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Kauffman, S. J., Awori, R. M., Allwell, E. C., Taylor, A., Bashey, F., & Goodrich-Blair, H. (2026). Genomic diversification and tailocin-mediated competition in animal-associated Xenorhabdus bacteria. ISME Communications. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycag050
Kauffman, S. J., Awori, R. M., Allwell, E. C., Taylor, A., Bashey, F., & Goodrich-Blair, H. (2025). Intraspecific bacterial competition mediated by rapidly diversifying tailocin and prophage loci [Preprint]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.19.648921
Heppert, J. K., Awori, R. M., Cao, M., Gualtieri, M., Kim, I. H., Forst, S., & Goodrich-Blair, H. (2024). Analyses of Xenorhabdus griffiniae genomes reveal two distinct sub-species that display intra-species variation due to prophages. BMC Genomics, 25(1087). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10858-2
Awori, R. M., Waturu, C. N., Pidot, S. J., Amugune, N. O., & Bode, H. B. (2023). Draft genomes, phylogenomic reconstruction and comparative genome analysis of three Xenorhabdus strains isolated from soil-dwelling nematodes in Kenya. Access Microbiology, 5(5). https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000531.v4
Awori, R. M., Hendre, P., & Amugune, N. O. (2023). The genome of a steinernematid-associated Pseudomonas piscis bacterium encodes the biosynthesis of insect toxins. Access Microbiology, 5(10). https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000659.v3
Awori RM (2022) Nematophilic bacteria associated with entomopathogenic nematodes and drug development of their biomolecules. Front. Microbiol. 13:993688. doi: https://10.3389/fmicb.2022.993688
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