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Publications 2013

Publications 2013

Department of Biogeochemistry

Allers E., Abed R.M.M., Wehrmann L.M., Wang T., Larsson A.I., Purser A., and de Beer D: Resistance of Lophelia pertusa to coverage by sediment and petroleum drill cuttings. Marine Pollution Bulletin 74, 132-140 (2013) PubMed
Bayraktarov E, Price, RE, Ferdelman TG, and Finster K: The pH and pCO2 dependence of sulfate reduction in shallow-sea hydrothermal CO2 – venting sediments (Milos Island, Greece). Frontiers Microbiology, 4, 111 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00111 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Brunner, B.; Contreras, S.; Lehmann, M. F.; Matantseva, O.; Rollog, M.; Kalvelage, T.; Klockgether, G.; Lavik, G.; Jetten, M. S. M.; Kartal, B.; Kuypers, M. M. M.: Nitrogen isotope effects induced by anammox bacteria. PNAS 110, 18994-18999. (2013) PubMed
Canion, A.; Prakash, O.; Green, S. J.; Jahnke, L.; Kuypers, M. M. M.; Kostka, J. E.: Isolation and physiological characterization of psychrophilic denitrifying bacteria from permanently cold Arctic fjord sediments (Svalbard, Norway). Environmental Microbiology 15, 1606-1618. (2013) PubMed
Contreras, S., P. Meister, B. Liu, X. Prieto-Mollarc, K.-U. Hinrichs, A. Khalili, T. G. Ferdelman, M. M. M. Kuypers, and B. B. Jørgensen: Cyclic 100-ka (glacial-interglacial) migration of subseafloor redox zonation on the Peruvian shelf. PNAS 110, 18098-18103 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Foster R., Sztejrenszus S. and Kuypers M.M.M.: Measuring carbon and N2 fixation in field populations of colonial and free-living unicellular Cyanobacteria using nanometer-scale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. J. Phycol. 49, 3, 502-516. doi: 10.1111/jpy.12057. (2013) Wiley Full Text
Gutknecht, E.; Dadou, I.; Le Vu, B.; Cambon, G.; Sudre, J.; Garcon, V.; Machu, E.; Rixen, T.; Kock, A.; Flohr, A.; Paulmier, A.; Lavik, G.: Coupled physical/biogeochemical modeling including O-2-dependent processes in the Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems: application in the Benguela. Biogeosciences 10, 3559-3591. (2013) Biogeosciences Full Text
Gutknecht, E.; Dadou, I.; Marchesiello, P.; Cambon, G.; Le Vu, B.; Sudre, J.; Garcon, V.; Machu, E.; Rixen, T.; Kock, A.; Flohr, A.; Paulmier, A.; Lavik, G.: Nitrogen transfers off Walvis Bay: a 3-D coupled physical/biogeochemical modeling approach in the Namibian upwelling system. Biogeosciences 10, 4117-4135. (2013) Biogeosciences Full Text
Heindel K, Birgel D, Brunner B, Thiel V, Wesphal H, Gischler E, Ziegenbalg SB, Cabioch G, Sjövall P, Peckmann J: Post-glacial microbialite formation in coral reefs of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Chem. Geol.,304-305:117-118. (2013) ScienceDirect
Heisterkamp, I. M.; Schramm, A.; Larsen, L. H.: Svenningsen, N. B.; Lavik, G.; de Beer, D.; Stief, P.: Shell biofilm-associated nitrous oxide production in marine molluscs: processes, precursors and relative importance. Environmental Microbiology 15, 1943-1955. (2013) PubMed
Holtappels, M., R. N. Glud, D. Donis, B. Liu, A. Hume, F. Wenzhöfer and M. M. M. Kuypers: Effects of transient bottom water currents and oxygen concentrations on benthic exchange rates as assessed by eddy correlation measurements. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 118, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20112. (2013) Wiley
Jaekel Ulrike ,Niculina Musat, Birgit Adam, Marcel Kuypers, Olav Grundmann and Florin Musat: Anaerobic degradation of propane and butane by sulfate-reducing bacteria enriched from marine hydrocarbon cold seeps. The ISME Journal 7, 885-895. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Kalvelage T, Lavik G, Lam P, Contreras S, Arteaga L, Loescher CR, Oschlies A, Paulmier A, Stramma and Kuypers MMM.: Nitrogen cycling driven by organic matter export in the South Pacific oxygen minimum zone. Nature Geoscience 6, 228–234 doi:10.1038/ngeo1739 (2013) Nature
Kamyshny, A.; Oduro, H.; Mansaray, Z. F.; Farquhar, J.: Hydrogen Cyanide Accumulation and Transformations in Non-polluted Salt Marsh Sediments. Aquatic Geochemistry 19, 97-113. (2013) Springer
Könneke, M.; Kuever, J.; Galushko, A.; Jørgensen, B. B.: Desulfoconvexum algidum gen. nov., sp nov., a psychrophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a permanently cold marine sediment. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 63, 959-964. (2013) PubMed
Krupke A, Musat N, LaRoche N, Mohr W, Fuchs B, Amann R, Kuypers MMM and Foster R.: In situ identification and N2 and C fixation rates of uncultivated cyanobacteria populations. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 36, 259-271 doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2013.02.002 (2013) PubMed
Lichtschlag A, Kamyshny A, Ferdelman TG and deBeer D.: Intermediate sulfur oxidation state compounds in the euxinic surface sediments of the Dvurechenskii mud volcano (Black Sea). Geochem. Cosmochim. Acta 105: 130-145, doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.11.025 (2013) ScienceDirect
Liu B., K. Kindler, A. Khalili: Dynamic solute release from marine aggregates. Limnology and Oceanography: Fluids and Environments, 2.doi:10.1215/21573689-2016772 (2013) LaO Full Text
Meister P., B. Liu, T.G. Ferdelman, B.B. Jørgensen , A. Khalili: Control of sulphate and methane distributions in marine sediments by organic matter reactivity. Geochem. Cosmochim. Acta, 104:183-193; doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.11.011 (2013) ScienceDirect
Meister, P.: Two opposing effects of sulfate reduction on carbonate precipitation in normal marine, hypersaline, and alkaline environments. Geology, 41, 499-502. (2013) Geology
Meister, P.; Mckenzie, J. A.; Bernasconi, S. M.; Brack, P.: Dolomite formation in the shallow seas of the Alpine Triassic. Sedimentology 60, 270-291. (2013) Wiley
Miletto, M., P. L. E. Bodelier, T. G. Ferdelman, B. B. Jørgensen and H. J. Laanbroek: Effect of the aerenchymatous helophyte Glyceria maxima on the sulfate-reducing communities in two contrasting riparian grassland soils. Plant Soil, online, DOI 10.1007/s11104-013-1608-1. (2013) KNAW
Milucka, J.; Widdel, F.; Shima, S.: Immunological detection of enzymes for sulfate reduction in anaerobic methane-oxidizing consortia. Environmental Microbiology 15, 1561-1571. (2013) PubMed
Mohr, W., T. Vagner, M. M. M. Kuypers, M. Ackermann, M. and J. LaRoche: Resolution of Conflicting Signals at the Single-Cell Level in the Regulation of Cyanobacterial Photosynthesis and Nitrogen Fixation. PLOS ONE, 8 (6) e66060. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Monismith, S. G.; Herdman, L. M. M.; Ahmerkamp, S.; Hench, J. L.: Wave Transformation and Wave-Driven Flow across a Steep Coral Reef. Journal of physical Oceanography 43, 1356-1379. (2013) AMS Full Text
Müller IA, Brunner B, Breuer C, Coleman M, Bach W.: The oxygen isotope equilibrium fractionation between sulfite species and water. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 120, 562-581. (2013) ScienceDirect
Müller IA, Brunner B, Coleman M.: Isotopic evidence of the pivotal role of sulfite oxidation in shaping the oxygen isotope signature of sulfate. Chem Geol 354, 186-202. (2013) ScienceDirect
Owens, Jeremy D., Benjamin C. Gill, Hugh C. Jenkyns, Steven M. Bates, Silke Severmann, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Richard G. Woodfine, and Timothy W. Lyons: Sulfur isotopes track the global extent and dynamics of euxinia during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. PNAS, online (2013) PubMed
Schunck, H., G. Lavik, D. K. Desai, T. Großkopf, T. Kalvelage, C. R. Löscher, A. Paulmier, S. Contreras, H. Siegel, M. Holtappels, P. Rosenstiel, M. B. Schilhabel, M. Graco, R. A. Schmitz, M. M. M. Kuypers, J. LaRoche: Giant Hydrogen Sulfide Plume in the Oxygen Minimum Zone off Peru Supports Chemolithoautotrophy. PLoS ONE 8(8): e68661. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068661. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Scott, C.; Planavsky, N. J.; Dupont, C. L.; Kendall, B.; Gill, B. C.; Robbins, L. J.; Husband, K. F.; Arnold, G. L.; Wing, B. A.; Poulton, S. W.; Bekker, A.; Anbar, A. D.; Konhauser, K. O.; Lyons, T. W.: Bioavailability of zinc in marine systems through time. Nature Geoscience 6, 125-128. (2013) Nature
Sergeeva, N. G.; Mazlumyan, S. A.; Cagatay, N.; Lichtschlag, A.:Hypoxic Meiobenthic Communities of the Istanbul Strait's (Bosporus) Outlet Area of the Black Sea. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 13, 33-41. (2013) eprints
Sheik, A. R.; Brussaard, C. P. D.; Lavik, G.; Foster, R. A.; Musat, N.; Adam, B.; Kuypers, M. M. M.: Viral infection of Phaeocystis globosa impedes release of chitinous star-like structures: quantification using single cell approaches. Environmental Microbiology 15, 1441-1451. (2013) PubMed
Song, G. D., S. M. Liu, H. Marchant, M. M. M. Kuypers, and G. Lavik: Anammox, denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in the East China Sea sediment. Biogeosciences 10, 6851–6864. (2013) Biogeosciences
Thang, N. M.; Bruchert, V.; Formolo, M.; Wegener, G.; Ginters, L.; Jorgensen, B. B.; Ferdelman, T. G.: The Impact of Sediment and Carbon Fluxes on the Biogeochemistry of Methane and Sulfur in Littoral Baltic Sea Sediments (Himmerfjarden, Sweden). Estuaries and Coasts 36, 98-115. (2013) Springer
Wehrmann LM, Arndt S, März C, Ferdelman TG, Brunner B.: The evolution of early diagenetic signals in Bering Sea subseafloor sediments in response to varying organic carbon deposition over the last 4.3 Ma. Geochem. Cosmochim. Acta 109, 175-196 doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2013.01.02 (2013) ScienceDirect
Xie S, Lipp JS, Wegener G, Ferdelman, TG and Hinrichs KU.: Turnover of microbial lipids in the deep biosphere and growth of benthic archael populations. PNAS 110, 6010-6014 doi.10.1073/pnas.1218569110. (2013) PubMed Full Text
M.Sc. theses
Charlotte Vavourakis: Tetrathionate turnover in marine sandy sediments. University of Amsterdam, NL (2013)
Ph.D. theses
Inigo Müller: The pivotal role of sulfite species in shaping the oxygen isotope composition of sulfate: new insights from a stable isotope perspective. University of Bremen. (2013)
Sarah Sokoll: Transformation processes of nitrogen, phosphorus and iron in sub-euphotic waters and surface sediments. University of Bremen. (2013)
Thang Manh Nguyen: Biogeochemical controls on carbon and sulfur cycling in Baltic Sea sediments. University of Bremen. (2013)

