C., Murugapiran, S., Kees, E.D., Hamilton, T.L. (2022) Temperature and Geographic Location Impact the Distribution and Diversity of Photoautotrophic Gene Variants in Alkaline Yellowstone Hot Springs. Microbiology Spectrum. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01465-21). (link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
Kees, E.D., Murugapiran, S.K., Bennett, A.C., Hamilton, T.L. (2022) Distribution and genomic variation of thermophilic cyanobacteria in diverse microbial mats at the upper temperature limits of photosynthesis. mSystems. In print. (doi: 10.1128/msystems.00317-22). (link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
Sauer, H.M., Hamilton, T.L., Heathcote, A., Anderson, R., Umbanhower Jr., C.E. (2022) Diversity and distribution of sediment bacteria across an ecological and trophic gradient. PLoS One. 17: e0258079. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258079). (link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
O’Beirne, M.D., Sparkes, R., Hamilton, T.L., van Dongen, B.E., Gilhooly III, W.P., Werne, J.P. (2022) Characterization of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols in a permanently stratified, hyper-euxinic lake. Organic Geochemistry. 168: 104431. (doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2022.104431)(link)
Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R. (2022) Meet me in the middle: median temperatures impact cyanobacteria and photoautotrophy in eruptive Yellowstone hot springs. mSystems. 7:1. (doi: 0.1128/msystems.01450-21)(link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
Lentz, D.L., Hamilton, T.L., Dunning, N.P., Jones, J.G., Reese-Taylor, K., Anaya Hernandez, A., Walker, D.S., Tepe, E.J., Carr, C., Brewer, J., Ruhl, T., Meyers, S.A., Vazquez, M., Golden, A., Weiss, A.A. (2022) Paleoecological Studies of the Ancient Maya Center of Yaxnohcah using analyses of pollen, environmental DNA and macroremains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10: 868033. (link)
Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R. (2020) Inorganic carbon stimulates snow algae primary productivity. The ISME Journal. 14: 857–860. (doi: 0.1038/s41396-018-0048-6)(link).
2021
Hotaling, S., Lutz, S., Dial, R.J., Anesio, A.M., Benning, L.G., Fountain, A.G.,Kelley, J.L., McCutcheon, J., Skiles, S.M., Takeuchi, N., Hamilton, T.L. (2021) Biological albedo reduction on ice sheets, glaciers, and snowfields. Earth Science Reviews. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103728)(link). Preprint available at EarthArXiv
Grettenberger, C.L., Hamilton, T.L. (2021) Metagenome assembled genomes of novel taxa from AMD environments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87: e00772-21. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.00772-21). Preprint available at bioRxiv
Havig, J.R., Kuether, J.E., Gangidine, A., Schroeder, S., Hamilton, T.L. (2021) Hot Spring Microbial Community Elemental Composition: Hot Spring and Soil Inputs, and the Transition from Biocumulus to Sinter. Astrobiology. 21: 1526-1546. (doi: 10.1089/AST.2019.2086)
Lentz, D.L., Hamilton, T.L., Dunning, N.P., Tepe, E.J., Scarborough, V.L., Meters, S.A., Grazioso, L., Weiss, A. A. (2021) Environmental DNA Reveals Arboreal Cityscapes at the Ancient Maya Center of Tikal. Scientific Reports. 11:12725. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91620-6)(link).
Miller, J.M., Frisbee, M.D., Hamilton, T.L., Murugapiran, S.K. (2021) Recharge from glacial meltwater is critical for alpine springs and their microbiomes. Environmental Research Letters. 16: 064012. (doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abf06b)(link).
Thomas, S.C., Payne, D., Tamadonfar, K.O., Seymour, C.O., Jiao, J.-Y., Murugapiran, S.K., Lai, D., Lau, R., Bowen, B.P., Silva, L.P., Louie, K.B., Huntemann, M., Clum, A., Spunde, A., Pillay, M., Palaniappan, K., Varghese, N., Mikhailova, N., Chen, I.-M., Stamatis, D., Reddy, T.B.K., O’Malley, R., Daum, C., Shapiro, N., Ivanova, N., Kyrpides, N.C., Woyke, T., Eloe-Fadrosh, E., Hamilton, T.L., Dijkstra, P., Dodsworth, J.A., Northen, T.R., Li, W.-J., Hedlund, B.P. (2021) Genomics, Exometabolomics, and Metabolic Probing Reveal Conserved Proteolytic Metabolism of Thermoflexus hugenholtzii and Three Candidate Species From China and Japan. Frontiers in Microbiology .12: 632731. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.632731)(link).
2020
Bennett, A.C. , Murugapiran, S., Hamilton, T.L. (2020) Temperature impacts community structure and function of phototrophic Chloroflexi and Cyanobacteria in two alkaline hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 12: 503-513. (doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12863)(link).
Lentz, D.L., Hamilton, T.L., Dunning, N.P., Scarborough, V.L., Luxton, T.P., Vonderheide , A., Tepe, E.J., Perfetta, C.J., Brunemann, J., Grazioso, L., Valdez, F., Weiss, A.A. Troubled Waters at Tikal: Evidence of Polluted Reservoirs at the Ancient Maya City. Scientific Reports. 10: 10316. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67044-z)(link).
Grettenberger, C., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2020) Metabolic diversity and co-occurrence of multiple Ferrovum species at an acid mine drainage site. BMC Microbiology 20: 119. (doi: 10.1186/s12866-020-01768-w) (link). Preprint available at bioRxiv.
Mardani, S., McDaniel, R., Bleakley, B., Hamilton, T.L., Salam, S., Amegblator, L. (2020) The effect of woodchip bioreactors on transporting microbes and antibiotic resistance under different flow conditions and microbial communities. Ecological Engineering. In press. (doi: 10.1016/j.ecoena.2020.100017) (link).
2019
Hamilton, T.L., Bennett, A.C., Murugapiran, S.K., Havig, J.R. (2019) Anoxygenic phototrophs span geochemical gradients and diverse morphologies in terrestrial geothermal springs. mSystems 4:e00498-19. (doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00498-19)(link).
Hamilton, T.L., Corman, J., Havig, J.R. (2019) Carbon and nitrogen recycling during cyanoHABs in dreissenid invaded and non-invaded U.S. Midwestern lakes and reservoirs. Hydrobiologia. 847: 939-965. (doi: 10.1007/ s10750-019-04157-1) (link).
