Education & Training BS, University of Kansas, 1992
MS, University of Georgia, 1995
PhD, University of Georgia, 2000
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona, 2001-2004
Research Interests I am primarily interested in bacterial evolution, and in particular, the role that transposable elements play in shaping the genomic architecture of intracellular bacteria.
Selected Publications Dougherty KM, Plague GR. 2008. Transposable element loads are extremely variable in a bacterial symbiont of weevils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74:7832-7834.
Plague GR, Dunbar HE, Tran PL, Moran NA. 2008. Extensive proliferation of transposable elements in heritable bacterial symbionts. Journal of Bacteriology 190:777-779.
Moran NA, Plague GR. 2004. Genomic changes following host restriction in bacteria. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 14:627-633.
Plague GR, Dale C, Moran NA. 2003. Low and homogeneous copy number of plasmid-borne symbiont genes affecting host nutrition in Buchnera aphidicola of the aphid Uroleucon ambrosiae. Molecular Ecology 12:1095-1100.
Dale C, Plague GR, Wang B, Ochman H, Moran NA. 2002. Type III secretion systems and the evolution of mutualistic endosymbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99:12397-12402.