Microsensor Group

Abed, R. M. M.; Lam, P.; de Beer, D., Stief, P.: High rates of denitrification and nitrous oxide emission in arid biological soil crusts from the Sultanate of Oman. ISME Journal 7, 1862-1875. (2013) PubMed
Behrendt, A.; de Beer, D.; Stief, P.: Vertical activity distribution of dissimilatory nitrate reduction in coastal marine sediments. Biogeosciences 10, 7509-7529. (2013) Biogeosciences Full Text
Long, M. H.; Berg, P.; de Beer, D.; Zieman, J. C.: In Situ Coral Reef Oxygen Metabolism: An Eddy Correlation Study. PLoS ONE 8, e58581. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Farí­as, M. E.; Rascovan, N.; Toneatti, D. M.; Albarrací­n, V. H.; Flores, M. R.; Poiré, D. G.; Collavino, M. M.; Aguilar, O. M.; Vazquez, M. P.; Polerecky: The Discovery of Stromatolites Developing at 3570 m above Sea Level in a High-Altitude Volcanic Lake Socompa, Argentinean Andes. PLoS ONE 8, e53497. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Finke, N.; Hoehler, T. M.; Polerecky, L.; Buehring, B.; Thamdrup, B.: Competition for inorganic carbon between oxygenic and anoxygenic phototrophs in a hypersaline microbial mat, Guerrero Negro, Mexico. Environmental Microbiology 15, 1532–1550. (2013) PubMed
Kamp A., Stief P., Knappe J. de Beer D.: Response of the Ubiquitous Pelagic Diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii to Darkness and Anoxia. PLoS ONE 8: e82605. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Poulsen M, Kofoed MVW, Larsen LH, Schramm A, Stief P.: Chironomus plumosus larvae increase fluxes of denitrification products and diversity of nitrate-reducing bacteria in freshwater sediment. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. online (2013) PubMed Full Text
Stief, P.: Stimulation of microbial nitrogen cycling in aquatic ecosystems by benthic macrofauna: mechanisms and environmental implications. Biogeosciences 10, 7829-7846. (2013) Biogeosciences Full Text
Stief, P.; Kamp, A.; de Beer, D.: Role of Diatoms in the Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Intracellular Nitrate in Intertidal Sediment. PLoS ONE 8, e73257. (2013) PubMed Full Text
You, X. L.; Sun, S.; Zhu, J. Q.; Li, Q.; Hu, W. X.; Dong, H. L.: Microbially mediated dolomite in Cambrian stromatolites from the Tarim Basin, north-west China: implications for the role of organic substrate on dolomite precipitation. Terra Nova 25, 387–395. (2013) Wiley
M.Sc. theses
Bettina Buchmann: Oxygenic Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria as a Protection Mechanism against Iron Precipitation. University of Oldenburg. (2013)
Folasade Adeboyejo: Nitrification process in the Dead Sea and its underwater springs; reality or mirage? University of Bremen. (2013)
Jan Knappe: The pelagic diatom Thalassiosira weissfogii is capable of dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA)Master Thesis. Linköping University, Sweden. (2013)
Lisa Schueler: Detection Methods and Environmental Abundance of Intron-Containing Bacterial SSU. University Hannover. (2013)
Ph.D. theses
Kristina Stemmer: Shell formation and microsturcture of the ocean quahog Arctica islandica: Does ocean acidification matter? (2013)