Berberich, M.E., Beaulieu, J.J., Hamilton, T.L., Waldo, S., Buffam, I. (2019) Spatial variability of sediment methane production and methanogen communities within a eutrophic reservoir: importance of organic matter source and quantity. Limnology and Oceanography. In press. (doi: 10.1002/lno.11392)(link)(link to data).
Holmes, C.J., Jennings, E.C., Gantz, J.D., Specht, D., Spangler, A.A., Denlinger, D.L., Lee Jr., R.E., Hamilton, T.L., Benoit, J.B. (2019) The Antarctic mite, Alaskozetes antarcticus, shares bacterial microbiome community membership but not abundance between adults and tritonymphs. Polar Biology. 42: 2075. (doi: 10.1007/s00300-019-02582-5)(link).
Jennings, E.C., Korthauer, M.W., Hamilton, T.L., Benoit, J.B. (2019) Matrotrophic viviparity limits the microbial community until after birth in the cockroach, Diploptera punctata. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 10601-10614. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.5580)(link).
Hamilton, T.L. (2019) The trouble with oxygen: The ecophysiology of extant phototrophs and implications for the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. Free Radical Biology & Medicine. 140: 233-249. (doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.05.003)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2019) Productivity and community composition of low biomass/high silica precipitation hot springs: a possible window to Earth’s early biosphere? Life. 9, 64. (doi:10.3390/life9030064)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2019) Cryptic oxygen oases: Hypolithic photosynthesis in hydrothermal areas and implications for Archean surface oxidation. Frontiers in Earth Science - Biogeoscience. 7:15. (doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00015)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2019) Snow algae drive productivity and weathering at volcanic rock-hosted glaciers. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 247: 220-242. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2018.12.024)(link).
2018
Mitchell, M.E., Hamilton, T.L., Uebel, C., Hopfensperger, K., Buffam I. (2018) Nitrogen cycling players and processes in green (vegetated) roof ecosystems in the Midwestern United States. Applied Soil Ecology. 132: 114-125. (doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2018.08.007)(link).
Rutledge, A.M., Horgan, B., Havig, J.R., Rampe, E.B., Scudder, N.A., Hamilton, T.L. (2018) Melt-driven silica cycling as the dominant process in glaciated volcanic environments. Geophysical Research Letters. 45: 15. (doi: 10.1029/2018GL078105)(link).
Haas, S., de Beer, D., Fink, A., Klatt, J.M., McCauley, R.M., Hamilton, T.L., Meyer, V., Kakuk, B., Macalady, J.L. (2018) Low-light Anoxygenic Photosynthesis and Fe-S-Biogeochemistry in a Microbial Mat. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9: 858. (doi: 0.3389/fmicb.2018.00858)(link).
Hamilton, T.L.., Klatt, J., de Beer, D., Macalady J.L. (2018) Cyanobacterial photosynthesis under sulfidic conditions - Insights from the isolate Leptolyngbya sp. strain hensonii. The ISME Journal 12: 568–584 (doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.193)(link).
Colman, D.R., Poudel, S., Hamilton T.L., Havig, J.R., Selensky, M., Shock, E.L., Boyd, E.S. (2018) Geobiological feedbacks and the evolution of thermoacidophiles. The ISME Journal. 12: 225-236. (doi: 10.1038/ismej.2017.162)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L., McCormick, M.L., McClure, B., Sowers, T., Wegter, B., Kump, L.R. (2018) Water column and sediment carbon isotope geochemistry of permanently redox-stratified Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA: Carbon cycling and implications for the Paleoproterozoic ocean. Limnology and Oceanography. 63: 570-587. (doi: 10.1002/lno.10649)(link).
2017
Schuler C., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2017) Carbon fixation across geochemical gradients in the Greater Obsidian Pool Area. Frontiers in Earth Science. 5: 97. (doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00097)(link).
Hamilton, T.L., Welander, P., Albrecht, H.L., Fulton, J.M., Schaperdoth, I., Bird, L., Summons, R., Freeman, K.H., Macalady, J.L. (2017) Microbial communities and organic biomarkers in a Proterozoic-analog sinkhole environment. Geobiology. 5: 784-797. (doi: 10.1111/gbi.12252)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L.., Bachan, A., Kump, L.R. (2017) Sulfur and carbon isotopic evidence for metabolic pathway evolution and a four-stepped Earth system progression across the Archean and Paleoproterozoic. 174: 1-21. Earth-Science Reviews. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.014)(link).
Havig, J.R., Grettenberger, C., Hamilton, T.L. (2017) Zombie mines and brain biofilms: Microbial community composition across a range of acid mine drainage impact and implications for Archean-Paleoproterozoic transition. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 122: 1404–1422. (doi:10.1002/ 2016JG003594) (link).
Hotaling, S., Hood, E., Hamilton, T.L. (2017) Microbial ecology of the alpine cryosphere: glaciers, subglacial environments, and meltwater streams. Environmental Microbiology 19, 2935-2948. (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13766) (link).
de Beer, D., Weber, M., Chennu, A., Hamilton, T.L., Lott, C., Macalady, J.L., Klatt, J. (2017) Oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis in a microbial mat from an anoxic spring, Little Salt Spring. Environmental Microbiology. 19: 1251–1265. (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13654)(link).
Therien, J.B., Artz, J.H., Poudel, S., Hamilton, T.L., Liu, Z., Noone, S.M., Adams, M.W.W., King, P.W., Bryant, D.A., Boyd, E.S., Peters, J.W. (2017) The physiological functions and structural determinants of catalytic bias in the [FeFe]-hydrogenases of Clostridium pasteurianum strain W5. Frontiers in Microbiology, Microbial Physiology and Metabolism. 8: 1305. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01305)(link).
2016
Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R. (2016) Supraglacial primary productivity in glaciers on stratovolcanoes of the Pacific Northwest. Geobiology. 15: 280-295. (doi:10.1111/gbi.12219)(link).
Hamilton, T.L., Bryant, D.A., Macalady, J.L. (2016) The role of biology in planetary evolution: Cyanobacterial primary production in low oxygen Proterozoic oceans. Environmental Microbiology. 18: 325–340. (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13118)(link).
Boyd, E.S., Yu, R.-Q., Barkay, T., Hamilton, T.L., Baxter, B.K., Naftz, D.L., Marvin-DiPasquale, M. (2016) Effect of Salinity on Mercury Methylating Benthic Microbes and Their Activities in Great Salt Lake, Utah. Science of the Total Environment. 581-582: 495-506.(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.157) (link).
