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2012

• Crook, M. B., Lindsay, D. P., Biggs, M. B., Bentley, J. S., Price, J. C., Clement, S. C., Clement, M. J., Long, S. R., & J. S. Griffitts. (2012) "Rhizobial Plasmids That Cause Impaired Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and Enhanced Host Invasion." Mol Plant Microbe Interact., 25 (8): 1026–33. PMID 22746823

2011

• Harrison, C. L., Crook, M. B., Peco, G., Long, S. R., J. S. Griffitts. (2011) "Employing Site-specific Recombination for Conditional Genetics in Sinorhizobium meliloti." Appl Environ Microbiol., 77 (12): 3916–3922. PMID 21515717

2010

• Carlyon, R. E., J. L. Ryther, R. D. VanYperen, & J. S. Griffitts. (2010) "FeuN, a novel modulator of two-component signalling identified in Sinorhizobium meliloti." Mol. Microbiol., 77 (1): 170–82. PMID 20487268

• Wang, D., J. S. Griffitts, C. Starker, E. Fedorova, E. Limpens, S. Ivanov, T. Bisseling, & S. R. Long. (2010) "A nodule-specific protein secretory pathway required for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis." Science, 327 (5969): 1126–9. PMID 20185723

2008

• Steele, T. T., C. W. Fowler, & J. S. Griffitts. (2008) "Control of gluconate utilization in Sinorhizobium meliloti." J. Bacteriol., 191 (4): 1355–8. PMID 19060150

• Griffitts, J. S., R. E. Carlyon, J. H. Erickson, J. L. Moulton, M. J. Barnett, C. J. Toman, & S. R. Long. (2008) "A Sinorhizobium meliloti osmosensory two-component system required for cyclic glucan export and symbiosis." Mol. Microbiol., 69 (2): 479–90. PMID 18630344

• Griffitts, J. S. & S. R. Long. (2008) "A symbiotic mutant of Sinorhizobium meliloti reveals a novel genetic pathway involving succinoglycan biosynthetic functions." Mol. Microbiol., 67 (6): 1292–306. PMID 18284576

2007

• Barrows, B. D., J. S. Griffitts, & R. V. Aroian. (2007) "Resistance is non-futile: resistance to Cry5B in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans." J. Invertebr. Pathol., 95 (3): 198–200. PMID 17482642

2006

• Barrows, B. D., J. S. Griffitts, & R. V. Aroian. (2006) "Caenorhabditis elegans carbohydrates in bacterial toxin resistance." Methods Enzymol., 417: 340–58. PMID 17132513

• Cappello, M., R. D. Bungiro, L. M. Harrison, L. J. Bischof, J. S. Griffitts, B. D. Barrows, & R. V. Aroian. (2006) "A purified Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein with therapeutic activity against the hookworm parasite Ancylostoma ceylanicum." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103 (41): 15154–9. PMID 17005719

2005

• Griffitts, J. S. & R. V. Aroian. (2005) "Many roads to resistance: how invertebrates adapt to Bt toxins." Bioessays, 27 (6): 614–24. PMID 15892110

• Griffitts, J. S., S. M. Haslam, T. Yang, S. F. Garczynski, B. Mulloy, H. Morris, P. S. Cremer, A. Dell, M. J. Adang, & R. V. Aroian. (2005) "Glycolipids as receptors for Bacillus thuringiensis crystal toxin." Science, 307 (5711): 922–5. PMID 15705852

2004

• Huffman, D. L., L. J. Bischof, J. S. Griffitts, & R. V. Aroian. (2004) "Pore worms: using Caenorhabditis elegans to study how bacterial toxins interact with their target host." Int. J. Med. Microbiol., 293 (7–8): 599–607. PMID 15149037

2003

• Griffitts, J. S., D. L. Huffman, J. L. Whitacre, B. D. Barrows, L. D. Marroquin, R. Müller, J. R. Brown, T. Hennet, J. D. Esko, & R. V. Aroian. (2003) "Resistance to a bacterial toxin is mediated by removal of a conserved glycosylation pathway required for toxin–host interactions." J. Biol. Chem., 278 (46): 45594–602. PMID 12944392

2001

• Griffitts, J. S., J. L. Whitacre, D. E. Stevens, & R. V. Aroian. (2001) "Bt toxin resistance from loss of a putative carbohydrate-modifying enzyme." Science, 293 (5531): 860–4. PMID 11486087

2000

• Marroquin, L. D., D. Elyassnia, J. S. Griffitts, J. S. Feitelson, & R. V. Aroian. (2000) "Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin susceptibility and isolation of resistance mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans." Genetics, 155 (4): 1693–9. PMID 10924467

• Cutler, S. R., D. W. Ehrhardt, J. S. Griffitts, & C. R. Somerville. (2000) "Random GFP::cDNA fusions enable visualization of subcellular structures in cells of Arabidopsis at a high frequency." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97 (7): 3718–23. PMID 10737809