Department of Microbiology

Beese, P.; Venzlaff, H.; Srinivasan, J.; Garrelfs, J.; Stratmann, M.; Mayrhofer, K.: Monitoring of anaerobic microbially influenced corrosion via electrochemical frequency modulation. Electrochimica Acta 105, 239-247. (2013) ScienceDirect
Bondoso, J., J. Harder, and O.M. Lage: rpoB gene as a novel marker to infer phylogeny in Planctomycetales. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 104, 477-488. (2013) PubMed
Frank, C.S.,C. Klockow, M. Richter, F.O. Glöckner, and J. Harder: Genetic diversity of Rhodopirellula strains. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 104, 547-550. (2013) PubMed
Lampert, K. P.; Blassmann, K.; Hissmann, K.; Schauer, J.; Shunula, P.; el Kharousy, Z.; Ngatunga, B. P.; Fricke, H.; Schartl, M.: Single-male paternity in coelacanths. Nature Communications 4, 2488. (2013) PubMed
Hahnke, R.L., and J. Harder: Phylogenetic diversity of Flavobacteria isolated from the North Sea on solid media. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 36, 497-504. (2013) PubMed
Hahnke, R.L., C. Probian, B.M. Fuchs, and J. Harder: Variations in pelagic bacterial communities in the North Atlantic Ocean coincide with water bodies. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 71, 131-140. (2013) AME Full Text
Klindworth, A., M. Richter, T. Richter-Heitmann, C.-E. Wegner, C.S. Frank, F.O. Glöckner, and J. Harder: Permanent draft genome of Rhodopirellula rubra SWK7. Marine Genomics 13(2014), 11-12 (2013) PubMed
Koßmehl, S., L. Wöhlbrand, K. Drüppel, C. Feenders, B. Blasius, and R. Rabus.: Subcellular protein localization (cell envelope) in Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395. Proteomics 13, 2743–2760. (2013) PubMed
Lin, Y. S.; Lipp, J. S.; Elvert, M.; Holler, T.; Hinrichs, K. U.: Assessing production of the ubiquitous archaeal diglycosyl tetraether lipids in marine subsurface sediment using intramolecular stable isotope probing. Environmental Microbiology 15, 1634-1646. (2013) PubMed
Mann, A.J., R.L. Hahnke, S. Huang, J. Werner, P. Xing, T. Barbeyron, B. Huettel, K. Stüber, R. Reinhardt, J. Harder, F.O. Glöckner, R.I. Amann, and H. Teeling: The genome of the algae-associated marine flavobacterium Formosa Agariphila KMM 3901T reveals a broad potential for the degradation of algal polysaccharides. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79, 6813-6822. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Siegert, M.; Taubert, M.; Seifert, J.; von Bergen-Tomm, M.; Basen, M.; Bastida, F.; Gehre, M.; Richnow, H. H.; Kruger, M.: The nitrogen cycle in anaerobic methanotrophic mats of the Black Sea is linked to sulfate reduction and biomass decomposition. FEMS 86, 231-245. (2013) PubMed
Spring, S., T. Riedel, C. Spröer, S. Yan, J. Harder, and B.M. Fuchs: Taxonomy and evolution of bacteriochlorophyll a-containing members of the OM60/NOR5 clade of marine gammaproteobacteria: description of Luminiphilus syltensis gen. nov., sp. nov., reclassification of Haliea rubra as Pseudohaliea rubra gen. nov., comb. nov., and emendation of Chromatocurvus halotolerans. BMC Microbiology 13:118. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Venzlaff, H.; Enning, D.; Srinivasan, J.; Mayrhofer, K. J. J.; Hassel, A. W.; Widdel, F.; Stratmann, M.: Accelerated cathodic reaction in microbial corrosion of iron due to direct electron uptake by sulfate-reducing bacteria. Corrosion Science 66, 88-96. (2013) ScienceDirect
Wegner, C.-E., T. Richter-Heitmann, A. Klindworth, C. Klockow, M. Richter, T. Achstetter, F.O. Glöckner, and J. Harder: Expression of sulfatases in Rhodopirellula baltica and the diversity of sulfatases in the genus Rhodopirellula. Marine Genomics 9, 51-61. (2013) PubMed
Zech, H.; Hensler, M.; Kossmehl, S.; Druppel, K.; Wohlbrand, L.; Trautwein, K.; Hulsch, R.; Maschmann, U.; Colby, T.; Schmidt, J.; Reinhardt, R.; Schmidt-Hohagen, K.; Schomburg, D.; Rabus, R.: Adaptation of Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395 to growth with complex nutrients. Proteomics 13, 2851-2868. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Zech, H.; Hensler, M.; Kossmehl, S.; Druppel, K.; Wohlbrand, L.; Trautwein, K.; Colby, T.; Schmidt, J.; Reinhardt, R.; Schmidt-Hohagen, K.; Schomburg, D.; Rabus, R.: Dynamics of amino acid utilization in Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395. Proteomics 13, 2869-2885. (2013) PubMed
B.Sc. and M.Sc. thesis
Andreas Heß: Die Linalool-Isomerase aus Thauera linaloolentis. University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer (2013)
Deni Ribicic: Diversity of microorganisms in ballast water contaminated with diesel fuel. European M.Sc. Marine Biology and Conservation, University Gent (Supervisor: Jens Harder) (2013)
Irene Paschin: Charakterisierung der Linalool-Isomerase. University of Applied Sciences Lübeck (2013)
Linda Gloria Mahler: Physiologische Charakterisierung von Mutanten im Monoterpenstoffwechsel von Castellaniella defragrans. Beuth Hochschule für Technik (University of Applied Sciences) Berlin (2013)
Maria Papadatou: Bacterial diversity associated with anthropogenic particles and neuston in the surface layer of the East Atlantic Ocean. European M.Sc. Marine Biology and Conservation, University Gent
Sebastian Jordan: Genomische und physiologische analysen von Kandidatengenus OP3 Zellen aus methanogenen Anreicherungen. University of Applied Sciences Aachen (2013)
Ph.D. theses
Richard L. Hahnke: Cultivation of Flavobacteria and other in situ abundant bacteria from the North Sea. Dissertation, University Bremen (2013)
Ph.D. theses
Richard L. Hahnke: Cultivation of Flavobacteria and other in situ abundant bacteria from the North Sea. Dissertation, University Bremen (2013)

Ecophysiology Group

Bondarev, V., Richter, M., Romano, St., Piel, J., Schwedt, A. and Schulz-Vogt, H. N.: The genus Pseudovibrio contains metabolically versatile bacteria adapted for symbiosis. Environ. Microbiol. 15: 2095-2113. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Ph.D. theses
Anne-Christin Kreutzmann: Electron donors and acceptors for members of the family Beggiatoaceae (2013)