Urschel, M.R., Hamilton, T.L., Roden, E.R., Boyd., E.S. Substrate Preference, Uptake Kinetics, and Bioenergetics in a Facultatively Autotrophic, Thermoacidophilic Crenarchaeote. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92: fiw069. (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw069) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Bovee R.J., Sattin S.R., Mohr, W., Gilhooly III, W.P., Lyons, Pearson, A., Macalady, J.L. (2016) Carbon and sulfur cycling below the chemocline in a meromictic lake and the identification of a novel taxonomic lineage in the FCB superphylum, Candidatus Aegiribacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology 7: 00598. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00598)(link).
2015
Harrold, Z.R., Skidmore, M., Hamilton, T.L., Desch, L., Amada, K., van Gelder, W., Roden, E., Boyd, E.S. (2015) Aerobic and anaerobic thiosulfate oxidation by a cold-adapted, subglacial chemoautotroph. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. In press. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.03398-15)(link).
Telling, J., Boyd, E.S., Bone, N., Jones, E., Tranter, M., J.L., MacFarlane, Martin, P., Wadham, J., LaMarche-Gagnon, G., Skidmore, M.L., Hamilton, T.L., Hill, E., Jackson, M., Hodgson, D.A. (2015) Rock comminution as a source of hydrogen for subglacial ecosystems. Nature Geoscience. 8: 851–855. (doi:10.1038/ngeo2533)(link).
Mansor, M. Hamilton, T.L., Fantle, M., Macalady, J.L. (2015) Metabolic diversity and ecological niches of Achromatium populations revealed with single-cell genomic sequencing. Frontiers in Microbiology 6: 822 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00822)(link).
Havig, J., McCormick, M.L., Hamilton, T.L., Kump, L.R. (2015) The behavior of biologically important trace elements across the oxic/euxinic transition of meromictic Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 165: 389–406 (doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.024) (link).
Boyd, E.S., Garcia Costas, A.M., Hamilton, T.L., Mus, F., Peters, J.W. (2015). Evolution of molybdenum nitrogenase during the transition from anaerobic to aerobic metabolism. Journal of Bacteriology. (doi:10.1128/JB.02611-14) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Jones, D.S., Schaperdoth, I., Macalady, J.L. (2015) Metagenomic insights into S(0) precipitation in a terrestrial subsurface lithoautotrophic ecosystem. Frontiers in Microbiology 5: 756 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00756) (link).
2014
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Swanson, K.D., Howells, A.E., Baxter, B.K., Meuser, J.E., Posewitz, M.C., Peters, J.W. (2014). [FeFe]-Hydrogenase abundance and diversity along a vertical redox gradient in Great Salt Lake, USA. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 15: 21947-21966 (doi: 10.3390/ijms150x000x ) (link).
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R., Skidmore, M., Shock, E.S. (2014) Chemolithotrophic primary production in a subglacial ecosystem. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80: 6146-6132. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.01956-14) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Bovee R.J., Thiel, V., Sattin S.R., Mohr, W., Schaperdoth, I., Vogl K., Gilhooly III, W.P., Lyons, T.W., Tomsho, L.P., Schuster, S.C., Overmann, J., Bryant D.A., Pearson, A., Macalady, J.L. (2014) Coupled reductive and oxidative sulfur cycling in the phototrophic plate of a meromictic lake. Geobiology 12: 451-468. (doi: 10.1111/gbi.12092) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Koonce, E., Howells, A., Havig, J.R., Jewell, T., de la Torre, J., Peters, J.W., Boyd, E.S. (2014) Competition for ammonia influences the structure of chemotrophic communities in geothermal springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80: 653-661. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.02577-13) (link).
2013
Macalady, J.L., Hamilton, T.L., Grettenberger, C.L., Jones, D.S., Tsao, L.E., Burgos, W.D. (2013) Energy, ecology and the distribution of microbial life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 368: 1622. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0383) (link).
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Wang, J., He, L., Zhang, C.L. (2013) The role of tetraether lipid composition in the adaptation of thermophilic archaea to acidity. Frontiers in Terrestrial Microbiology 4: 62. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00062) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Peters. J.W., Skidmore, M.L., Boyd, E.S. (2013) Molecular evidence for an active endogenous microbiome beneath glacial ice. The ISME Journal 7: 1402-1412. (doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.31) (link).
2012
Duffus, B.R., Hamilton, T.L., Shepard, E., Boyd, E.S., Peters, J.W., Broderick, J. B. (2012) Radical AdoMet Enzymes in Complex Inorganic Metal Cluster Biosynthesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and Proteomics 1824: 1254-1263. (doi: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2012.01.002) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Vogl, K., Bryant, D.A., Boyd, E.S., Peters, J.W. (2012) Environmental constraints define the distribution, composition, and evolution of chlorophototrophs in thermal features of Yellowstone National Park. Geobiology 10: 236-249. (doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00296.x) (link).
2011
Peters, J.W., Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Rubio, L. (2011) Chapter 4: Biochemistry of Mo-Nitrogenase. In Nitrogen Cycling in Bacteria: Molecular Analysis. Ed. J.W.B. Moir. Norfolk: Caister Academic Press. (ISBN: hisb978-1-904455-86-8).
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Peters. J.W. (2011) An alternative path for the evolution of biological nitrogen fixation. Frontiers in Microbiology 2: 205. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00205) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Jacobson, M., Ludwig, M., Boyd, E.S., Bryant, D.A., Dean, D.R., Peters, J.W. (2011) Differential accumulation of nif structural gene mRNA in Azotobacter vinelandii. Journal of Bacteriology 193: 4534-4536. (doi: 10.1128/JB.05100-11) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Ludwig, M., Dixon, R., Boyd, E.S., Dos Santos, P., Setubal, J.C., Bryant, D.A., Dean, D.R., Peters, J.W. (2011) Transcriptional profiling of nitrogen fixation in Azotobacter vinelandii. Journal of Bacteriology 193: 4477-4486. (doi: 10.1128/JB.05099-11) (link). *Journal Highlight, Microbe, October, 2011 *
Boyd, E.S., Lange, R.K., Mitchell, A.C., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L., Lafrenière, M.J., Shock, E.L., Peters, J.W., Skidmore, M. (2011) Diversity, abundance, and potential activity of nitrifying and denitrifying microbial assemblages in a subglacial ecosystem. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 4778-4787. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.00376-11) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Boyd, E.S., Lange, R.K., Peters, J.W. (2011) Biological nitrogen fixation in acidic high temperature geothermal springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Environmental Microbiology 13: 2204-2215. (doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02475.x) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Boyd, E.S., Peters, J.W. (2011) Environmental constraints underpin the phylogenetic diversity of nifH in the Yellowstone Geothermal Complex. Microbial Ecology 10: 236-249. (doi: 10.1007/s00248-011-9824-9) (link).
