James M. Wainaina

Also affiliated with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Agricultural and Biological SciencesEnvironmental ScienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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Driven by 5 papers. Top paper: “Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth’s RNA virome”.

Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth’s RNA virome

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abm5847

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263 citations

James M. Wainaina, Guillermo Domínguez‐Huerta, Éric Pelletier, Jiarong Guo, Mohamed Mohssen +52 more

Diversity and ecological footprint of Global Ocean RNA viruses

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abn6358

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111 citations

Ahmed A. Zayed, James M. Wainaina, Jiarong Guo, Funing Tian, Akbar Adjie Pratama +23 more

The RNA virosphere: How big and diverse is it?

Environmental Microbiology(2022)10.1111/1462-2920.16312

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25 citations

James M. Wainaina, Ahmed A. Zayed, Alexander I. Culley, Jens H. Kuhn, Matthew B. Sullivan +1 more

Isolation and characterization of 24 phages infecting the plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Klebsiella sp. M5al

PLoS ONE(2025)10.1371/journal.pone.0313947

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7 citations

Courtney M. Sanderson, James M. Wainaina, C. Noël, Jonathan E. Leopold, Erica Babusci +8 more

CLAE: A High‐Fidelity Nanopore Sequencing Strategy for Read‐Level Viral Variant Detection and Environmental RNA Virus Discovery

Advanced Science(2025)10.1002/advs.202505978

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4 citations

Sarah Golconda, Ga‐Eun Lee, Dantong Xue, Guillermo Domínguez‐Huerta, James M. Wainaina +9 more