Honey bees as models for gut microbiota research H Zheng, MI Steele, SP Leonard, EVS Motta, NA Moran Lab animal 47 (11), 317-325, 2018 | 266 | 2018 |
Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens SP Leonard, JE Powell, J Perutka, P Geng, LC Heckmann, RD Horak, ... Science 367 (6477), 573-576, 2020 | 217 | 2020 |
Discovery of next-generation antimicrobials through bacterial self-screening of surface-displayed peptide libraries AT Tucker, SP Leonard, CD DuBois, GA Knauf, AL Cunningham, ... Cell 172 (3), 618-628. e13, 2018 | 150 | 2018 |
Genome-wide screen identifies host colonization determinants in a bacterial gut symbiont JE Powell, SP Leonard, WK Kwong, P Engel, NA Moran Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (48), 13887-13892, 2016 | 144 | 2016 |
Genetic engineering of bee gut microbiome bacteria with a toolkit for modular assembly of broad-host-range plasmids SP Leonard, J Perutka, JE Powell, P Geng, DD Richhart, M Byrom, S Kar, ... ACS synthetic biology 7 (5), 1279-1290, 2018 | 118 | 2018 |
Obligate bacterial endosymbionts limit thermal tolerance of insect host species B Zhang, SP Leonard, Y Li, NA Moran Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (49), 24712-24718, 2019 | 108 | 2019 |
Symbionts shape host innate immunity in honeybees RD Horak, SP Leonard, NA Moran Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1933), 20201184, 2020 | 85 | 2020 |
Predicting the genetic stability of engineered DNA sequences with the EFM calculator BR Jack, SP Leonard, DM Mishler, BA Renda, D Leon, GA Suárez, ... ACS synthetic biology 4 (8), 939-943, 2015 | 73 | 2015 |
Prospects for probiotics in social bees EVS Motta, JE Powell, SP Leonard, NA Moran Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377 (1853), 20210156, 2022 | 40 | 2022 |
Rapid and Inexpensive Evaluation of Nonstandard Amino Acid Incorporation in Escherichia coli JW Monk, SP Leonard, CW Brown, MJ Hammerling, C Mortensen, ... ACS synthetic biology 6 (1), 45-54, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
Synthetic genome defenses against selfish DNA elements stabilize engineered bacteria against evolutionary failure P Geng, SP Leonard, DM Mishler, JE Barrick ACS Synthetic Biology 8 (3), 521-531, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
Engineering insects from the endosymbiont out KM Elston, SP Leonard, P Geng, SB Bialik, E Robinson, JE Barrick Trends in Microbiology 30 (1), 79-96, 2022 | 33 | 2022 |
Field-realistic tylosin exposure impacts honey bee microbiota and pathogen susceptibility, which is ameliorated by native gut probiotics JE Powell, Z Carver, SP Leonard, NA Moran Microbiology Spectrum 9 (1), 10.1128/spectrum. 00103-21, 2021 | 31 | 2021 |
Species divergence in gut-restricted bacteria of social bees Y Li, SP Leonard, JE Powell, NA Moran Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (18), e2115013119, 2022 | 24 | 2022 |
Rapid and assured genetic engineering methods applied to Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 genome streamlining GA Suárez, KR Dugan, BA Renda, SP Leonard, LS Gangavarapu, ... Nucleic Acids Research 48 (8), 4585-4600, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
Honey bee functional genomics using symbiont-mediated RNAi PJ Lariviere, SP Leonard, RD Horak, JE Powell, JE Barrick Nature Protocols 18 (3), 902-928, 2023 | 17 | 2023 |
Prolonging genetic circuit stability through adaptive evolution of overlapping genes JL Chlebek, SP Leonard, C Kang-Yun, MC Yung, DP Ricci, Y Jiao, ... Nucleic Acids Research 51 (13), 7094-7108, 2023 | 7 | 2023 |
The Pathfinder plasmid toolkit for genetically engineering newly isolated bacteria enables the study of Drosophila-colonizing Orbaceae KM Elston, LE Phillips, SP Leonard, E Young, JC Holley, T Ahsanullah, ... ISME communications 3 (1), 49, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
Single-step genome engineering in the bee gut symbiont Snodgrassella alvi PJ Lariviere, AHMZ Ashraf, SP Leonard, LG Miller, NA Moran, JE Barrick bioRxiv, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
The Pathfinder plasmid toolkit for genetically engineering newly isolated bacteria enables the study ofDrosophila-colonizingOrbaceae KM Elston, LE Phillips, SP Leonard, E Young, JC Holley, T Ahsanullah, ... | 1 | 2023 |