Boyd, E.S., Anbar, A.D., Miller, S., Hamilton, T.L., Lavin, M., Peters, J.W. (2011) A late methanogen origin for molybdenum-dependent nitrogenase. Geobiology 9: 221-232. (doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00278.x) (link).
Boyd, J.M., Endrizzi, J.A., Hamilton, T.L., Downs, D.M., Peters, J.W. (2011) FAD binding by ApbE protein from Salmonella enterica: a new class of FAD binding proteins. Journal of Bacteriology 193: 887-895. (doi: 10.1128/JB.00730-10) (link).
2010
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Spear, J.R., Lavin, M., Peters, J.W. (2010) [FeFe]-hydrogenase In Yellowstone National Park: Evidence for dispersal limitation and phylogenetic niche conservation. The ISME Journal 4: 887-895. (doi: 10.1038/ismej.2010.76) (link).
2008
Sarma, R, Barney, B.M., Hamilton, T.L., Jones, A., Seefeldt, L.C., Peters, J.W. (2008) Crystal structure of the L protein of Rhodobacter sphaeroides light-independent protochlorophyllide reductase with MgADP bound: a homologue of the nitrogenase Fe protein. Biochemistry 47: 13004-13015. (doi: 10.1021/bi801058r) (link).
2007
Taylor, R.M., Maaty, W.S., Lord. C.I., Hamilton, T.L., Burritt, J.B., Bothner, B., Jesaitis, A.J. (2007) Cloning, sequence analysis and confirmation of derived gene sequences for three epitope-mapped monoclonal antibodies against human phagocyte flavocytochrome b. Molecular Immunology 44: 625-637. (doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2005.10.022) (link).
Genome Announcements
Lincoln, S.A., Hamilton, T.L., Juárez, A.G.V, Schedlerb, M., Macalady, J.L., Müller, R., Freeman, K.H. (2015) Draft genome sequence of the piezotolerant, crude oil-degrading bacterium Rhodococcus qingshengii strain TUHH-12. GenomeA 3: e00268-15. (doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00268-15) (link).
Thiel T., Hamilton, T.L., Tomsho, L.P., Burbans, R., Gay, S.E., Ramaley, R.F., Schuster, S.C., Steinke, L.A., Bryant, D.A. (2014) Draft genome sequence of the moderately thermophilic bacterium Schleiferia thermophila strain Yellowstone (Bacteroidetes). GenomeA 2: e000860-14 (doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00860-14) (link).
Thiel T., Hamilton, T.L., Tomsho, L.P., Burbans, R., Gay, S.E., Schuster, S.C., Ward, D.M., Bryant, D.A. (2014) Draft genome sequence of the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus sp. strain MS-G (Chloroflexi). GenomeA 2: e000872-14 (doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00872-14) (link).
Proceedings
Miller, J.M., Frisbee, M.D., Hamilton, T.L. (2018) Does meltwater from alpine glaciers provide mountain-block recharge? A discussion of evolving conceptual models and methodological challenges. (SIMFAI-2018).
Orcid ID
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Unpublished Preprints
Almela, P., Hotaling, S., Giersch, J., Elser, J.J., Hamilton#, T.L. (2024) Influence of sub-surface snow algae blooms on albedo reduction. The Cryosphere. Preprint available at EGUSphere: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2379
Miller, J.B., Frisbee, M.D., Hamilton, T.L., Liljedahl, A.K. Groundwater provides temporary resilience to alpine catchments in glacial retreat. Preprint available at Research Square.
2024
Almela, P., Elser, J.J., Giersch, J., Hotaling, S., Rebbeck, V., Hamilton#, T.L. (2024) Laboratory assessments suggests limited impact of increased nitrogen deposition on snow algae blooms. 16:e70052. Environmental Microbiology Reports. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70052) Preprint available at bioRxiv: https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.07.24.604882v1
Teece, B.L., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L., Barge, L.M. (2024) Geochemical context for hydrothermal organic molecules in terrestrial Mars analog samples. Nature Astronomy. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02435-0)
Preston, D.L., Hotaling, S., Errigo, I., Frandsen, P., Price, T.L., Hamilton, T.L., Anderson, K., Yevak, S., Morse, J. (2024) Alpine stream community structure of glacial, snowmelt, lake outlet, and mixed water source sites in a headwater catchment of the Southern Rocky Mountains. Aquatic Sciences. 87:13. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-024-01134-2)(link)
Boulesteix, D., Buch A., Williams, A.J., Kivrak, L.L., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L., Teece, B.L., He, Y., Freissinet, C., Szopa, C. (2024) Environmental analogs from yellowstone hot springs on geochemical and microbial diversity with implications for the search for life on Mars. Planetary and Space Science. 250: 105953. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2024.105953)(link)
Nersezova, E.E., Rowe, M.C., Campbell, K.A., Langendam, A., Tollemache, C., Lyon, A., Galar, A., Guido, D.M., Teece, B.L., Hamilton, T.L., Galligan, N. (2024) Trace metal and organic biosignatures in digitate stromatolites from terrestrial siliceous hot spring deposits: Implications for the exploration of martian life. Chemical Geology. 661: 122194. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122194)(link)
Grettenberger, C.L., Abou-Shanab, R.A.I., Hamilton#, T.L. (2024) Limiting factors in the operation of photosystem I and II in cyanobacteria. Microbial Biotechnology. 17: e14519. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14519). *Invited Review* (link)
Hošek, J., Pokorný, P., Kvaček, J., Storch, D., Kvaček, J., Havig, J.R., Novák, J., Hájková, P., Jamrichová, E., Brengman, L., Radoměřský, T., Křížek, M., Magna, T., Rapprich, V., Laufek, L., Hamilton, T.L., Pack, A., Di Rocco, T., Horáček., I. (2024) Hot spring oases in the periglacial desert as the Last Glacial Maximum refugia for temperate trees in Central Europe. Science Advances. 10: eado6611. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6611. (link)
Fair, H., Hamilton#, T.L., Smiley Jr., P.C., Qiao, L. (2024) Determinants of microbial community structure in supraglacial pools of the Tibetan Plateau. Microbiology Spectrum. 0:e00754-24. (https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00754-24)(link)
