Publications

• Su, Y., Lin, H.C., Dale, C. 2023. Protocol to establish a genetically tractable synthetic symbiosis between Sodalis praecaptivus and grain weevils by insect egg microinjection. Star Protocols. 4:102156. Published, 06/16/2023.
• - Accompanying dispatch: Vigneron, A., Kaletenpoth, M. 2022. Symbiosis: Creating a tractable intracellular insect–microbe association. Current Biology. 32. R943-R946. Published, 09/2022.
• Su, Y., Lin, H.C., Teh, L.S., Chevance, F., James, I., Mayfield, C., Golic, K.G., Gagnon, J.A., Rog, O., Dale, C. 2022. Rational engineering of a synthetic insect-bacterial mutualism. Current Biology. 32: 3925-3938. Published, 09/2022.
• Weinstein, S.B., Martínez-Mota, R., Stapleton, T.E., Klure, D.M., Greenhalgh, R., Orr, T.J., Dale, C., Kohl, K.D. and Dearing, M.D. 2021. Microbiome stability and structure is governed by host phylogeny over diet and geography in woodrats (Neotoma spp.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 118: e2108787118. Published, 11/2021.
• Nechitaylo, T.Y., Sandoval-Calderon, M., Engl, T., Wielsch, N., Dunn, D.L., Goesmann, A., Strohm, E., Svatoš, A., Dale, C., Weiss, R.B. and Kaltenpoth, M. 2021. Incipient genome erosion and metabolic streamlining for antibiotic production in a defensive symbiont. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 118: e2023047118. Published, 04/2021.
• Medina Munoz, M., Spencer, N., Enomoto, S., Dale, C. and Rio, R.V.M. 2020. Quorum sensing sets the stage for the establishment and vertical transmission of Sodalis praecaptivus in tsetse flies. PLoS Genetics. 16: e1008992. Published, 08/2020.
• McCutcheon JP, Boyd BM & Dale C (2020). The Life of an Insect Endosymbiont from the Cradle to the Grave. Current biology : CB. Vol. 29, R485-R495. Published, 06/01/2020.
• McCutcheon, J.P., Boyd, B.and Dale, C. 2019. The life of an insect endosymbiont: conflict and cooperation from the cradle to the grave. Current Biology. 29: 485-495. Published, 06/2019.
• Kohl, K.D. & Oakeson, K.F., Orr, T.J., Miller, A.W., Forbey, J.S., Phillips, C.D., Dale, C., Weiss, R.B. and Dearing MD (2018). Metagenomic sequencing provides insights into microbial detoxification in the guts of small mammalian herbivores (Neotoma spp.). FEMS Microbiol Ecol. Vol. 94. Published, 12/01/2018.
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• Dale, C. (2017). Evolution: Weevils get tough on symbiotic tyrosine. Current Biology. Vol. 27, 1282-1284. Published, 12/04/2017.
  https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S096...
• Enomoto S, Chari A, Clayton AL & Dale C (2017). Quorum Sensing Attenuates Virulence in Sodalis praecaptivus. Cell host & microbe. Vol. 21, 629-636.e5. Published, 12/01/2017.
• Dale C (2017). Evolution: Weevils Get Tough on Symbiotic Tyrosine. Current biology : CB. Vol. 27, R1282-R1284. Published, 12/01/2017.
• Miller, A. W. & Dale, C. and Dearing, M.D. (2017). Microbiota Diversification and Crash Induced by Dietary Oxalate in the Mammalian Herbivore, Neotoma albigula. mSphere. Published, 12/2017.
  https://msphere.asm.org/content/2/5/e00428-17
• Miller, A.W. & Dale, C. and Dearing, M.D. (2017). The Induction of Oxalate Metabolism in vivo is More Effective with Functional Microbial Communities than with Functional Microbial Species. mSystems. Published, 10/2017.
  https://msystems.asm.org/content/2/5/e00088-17
• Kohl, K. & Oakeson, K., Dunn, D., Meyerholz, D., Dale, C., Weiss, R. and Dearing, M.D. (2017). Patterns of host gene expression associated with harboring a foregut microbial community. BMC Genomics. Published, 09/06/2017.
  https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
• Clayton AL, Enomoto S, Su Y & Dale C (2017). The regulation of antimicrobial peptide resistance in the transition to insect symbiosis. Molecular microbiology. Vol. 103, 958-972. Published, 08/01/2017.
• Enomoto, S. (2017). Quorum Sensing Attenuates Virulence in Sodalis praecaptivus. Cell Host and Microbe. Vol. 21, 629-636. Published, 05/10/2017.
  https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1...
• Clayton, A., Enomoto, S., Dale, C. 2016. The regulation of antimicrobial peptide resistance in the transition to insect symbiosis. Molecular Microbiology. 10.1111/mmi.13598. Published, 12/2016.
• Clayton AL, Jackson DG, Weiss RB & Dale C (2016). Adaptation by Deletogenic Replication Slippage in a Nascent Symbiont. Molecular biology and evolution. Vol. 33, 1957-66. Published, 07/01/2016.
• Miller AW, Oakeson KF, Dale C & Dearing MD (2016). Microbial Community Transplant Results in Increased and Long-Term Oxalate Degradation. Microbial ecology. Vol. 72, 470-8. Published, 07/01/2016.
• Chari A, Oakeson KF, Enomoto S, Jackson DG, Fisher MA & Dale C (2015). Phenotypic characterization of Sodalis praecaptivus sp. nov., a close non-insect-associated member of the Sodalis-allied lineage of insect endosymbionts. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology. Vol. 65, 1400-5. Published, 06/01/2015.
• Kohl, K.D., Weiss, R.B., Cox, J., Dale, C., Dearing, M.D. 2014. Gut microbes of mammalian herbivores facilitate intake of plant toxins. Ecology Letters. 17: 1238-1247. Published, 04/2014.
• Oakeson K.F., Gil R, Clayton A.L., Dunn D.M., von Niederhausern A.C., Hamil C, Aoyagi A, Duval B, Baca A, Silva F.J., Vallier A, Jackson D.G., Latorre A, Weiss R.B., Heddi A, Moya A, Dale C. 2014. Genome degeneration and adaptation in a nascent stage of symbiosis. Genome Biology and Evolution 6: 76-93. Published, 01/2014.
• Smith, W.A., Johnson, K.P., Reed, D.L., Carter, T., Smith, K.L., Clayton, D.H., and Dale, C. 2013. Phylogenetic analysis reveals evidence of serial symbiont replacement in feather feeding lice of the genus Columbicola. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 109. Published, 05/31/2013.
• Clayton, A.L., Oakeson, K.F., Gutin, M., Pontes, A., Dunn, D.M., von Niederhausern, A.C., Weiss, R.B., Fisher, M., and Dale, C. 2012. A Novel Human-Infection-Derived Bacterium Provides Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of Mutualistic Insect–Bacterial Symbioses. PLoS Genetics 8(11): e1002990. Published, 05/2012.
• Smith, W.A., Johnson, K.P., Reed, D.L., Carter, T., Smith, K.L., Clayton, D.H., and Dale, C. 2011. Phylogenetic analysis reveals evidence of serial symbiont replacement in feather feeding lice of the genus Columbicola. Molecular Biology and Evolution (in review). Published, 05/2011.
• Pontes, M.H., Smith, K., De Vooght L., Van Den Abbeele, J., and Dale, C. 2011. Attenuation of the sensing capabilities of PhoQ in transition to obligate insect-bacterial association. PLoS Genetics 7(11): e1002349. Published, 04/2011.
• Kohl, K.D., Weiss, R.B., Dale, C., Dearing, M.D. 2011. Diversity and novelty of the gut microbial community of an herbivorous rodent (Neotoma bryanti). Symbiosis. 47: 47-54. Published, 03/2011.
• Pontes, M.H., and Dale, C. 2011. Lambda-Red Mediated Genetic Modification of the Insect Endosymbiont, Sodalis glossinidius. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77: 1918-1920. Published, 02/2011.