Molecular Ecology Group

Allers E., Moraru C., Duhaime M.B., Beneze E., Solonenko N., Barrero Canosa J., Amann R., and Sullivan M.B.: Single-cell and population level viral infection dynamics revealed by phageFISH, a method to visualize intracellular and free viruses. Environ. Microbiol. 15, 2306-2318 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Bennke C. M., Neu T. R., Fuchs B. M. and Amann R.: Mapping glycoconjugate-mediated interactions of marine Bacteroidetes with diatoms. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 36, 417–425 (2013) PubMed
Finster K. W., Kjeldsen K., Kube M., Reinhardt R., Mußmann M., Amann R. and Schreiber L.: Complete genome sequence of Desulfocapsa sulfexigens, a marine δ-proteobacterium specialized in disproportionating inorganic sulfur compounds. Standards in Genomic Sciences 8(1), 58-68 (doi: 10.4056/sigs.3777412). (2013) PubMed Full Text
Gomez-Pereira P. R., Hartmann M., Grob C., Tarran G. A., Martin A. P., Fuchs B. M., Scanlan D. J. and Zubkov M. V.: Comparable light stimulation of organic nutrient uptake by SAR11 and Prochlorococcus in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. ISME J. 7, 603-614 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Gomez-Pereira P. R., Kennaway G., Fuchs B. M., Tarran G. A. and Zubkov M. V.: Flow cytometric identification of Mamiellales clade II in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 83, 664-671 (2013) PubMed
Hahnke R. L., Probian C., Fuchs B. M. and Harder J.: Variations in pelagic bacterial communities in the North Atlantic Ocean coincide with water bodies. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 71, 131-140 (2013) AME Full Text
Kolinko S., Wanner G., Katzmann E., Kiemer F., Fuchs B. M. and Schüler D.: Clone libraries and single cell genome amplification reveal extended diversity of uncultivated magnetotactic bacteria from marine and freshwater environments. Env. Microbiol. 15, 1290-1301 (2013) PubMed
Krupke A., Musat N., LaRoche J., Mohr W., Fuchs B. M., Amann R. I., Kuypers M. M.M.. and Foster R. A.: In situ identification and N2 and C fixation rates of uncultivated cyanobacteria populations. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 36, 259–271 (2013) PubMed
Maignien L., Parkes R., Cragg B., Niemann H., Knittel K., Coulon S., Akhmetzhanov A., Boon N.: Anaerobic oxidation of methane in hypersaline cold seep sediments. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 83, 214-231 (2013) PubMed
Mann A.J., Hahnke R.L., Huang S., Werner J., Xing P., Barbeyron T., Hüttel B., Stüber K., Reinhardt R., Harder J., Glöckner F.O., Amann, R.I. and Teeling H.: The genome of the algae-associated marine flavobacterium Formosa agariphila KMM 3901T reveals a broad potential for the degradation of algal polysaccharides. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79, 6813-6822 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Mußmann M., Augspurger C., Karwautz C., Ribot M.-R., Winkel M., Battin T. and Daims H.: Colonization of freshwater biofilms by nitrifying bacteria from activated sludges. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 85(1):104-15 (2013). PubMed
Niemann H., Linke P., Knittel K., MacPherson E., Boetius A., Bruckmann W., Lavik G., Wallmann K., Schacht U., Omoregie E., Hilton D., Brown K., and Rehder G.: Methane-carbon flow into the benthic food web at cold seeps - a case study from the Costa Rica subduction zone. PLOS ONE 8: e74894 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Price R.E., Lesniewski R., Nitzsche K., Meyerdierks A., Saltikov C., Pichler T., and Amend, J.P.: Archaeal and bacterial diversity in an arsenic-rich shallow-sea hydrothermal system undergoing phase separation. Front. Ext. Microbiol. 4. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Ruff S. E., Arnds J., Knittel K., Amann R., Wegener G, Ramette A, Boetius, A: Microbial Communities of Deep-Sea Methane Seeps at Hikurangi Continental Margin (New Zealand). PLoS ONE 8: e72627 (2013) PubMed Full Text
van de Vossenberg J., Woebken D., Maalcke W.J., Wessels H.J.C.T., Dutilh B.E., Kartal B., Janssen-Megens E.M., Roeselers G., Yan J., Speth D., Gloerich J., Geerts W., van der Biezen E., Pluk W., Francoijs K.-J., Russ L., Lam P., Malfatti S.A., Tringe S.G., Haaijer S.C.M., op den Camp H.J.M., Stunnenberg H.G., Amann R., Kuypers M., and Jetten M.S.M.: The metagenome of the marine anammox bacterium Candidatus Scalindua profunda illustrates the versatility of this globally important nitrogen cycle bacterium. Environ. Microbiol. 15, 1275-1289 (2013) PubMed Full Text
von Netzer F., Pilloni G., Kleindienst S., Krüger, M., Knittel K., Gründger F., and Lueders T.: Enhanced gene detection assays for fumarate-adding enzymes allow uncovering anaerobic hydrocarbon degraders in terrestrial and marine systems. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79, 543-552 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Winkel M., De Beer D., Lavik G., Peplies J. and Mußmann M.: Close association of active nitrifiers with Beggiatoa mats covering deep-sea hydrothermal sediments. Environmental Microbiology, online doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12316 (2013). PubMed
Wöhlbrand L., Jacob J., Kube M., Mußmann M., Jarling R., Beck A., Amann R., Wilkes H., Reinhardt R., and Rabus R.: Complete genome and catabolic sub-proteomes of Desulfobacula toluolica Tol2, a marine aromatic compound-degrading sulfate reducer. Environ. Microbiol. 15, 1334-55 (2013) PubMed
Yarza, P.; Sproer, C.; Swiderski, J.; Mrotzek, N.; Spring, S.; Tindall, B. J.; Gronow, S.; Pukall, R.; Klenk, H. P.; Lang, E.; Verbarg, S.; Crouch, A.; Lilburn, T.; Beck, B.; Unosson, C.; Cardew, S.; Moore, E. R. B.; Gomila, M.; Nakagawa, Y.; Janssens, D.; De Vos, P.; Peiren, J.; Suttels, T.; Clermont, D.; Bizet, C.; Sakamoto, M.; Iida, T.; Kudo, T.; Kosako, Y.; Oshida, Y.; Ohkuma, M.; Arahal, D. R.; Spieck, E.; Roeser, A. P.; Figge, M.; Park, D.; Buchanan, P.; Cifuentes, A.; Munoz, R.; Euzéby, J. P.; Schleifer, K. H.; Ludwig, W.; Amann, R.; Glöckner, F. O.; Rosselló-Móra, R.: Sequencing Orphan Species initiative (SOS): filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. System. Appl. Microbiol. 36, 69-73 (2013) PubMed
Diploma/M.Sc./B.Sc. theses
David Probandt: Enrichment of abundant sulfate reducers from tidal sediments. MSc thesis within IMPRS MarMic. University of Bremen. (2013)
Greta Reintjes: Prokaryotic picoplankton community analysis alsong the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) 22. MSc thesis within IMPRS MarMic. University of Bremen. (2013)
Diploma/M.Sc./B.Sc. theses
Emil Ruff : Microbial community ecology of marine methane seeps. Faculty 02: Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen (2013)
Stefan Thiele: The role of specific microbial communities in the biological carbon pump. Faculty 02: Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen (2013)
Matthias Winkel: Chemolithotrophic and chemoheterotrophic microorganisms in sediment- and rock-hosted hydrothermal systems. University of Bremen (2013)