Coehlo, L.F.,, Kaltenegger, L., Zinder, S., Philpot, W., Price, T., Hamilton, T.L. (2024) Purple is the New Green: Biopigments and Spectra of Earth-like Purple Worlds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530: 1363;1368. (https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae601) (link) Preprint available at arXiv
Lentz, D.L., Hamilton, T.L., Meyers, S.A., Dunning, N.P., Reese-Taylor, K., Anaya Hernández, A., Walker, D.S., Tepe, E.J., Flores Esquivel, A., Weiss, A.A. (2024) Psychoactive and other ceremonial plants from a 2,000-year-old Maya ritual deposit at Yaxnohcah, Mexico. PLoS One. 19: e0301497 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301497)(link)
Matsumoto, M., Hanneman, C., Krueger-Hadfield, S.A., Hamilton, T.L., Kmetovic, A., Kodner, R. (2024) Hypothesized life cycle of the snow algae Chlainomonas sp. (Chlamydomonadales, Chlorophyta) from the Cascade Mountains, USA. Journal of Phycology. 60: 724-740. (https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13454)(link)
2023
van Hees, D., Hanneman, C., Paradis, S., Camara, A.G., Matsumoto, M., Hamilton, T.L. Kruger-Hadfield, S., Kodner, R. (2023) Patchy and Pink: Dynamics of a Chlainomonas sp. (Chalmydomonadales, Chlorophyta) algal bloom on Bagley Lake, North Cascades, WA. FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R. (2023) Addition of dissolved inorganic carbon stimulates snow algae primary productivity on glacially eroded carbonate bedrock in the Medicine Bow Mountains, WY, USA. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 99:fiad056. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad056)(link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
2022
Hotaling, S., Price, T.L., Hamilton, T.L. (2022) Summer dynamics of microbial diversity on a mountain glacier. mSphere. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00503-22)(link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
Teece, B.L, Havig, J.R., George, S.C., Hamilton, T.L., Baumgartner, R.J., Hartz, J., Van Kranendonk, M.J. (2022) Biogeochemistry of recently fossilized siliceous hot spring sinters from Yellowstone, USA. Astrobiology. 23:155-171. (doi: 10.1089/ast.2022.0012)(link)
Bennett, A.C., Murugapiran, S., Kees, E.D., Hamilton, T.L. (2022) Temperature and Geographic Location Impact the Distribution and Diversity of Photoautotrophic Gene Variants in Alkaline Yellowstone Hot Springs. Microbiology Spectrum. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01465-21). (link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
Kees, E.D., Murugapiran, S.K., Bennett, A.C., Hamilton, T.L. (2022) Distribution and genomic variation of thermophilic cyanobacteria in diverse microbial mats at the upper temperature limits of photosynthesis. mSystems. In print. (doi: 10.1128/msystems.00317-22). (link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
Sauer, H.M., Hamilton, T.L., Heathcote, A., Anderson, R., Umbanhower Jr., C.E. (2022) Diversity and distribution of sediment bacteria across an ecological and trophic gradient. PLoS One. 17: e0258079. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258079). (link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
O’Beirne, M.D., Sparkes, R., Hamilton, T.L., van Dongen, B.E., Gilhooly III, W.P., Werne, J.P. (2022) Characterization of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols in a permanently stratified, hyper-euxinic lake. Organic Geochemistry. 168: 104431. (doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2022.104431)(link)
Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R. (2022) Meet me in the middle: median temperatures impact cyanobacteria and photoautotrophy in eruptive Yellowstone hot springs. mSystems. 7:1. (doi: 0.1128/msystems.01450-21)(link) Preprint available at bioRxiv
Lentz, D.L., Hamilton, T.L., Dunning, N.P., Jones, J.G., Reese-Taylor, K., Anaya Hernandez, A., Walker, D.S., Tepe, E.J., Carr, C., Brewer, J., Ruhl, T., Meyers, S.A., Vazquez, M., Golden, A., Weiss, A.A. (2022) Paleoecological Studies of the Ancient Maya Center of Yaxnohcah using analyses of pollen, environmental DNA and macroremains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10: 868033. (link)
Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R. (2020) Inorganic carbon stimulates snow algae primary productivity. The ISME Journal. 14: 857–860. (doi: 0.1038/s41396-018-0048-6)(link).
2021
Hotaling, S., Lutz, S., Dial, R.J., Anesio, A.M., Benning, L.G., Fountain, A.G.,Kelley, J.L., McCutcheon, J., Skiles, S.M., Takeuchi, N., Hamilton, T.L. (2021) Biological albedo reduction on ice sheets, glaciers, and snowfields. Earth Science Reviews. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103728)(link). Preprint available at EarthArXiv
Grettenberger, C.L., Hamilton, T.L. (2021) Metagenome assembled genomes of novel taxa from AMD environments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87: e00772-21. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.00772-21). Preprint available at bioRxiv
Havig, J.R., Kuether, J.E., Gangidine, A., Schroeder, S., Hamilton, T.L. (2021) Hot Spring Microbial Community Elemental Composition: Hot Spring and Soil Inputs, and the Transition from Biocumulus to Sinter. Astrobiology. 21: 1526-1546. (doi: 10.1089/AST.2019.2086)
Lentz, D.L., Hamilton, T.L., Dunning, N.P., Tepe, E.J., Scarborough, V.L., Meters, S.A., Grazioso, L., Weiss, A. A. (2021) Environmental DNA Reveals Arboreal Cityscapes at the Ancient Maya Center of Tikal. Scientific Reports. 11:12725. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91620-6)(link).
Miller, J.M., Frisbee, M.D., Hamilton, T.L., Murugapiran, S.K. (2021) Recharge from glacial meltwater is critical for alpine springs and their microbiomes. Environmental Research Letters. 16: 064012. (doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abf06b)(link).
