
Publications
Ullah R, Raymann K, Farias J, Tsz-Ki Tsui M, Chow A, Williams C, Ligaba-Osena A. 2025. Integrated effects of polyamide microplastics and common antimicrobials in reclaimed water on the growth of lettuce (Lactuva sativa L.) and soil bacterial communities. Environ Sys Res. - In press
Burks An, Gallagher Pn, Raymann K. 2025. Unintended consequences of antibiotic use in beekeeping: drone health as a potential vulnerability. Animal Microbiome 7 (1), 97
Burks A*, Gallagher P*, Raymann K. 2024. Discovery of reproductive microbes and the modes of microbiota acquisition in male honey bees (drones). mSphere. 10 (1), e00705-24
Stott C, Diop A, Raymann K, Bobay LM. 2024. Co-evolution and gene transfers drive speciation patterns in host-associated bacteria. Mol Biol Evol. 41 (12), msae256
Zumkhawala-Cook A, Gallagher P, Raymann K. 2024. Diet affects reproductive development and microbiota composition in
honey bees. Anim Microbiome. 6(64) doi: 10.1186/s42523-024-00350-3
Kwong W & Raymann K. 2024 Is it me or is it you? Physiological effects of the honey bee microbiota may instead be due to host maturation. mBio. 15(10):e0210724. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02107-24.
Hopkins HA, Lopezguerra C, Lau M-J, Raymann K. 2024. Making a pathogen? Evaluating the impact of protist predation on the evolution of virulence in Serratia marcescens. Genome Biol Evol. evae149.doi: 10.1093/gbe/evae149.
Damico ME, Greenstein D, Beasley B, Raymann K. 2023. Testing the effectiveness of a commercially sold probiotic on restoring the gut microbiota of honey bees: a field study. Probiotics Antimicrob Proteins. doi: 10.1007/s12602-023-10203-1.
Romo Bechara N, Wasserberg G, Raymann K. 2022. Microbial ecology of sand fly breeding sites: aging and larval conditioning alter the bacterial community composition of rearing substrates. Parasit Vectors. 15, 265.
Damico ME, Rueppell O, Shaffer Z, Han B, Raymann K. 2021. High royal jelly production does not impact the gut microbiome of honey bees. Anim Microbiome. 3:1–11
Faw LR, Raymann K, Romo Bechara N, Wasserberg G. 2021. Larval conditioning and aging of sand fly rearing medium affect oviposition site selection in Phlebotomus papatasi sand flies. J Med Entomol. 58:1931–1935
Harris C.D., Torrence E.L., Raymann K, Bobay LM. 2021. CoreCruncher: fast and robust construction of core genomes in large prokaryotic datasets. Mol. Biol. Evol. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa224.
Raymann K. 2020. Pharmacological physiology, Microbiota, and Antimicrobial Resistance. In Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner. Wiley Press 125-134
Bobay LM, Wissel1 E.F., Raymann K. 2020. Strain structure and dynamics revealed by targeted deep-sequencing of the honeybee gut microbiome. mSphere. 5(4).
Bobay LM, Raymann K. 2019. Population genetics of host-associated microbiomes. Curr Mol Bio Reports. 5:128–139
Raymann K, Coon K, Shaffer Z, Salisbury S, Moran NA. 2018. Pathogenicity of Serratia marcescens strains in honey bees. mBio. 9:e01649-18
Motta EVS, Raymann K, Moran NA. 2018. Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 115:10305–10310
Raymann K*, Motta EVS*, Girard C*, Riddington IM, Dinser JA, Moran NA. 2018. Imidacloprid decreases honey bee survival but does not affect the gut microbiome. Appl Environ Microbiol. 84:e00545-18
Raymann K and Moran NA. 2018. The role of the gut microbiome in health and disease of adult workers. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 26:97–104
Raymann K, Bobay LM, Moran NA. 2017. Antibiotics reduce genetic diversity of core species in the honeybee gut microbiome. Mol Ecol. doi: 10.1111/mec.14434
Raymann K, Shaffer Z, Moran NA. 2017. Antibiotic exposure perturbs the gut microbiota and elevates mortality in honeybees. PLoS Biol. 15:e2001861
Raymann K, Moeller A, Goodman, A, Ochman H. 2017. Unexplored archaeal diversity in the great ape gut microbiome. mSphere. 2:e00026-17
Raymann K, Brochier-Armanet C, and Gribaldo S. 2015. The two-domain tree of life is linked to a new root for the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 112:6670–6675
Raymann K, Forterre P, Brochier-Armanet C, Gribaldo S. 2014. Global phylogenomic analysis disentangles the complex evolutionary history of DNA replication in Archaea. Genome Biol Evol. 6:192–212
Probst A, Weinmaier T, Raymann K, Perras A, Gribaldo S, Rattei T, Banfield JF, Moissl-Eichinger C. 2014. Biology of a widespread uncultivated archaeon that contributes to carbon fixation in the subsurface. Nat Commun. 5:5497
Forterre P, Krupovic M, Raymann K, and Soler N. 2014. Plasmids from Euryarchaeota. In Plasmids: Biology and Impact in Biotechnology and Discovery. Microbiol Spectrum 2: PLAS-0027-2014
Forterre P, Krupovic M, Raymann K, Mayer C, Gadelle D. 2014. DNA topoisomerase VIII: a novel family of Topo IIB encoded by free or integrated plasmids in Archaea and Bacteria. Nucleic Acids Res. 42:8578–8591
Borrel G, Parisot N, Harris HMB, Peyretaillade E, Gaci N, Tottey W, Bardot O, Raymann K, Gribaldo S, Peyret P, O'Toole PW, Brugère JF. 2014. Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine. BMC Genomics. 15:679
Raymann K, Bobay LM, Doak TG, Lynch M, Gribaldo, S. 2013. A genomic survey of Reb homologs suggests widespread occurrence of r-bodies in Proteobacteria. G3 (Bethesda). 3:505–516