Presentations

• Indiana University seminar: “Tales from the cradle of symbiosis” . Presentation, Presented, 05/2018.
• Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series, University of Utah: “The role of communication in friendly alliances” . Presentation, Presented, 04/2018.
• AEM Microbes Conference: "Genome evolution in nascent insect symbionts". Contributed Talk, Presented, 06/2016.
• Portland State University seminar: "Bacterial genome degeneration in the early stages of symbiosis". Contributed Talk, Presented, 03/2016.
• Session Chair: Gordon Research Conference on Animal-Microbe Symbiosis. Panel, Presented, 07/2015.
• Plant-Animal Genomes Conference. Contributed Talk, Presented, 05/2015.
• ESA Pacific Branch Annual Meeting. Contributed Talk, Presented, 02/2015.
• 12th International Colloquium on Endocytobiology and Symbiosis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Contributed Talk, Presented, 08/2013.
• SOPE sequencing consortium workshop, Valencia, Spain. Seminar title: “Diversity and Evolutionary History of Sodalis glossinidius and allied symbionts”. Contributed Talk, Presented, 07/2011.
• UNLV seminar: “A tale of two mutants”. Contributed Talk, Presented, 12/2010.
• University of Riverside, CA seminar: “A tale of two mutants”. Contributed Talk, Presented, 11/2010.
• University of Montana seminar: "Characterization of strain HS, a progenitor of the Sodalis-Allied insect endosymbionts" . Contributed Talk, Presented, 10/2010.
• University of Utah GIG seminar: “Using lambda-Red recombineering to transform insect symbionts”. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2010.