Thomas, S.C., Payne, D., Tamadonfar, K.O., Seymour, C.O., Jiao, J.-Y., Murugapiran, S.K., Lai, D., Lau, R., Bowen, B.P., Silva, L.P., Louie, K.B., Huntemann, M., Clum, A., Spunde, A., Pillay, M., Palaniappan, K., Varghese, N., Mikhailova, N., Chen, I.-M., Stamatis, D., Reddy, T.B.K., O’Malley, R., Daum, C., Shapiro, N., Ivanova, N., Kyrpides, N.C., Woyke, T., Eloe-Fadrosh, E., Hamilton, T.L., Dijkstra, P., Dodsworth, J.A., Northen, T.R., Li, W.-J., Hedlund, B.P. (2021) Genomics, Exometabolomics, and Metabolic Probing Reveal Conserved Proteolytic Metabolism of Thermoflexus hugenholtzii and Three Candidate Species From China and Japan. Frontiers in Microbiology .12: 632731. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.632731)(link).
2020
Bennett, A.C. , Murugapiran, S., Hamilton, T.L. (2020) Temperature impacts community structure and function of phototrophic Chloroflexi and Cyanobacteria in two alkaline hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 12: 503-513. (doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12863)(link).
Lentz, D.L., Hamilton, T.L., Dunning, N.P., Scarborough, V.L., Luxton, T.P., Vonderheide , A., Tepe, E.J., Perfetta, C.J., Brunemann, J., Grazioso, L., Valdez, F., Weiss, A.A. Troubled Waters at Tikal: Evidence of Polluted Reservoirs at the Ancient Maya City. Scientific Reports. 10: 10316. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67044-z)(link).
Grettenberger, C., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2020) Metabolic diversity and co-occurrence of multiple Ferrovum species at an acid mine drainage site. BMC Microbiology 20: 119. (doi: 10.1186/s12866-020-01768-w) (link). Preprint available at bioRxiv.
Mardani, S., McDaniel, R., Bleakley, B., Hamilton, T.L., Salam, S., Amegblator, L. (2020) The effect of woodchip bioreactors on transporting microbes and antibiotic resistance under different flow conditions and microbial communities. Ecological Engineering. In press. (doi: 10.1016/j.ecoena.2020.100017) (link).
2019
Hamilton, T.L., Bennett, A.C., Murugapiran, S.K., Havig, J.R. (2019) Anoxygenic phototrophs span geochemical gradients and diverse morphologies in terrestrial geothermal springs. mSystems 4:e00498-19. (doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00498-19)(link).
Hamilton, T.L., Corman, J., Havig, J.R. (2019) Carbon and nitrogen recycling during cyanoHABs in dreissenid invaded and non-invaded U.S. Midwestern lakes and reservoirs. Hydrobiologia. 847: 939-965. (doi: 10.1007/ s10750-019-04157-1) (link).
Berberich, M.E., Beaulieu, J.J., Hamilton, T.L., Waldo, S., Buffam, I. (2019) Spatial variability of sediment methane production and methanogen communities within a eutrophic reservoir: importance of organic matter source and quantity. Limnology and Oceanography. In press. (doi: 10.1002/lno.11392)(link)(link to data).
Holmes, C.J., Jennings, E.C., Gantz, J.D., Specht, D., Spangler, A.A., Denlinger, D.L., Lee Jr., R.E., Hamilton, T.L., Benoit, J.B. (2019) The Antarctic mite, Alaskozetes antarcticus, shares bacterial microbiome community membership but not abundance between adults and tritonymphs. Polar Biology. 42: 2075. (doi: 10.1007/s00300-019-02582-5)(link).
Jennings, E.C., Korthauer, M.W., Hamilton, T.L., Benoit, J.B. (2019) Matrotrophic viviparity limits the microbial community until after birth in the cockroach, Diploptera punctata. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 10601-10614. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.5580)(link).
Hamilton, T.L. (2019) The trouble with oxygen: The ecophysiology of extant phototrophs and implications for the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. Free Radical Biology & Medicine. 140: 233-249. (doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.05.003)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2019) Productivity and community composition of low biomass/high silica precipitation hot springs: a possible window to Earth’s early biosphere? Life. 9, 64. (doi:10.3390/life9030064)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2019) Cryptic oxygen oases: Hypolithic photosynthesis in hydrothermal areas and implications for Archean surface oxidation. Frontiers in Earth Science - Biogeoscience. 7:15. (doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00015)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2019) Snow algae drive productivity and weathering at volcanic rock-hosted glaciers. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 247: 220-242. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2018.12.024)(link).
2018
Mitchell, M.E., Hamilton, T.L., Uebel, C., Hopfensperger, K., Buffam I. (2018) Nitrogen cycling players and processes in green (vegetated) roof ecosystems in the Midwestern United States. Applied Soil Ecology. 132: 114-125. (doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2018.08.007)(link).
Rutledge, A.M., Horgan, B., Havig, J.R., Rampe, E.B., Scudder, N.A., Hamilton, T.L. (2018) Melt-driven silica cycling as the dominant process in glaciated volcanic environments. Geophysical Research Letters. 45: 15. (doi: 10.1029/2018GL078105)(link).
Haas, S., de Beer, D., Fink, A., Klatt, J.M., McCauley, R.M., Hamilton, T.L., Meyer, V., Kakuk, B., Macalady, J.L. (2018) Low-light Anoxygenic Photosynthesis and Fe-S-Biogeochemistry in a Microbial Mat. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9: 858. (doi: 0.3389/fmicb.2018.00858)(link).
Hamilton, T.L.., Klatt, J., de Beer, D., Macalady J.L. (2018) Cyanobacterial photosynthesis under sulfidic conditions - Insights from the isolate Leptolyngbya sp. strain hensonii. The ISME Journal 12: 568–584 (doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.193)(link).
Colman, D.R., Poudel, S., Hamilton T.L., Havig, J.R., Selensky, M., Shock, E.L., Boyd, E.S. (2018) Geobiological feedbacks and the evolution of thermoacidophiles. The ISME Journal. 12: 225-236. (doi: 10.1038/ismej.2017.162)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L., McCormick, M.L., McClure, B., Sowers, T., Wegter, B., Kump, L.R. (2018) Water column and sediment carbon isotope geochemistry of permanently redox-stratified Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA: Carbon cycling and implications for the Paleoproterozoic ocean. Limnology and Oceanography. 63: 570-587. (doi: 10.1002/lno.10649)(link).
