1. Tong, Hui; Zhu, Baoli; Chen, Wei; Qi, Fengxia; Shi, wenyuan; Dong, Xiuzhu Establishing a Genetic System for Ecological Studies of Streptococcus oligofermentans. FEMS Microbiology Letters 264: 213–219, 2006.
2. Huichun Tong, Wei Chen, Justin Merritt, Fengxia Qi, Wenyuan Shi, Xiuzhu Dong*. Streptococcus oligofermentans inhibits Streptococcus mutans through conversion of lactic acid into inhibitory H2O2: a possible counteroffensive strategy for inter-species competition. Molecular Microbiology 63(3):872-880,2007.
3. Chenggang Wu, Xiaoli Liu and Xiuzhu Dong Syntrophomonas wolfei subsp. methylbutyratica subsp. nov., and assignment of Syntrophomonas wolfei subsp. saponavida to Syntrophomonas saponavida sp. nov. comb. nov. Sys. Appl. Microbiol. 30: 376-380. 2007.
4. Chenggang Wu, Guishan Zhang, Xiaoli Liu and Xiuzhu Dong Bicarbonate is a stimulus in the inter-species induced sporulation of strict anaerobic Syntrophomonas erecta subsp. sporosyntropha. Extremophiles. 11(6),827-832. 2007.
5. Katalin Sipos,Réka Szigeti,Xiuzhu Dong and Charles L. Turnbough, Jr. Systematic mutagenesis of the thymidine tract of the pyrBI attenuator and its effects on intrinsic transcription termination in Escherichia coli. Molecular Microbiology 66(1):127-38. 2007.
6. Sun lei, Song Wei*, Xiuzhu Dong*. Endophytic Bacterial Diversity in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Roots Estimated by 16S rDNA sequence analysis. Microbial Ecology.55:415-424. 2008
7. Lili Niu,Lei Song and Xiuzhu Dong. Proteiniborus ethanoligenes gen. nov., sp. nov., an Anaerobic Protein-utilizing Bacterium Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58: 12 – 16, 2008.
8. Guishan Zhang, Jianqing Tian, Na Jiang, Xiaopeng Guo, Yanfen Wang, and Xiuzhu Dong*. Methanogen community in Zoige wetland of Tibetan plateau and phenotypic characterization of a dominant uncultured methanogen cluster ZC-I. Environmental Microbiology. 10(7), 1850–1860. 2008. (Evaluated by Faculty of 1000 biology)
9. Lei Song and Xiuzhu Dong. Clostridium amylolyticum sp. nov., isolated from the H2-producing UASB granules. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58: 2132-2135. 2008.
10. Huichun Tong, Wei Chen, Wenyuan Shi, Fengxia Qi, Xiuzhu Dong*. SO-LAAO, a novel L-amino acid oxidase that enables Streptococcus oligofermentans to over-compete Streptococcus mutans by generating H2O2 from peptone. J. Bacteriol. 190(13):4716-4721. 2008.
11. Guishan Zhang, Na jiang, Xiaoli Liu, Xiuzhu Dong*. Methanogenesis from Methanol at Low Temperature by a Novel Psychrophilic Methanogen, Methanolobus psychrophilus sp. nov., prevalent in Zoige Wetland of Tibetan Plateau. Appl Environ Microbiol 74(19):6114–6120. 2008.
12. Lei Song and Xiuzhu Dong Hydrogenoanaerobacterium saccharovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the H2-producing UASB granules. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 59: 295 - 299 .2009
14. Lili Niu, Lei Song, Xiaoli Liu and Xiuzhu Dong*. Tepidimicrobium xylanilyticum sp. nov., a novel anaerobic xylanolytic bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 59: 2698 - 2701. 2009
15. Shichun Cai and Xiuzhu Dong. Cellulosilyticum ruminicola gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from the rumen of yak and reclassification of Clostridium lentocellum as Cellulosilyticum lentocellum comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 60: 845 – 849.2010.
16.Na Jiang, Yanfen Wang, Xiuzhu Dong*. Methanol as the Primary Methanogenic and Acetogenic Precursor in the Cold Zoige Wetland at Tibetan Plateau. Microbial Ecology. 60: 206-213. 2010.
17. Jianqing Tian, Yanfen Wang, Xiuzhu Dong*. Methanoculleus hydrogenotrophus sp. nov., a novel methanogenic archaeon isolated from Tibetan Plateau in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 60: 2165 - 2169. 2010;
18. Kegui Zhang, Lei Song, Xiuzhu Dong*. Proteiniclasticum ruminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic proteolytic bacterium isolated from yak rumen. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 60:2221 - 2225, 2010.
19. Shichun Cai, Jiabao Li, Fen Ze Hu, Kegui Zhang, Yuanming Luo, Benjamin Janto, Robert Boissy, Garth Ehrlich*, Xiuzhu Dong* Cellulosilyticum ruminicola, a newly described rumen bacterium that possesses redundant fibrolytic genes in the genome and degrades lignocellulose by multiple CBM-borne fibrolytic enzymes. Appl Environ Microbiol 76, 3818-3824, 2010.
20. J. Zhang, H.C. Tong, X.Z. Dong, L. Yue, X.J. Gao. A Preliminary Study of Biological Characteristics of Streptococcus oligofermentans in Oral Microecology. Caries Res. 2010.
21. Jinxing Zhu, Xiaoli Liu and Xiuzhu Dong. Methanobacterium mobile sp. nov. and Methanobacterium flexile sp. nov., isolated from the lake sediment of Qaidam Basin, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, Accepted. on Jan 29, 2011 as doi: doi:10.1099/ijs.0.027540-0