PUBLICATIONS

  1. Wienhausen, G., Moraru, C., Bruns, S., Tran, D.Q., Sultana, S., Wilkes, H., Dlugosch, L., Azam, F., and Meinhard, S. (2024) Ligand cross-feeding resolves bacterial vitamin B12 auxotrophies. Nature 629, pp 886–892, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07396-y.
  2. Moraru, C. (2023) VirClus – A Tool for Hierarchical Clustering, Core Protein Detection and Annotation of (Prokaryotic) Viruses, Viruses 15(4), pp 1007, doi:  https://doi.org/10.3390/v15041007
  3. Zucker, F., Bischoff, V., Olo Ndela, E., Heyerhoff, B., Poehlein, A., Freese, H.M., Roux, S., Simon, M., Enault, F., and Moraru, C. (2022) New Microviridae isolated from Sulfitobacter reveals two cosmopolitan subfamilies of single-stranded DNA phages infecting marine and terrestrial Alphaproteobacteria. Virus evolution, doi: 10.1093/ve/veac070.
  4. Kever, L., Hardy, A., Luthe, T., Hünnefeld, M., Gätgens, C., Milke, L., Wiechert, J., Wittmann, J., Moraru, C., Marienhagen, J., and Frunzke, J. (2022) Aminoglycoside Antibiotics Inhibit Phage Infection by Blocking an Early Step of the Infection Cycle. mBio, doi: 10.1128/mbio.00783-22.
  5. Turzynski, V., Monsees, I., Moraru, C. and Probst, A. (2021) Imaging Techniques for Detecting Prokaryotic Viruses in Environmental Samples. Viruses 13(11), pp. 2126.
  6. Bartlau, N., Wichels, A., Krohne, G., Adriaenssens, E.M., Heins, A., Fuchs, B.M., Amann, R., and Moraru, C. (2021) Highly diverse flavobacterial phages isolated from North Sea spring blooms. ISMEJ (doi: 10.1038/s41396-021-01097-4.)
  7. Calabrese, F., Stryhanyuk, H., Moraru, C., Schlömann, M., Wick, L.Y., Richnow, H.H., Musat, F., and Musat, N. (2021) Metabolic history and metabolic fitness as drivers of anabolic heterogeneity in isogenic microbial populations. Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15756.
  8. Rahlff, J., Turzynski, V., Esser, S.P., Monsees, I., Bornemann, T.L.V., Figueroa-Gonzalez, P.A., Schulz, F., Woyke, T., Klingl, A., Moraru, C., Probst, A. (2021) Lytic archaeal viruses infect abundant primary producers in Earth’s crust. Nature Communications 12, pp 4642
  9. Zayed, A., Lücking, D., Mohssen, M., Cronin, D., Bolduc, B., Gregory, A.C., Hargreaves, K.R., Piehowski, P.D, White III, R.A., Huang, E.L., Adkins, J.N., Roux, S., Moraru, C.* and Sullivan, M.B.* (2021). efam: an expanded, metaproteome-supported HMM profile database of viral protein families. Bioinformatics, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab451. *corresponding authors
  10. Krupovic, M., Turner, D., Morozova, V., Dyall-Smith, M., Oksanen, H.M., Edwards, R., Dutilh, B.E., Lehman, S.M., Reyes, A., Baquero, D.P., Sullivan, M.B., Uchiyama, J., Nakavuma, J., Barylski, J., Young, M.J., Du, S., Alfenas-Zerbini, P., Kushkina, A., Kropinski, A.M., Kurtböke, I., Brister, J.R., Lood, C., Sarkar, B.L., Yigang, T., Liu, Y., Huang, L., Wittmann, J., Chanishvili, N., van Zyl, L.J., Rumnieks, J., Mochizuki, T., Jalasvuori, M., Aziz, R.K., Lobocka, M., Stedman, K.M., Shkoporov, A.N., Gillis, A., Peng, X., Enault, F., Knezevic, P., Lavigne, R., Rhee, S.-K., Cvirkaite-Krupovic, V., Moraru, C., Moreno Switt, A.I., Poranen, M.M., Millard, A., Prangishvili, D., and Adriaenssens, E.M. (2021) Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021. Archives of Virology 166 (11), doi: 10.1007/s00705-021-05205-9.
  11. Barrero-Canosa, J., Moraru, C. (2021) Linking microbes to their genes at single cell level with direct-geneFISH. In Nuno F. Azevedo, Carina Almeida (Eds.): Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization (FISH) for Microbial Cells. Methods and Concepts: Springer US (Methods in Molecular Biology), pp. 169-205.
