Taylor, Megan, and Nic Vega. 2022. “Batching Inflates Error Rates in Microbial Colonization of Caenorhabditis Elegans: An Empirical Investigation of the Statistical Properties of Count-Based Data.” bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.25.501406.
Taylor, Megan, Satya Spandana Boddu, and Nic Vega. 2022. “Using Single-Worm Data to Quantify Heterogeneity in Caenorhabditis Elegans-Bacterial Interactions | Protocol.” Journal of Visualized Experiments : JoVE. https://doi.org/10.3791/64027.
Vega, Nic M., and William B. Ludington. 2021. “From a Parts List to Assembly Instructions and an Operating Manual: How Small Host Models Can Re-Write Microbiome Theory.” Current Opinion in Microbiology 64 (December): 146–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2021.10.006.
Taylor, Megan, and N. M. Vega. 2021. “Host Immunity Alters Community Ecology and Stability of the Microbiome in a Caenorhabditis Elegans Model.” MSystems 6 (2). https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00608-20.
S. Qing*, Vega, N.M.*, B. Cervantes, C. Mancuso, J. Gore, and T. Lu. Colonization with heterologous bacteria reprograms a Caenorhabditis elegans nutritional phenotype. bioRxiv 2020.03.01.972349 (2020) doi:10.1101/2020.03.01.972349.
Ortiz, Anthony, Nicole M. Vega, Christoph Ratzke, and Jeff Gore. 2021. “Interspecies Bacterial Competition Regulates Community Assembly in the C. Elegans Intestine.” The ISME Journal 15 (February): 2131–45. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-00910-4.
Chaudhry, W., A. Worthy, N.M. Vega, and B. Levin. (2020) Mucoidy, a general mechanism for maintaining lytic phage in populations of bacteria. FEMS Microbial Ecology 96(10): fiaa162. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa162
Vega, N. M. (2019) Experimental evolution reveals microbial traits for association with the host gut. PLOS Biology 17, e3000129. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000129
Vega, N. M. & J. Gore. (2018) Simple organizing principles in microbial communities. Current Opinion in Microbiology 45:195-202. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369527417302187
Vega, N. M. and J. Gore. 2017. “Stochastic Assembly Produces Heterogeneous Communities in the C. elegans Intestine”. PLOS Biology 15(3): e2000633. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2000633
Vega, N. M., and J. Gore. 2015. “Biofilms: How Structure Emerges from Conflict.” Current Biology: CB 25 (18): R800-802. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.007.
Artemova, T., Y. Gerardin, C. Dudley, N. M. Vega, and J. Gore. 2015. “Isolated Cell Behavior Drives the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance.” Molecular Systems Biology 11 (7). doi:10.15252/msb.20145888.
Vega, N. M., and J. Gore. 2014. “Collective Antibiotic Resistance: Mechanisms and Implications.” Current Opinion in Microbiology 21 (October): 28–34. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2014.09.003.
Vega, N. M., K. R. Allison, A. N. Samuels, M. S. Klempner, and J.J. Collins. (2013) “Reply to Blair et al.: Dose-Dependent Effects and Oxidative Stress Responses in Antibiotic Tolerance in Salmonella typhimurium.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, no. 48: E4570–E4570. doi:10.1073/pnas.1318744110. PMCID: PMC3845158
Vega, N. M., K. R. Allison, A. N. Samuels, M. Klempner, & J. J. Collins. (2013) “Salmonella typhimurium intercepts Escherichia coli signaling to enhance antibiotic tolerance”. Proc Nat Acad Sci. 110(35): 14420-14425. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1308085110. PMCID: PMC3761632
Marbach, D., J. C. Costello, R. Kuffner, N. M. Vega, R. J. Prill, D. M. Camacho, K. R. Allison, M. Kellis, J. J. Collins & G. Stolovitzky. (2012) “Wisdom of crowds for robust gene network inference.” Nat Meth 9(8): 796-804. PMCID: PMC3512113
Vega, N. M., K. R. Allison, A. S. Khalil & J. J. Collins. (2012) “Signaling-mediated bacterial persister formation.” Nat Chem Biol 8(5): 431-433. PMCID: PMC3329571
Vega, N. M., V. F. Gallucci, L. Hauser & J. Franks. (2009). “Differences in Growth in the Spiny Dogfish over a Latitudinal Gradient in the Northeast Pacific.” Biology and Management of Dogfish Sharks. Gallucci, V. F., G. A. McFarlane & G. G. Bargmann. Bethesda, Maryland, USA, American Fisheries Society: 169-180.
Gallucci, V. F., R. J. Foy, S. M. O’Brien, A. Aires-da-Silva, H. Nesse, B. Langseth, N. M. Vega, I. Taylor and K. J. Goldman. (2008). “Information from a pregnant salmon shark Lamna ditropis in the eastern North Pacific with observations on oophagous reproduction.” Journal of Fish Biology, 73: 732–739. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2008.01951.x
Hauser, L., J. H. Franks, N. M. Vega, V. F. Gallucci. (2007). “Potential for sustainable expansion of the dogfish (Squalus acanthias) fishery in the northeast Pacific.” NOAA Report. http://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/mb/sk/pdf/Report_2.pdf