Symbiosis Group

Kleiner, M, Young JC, Shah M, VerBerkmoes NC, Dubilier N.: Metaproteomics reveals abundant transposase expression in mutualistic endosymbionts. mBio. 4(3): e00223-13. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00223-13 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Marcon, Y.; Sahling, H.; Borowski, C.; Ferreira, C. D.; Thal, J.; Bohrmann, G.: Megafaunal distribution and assessment of total methane and sulfide consumption by mussel beds at Menez Gwen hydrothermal vent, based on geo-referenced photomosaics. Deep-sea research part I-oceanographic research papers 75, 93-109. (2013) ScienceDirect
McFall-Ngai M, Hadfield MG, Bosch TCG, Carey HV, Domazet-Loso T, Douglas AE, Dubilier N, Eberl G, Fukami T, Gilbert SF, Hentschel U, King N, Kjelleberg S, Knoll AH, Kremer N, Mazmanian SK, Metcalf JL, Nealson K, Pierce NE, Rawls JF, Reid A, Ruby EG, Rumpho M, Sanders JG, Tautz D, Wernegreen JJ.: Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(9): 3229-3236. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1218525110 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Raggi L, Schubotz F, Hinrichs K-U, Dubilier N, Petersen JM.: Bacterial symbionts of Bathymodiolus mussels and Escarpia tubeworms from Chapopote, an asphalt seep in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Microbiology 15(7), 1969-1987 doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12051 (2013) PubMed
Wentrup C, Wendeberg A, Huang JY, Borowski C, Dubilier N.: Shift from widespread symbiont infection of different host tissues to spatially restricted colonization of gill cells in early life stages of hydrothermal vent mussels. ISME Journal. 7: 1244-1247. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.5 (2013) PubMed Full Text

Microbial Genomics Group

Arnone M. I., C. Verde, C. Bowler, F.O. Glöckner: A new Editorial Team and Scope for Marine Genomics. Marine Genomics, 5: p. III-IV. (2013) Full Text
Bourlat S. J., A. Borja , J. Gilbert , M. I. Taylor , N. Davies , S. B. Weisberg, J. F. Griffith , T. Lettieri , D. Field , J. Benzie , F. O. Glöckner, N. Rodrí­guez-Ezpeleta , D. P. Faith, T. P. Bean , M. Obst: Genomics in marine monitoring: new opportunities for assessing marine health status. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 74(1): p. 19-31. (2013) PubMed
Buttigieg P. L., W. Hankeln, I. Kostadinov, R. Kottmann, P. Yilmaz, M. Beth Duhaime, F. O. Glöckner: Ecogenomic perspectives on domains of unknown function: correlation-based exploration of marine metagenomes. PLoS One, 8(3): p. e50869. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Frank, C.S.,C. Klockow, M. Richter, F.O. Glöckner, and J. Harder: Genetic diversity of Rhodopirellula strains. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 104(4): p. 547-50. (2013) PubMed
Klindworth A., E. Pruesse, T. Schweer, J. Peplies, C. Quast, M. Horn and F. O. Glöckner: Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies. Nucleic Acids Research, 41(1): p. e1. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Lloyd, K. G.; Schreiber, L.; Petersen, D. G.; Kjeldsen, K. U.; Lever, M. A.; Steen, A. D.; Stepanauskas, R.; Richter, M.; Kleindienst, S.; Lenk, S.; Schramm, A.; Jørgensen, B. B.: Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins. Nature 496, 215-220. (2013) PubMed
Mann A. J., R. L. Hahnke, S. Huang, J. Werner, P. Xing, T. Barbeyron, B. Huettel, K. Stüber, R. Reinhardt, J. Harder, F. O. Glöckner, R. I. Amann, H. Teeling: The genome of the algae-associated marine flavobacterium Formosa agariphila KMM 3901T reveals a broad potential for the degradation of algal polysaccharides. Appl Environ Microbiol, online: p. PMID: 23995932. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Quast C., E. Pruesse, P. Yilmaz, J. Gerken, T. Schweer, P. Yarza, J. Peplies and F. O. Glöckner: The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools. Nucleic Acids Research, 41(D1): p. D590-D596. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Richter M., T. Richter-Heitmann, A. Klindworth, C. Wegner, C. S. Frank, J. Harder, F. O. Glöckner: Permanent draft genomes of the Rhodopirellula maiorica strain SM1. Marine Genomics, online. (2013) PubMed
Richter M., T. Richter-Heitmann, A. Klindworth, C. Wegner, C. S. Frank, J. Harder, F. O. Glöckner: Permanent draft genomes of the three Rhodopirellula baltica strains SH28, SWK14 and WH47. Marine Genomics, online. (2013) PubMed
Richter-Heitmann T., M. Richter, A. Klindworth, C. Wegner, C. S. Frank, F. O. Glöckner, J. Harder: Permanent draft genomes of the two Rhodopirellula europaea strains 6C and SH398. Marine Genomics, online. (2013) PubMed
Schriml L. and I. Mizrachi (co-hosts, local organizers), P. Sterk, D. Field, L. Hirschman, T. Tatusova, S. Sansone, J. Gilbert, D. Schindel, N. Davies, C. Meyer, F. Meyer, G. Garrity, L. Proctor, M.H. Medema, Y. Lan, A. Klindworth, F. O. Glöckner, T. Korves, A. Gonzalez, P. Dwayndt, M. Göker, A. Johnston, E. Pafilis, S. Schneider, K. Baker, C. Parr, G. Sut-ton, H.H. Creasy, N. Kyrpides, K. E. Wommack, P. L. Whetzel, D. Nasko, H. Lapp, T. Fujisawa, A. M. Phillippy, R. Kottman, J. A. Blake, J. Li, E. M. Glass, L. Schriml, I. Mizrachi, P. ten Hoopen, J. Gilbert, R. Knight, S. Holmes, C. Huttenhower, S. L. Salzberg, B. Ma, O. White: The 15th Genomic Standards Consortium meeting. Standards in Genomic Sciences, 8(1). (2013) SIGS Full Text
Wegner C., T. Richter-Heitmann, A. Klindworth, C. Klockow, M. Richter, T. Achstetter, F. O. Glöckner, J. Harder: Expression of sulfatases in Rhodopirellula baltica and the diversity of sulfatases in the genus Rhodopirellula. Marine Genomics, 9: p. 51-61. (2013) PubMed
Wegner C., M. Richter, T. Richter-Heitmann, A. Klindworth, C. S. Frank, F. O. Glöckner, J. Harder: Permanent draft genome of Rhodopirellula sallentina SM41. Marine Genomics, online. (2013) PubMed
Yarza P., C. Spröer, J. Swiderski, N. Mrotzek, S.Spring, B. J. Tindall, S. Gronow, R. Pukall, H. Klenk, E. Lang, S. Verbarg, A. Crouch, T Lilburn, B. Beck, C. Unosson, S. Cardew, E. R.B. Moore, M. Gomila, Y. Nakagawa, D. Janssens, P. De Vos, J. Peiren, T. Suttels, D. Clermont, C. Bizet, M. Sakamoto, T. Iida, T. Kudo, Y. Kosako, Y. Oshida, M. Ohkuma, D. R. Arahal, E. Spieck, A. Pommerening Roeser, M. Figge, D. Park, P. Buchanan, A. Cifuentes, R. Munoz, J. P. Euzéby, K. Schleifer, W. Ludwig, R. Amann, F. O. Glöckner, R. Rosselló-Móra: Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 36(1): p. 69-73. (2013) PubMed

