Research

Research Areas

  • Environmental Virology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Microbiome

  • Zhong KX*, Chan AM, Miller KM, Saunders R, and Suttle CA*. (2025) Evolutionarily divergent nidovirus with an exceptionally large genome identified in Pacific oysters undergoing mass mortality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 122: e2426923122. Link.

  • Zhong KX, Chan AM*, Prentice MB, Gouin Y, Harvell D, Gehman ALM, Suttle CA*. (2025) Draft genome sequence of Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3, a causative agent of sea star wasting disease in the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides), reveals the genetic potential to produce aerolysin-like toxins. Microbiology Resource Announcements. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00287-25

  • Zhong KX*, Daspe M, Collicut B, Rolheiser K, Foss M, Finke JF, Sutherland BJG, Hesketh AV, Chan AM, Green TJ, Saunders R, Harley CDG, Otto SP, Miller KM, and Suttle CA*. (2024) Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbiome of Pacific Oyster Spat is Shaped by Ocean Warming, but not Ocean Acidification. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 90: e0005224. Link.

  • Zhong KX*, Wirth JF, Chan AM and Suttle CA*. (2023) Mortality by ribosomal sequencing (MoRS) provides a window into taxon-specific cell lysis.  ISME Journal, 17: 105-116. Link.

  • Zhong KX*, Cho A, Deeg CM, Chan AM, and Suttle CA*. (2021) Revealing the Composition of the Eukaryotic Microbiome of Oyster Spat by CRISPR-Cas Selective Amplicon Sequencing (CCSAS).  Microbiome 9: 230. Link. 

  • Zhong KX, Suttle CA, Anne-Claire B, Dherelle E, Colombet J, Cho A, Caleta J, Six C, and Jacquet S*. (2018) A new freshwater cyanosiphovirus harbouring integrase. Frontier in Microbiology, 9: 2204. Link.