- Arturo Vera-Ponce de Leon, Mathias Schneider, Benjamin C. Jahnes, Victoria Sadowski, Lennel Camuy-Velez, Jun Duan and Zakee L. Sabree. 2022. Genetic Drift and Host-Adaptive Features Likely Underlie the Cladogenesis of Insect-Associated Lachnospiraceae. Genome Biology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac086
- Didion EM, Sabree ZL, Kenyon L, Nine G, Hagan RW, Osman S, Benoit JB. 2021. Microbiome reduction prevents lipid accumulation during early diapause in the northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens pipiens. Journal of Insect Physiology, 104295
- Vera Ponce de Leon A, Jahnes BC, Otero-Bravo A, Sabree ZL. Microbiota perturbation or elimination can inhibit normal development and elicit a starvation-like response in an omnivorous model invertebrate. Accepted by mSystems
- Jahnes BC, Poudel K, Staats AM, Nicholas S, Sabree ZL. Microbial Colonization Promotes Model Cockroach Gut Tissue Growth and Development. J Insect Physiol. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2021.104274. PMID: 34216600
- Otero-Bravo A and Sabree ZL. Multiple concurrent and convergent stages of genome reduction in bacterial symbionts across a stink bug family. Scientific Reports. 11;7731. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86574-8
- Vera-Ponce de Leon A, Jahnes BC, Duan J, Asao M, Camuy-Velez L, Sabree ZL. Cultivable, Host-Specific Bacteroidetes Symbionts Exhibit Diverse Polysaccharolytic Strategies. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2020 Apr 1;86(8). pii: e00091-20. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00091-20.
- Jahnes BC and Sabree ZL. 2020. Nutritional symbiosis and ecology of host-gut microbe systems in the Blattodea. Current Opinion in Insect Science.org/10.1016/j.cois.2020.01.001
- Jahnes BC, Herrmann M, Sabree ZL. 2019. Conspecific coprophagy stimulates normal development in a germ-free model invertebrate. PeerJ.;7:e6914. Published 2019 May 13. doi:10.7717/peerj.6914
- Otero-Bravo A, Goffredi S, Sabree ZL. 2018. Cladogenesis and Genomic Streamlining in Extracellular Endosymbionts of Tropical Stink Bugs. Genome Biol Evol. 10(2):680–693. doi:10.1093/gbe/evy033
- Garrick RC, Sabree ZL, Jahnes B, Oliver J. 2017. Strong spatial-genetic congruence between a wood-feeding cockroach and its bacterial endosymbiont, across a topographically complex landscape. J Biogeography. 29 March 2017. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12992
- Otero-Bravo A and Sabree ZL. 2017. Comparing the utility of host and primary endosymbiont loci for predicting global invasive insect genetic structuring and migration patterns. Biological Control. 3 April 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2017.04.003
- Ayayee PA, Keeney G, Sabree ZL, Muñoz-Garcia A. 2017. Compositional differences between embryo-associated and female gut-associated microbiota of the viviparous Pacific Beetle cockroach, Diploptera punctata. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fix052
- Ayayee PA, Larsen T, Sabree Z[L]. 2016. Symbiotic essential amino acids provisioning in the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus) under various dietary conditions. 2016 May 18;4:e2046. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2046.
- Ayayee PA, Jones SC and Sabree ZL. Can 13C stable isotope analysis uncover essential amino acid provisioning by termite-associated gut-microbes? PeerJ 3:e1218. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1218
- Otero-Bravo A and Sabree ZL. Inside or out? Detailing the life history and potential genomic consequences of extracellular, crypt-dwelling stinkbug mutualists. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00064
- Kenyon LJ, Meulia T, Sabree ZL. 2015. Habitat visualization and genomic analysis of “Candidatus Pantoea carbekii,” the primary symbiont of the brown marmorated stink bug. Genome Biology and Evolution. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evv006.
- Bansal R, Michel AP and Sabree ZL. 2014. The crypt-dwelling primary bacterial symbiont of the polyphagous pentatomid pest Halyomorpha halys. Environmental Entomology. 43:537-548.
- Kenyon LJ and Sabree ZL. 2014. Obligate insect endosymbionts exhibit increased ortholog length variation and loss of large accessory proteins concurrent with genome shrinkage. Genome Biology and Evolution. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evu055.
- Sabree ZL and Moran NA. 2014. Host-specific assemblages typify gut microbial communities of related insect species. SpringerPlus 3:138.
- Tokuda G, Elbourne L, Kinjo Y, Saitoh S, Sabree Z[L], Hojo M, Yamada A, Hayashi Y, Shigenobu S, Bandi C, Paulsen I, Watanabe H, Lo N. 2013. Maintenance of essential amino acid synthesis pathways in Blattabacterium symbionts of a wood-feeding cockroach. Biology Letters. 9:20121153.
- Sabree ZL, Huang CY, Okusu A, Moran NA, Normark BB. 2013. Uzinura is the sole nutrient-supplying endosymbiont of armored scale insects. Environmental Microbiology. 15:1988-99.
- Huang CY, Sabree ZL, Moran NA. 2012. Genome sequence of Blattabacterium sp. strain BGIGA, endosymbiont of the Blaberus giganteus Journal of Bacteriology. 194:4450-1.
- Sabree ZL, Hansen AK, Moran NA. 2012. Independent studies using deep sequencing resolve the same set of core bacterial species dominating gut communities of honey bees. PLoS One. 7:e41250.
- Moran NA, Hansen AK, Powell JE, Sabree ZL. 2012. Distinctive gut microbiota of honey bees assessed using deep sampling from individual worker bees. PLoS One. 7:e36393.
- Sabree ZL, Huang CY, Arakawa G, Tokuda G, Lo N, Watanabe H, Moran NA. 2012. Genome shrinkage and loss of nutrient-providing potential in the obligate symbiont of the primitive termite Mastotermes darwiniensis. Applied and Environemental Microbiology. 78:204-210.
- Olivier-Espejel, S, Sabree ZL, Noge K, Becerra JX. 2011. Gut microbiota in nymph and adults of the Giant Mesquite Bug (Thasus neocalifornicus) (Heteroptera: Coreidae) is dominated by Burkholderia acquired de novo every generation. Environmental Entomology. 40:1102-1110.
- Degnan PD, Bittleston LS, Hansen AK, Sabree ZL, Moran NA, Almeida RPP. 2011. Origin and examination of a leafhopper facultative endosymbiont. Current Microbiology. 62:1565-1572.
- Sabree ZL, Degnan PH, Moran NA. 2010. Chromosome stability and gene loss in cockroach endosymbionts. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76:4076-9.
- Sabree ZL, Kambhampati S, Moran NA. 2009. Nitrogen recycling and nutritional provisioning by Blattabacterium, the cockroach endosymbiont. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106:19521-19526.
- Sabree ZL, Bergendahl V, Liles MR, Burgess RR, Goodman RM, Handelsman J. 2006. Identification and characterization of the gene encoding the Acidobacterium capsulatum major sigma factor. Gene 376:144-51.
- Stapleton RD, Sabree ZL, Palumbo AV, Moyer CL, Devol AH, Roh Y, Zhou JZ. 2005. Metal reduction at cold temperatures by Shewanella isolates from various marine environments. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 38:81-91.