Microbial Genomics & Bioinformatics Group

Bondarev V., Richter M., Romano S., Piel P., A. Schwedt and H. N. Schulz-Vogt: The genus Pseudovibrio contains metabolically versatile bacteria adapted for symbiosis. Environ Microbiol, 15(7): p. 2095-113. (2013) PubMed
Fernandez-Gomez B., M. Richter, M.Schüler, J. Pinhassi, S.G. Acinas, J. M. Gonzalez and C. Pedros-Alio: Ecology of marine Bacteroidetes: a comparative genomics approach. ISME J, 7(5): p. 1026-37. (2013) PubMed
Golyshin P.N., J. Werner, T. N. Chernikova, H. Tran, M. Ferrer, M. M. Yakimov, H. Teeling, O. V. Golyshina, MAMBA Scientific Consortium: Genome Sequence of Thalassolituus oleivorans MIL-1 (DSM 14913T). Genome Announc, 1(2): p. e0014113. (2013) PubMed
López-López A., M. Richter, A. Pena, J. Tamames, R. Rosselló-Móra: New insights into the archaeal diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat obtained by a metagenomic approach. Syst Appl Microbiol, 36(3): p. 205-14. (2013) PubMed
Novo M., A. Riesgo, A. Fernandez-Guerra, and G. Giribet: Pheromone evolution, reproductive genes, and comparative transcriptomics in mediterranean earthworms (annelida, oligochaeta, hormogastridae). Mol Biol Evol, 30(7): p. 1614-29. (2013) PubMed
Wilke A., E. M. Glass, D. Bartels, J. Bischof, D. Braithwaite, M. D′Souza,W. Gerlach, T. Harrison, K. Keegan, H. Matthews, R. Kottmann, T. Paczian, W. Tang,W. L. Trimble, P. Yilmaz, J. Wilkening, N. Desai, F.Meyer: A metagenomics portal for a democratized sequencing world. Methods Enzymol, 531: p. 487-523. (2013) PubMed
B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses
Nilgün Koc: Auswahl und Erprobung von Tools zur Unterstützung von evolutionärer Datenbankentwicklung (2013)
Katrin Panzer: A complete view on the aquatic-derived fungal phylogeny and ecology: The impact of 18S rRNA sequence information and contextual data from public databases and a fungal culture collection. University of Bremen. (2013)
Ph.D. theses
Alexander Mann: Bioinformatic analyses of genomes, metagenomes and expression data of polysaccharide-degrading marine microbes. Jacobs University. (2013)

Marine Geochemistry Group

Bienhold C, Ristova PP, Wenzhöfer F, Dittmar T and Boetius A: How deep-sea wood falls sustain chemosynthetic life. PLOS One 8 (1), e53590.(2013) PubMed Full Text
Jaffé R, Ding Y, Niggemann J, Vähätalo AV, Campbell J and Dittmar T: Global charcoal mobilization from soils via dissolution and riverine transport to the oceans. Science 340, 345-347. (2013) PubMed
Riedel T, Zak D, Biester H and Dittmar T: Iron traps terrestrially derived dissolved organic matter at redox interfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS 110 (25), 10101-10105. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Rossel PE, Vähätalo AV, Witt M and Dittmar T: Molecular composition of dissolved organic matter from a wetland plant (Juncus effusus) after photochemical and microbial decomposition (1.25 yr): Common features with deep sea dissolved organic matter. Organic Geochemistry 60, 62-71. (2013) ScienceDirect
Roth V-N, Dittmar T, Gaupp R and Gleixner G: Latitude and pH driven trends in the molecular composition of DOM across a north south transect along the Yenisei River. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 123, 93-105. (2013) ScienceDirect
Å antl-Temkiv T, Finster K, Dittmar T, Hansen BM, Thyrhaug R, Woetmann Nielsen N and Gosewinkel Karlson U.: Hailstones: a window into the microbial and chemical inventory of a storm cloud. PLOS One 8 (1), e53550. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Seidel M, Ruetters H, Rullkoetter J and Sass H: Phosphate-free ornithine lipid contents in Desulfovibrio spp respond to growth temperature. Organic Geochemistry 59, 133-142. (2013) ScienceDirect
Ward ND, Keil RG, Medeiros PM, Brito DC, Cunha AC, Dittmar T, Yager PL, Krusche AV and Richey JE: Degradation of terrestrially derived macromolecules in the Amazon River. Nature Geoscience 6, 530-533. (2013) Nature
Waska H, Kim G and Kim GB: Comparison of S, Se, and Po-210 accumulation patterns in common squid Todarodes pacificus from the Yellow Sea and East/Japan Sea. Ocean Science Journal 48, 215-224. (2013) Springer Full Text
B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses
Georg Meier: Molekulare Charakterisierung von gelöstem organischem Material (DOM) aus Qualleninkubationen und bakterieller Abbau des Quallenexsudats. University of Oldenburg. (2013)
Sven Seidensticker: Mikrobieller Abbau von natürlichem refraktärem Gelöstem Organischen Material (DOM). University of Oldenburg. (2013)
Anika Maria Pohlabeln: Dissolved organic sulfur in the ocean – A mass spectrometric (FT-ICR-MS) investigation. University of Oldenburg. (2013)
Irina Köster: Short-term dynamics of dissolved organic matter and bacterial communities in the open North Sea off Helgoland Island. University of Oldenburg. (2013)