2017
Schuler C., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L. (2017) Carbon fixation across geochemical gradients in the Greater Obsidian Pool Area. Frontiers in Earth Science. 5: 97. (doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00097)(link).
Hamilton, T.L., Welander, P., Albrecht, H.L., Fulton, J.M., Schaperdoth, I., Bird, L., Summons, R., Freeman, K.H., Macalady, J.L. (2017) Microbial communities and organic biomarkers in a Proterozoic-analog sinkhole environment. Geobiology. 5: 784-797. (doi: 10.1111/gbi.12252)(link).
Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L.., Bachan, A., Kump, L.R. (2017) Sulfur and carbon isotopic evidence for metabolic pathway evolution and a four-stepped Earth system progression across the Archean and Paleoproterozoic. 174: 1-21. Earth-Science Reviews. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.014)(link).
Havig, J.R., Grettenberger, C., Hamilton, T.L. (2017) Zombie mines and brain biofilms: Microbial community composition across a range of acid mine drainage impact and implications for Archean-Paleoproterozoic transition. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 122: 1404–1422. (doi:10.1002/ 2016JG003594) (link).
Hotaling, S., Hood, E., Hamilton, T.L. (2017) Microbial ecology of the alpine cryosphere: glaciers, subglacial environments, and meltwater streams. Environmental Microbiology 19, 2935-2948. (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13766) (link).
de Beer, D., Weber, M., Chennu, A., Hamilton, T.L., Lott, C., Macalady, J.L., Klatt, J. (2017) Oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis in a microbial mat from an anoxic spring, Little Salt Spring. Environmental Microbiology. 19: 1251–1265. (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13654)(link).
Therien, J.B., Artz, J.H., Poudel, S., Hamilton, T.L., Liu, Z., Noone, S.M., Adams, M.W.W., King, P.W., Bryant, D.A., Boyd, E.S., Peters, J.W. (2017) The physiological functions and structural determinants of catalytic bias in the [FeFe]-hydrogenases of Clostridium pasteurianum strain W5. Frontiers in Microbiology, Microbial Physiology and Metabolism. 8: 1305. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01305)(link).
2016
Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R. (2016) Supraglacial primary productivity in glaciers on stratovolcanoes of the Pacific Northwest. Geobiology. 15: 280-295. (doi:10.1111/gbi.12219)(link).
Hamilton, T.L., Bryant, D.A., Macalady, J.L. (2016) The role of biology in planetary evolution: Cyanobacterial primary production in low oxygen Proterozoic oceans. Environmental Microbiology. 18: 325–340. (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13118)(link).
Boyd, E.S., Yu, R.-Q., Barkay, T., Hamilton, T.L., Baxter, B.K., Naftz, D.L., Marvin-DiPasquale, M. (2016) Effect of Salinity on Mercury Methylating Benthic Microbes and Their Activities in Great Salt Lake, Utah. Science of the Total Environment. 581-582: 495-506.(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.157) (link).
Urschel, M.R., Hamilton, T.L., Roden, E.R., Boyd., E.S. Substrate Preference, Uptake Kinetics, and Bioenergetics in a Facultatively Autotrophic, Thermoacidophilic Crenarchaeote. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92: fiw069. (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw069) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Bovee R.J., Sattin S.R., Mohr, W., Gilhooly III, W.P., Lyons, Pearson, A., Macalady, J.L. (2016) Carbon and sulfur cycling below the chemocline in a meromictic lake and the identification of a novel taxonomic lineage in the FCB superphylum, Candidatus Aegiribacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology 7: 00598. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00598)(link).
2015
Harrold, Z.R., Skidmore, M., Hamilton, T.L., Desch, L., Amada, K., van Gelder, W., Roden, E., Boyd, E.S. (2015) Aerobic and anaerobic thiosulfate oxidation by a cold-adapted, subglacial chemoautotroph. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. In press. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.03398-15)(link).
Telling, J., Boyd, E.S., Bone, N., Jones, E., Tranter, M., J.L., MacFarlane, Martin, P., Wadham, J., LaMarche-Gagnon, G., Skidmore, M.L., Hamilton, T.L., Hill, E., Jackson, M., Hodgson, D.A. (2015) Rock comminution as a source of hydrogen for subglacial ecosystems. Nature Geoscience. 8: 851–855. (doi:10.1038/ngeo2533)(link).
Mansor, M. Hamilton, T.L., Fantle, M., Macalady, J.L. (2015) Metabolic diversity and ecological niches of Achromatium populations revealed with single-cell genomic sequencing. Frontiers in Microbiology 6: 822 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00822)(link).
Havig, J., McCormick, M.L., Hamilton, T.L., Kump, L.R. (2015) The behavior of biologically important trace elements across the oxic/euxinic transition of meromictic Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 165: 389–406 (doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.024) (link).
Boyd, E.S., Garcia Costas, A.M., Hamilton, T.L., Mus, F., Peters, J.W. (2015). Evolution of molybdenum nitrogenase during the transition from anaerobic to aerobic metabolism. Journal of Bacteriology. (doi:10.1128/JB.02611-14) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Jones, D.S., Schaperdoth, I., Macalady, J.L. (2015) Metagenomic insights into S(0) precipitation in a terrestrial subsurface lithoautotrophic ecosystem. Frontiers in Microbiology 5: 756 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00756) (link).
2014
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Swanson, K.D., Howells, A.E., Baxter, B.K., Meuser, J.E., Posewitz, M.C., Peters, J.W. (2014). [FeFe]-Hydrogenase abundance and diversity along a vertical redox gradient in Great Salt Lake, USA. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 15: 21947-21966 (doi: 10.3390/ijms150x000x ) (link).
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Havig, J.R., Skidmore, M., Shock, E.S. (2014) Chemolithotrophic primary production in a subglacial ecosystem. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80: 6146-6132. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.01956-14) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Bovee R.J., Thiel, V., Sattin S.R., Mohr, W., Schaperdoth, I., Vogl K., Gilhooly III, W.P., Lyons, T.W., Tomsho, L.P., Schuster, S.C., Overmann, J., Bryant D.A., Pearson, A., Macalady, J.L. (2014) Coupled reductive and oxidative sulfur cycling in the phototrophic plate of a meromictic lake. Geobiology 12: 451-468. (doi: 10.1111/gbi.12092) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Koonce, E., Howells, A., Havig, J.R., Jewell, T., de la Torre, J., Peters, J.W., Boyd, E.S. (2014) Competition for ammonia influences the structure of chemotrophic communities in geothermal springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80: 653-661. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.02577-13) (link).
