Publications

2008

Heuer, H., Z. Abdo and K. Smalla. 2008. Patchydistribution of£exible genetic elements in bacterial populations mediates robustness to environmental uncertainty. FEMS Microbiology and Ecology. (pdf file)

Schütte, U. M. E., Z. Abdo, S. J. Bent, C. Shyu, C. J. Williams, J. D. Pierson and L. J. Forney. 2008. Advances in the use of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of 16S rRNA genes to characterize microbial communities. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. (pdf file)

2007

Zhou, X., C. J. Brown, Z. Abdo, C. C. Davis, M. A. Hansmann, P. Joyce, J. A. Foster, and L. J. Forney. 2007. Differences in the composition of vaginal microbial communities found in healthy Caucasian and Black women. International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal, 1: 121-133.

Abdo, Z. and G.B. Golding. 2007. A step toward barcoding life: A model based, decision theoretic method to assign genes to pre-existing species groups. Systematic Biology. 56: 44-56. (pdf file)

Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2007.

This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution.

The definitive version was published in Systematic Biology, Volume 56 Issue 1, January 2007.

doi:10.1080/10635150601167005 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10635150601167005)

2006

Abdo, Z., U. Schuette, S. Bent, C. Williams, L. J. Forney, and P. Joyce. 2006. Statistical methods for characterizing diversity of microbial communities. Environmental Microbiology, 8:929–938. (pdf file)

2005

Sullivan, J., Z. Abdo, P. Joyce, and D. L. Swofford. 2005. Evaluating the performance of a successive-approximations approach to parameter optimization in maximum-likelihood phylogeny estimation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22: 1386-1392. (pdf file)

Joyce, P., Z. Abdo, J. M. Ponciano, L. De Gelder, L. J. Forney, and E. Top. 2005. Modeling the impact of periodic bottlenecks, unidirectional mutation, and observational error in experimental evolution. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 50: 645–662. (pdf file)

Abdo, Z., V. Minin, P. Joyce and J. Sullivan. 2005. Accounting for uncertainty in the tree topology has little effect on the decision theoretic approach to model selection in phylogeny estimation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22: 691-703. (pdf file)

2004

De Gelder, L., J. M. Ponciano, Z. Abdo, P. Joyce, L. Forney, and E. Top. 2004. Combining mathematical models and statistical methods to understand and predict the dynamics of antibiotic sensitive mutants in a population of resistant bacteria during experimental evolution. Genetics, 168: 1131-1144. (pdf file)

Abdo, Z., K. A. Crandall, and P. Joyce. 2004. Evaluating the performance of likelihood methods for detecting population structure and migration. Molecular Ecology, 13: 837-851. (pdf file)

2003

Minin, V., Z. Abdo, P. Joyce, and J. Sullivan. 2003. Performance-based selection of likelihood models for phylogeny estimation. Systematic Biology, 52:674-683. (pdf file)