HGF MPG Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology Group

Assmy, P.; Ehn, J. K.; Fernandez-Mendez, M.; Hop, H.; Katlein, C.; Sundfjord, A.; Bluhm, K.; Daase, M.; Engel, A.; Fransson, A.; Granskog, M. A.; Hudson, S. R.; Kristiansen, S.; Nicolaus, M.; Peeken, I.; Renner, A. H. H.; Spreen, G.; Tatarek, A.; Wiktor, J.: Floating Ice-Algal Aggregates below Melting Arctic Sea Ice. PLoS ONE 8, e76599 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Bayon G., Dupré S., Ponzevera E., Etoubleau J., Cheron S., Pierre C., Mascle J., Boetius A., de Lange G.: Formation of carbonate chimneys in the Mediterranean Sea linked to deep-water oxygen depletion. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1888. (2013) Nature
Bienhold, C., Pop Ristova, P., Wenzhöfer, F., Dittmar, T. and Boetius A.: How Deep-Sea Wood Falls Sustain Chemosynthetic Life. PLoS One 81, e53590. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Boetius, A., S. Albrecht, K. Bakker, C. Bienhold, J. Felden, M. Fernández-Méndez, S. Hendricks, C. Katlein, C. Lalande, T. Krumpen, M. Nicolaus, I. Peeken, B. Rabe, A. Rogacheva, E. Rybakova, R. Somavilla, F. Wenzhöfer and the RV Polarstern ARK27-3-Shipboard Science Party: Export of algal biomass from the melting Arctic sea ice. Science 339( 6126), pp. 1430-1432. DOI: 10.1126/science.1231346. (2013) PubMed
Boetius A, Wenzhöfer F.: Seafloor oxygen consumption fuelled by methane from cold seeps. Nature Geoscience doi:10.1038/ngeo1926. (2013) Nature Full Text
Buttigieg, P. L., Hankeln, W., Kostadinov, I., Kottmann, R., Yilmaz, P., Duhaime, M. B., & Glöckner, F. O.: Ecogenomic Perspectives on Domains of Unknown Function: Correlation-Based Exploration of Marine Metagenomes. (I. Friedberg, Ed.). PLoS ONE, 8(3), e50869. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050869. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Cherkasheva A, Bracher A, Melsheimer C, Köberle C, Gerdes R, Nöthig E-M, Bauerfeind E, Boetius A.: Influence of the physical environment on polar phytopklankton blooms: a case study in the Fram Strait. Journal of Marine Systems. doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.11.008. (2013) ePic Full Text
de Beer D., M. Haeckel, J. Neumann, G. Wegener, F. Inagaki, and A. Boetius: Saturated CO2 inhibits microbial processes in CO2-vented deep-sea sediments. Biogeosciences 10:5639–5649. (2013) Biogeosciences Full Text
Felden, J., A. Lichtschlag, F.Wenzhöfer, D. de Beer, T. Feseker, P. Pop Ristova, G. de Lange, A. Boetius: Limitations of microbial hydrocarbon degradation at the Amon Mud Volcano (Nile Deep Sea Fan). Biogeosciences 10:3269–3283. (2013) Biogeosciences Full Text
Giovannelli, D.; Molari, M.; d'Errico, G.; Baldrighi, E.; Pala, C.; Manini, E.: Large-Scale Distribution and Activity of Prokaryotes in Deep-Sea Surface Sediments of the Mediterranean Sea and the Adjacent Atlantic Ocean. PLoS ONE 8, e72996. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Glud RN, Wenzhöfer F, Middelboe M, Oguri K Turnewitsch R, Canfield DE, Kitazato H.: High rates of microbial carbon turnover in sediments in the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1773. (2013) Nature
Gobet A, Boetius A, Ramette A: Ecological coherence of diversity patterns derived from classical fingerprinting and Next Generation Sequencing techniques. Environmental Microbiology. online. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12308. (2013) PubMed
Holtappels M, Glud RN, Donis D, Liu B, Hume A, Wenzhöfer F, Kuypers M.: Effects of transient bottom water currents and oxygen concentrations on benthic exchange rates as assessed by eddy correlation measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans 118, 1–13, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20112. (2013) Wiley
Jacob M, Soltwedel T, Boetius A, Ramette A.: Biogeography of Deep-Sea Benthic Bacteria at Regional Scale (LTER HAUSGARTEN, Fram Strait, Arctic). PLoS ONE 8(9): e72779. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072779. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Mau, S.; Blees, J.; Helmke, E.; Niemann, H.; Damm, E.: Vertical distribution of methane oxidation and methanotrophic response to elevated methane concentrations in stratified waters of the Arctic fjord Storfjorden (Svalbard, Norway). Biogeosciences 10, 6267-6278. (2013) Biogeosciences Full Text
Meyer S, Wegener G, Lloyd KG, Teske A, Boetius A, Ramette A: Microbial habitat connectivity across spatial scales and hydrothermal temperature gradients at Guaymas Basin. Front. Microbiol., 25 July 2013 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00207. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Niemann H, Linke P, Knittel K, MacPherson E, Boetius A, Brückmann W, Larvik G, Wallmann K, Schacht U, Omoregie E, Hilton D, Brown K, Rehder G.: Methane-carbon flow into the benthic food web at cold seeps - a case study from the Costa Rica subduction zone. PLOS One, 8(11). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074894. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Ruff, S.E., Arnds, J., Knittel, K., Amann, R.I., Wegener, G., Ramette, A., Boetius, A.: Microbial communities of deep sea methane seeps at Hikurangi continental margin (New Zealand). PlosOne, 8(9) e72627 (2013) PubMed Full Text
Schöttner, S., F. Hoffmann, P. Cárdenas, H.T. Rapp, A. Boetius and A. Ramette: Relationships between host phylogeny, host type and bacterial community diversity in cold-water coral reef sponges. PLoS One, 8(2): e55505, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055505. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Soltwedel, T., Schauer, U., Boebel, O., Nöthig, E.-M., Bracher, A., Metfies, K., Schewe, I., Klages, M. and Boetius, A.: FRAM Frontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring: Permanent Observations in a Gateway to the Arctic Ocean. IEEE Proceedings OCEANS′13. (2013) IEEEXplore
Stanev, E., Y. He, S. Grayek, A. Boetius: Oxygen dynamics in the Black Sea as seen by Argo profiling floats. Geophysical Research Letters 40, 1-6, doi:l 0.1 002/grl.50606. (2013) Wiley
Xie, S., Lipp, J.S., Wegener, G., Ferdelman, T. and Hinrichs, K.-U.: Turnover of microbial lipids in the deep biosphere and growth of benthic archaeal populations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sc. USA, 110(15), 6010-6014. (2013) PubMed Full Text

Microbial Fitness Group

Chen J, Strous M: Denitrification and aerobic respiration, hybrid electron transport chains and co-evolution. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics 1827(2): 136-144. (2013) PubMed
Chen, J.; Pan, X. C.; Chen, J. W.: Regeneration of activated carbon saturated with odors by non-thermal plasma. Chemosphere 92, 725-730. (2013) PubMed
Winkler, M. K. H.; Kleerebezem, R.; Strous, M.; Chandran, K.; van Loosdrecht, M. C. M.: Factors influencing the density of aerobic granular sludge. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 97, 7459-7468. (2013) PubMed

Marine Isotope Geochemistry Group

Bard, E., Menot, G., Rostek, F., Licari, L., Böning, P., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Wang, Y., Heaton, T.J.: Radiocarbon calibration/comparison records based on marine sediments from the Pakistan and Iberian margins. Radiocarbon 55, 1999-2019. (2013) UAiR Full Text
Beck, M., Böning, P., Schueckel, U., Stiehl, T., Schnetger, B., Rullkötter, J., Brumsack, H.-J.: Consistent assessment of trace metal contamination in surface sediments and suspended particulate matter: A case study from the Jade Bay in NW Germany. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 70, 100-111. (2013) PubMed
Ehlert, C., P. Grasse & M. Frank: Changes in Silicate Utilisation and Upwelling Intensity off Peru Since the Last Glacial Maximum - Insights from Silicon and Neodymium Isotopes. Quaternary Science Reviews 72, 18-35, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.04.013. (2013) ScienceDirect
Grasse, P., C. Ehlert & M. Frank: The influence of water mass mixing on the dissolved silicon isotope composition of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 380, 60-71. (2013) NASA
Hu, D., Clift, P.D., Böning, P., Hannigan, R., Hillier, S., Blusztajn, J., Wan, S., Fuller, D.Q.: Holocene evolution in weathering and erosion patterns in the Pearl River delta. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 14, 2349-2368. (2013) Wiley

