A bit more here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4332-8463
2025
34. Douglas, G.M., Tromas, N., Gaudin, M., Lypaczewski, P., Bobay, L.M., Shapiro, B.J. and Chaffron, S., 2025. Co-occurrence drives horizontal gene transfer among marine prokaryotes. bioRxiv, pp.2025-03. (ISMEJ - under revision)
33. Barry Husk, Paul Julian, Dana F. Simon, Nicolas Tromas, Helen Baulch, Sébastien Sauvé Phytoplankton Regime Shift Towards Diazotrophy Following Nutrient Reductions in a Hypereutrophic Lake. Environmental Science: Advances (under revision)
32. Lara Jansen, Nicolas Tromas, Angela Strecker, Jesse Shapiro. Shifts in bacterioplankton during cyanobacterial blooms reflect bloom toxicity and the trophic state of the lakes. Harmful Algae (Under revision)
31. Kiri Stern, Jin Vincent, Zofia E Taranu, Nathalie Fortin, Alexis Martel, Andrea Robbe, Romane Thaize, Mathieu Castelli, Stephen J. Beckett, Timothee Poisot, Angus Buckling, B. Jesse Shapiro, Nicolas Tromas(co-corresponding author). Deciphering the dynamics of Cyanobacteria-Phage in a natural lake: Insights from a decade-long investigation. bioRxiv 2025.02.19.639072;
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.19.639072
30. Valadez-Cano C, Tromas N, Reyes-Prieto A, Johnston L, Huang Y, Morris H, Zamlynny L, Beach DG, Jamieson RC, Lawrence J. 2024. Genetic diversity and anatoxin profiles of freshwater benthic cyanobacteria. Environmental Microbiology, 27(3), p.e70067.
29. Collis, C.C., Tromas, N. and Nissimov, J., 2024. Cell-associated viral community composition and its functional potential in a dimictic lake on the Canadian Shield. bioRxiv, pp.2024-12.
28. Batool, U., Lawton, L., Shapiro, B.J., Tromas, N (corresponding author). 2024. Cyanotoxin: a potential driver of microbial community. Chemosphere (under review).
27. Tromas, N. (co-corresponding author), Julian, P., Fortin, N., Hernández-Zamora, M., Pereira, A., Mazza, A., Messina-Pacheco, S., Levesque, M.J., Martínez-Jerónimo, L., Antuna-González, P. and Munoz, G., Metagenomic Insights into Cyanotoxin Dynamics in a Mexican Subtropical Lake. Chemosphere, 376, p.144285.
2024
26. Lemieux-Labonté, V., Pathmanathan, J.S., Terrat, Y., Tromas, N., Simard, A., Haase, C.G., Lausen, C.L., Willis, C.K. and Lapointe, F.J., 2024. Pseudogymnoascus destructans invasion stage impacts the skin microbial functions of highly vulnerable Myotis lucifugus. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, p.fiae138.
25. Tromas, N., Goitom, E., Chin, T., Dihn, Q.T., Dorner, S., Khawasik, O., Cristescu, M. and Burnet, J.B., Impact of Grazing by Multiple Daphnia Species on Wastewater Bacteria Communities. Science of the Total Environment, 962, p.178364
24. Batool, U., Tromas, N. (co-corresponding author), Simon, D.F., Sauvé, S., Shapiro, B.J. and Ahmed, M., 2024. Snapshot of cyanobacterial toxins in Pakistani freshwater bodies. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31(16), pp.24648-24661.
23. Husk, B., Julian, P., Simon, D., Tromas, N., Phan, D., Painter, K., Baulch, H. and Sauvé, S., 2024. Improving water quality in a hypereutrophic lake and tributary through agricultural nutrient mitigation: A Multi-year monitoring analysis. Journal of Environmental Management, 354, p.120411
22. Julian, P., Husk, B., Baulch, H.M., Simon, D.F., Tromas, N. and Sauvé, S., 2024. Beneath the Ice: Exploring Winter's Impact on Nutrient and Phytoplankton Dynamics in a Shallow Eutrophic Lake. Hydrobiologia, 852(6), pp.1463-1480
2023
21. Heathcote, A.J., Taranu, Z.E., Tromas, N., MacIntyre‐Newell, M., Leavitt, P.R. and Pick, F.R., 2023. Sedimentary DNA and pigments show increasing abundance and toxicity of cyanoHABs during the Anthropocene. Freshwater Biology, 68(11), pp.1859-1874.
2022
20. Ramalho, T.P., Chopin, G., Pérez-Carrascal, O.M., Tromas, N. and Verseux, C., 2022. Selection of Anabaena sp. PCC 7938 as a cyanobacterium model for biological ISRU on Mars. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(15), pp.e00594-22.
