Publications
2009
Schütte, U.M.E., Z. Abdo,
J. Foster, J. Ravel, J. Bunge, B. Solheim and L. J. Forney. Bacterial diversity
in a glacier foreland of the High Arctic. Molecular
Ecology.
Buzbas, E. O., P. Joyce and Z.
Abdo. Estimation of selection intensity under overdominance by Baysian
methods. Statistical Applications in
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 8(1):Article 32.
Schütte, U.M.E., Z. Abdo,
S.J. Bent, C.J. Williams, G.M. Schneider, B. Solheim, and L.J. Forney. Microbial
succession along a glacial foreland chronological sequence in the High Arctic,
Spitsbergen, Norway. The International
Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME) Journal, 3: 1258-1268.
Rokyta, D., Z. Abdo and
H. Wichman. Submitted. Viral Domestication: The Genetics of Adaptation for
Eight Microvirid Bacteriophages. Journal
of Molecular Evolution, 69:229–239.
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)