Mya Breitbart
Dr. Breitbart is a Professor in the USF College of Marine Science. She has pioneered the field of viral metagenomics for the discovery of viruses across a wide range of hosts, environmental reservoirs, and insect vectors. Major viral projects within her current research group include studying the diversity of circular eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses in invertebrates and fungi, using vector-enabled metagenomics to study plant viruses transmitted by whiteflies, developing and applying new viral indicators of fecal pollution worldwide, identifying novel viruses in healthy and diseased marine organisms of critical ecological and economic importance, elucidating factors that drive patterns in spatiotemporal variability in the diversity of aquatic viruses, and examining the role of bacteriophages in manipulating gut microbiomes in a marine model system.
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Publications
Fahsbender, E, JM Burns, S Kim, S Kraberger, G Frankfurter, AA Eilers, MR Shero, R Beltran, A Kirkham, R McCorkell, RK Berngartt, MF Male, G Ballard, DG Ainley, M Breitbart, A Varsani (2017) Diverse and highly recombinant anelloviruses associated with Weddell seals in Antarctica. Virus Evolution. 3: vex017.
Polston, JE, MA Londono, AL Cohen, M Padilla-Rodriguez, K Rosario, M Breitbart (2017). Euphorbia mosaic virus from passionfruit and Euphorbia heterophylla in Florida, USA. Genome Announcements. 5: e01714-16.
Symonds, EM, S Young, ME Verbyla, SM McQuaig-Ulrich, E Ross, JA Jimenez, VJ Harwood, M Breitbart (2017). Microbial source tracking in shellfish harvesting waters in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica. Water Research. 111: 177-184.
Symonds, E, C Sinigalliano, M Gidley, W Ahmed, SM McQuaig-Ulrich, M Breitbart (2016). Faecal pollution along the southeastern coast of Florida and insight into the use of pepper mild mottle virus as an indicator. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 121: 1469-1481.
Verbyla, ME, EM Symonds, RC Kafle, MR Cairns, M Iriarte, A Mercado, O Coronado, M Breitbart, C Ledo, JR Mihelcic (2016). Managing microbial risks from indirect wastewater reuse for irrigation in urbanizing watersheds. Environmental Science and Technology. 50: 6803-6813.
Rosario, K, YM Seah, C Marr, A Varsani, S Kraberger, D Stainton, E Moriones, JE Polston, S Duffy, M Breitbart (2016). Begomovirus-associated satellite DNA diversity captured through vector-enabled metagenomic (VEM) surveys using whiteflies (Aleyrodidae). Viruses. 8: 36.
Rosario, K, YM Seah, C Marr, A Varsani, S Kraberger, D Stainton, E Moriones, JE Polston, S Duffy, M Breitbart (2015). Vector-enabled metagenomic (VEM) surveys using whiteflies (Aleyrodidae) reveal novel begomovirus species in the New and Old Worlds. Viruses. 7: 5553-5570.
Rosario, K, RO Schenck, RC Harbeitner, SN Lawler, M Breitbart (2015). Novel circular single-stranded DNA viruses identified in marine invertebrates reveal high sequence diversity and consistent predicted intrinsic disorder patterns within putative structural proteins. Frontiers in Microbiology 6: 696.
Fahsbender, E, K Rosario, JP Cannon, F Gulland, LJ Dishaw, M. Breitbart (2015). Development of a serological assay for the sea lion (Zalophus californianus) anellovirus, ZcAV. Scientific Reports. 5 : 9637.
Symonds, EM, MM Cook, SM McQuaig, RM Ulrich, RO Schenck, JO Lukasik, ES Van Vleet, M Breitbart (2015). Reduction of nutrients, microbes, and personal care products in domestic wastewater by a benchtop electrocoagulation unit. Scientific Reports. 5: 9380.
Symonds, EM and M Breitbart. (2015). Affordable enteric virus detection techniques are needed to support changing paradigms in water quality management. CLEAN - Soil Air Water. 43: 8-12.
Hewson, I, JB Button, BM Gudenkauf, B Miner, AL Newton, JK Gaydos, J Wynne, GL Groves, G Hendler, M Murray, S Fradkin, M Breitbart, E Fahsbender, KD Lafferty, AM Kilpatrick, CM Miner, P Raimondi, L Lahner, CS Friedman, S Daniels, M Haulena, J Marliave, CA Burge, ME Eisenlord, CD Harvell (2014). Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 111: 17278-17283.
