Simmons, S.L.*, G. DiBartolo*, V.J. Denef, D.S.A. Goltsman, M.P. Thelen, J.F. Banfield (2008), Population genomic analysis of strain variation in Leptospirillum group II bacteria involved in acid mine drainage formation. PLoS Biology 6(7): e177. (* co-first authors)

Wilmes, P., S.L. Simmons, V.J. Denef, J.F. Banfield (2009), The dynamic genetic repertoire of microbial communities. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 33(1): 109-132.

Dick, G.J., A.F. Andersson, B. Baker, S.L. Simmons, B.C. Thomas, A.P. Yelton, J.F. Banfield (2009), Community-wide analysis of microbial genome sequence signatures. Genome Biology 10:R85.

Simmons, S.L., D.A. Bazylinski, and K.J. Edwards (2007), Population dynamics of marine magnetotactic bacteria in a meromictic coastal pond measured with qPCR. Environmental Microbiology 9(9): 2162-2174.

Simmons, S.L. and K.J. Edwards (2007), Unexpected diversity in populations of the many-celled magnetotactic prokaryote. Environmental Microbiology 9(1): 206-215.

Simmons, S.L. and K.J. Edwards (2007), Geobiology of magnetotactic bacteria. In Magnetoreception and Magnetosomes in Bacteria (D. Schueler, ed). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 77-102.

Simmons, S. L., D. A. Bazylinski, and K. J. Edwards (2006), South-seeking magnetotactic bacteria in the Northern Hemisphere. Science 311:371-374.

Simmons, S.L., S.M. Sievert, R.B. Frankel, D.A. Bazylinski, K.J. Edwards (2004), "Spatio-temporal distribution of marine magnetotactic bacteria in a coastal salt pond." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70(10): 6230-6239.