19. Abbes, S., Vo Duy, S., Munoz, G., Dinh, Q.T., Simon, D.F., Husk, B., Baulch, H.M., Vinçon-Leite, B., Fortin, N., Greer, C.W., Larsen, M.L., Venkiteswaran JJ, Martínez Jerónimo FF, Giani A., Lowe, C.D., Tromas, N., Sauvé, S. 2022. Occurrence of BMAA isomers in bloom-impacted lakes and reservoirs of Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Toxins, 14(4), p.251.
2021
18. Celikkol, S., Fortin, N., Tromas, N., Andriananjamanantsoa, H. and Greer, C.W., 2021. Bioavailable nutrients (N and P) and precipitation patterns drive cyanobacterial blooms in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain. Microorganisms, 9(10), p.2097.
17. Pérez-Carrascal, O.M., Tromas, N. (*co-1st author, co-corresponding author), Terrat, Y., Moreno, E., Giani, A., Corrêa Braga Marques, L., Fortin, N. and Shapiro, B.J., 2021. Single-colony sequencing reveals microbe-by-microbiome phylosymbiosis between the cyanobacterium Microcystis and its associated bacteria. Microbiome, 9, pp.1-21.
2020
16. Terrat, Y., Farnaes, L., Bradley, J., Tromas, N., and Shapiro, B.J. Two cases of type-a Haemophilus influenzae meningitis within the same week in the same hospital are phylogenetically unrelated but recently exchanged capsule genes. Microb Genom. 2020 Apr;6(4):e000348.
15. Tromas, N. (*co-corresponding author), Castelli, M., Taranu, Z.E., Pimentel, J.S.M., Pereira, D.A., Marcoz, R., et al. The evolution of biotic and abiotic realized niches within freshwater Synechococcus. Environ Microbiol, 22: 1238-1250.
2019
14. Pérez-Carrascal, O.M., Terrat, Y., Giani, A., Fortin, N., Greer, C.W., Tromas, N. (*co-corresponding author), and Shapiro, B.J. Coherence of Microcystis species revealed through population genomics. ISMEJ 1-14
2018
13. Tromas N (*co-corresponding author), Taranu Z.E, Willis A, Fortin N, Greer CW, Shapiro BJ, “Niche Separation Increases With Genetic Distance Among Bloom-Forming Cyanobacteria” Frontiers in Microbiology 9: 438
2017
12. Hesse E (co-1st author), O'Brien S (co-1st author), Tromas N, Bayer F, Lujan A, van Veen E, Hodgson D, Buckling A. “High siderophore-producing taxa dominate following heavy metal contamination” Ecology Letters 21: 117–127
11. Tromas N (*co-corresponding author), Fortin N, Bedrani L, Terrat Y, Cardoso P, Bird D, Greer CW and Shapiro BJ, “Characterizing and predicting cyanobacterial blooms in an 8-year amplicon sequencing time-course”. ISMEJ 11: 1746–1763
2016
10. Girard C, Tromas N, Amyot M and Shapiro BJ “Gut microbiome of the Canadian Arctic Inuit”. mSphere 2(1):e00297–16
9. Lemieux-Labonté V, Tromas N, Shapiro BJ, and Lapointe F-J “Environment and host species shape the skin microbiome of captive neotropical bats”. PeerJ 4: e2430
8. Willemsen, A., Zwart, M.P., Tromas, N., Majer, E., Daròs, J.A., Elena, S.F. “Multiple barriers to the evolution of alternative gene orders in a positive-strand RNA virus”. Genetics 202: 1503-1521.
2014
7. Tromas N, Zwart MP , Forment J , Elena SF, "Shrinkage of Genome Size in a Plant RNA Virus upon Transfer of an Essential Viral Gene into the Host Genome."
Genome biology and evolution, 6(3), 538-550
6. Tromas N , Zwart MP , Lafforgue G , Elena SF, "Within-host spatiotemporal dynamics of plant virus infection at the cellular level." PLoS genetics, 10(2), e1004186
2013
5. Tromas N (*corresponding author), Zwart MP, Poulain M , Elena SF, "Estimation of the in vivo recombination rate for a plant RNA virus." Journal of general virology, 95(Pt 3), 724-732
4. Zwart MP, Tromas N, Elena SF, "Model-selection-based approach for calculating cellular multiplicity of infection during virus colonization of multicellular hosts." PloS One, 8(5), e64657
2012
3. Lafforgue G*, Tromas N*(co-1st author), Elena SF, Zwart MP, "Dynamics of the establishment of systemic Potyvirus infection: independent yet cumulative action of primary infection sites." J Virol. 86, 12912-22 (2012)
2011
2. Elena SF, Bedhomme S, Carrasco P , Cuevas JM , de la Iglesia F , Lafforgue G , Lalić J , Pròsper A , Tromas N , Zwart MP, "The evolutionary genetics of emerging plant RNA viruses." Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI, 24(3), 287-93
2010
1. Tromas N, Elena SF, "The rate and spectrum of spontaneous mutations in a plant RNA virus.” Genetics, 185(3), 983-9 Journal of Virology, 86(23), 12912-22