2013
Macalady, J.L., Hamilton, T.L., Grettenberger, C.L., Jones, D.S., Tsao, L.E., Burgos, W.D. (2013) Energy, ecology and the distribution of microbial life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 368: 1622. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0383) (link).
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Wang, J., He, L., Zhang, C.L. (2013) The role of tetraether lipid composition in the adaptation of thermophilic archaea to acidity. Frontiers in Terrestrial Microbiology 4: 62. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00062) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Peters. J.W., Skidmore, M.L., Boyd, E.S. (2013) Molecular evidence for an active endogenous microbiome beneath glacial ice. The ISME Journal 7: 1402-1412. (doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.31) (link).
2012
Duffus, B.R., Hamilton, T.L., Shepard, E., Boyd, E.S., Peters, J.W., Broderick, J. B. (2012) Radical AdoMet Enzymes in Complex Inorganic Metal Cluster Biosynthesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and Proteomics 1824: 1254-1263. (doi: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2012.01.002) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Vogl, K., Bryant, D.A., Boyd, E.S., Peters, J.W. (2012) Environmental constraints define the distribution, composition, and evolution of chlorophototrophs in thermal features of Yellowstone National Park. Geobiology 10: 236-249. (doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00296.x) (link).
2011
Peters, J.W., Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Rubio, L. (2011) Chapter 4: Biochemistry of Mo-Nitrogenase. In Nitrogen Cycling in Bacteria: Molecular Analysis. Ed. J.W.B. Moir. Norfolk: Caister Academic Press. (ISBN: hisb978-1-904455-86-8).
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Peters. J.W. (2011) An alternative path for the evolution of biological nitrogen fixation. Frontiers in Microbiology 2: 205. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00205) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Jacobson, M., Ludwig, M., Boyd, E.S., Bryant, D.A., Dean, D.R., Peters, J.W. (2011) Differential accumulation of nif structural gene mRNA in Azotobacter vinelandii. Journal of Bacteriology 193: 4534-4536. (doi: 10.1128/JB.05100-11) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Ludwig, M., Dixon, R., Boyd, E.S., Dos Santos, P., Setubal, J.C., Bryant, D.A., Dean, D.R., Peters, J.W. (2011) Transcriptional profiling of nitrogen fixation in Azotobacter vinelandii. Journal of Bacteriology 193: 4477-4486. (doi: 10.1128/JB.05099-11) (link). *Journal Highlight, Microbe, October, 2011 *
Boyd, E.S., Lange, R.K., Mitchell, A.C., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L., Lafrenière, M.J., Shock, E.L., Peters, J.W., Skidmore, M. (2011) Diversity, abundance, and potential activity of nitrifying and denitrifying microbial assemblages in a subglacial ecosystem. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 4778-4787. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.00376-11) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Boyd, E.S., Lange, R.K., Peters, J.W. (2011) Biological nitrogen fixation in acidic high temperature geothermal springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Environmental Microbiology 13: 2204-2215. (doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02475.x) (link).
Hamilton, T.L., Boyd, E.S., Peters, J.W. (2011) Environmental constraints underpin the phylogenetic diversity of nifH in the Yellowstone Geothermal Complex. Microbial Ecology 10: 236-249. (doi: 10.1007/s00248-011-9824-9) (link).
Boyd, E.S., Anbar, A.D., Miller, S., Hamilton, T.L., Lavin, M., Peters, J.W. (2011) A late methanogen origin for molybdenum-dependent nitrogenase. Geobiology 9: 221-232. (doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00278.x) (link).
Boyd, J.M., Endrizzi, J.A., Hamilton, T.L., Downs, D.M., Peters, J.W. (2011) FAD binding by ApbE protein from Salmonella enterica: a new class of FAD binding proteins. Journal of Bacteriology 193: 887-895. (doi: 10.1128/JB.00730-10) (link).
2010
Boyd, E.S., Hamilton, T.L., Spear, J.R., Lavin, M., Peters, J.W. (2010) [FeFe]-hydrogenase In Yellowstone National Park: Evidence for dispersal limitation and phylogenetic niche conservation. The ISME Journal 4: 887-895. (doi: 10.1038/ismej.2010.76) (link).
2008
Sarma, R, Barney, B.M., Hamilton, T.L., Jones, A., Seefeldt, L.C., Peters, J.W. (2008) Crystal structure of the L protein of Rhodobacter sphaeroides light-independent protochlorophyllide reductase with MgADP bound: a homologue of the nitrogenase Fe protein. Biochemistry 47: 13004-13015. (doi: 10.1021/bi801058r) (link).
2007
Taylor, R.M., Maaty, W.S., Lord. C.I., Hamilton, T.L., Burritt, J.B., Bothner, B., Jesaitis, A.J. (2007) Cloning, sequence analysis and confirmation of derived gene sequences for three epitope-mapped monoclonal antibodies against human phagocyte flavocytochrome b. Molecular Immunology 44: 625-637. (doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2005.10.022) (link).
Genome Announcements
Lincoln, S.A., Hamilton, T.L., Juárez, A.G.V, Schedlerb, M., Macalady, J.L., Müller, R., Freeman, K.H. (2015) Draft genome sequence of the piezotolerant, crude oil-degrading bacterium Rhodococcus qingshengii strain TUHH-12. GenomeA 3: e00268-15. (doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00268-15) (link).
Thiel T., Hamilton, T.L., Tomsho, L.P., Burbans, R., Gay, S.E., Ramaley, R.F., Schuster, S.C., Steinke, L.A., Bryant, D.A. (2014) Draft genome sequence of the moderately thermophilic bacterium Schleiferia thermophila strain Yellowstone (Bacteroidetes). GenomeA 2: e000860-14 (doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00860-14) (link).
Thiel T., Hamilton, T.L., Tomsho, L.P., Burbans, R., Gay, S.E., Schuster, S.C., Ward, D.M., Bryant, D.A. (2014) Draft genome sequence of the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus sp. strain MS-G (Chloroflexi). GenomeA 2: e000872-14 (doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00872-14) (link).
Proceedings
Miller, J.M., Frisbee, M.D., Hamilton, T.L. (2018) Does meltwater from alpine glaciers provide mountain-block recharge? A discussion of evolving conceptual models and methodological challenges. (SIMFAI-2018).
