1.W. Shi and D. R. Zusman. 1993. The two motility systems of Myxococcus xanthus show different selective advantages on various surfaces. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 90, p3378-3382.
2. W. Shi and D. R. Zusman. 1993. Fatal attraction. Nature Vol.366, p414-415.
3. W. Shi and D. R. Zusman. 1995. The frz signal transduction system controls multi-cellular behavior in Myxococcus xanthus. p419-430. In Two-component Signal Transducting (edited by J. A. Hoch and T. Silhavy), American Society for Microbi-ology, Washington D. C.
4.W. Shi and D. R. Zusman. 1996. Cell density dependent cellular reversal frequen-cy controls the fruiting body formation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 93, p4142-4146.
5.S. Hong, Z. Yang, and W. Shi. 1999. Effect of Cellular Filamentation on adven-turous and social gliding motility of Myxococcus xanthus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Vol 96, p15178-15183.
6.Li, Y., H. Sun, X. Ma, A. Lu, R. Lux, D. Zusman, and W. Shi. 2003. Extracellular polysacchrides mediate pilus retraction during social motility of Myxococcus xan-thus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 100, p5443-5448.
7.Pelling, A. E., Y. Li, W. Shi and J. K. Gimzewski. 2005. Nanoscale visualization and characterization of Myxococcus xanthus cells with atomic force microscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 102, p6484-6489.
8.He, J., L. Chen, D. Heber, W. Shi and Q-Y. Lu. 2006. Antibacterial compounds from Glycyrrhiza uralensis. J. Nat. Prod. Vol. 69, p121-124.
9.W. Shi and R. Lux. 2007. Focal adhesion – getting a grasp on myxobacterial glid-ing. Nature Chemical Biology, Vol. 3, p205-206.
10. Hu, C., He, J., Eckert, R., Wu, X., Li, L., Tian, Y., Lux, R., Shuffer, J.A., Gelman, F., Mentes, J., Spackman, S., Bauer, J., Anderson, M.H. and W. Shi. 2011. Devel-opment and Evaluation of a safe and effective sugar-free herbal lollipop that kills cavity-causing bacteria. Int. J. Oral Sci. Vol. 3, p13-20.
11. Eckert, R., R. Sullivan, W. Shi. 2012. Targeted antimicrobial treatment to re-establish a healthy microbial flora for long-term protection. Adv. Dent. Res. Vol. 24, p94-7.
12. Pan. H., J. Luan, X. He, R. Lux, W. Shi. 2012. The ClpB gene is involved in the stress response of Myxococcus Xanthus during vegetative growth and development. Microbiology. Vol. 158, p2326-43.
13. Guo, L., and W. Shi. 2013. Salivary biomarkers for caries risk assessment. J Calif Dent Assoc. Vol. 41, p107-118.
14. Guo L, Wu t, Hu W, He X, Sharma S, Webster P, Gimzewski JK, Zhou X, Lux R, and Shi W. 2013. Phenotypic characterization of the foldase homologue PrsA in Streptococcus mutans. Mol Oral Microbiol. 2013 Vol. 28, p154-65.
15. Pan H, He X, Lux R, Luan J, and Shi W. 2013. Killing of Escherichia coli by Myxococcus xanthus in Aqueous Enviorments Requires Exopolysaccharide-Dependent Physical Contact. Microb Ecol. 2013. 66(3):630-8.
16. W Shi and D Heber. 2013. Nutrition and Dental Health. Handbook of Nutrition and Food, 3rd Edition. Chapter 54, p853-858.
17.He X, McLean JS, Guo L, Lux R, Shi W. 2014. The social structure of microbial community involved in colonization resistance. ISME J. 2014 Mar;8(3):564-74.
18. L. Guo, X. He and W. Shi. 2014. Intercellular communications in multispecies oral microbial communities. Front. Microbiol. | doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00328
19. He X, McLean JS, Edlund A, Yooseph S, Hall AP, Liu SY, Dorrestein PC, Es-quenazi E, Hunter RC, Cheng G, Nelson KE, Lux R, Shi W. Cultivation of a hu-man-associated TM7 phylotype reveals a reduced genome and epibiotic para-sitic lifestyle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jan 6;112(1):244-9.
