1.Zhang X., Zhang Q., Yang A., Hou L., Zheng Y., Zhai W., Gong J.* (2018) Incorporation of microbial functional traits in biogeochemistry models provides better estimations of benthic denitrification and anammox rates in coastal oceans. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci. 123(10): 3331-3352.
2.Wang Y., Guo X., Zheng P., Zou S., Li G., Gong J.* (2017) Distinct seasonality of cytrid-dominated benthic fungal communities in neritic oceans (Bohai Sea and North Yellow Sea). Fung. Ecol. 30: 55-66.
3. Fu R., Gong J.* (2017) Single cell analysis linking ribosomal (r)DNA and rRNA copy numbers to cell size and growth rate provides insights into molecular protistan ecology. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 64: 885–896.
4. Gong J.*, Qing Y., Zou S., Fu R., Su L., Zhang X., Zhang Q. (2016) Protist-bacteria associations: Gammaproteobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria are prevalent as digestion-resistant bacteria in ciliated protozoa. Front. Microbiol. 7:498.
5. Gong J.*, Shi F., Ma B., Dong J., Pachiadaki M., Zhang X., Edgcomb V.P. (2015) Depth shapes α- and β-diversities of microbial eukaryotes in surficial sediments of coastal ecosystems. Environ. Microbiol. 17(10):3722–3737.
6. Gong J.*, Qing Y., Guo X., Warren A. (2014) "Candidatus Sonnebornia yantaiensis", a member of the candidate division OD1, as intracellular bacteria of the ciliated protist Paramecium bursaria (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea). Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 37:35-41.
7. Gong J.*, Dong J., Liu X., Massana R. (2013) Extremely high copy numbers and polymorphisms of the rDNA operon estimated from single cell analysis of oligotrich and peritrich ciliates. Protist 164:369-379.