  12. Moraru, C., (2021) Gene-PROBER – a tool to design polynucleotide probes for targeting microbial genes. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 44(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126173.
  13. Bischoff, V., Zucker, F. and Moraru, C. (2021): Marine Bacteriophages. In Encyclopedia of Virology 4th edition, Bamford, D., and Zuckerman, M.A. (eds). Amsterdam: Academic Press, pp. 322-341. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.20988-6.
  14. Moraru, C*., Varsani, A., and Kropinski, A.M. (2020) VIRIDIC – a novel tool to calculate the intergenomic similarities of prokaryote-infecting viruses. Viruses 12(11). DOI: 3390/v12111268. *corresponding author
  15. Castillo, Y.M., Sebastián, M., Forn, I., Grimsley, N., Yau, S., Moraru, C., and Vaqué, D. (2020) Visualization of viral infection dynamics in a unicellular eukaryote and quantification of viral production using virus fluorescence in situ hybridization. Frontiers in microbiology, 11, article 1559. DOI: 3389/fmicb.2020.01559.
  16. Bischoff, V., Bunk, B., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Spröer, C., Poehlein, A., Dogs, M., Nguyen, M., Petersen, J., Daniel, R., Overmann, J., Göker, M., Simon, M., Brinkhoff T. and Moraru, C. (2019) Cobaviruses – a new globally distributed phage group infecting Rhodobacteraceae in marine ecosystems. The ISME Journal 13 (6), pp. 1404–1421.
  17. Jimena Barrero-Canosa, Cristina Moraru (2019) PhageFISH for monitoring phage infections at single cell level. In Martha R. J. Clokie, Andrew M. Kropinski, Rob Lavigne (Eds.): Methods and protocols. New York: Humana Press; Springer (Springer protocols, Methods and protocols, volume 1898), pp. 1–26.
  18. Barrero-Canosa, J., Moraru, C*., Zeugner, Laura; Fuchs, Bernhard M.; Amann, Rudolf* (2017) Direct-geneFISH. A simplified protocol for the simultaneous detection and quantification of genes and rRNA in microorganisms. Environmental Microbiology 19 (1), pp. 70–82. *corresponding authors
  19. Moraru C. and Allers E. (2014) Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for the identification and quantification of microorganisms, In Skovhus, T.L., Caffrey, S., and Hubert, C.R.J.. Molecular Methods and Applications in Microbiology (Norfolk, UK: Caister Academic Press).
  20. Allers, E*., Moraru, C.*, Duhaime, M.B., Beneze, E., Solonenko, N., Canosa, J.B., Amann, R., and Sullivan, M.B. (2013) Single-cell and population level viral infection dynamics revealed by phageFISH, a method to visualize intracellular and free viruses. Environmental Microbiology 15: 2306-2318. *Authors contributed equally to the work in this study.
  21. Moraru, C., and Amann, R. (2012) Crystal ball: Fluorescence in situ hybridization in the age of super-resolution microscopy. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 35: 549-552.
  22. Amann, R., and Moraru, C. (2012) Two decades of fluorescence in situ hybridization in systematic and applied microbiology. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 35: 483-484.
  23. Lenk, S., Moraru, C., Hahnke, S., Arnds, J., Richter, M., Kube, M., Reinhardt, R., Brinkhoff, T., Harder, J., Amann, R., and Musmann, M. (2012) Roseobacter clade bacteria are abundant in coastal sediments and encode a novel combination of sulfur oxidation genes. The ISME Journal 6: 2178-2187.
  24. Moraru, C., Moraru, G., Fuchs, B.M., and Amann, R. (2011) Concepts and software for a rational design of polynucleotide probes. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 3: 69-78.
  25. Petersen, J.M., Zielinski, F.U., Pape, T., Seifert, R., Moraru, C., Amann, R., Hourdez, S., Girguis, P.R., Wankel, S.D., Barbe, V., Pelletier, E., Fink, D., Borowski, C., Bach, W., and Dubilier, N. (2011) Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses. Nature 476: 176-180.
  26. Moraru, C., Lam, P., Fuchs, B.M., Kuypers, M.M.M. and Amann, R. (2010) GeneFISH – an in situ technique for linking gene presence and cell identity in environmental microorganisms. Microbiol. 12: 3057-3073.
  27. Ploug, H., Musat, N., Adam, B., Moraru, C., Lavik, G., Bergman, B., and Kuypers, M.M.M.. (2010) Carbon and nitrogen fluxes associated with Aphanizomenon sp. in the Baltic Sea. The ISME Journal. 4: 1215-1223.