Symonds, EM, ME Verbyla, JO Lukasik, RC Kafle, M Breitbart, JR Mihelcic (2014). A case study of enteric virus removal and insights into the associated risk of water reuse for two wastewater treatment pond systems in Bolivia. Water Research. 65: 257-270.
Rosario, K, H Capobianco, TFF Ng, M Breitbart, JE Polston (2014) RNA viral metagenome of whiteflies leads to the discovery and characterization of a whitefly-transmitted carlavirus in North America. PLoS ONE. 9: e86748.
Ng, TFF, C Driscoll, R Myers, D Limpert, R Schmieder, B Dwivedi, J Wong, Y Cha, K Feldman, S Head, M Breitbart, E Delwart (2013). Distinct lineage of vesiculovirus from big brown bats, United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 19: 1978–1980.
Ng, TFF, S Alavandi, A Varsani, S Burghart, M Breitbart (2013). Metagenomic identification of a nodavirus and a circular ssDNA virus in semi-purified viral nucleic acids from the hepatopancreas of healthy Farfantepenaeus duorarum shrimp. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 105: 237-242.
Rosario, K, M Padilla-Rodriguez, S Kraberger, D Stainton, DP Martin, M Breitbart, A Varsani (2013). Discovery of a novel mastrevirus and alphasatellite-like circular DNA in dragonflies (Epiprocta) from Puerto Rico. Virus Research. 171: 231-237.
Rosario, K, S Duffy, M Breitbart (2012). A field guide to eukaryotic circular single-stranded DNA viruses: Insights gained from metagenomics. Archives of Virology. 157: 1851-1871.
Rosario, K and M Breitbart (2011). Exploring the viral world through metagenomics. Current Opinion in Virology. 1: 289-297.
Ng, TFF, D Willner, YW Lim, R Schmieder, B Chau, C Nilsson, S Anthony, Y Ruan, F Rohwer, M Breitbart (2011). Broad surveys of DNA viral diversity obtained through viral metagenomics of mosquitoes. PLoS ONE. 6: e20579.
Ng, TFF, S Duffy, JE Polston, E Bixby, GE Vallad, M Breitbart (2011). Exploring the diversity of DNA plant viruses and their satellites using vector-enabled metagenomics on whiteflies. PLoS ONE. 6: e19050.
Svraka, S, K Rosario, E Duizer, H van der Avoort, M Breitbart, M Koopmans (2010). Metagenomic sequencing for virus identification in a public health setting. Journal of General Virology. 91: 2846-2856.
Rosario, K, EM Symonds, C Sinigalliano, J Stewart, M Breitbart (2009). Pepper mild mottle virus as an indicator of fecal pollution. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75: 7261-7267.
Blinkova, O, K Rosario, L Li, A Kapoor, B Slikas, F Bernardin, M Breitbart, E Delwart (2009). Frequent detection of highly diverse Cardiovirus, Cosavirus, Bocavirus, and Circovirus in sewage samples collected in the United States. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 47: 3507-3513.
Rosario, K, C Nilsson, YW Lim, Y Ruan, M Breitbart (2009). Metagenomic analysis of viruses in reclaimed water. Environmental Microbiology. 11: 2806-2820.
Ng, TFF, W Suedmeyer, E Wheeler, F Gulland, M Breitbart (2009) Novel anellovirus discovered from a mortality event of captive California sea lions. Journal of General Virology. 90: 1256-1261.
Symonds, EM, DW Griffin, M Breitbart (2009). Eukaryotic viruses in wastewater samples from the United States. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75: 1402-1409.
Casas, V, J Miyake, H Balsley, J Roark, S Telles, S Leeds, I Zurita, M Breitbart, D Bartlett, F Azam, F Rohwer (2006) Widespread occurrence of phage-encoded exotoxin genes in terrestrial and aquatic environments in Southern California. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 261: 141-149.
Zhang, T, M Breitbart, WH Lee, J-Q Run, CL Wei, SWL Soh, ML Hibberd, E Liu, F Rohwer, Y Ruan (2006) RNA viral community in human feces: Prevalence of plant pathogenic viruses. PLoS Biology. 4: e3.
Breitbart, M, and F Rohwer (2005) Method for discovering novel DNA viruses in blood using viral particle selection and shotgun sequencing. Biotechniques. 39: 729-736.
Breitbart, M, F Rohwer, ST Abedon (2005) Phage Ecology and Bacterial Pathogenesis. In: M Waldor, D Freedman, S Adhya (eds). Phages: Their Role in Bacterial Pathogenesis and Biotechnology. ASM Press. Washington D.C. pp. 66-91.