Microbial Habitat Group

Amend, A. S.; Oliver, T. A.; Amaral-Zettler, L. A.; Boetius, A.; Fuhrman, J. A.; Horner-Devine, M. C.; Huse, S. M.; Welch, D. B. M.; Martiny, A. C.; Ramette, A.; Zinger, L.; Sogin, M. L.; Martiny, J. B. H.: Macroecological patterns of marine bacteria on a global scale. Journal of Biogeography 40, 800-811. (2013) PubMed
Bienhold, C., P. Pop Ristova, F. Wenzhöfer, T. Dittmar and A. Boetius: How Deep-Sea Wood Falls Sustain Chemosynthetic Life. PLoS ONE 8(1): e53590. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053590. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Boetius, A., J. Gutt, E. Helmke and B. Meyer: Leben im und unter dem Eis – zur Vielfalt des Lebens in polaren Lebensräumen. In E. Beck (ed). Die Vielfalt des Lebens, Wiley-VCH Weinheim, pp. 149-160. (2013)
Boetius, A., S. Albrecht, K. Bakker, C. Bienhold, J. Felden, M. Fernández-Méndez, S. Hendricks, C. Katlein, C. Lalande, T. Krumpen, M. Nicolaus, I. Peeken, B. Rabe, A. Rogacheva, E. Rybakova, R. Somavilla, F. Wenzhöfer and the RV Polarstern ARK27-3-Shipboard Science Party: Export of algal biomass from the melting Arctic sea ice. Science 339(6126), 1430-1432. doi:10.1126/science.1231346 (Express Online 14 Feb 2013). PubMed
Boetius, A. and F. Wenzhöfer: Seafloor oxygen consumption fuelled by methane from cold seeps. Nature Geoscience 6(9), 725-734. doi:10.1038/ngeo1926. (2013) Nature Full Text
Buttigieg, P.L., W. Hankeln, I. Kostadinov, R. Kottmann, P. Yilmaz, M.B. Duhaime and F.O. Glöckner: Ecogenomic Perspectives on Domains of Unknown Function: Correlation-Based Exploration of Marine Metagenomes. (I. Friedberg, Ed.). PLoS ONE 8(3), e50869. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050869. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Chennu, A., P. Färber, N. Volkenborn, M.A.A. Al-Najjar, F. Janssen, D. de Beer and L. Polerecky: Hyperspectral imaging of the microscale distribution and dynamics of microphytobenthos in intertidal sediments. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 11, 511-52. doi: 10.4319/lom.2013.11.511. (2013) ASLO Full Text
Cherkasheva, A., A. Bracher, C. Melsheimer, C. Köberle, R. Gerdes, E.-M. Nöthig, E. Bauerfeind and A. Boetius: Influence of the physical environment on polar phytopklankton blooms: a case study in the Fram Strait. Journal of Marine Systems. doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.11.008. (2013) ePic Full Text
De Beer, D., M. Haeckel, J Neumann, G. Wegener, F. Inagaki and A. Boetius: Saturated CO2 inhibits microbial processes in CO2-vented deep-sea sediments. Biogeosciences 10, 5639–5649. doi:10.5194/bg-10-5639-2013. (2013) Biogeosciences Full Text
Deck, J., K. Barker, R. Beaman, P.L. Buttigieg, G. Dröge, R. Guralnick, C. Miller, E. Tuaman, Z. Murrell, C. Parr, B. Robbins, D. Schigel, B. Stucky, R. Walls, J. Wieczorek, N. Morrison and J. Wooley: Clarifying Concepts and Terms in Biodiversity Informatics. Standards in Genomic Sciences 8(2), 352–359. doi:10.4056/sigs.3907833. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Felden, J., A. Lichtschlag, F. Wenzhöfer, D. de Beer, T. Feseker, P. Pop Ristova, G. de Lange and A. Boetius: Limitations of microbial hydrocarbon degradation at the Amon Mud Volcano (Nile Deep Sea Fan). Biogeosciences 10, 3269–3283. doi:biogeosciences.net/10/3269/2013/. (2013) Biogeosciences Full Text
Glud, R.N., F. Wenzhöfer, M. Middelboe, K. Oguri, R. Turnewitsch, D.E. Canfield and H. Kitazato: High rates of microbial carbon turnover in sediments in the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. Nature Geoscience 6, 284-288. doi: 10.1038/NGEO1773. (2013) Nature
Gobet, A., A. Boetius and A. Ramette: Ecological coherence of diversity patterns derived from classical fingerprinting and Next Generation Sequencing techniques. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12308. (2013) PubMed
Holtappels, M., R.N. Glud, D. Donis, B. Liu, A. Hume, F. Wenzhöfer and M. Kuypers: Effects of transient bottom water currents and oxygen concentrations on benthic exchange rates as assessed by eddy correlation measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans 118, 1–13. doi:10.1002/jgrc.20112. (2013) Wiley
Jacob, M., T. Soltwedel, A. Boetius and A. Ramette: Biogeography of Deep-Sea Benthic Bacteria at Regional Scale (LTER HAUSGARTEN, Fram Strait, Arctic). PLOS One 8(9):e72779. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072779. (2013) PubMed Full Text
Meyer, S., G. Wegener, K.G. Lloyd, A. Teske, A. Boetius and A. Ramette: Microbial habitat connectivity across spatial scales and hydrothermal temperature gradients at Guayamas Basin. Frontiers Microbiology 4(207), 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00207. (2013) PubMed Full Text
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Ph.D. theses
Emil Ruff: Microbial community ecology of marine methan seeps. University of Bremen. (2013)
Matthias Winkel: Chemolithotrophic and chemohetero- trophic microorganisms in sediment - and rock-hosted hydrothermal systems. University of Bremen.(2013)
Andreas Krupke: The role of unicellular cyanobacteria in nitrogen fixation and assimilation in subtropical marine waters. University of Bremen. (2013)
Sandra Havemeyer: Polyphosphate storage in the family Beggiatoaceae with a focus on the species Beggiatoa alba. University of Bremen. (2013)
Richard Hahnke: Cultivation of Flavobacteria and other in situ abundant bacteria from the North Sea. University of Bremen. (2013)
Ingrid Torres Monroy: Identification of bacterial genes required for diatom-bacteria interactions. Jacobs University. (2013)
Stefan Thiele: The role of specific microbial communities in the biological carbon pump. University of Bremen. (2013)
M.Sc. theses
Boyan Angelov: Mud Volcanoes: A window to the Deep Biosphere. Investigating succession and functional shifts in marine deep subsurface microbial communities exposed to mud volcanism. University of Bremen. (2013)
Jasmine Berg: Single-cell analysis of sulfur compounds in living bacteria by Raman spectroscopy. University of Bremen. (2013)
Lennart Kappelmann: (Meta-)genomic analysis of the diversity and the carbohydrate degradation potential of the SAR92 clade during a Diatom-induced Bacterioplankton bloom. University of Bremen. (2013)
Clara Martinez Perez: Microbial control in P particle formation. University of Bremen. (2013)
Beatriz Noriega Ortega: Biogeochemistry of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) in the Dead Sea and its fresh water springs. University of Bremen. (2013)
Laura Piepgras: The fate of ammonium in anaerobic oxidation of methane. University of Bremen. (2013)
David Probandt: Enrichment of abundant sulfate reducers from tidal sediments. University of Bremen. (2013)
Greta Reintjes: Picoplankton community analysis along the Atlantic Meridional Transect AMT22. University of Bremen. (2013)
Miriam Sadowski: Molecular characterization of ectosymbiotic bacteria from nematodes in a shallow water system. University of Bremen. (2013)
Ioulia Santi: Microbial diversity and biogeochemistry of Milos (Aegean Sea, Greece) hydrothermal vents. University of Bremen. (2013)
Brandon Seah: Bacterial ectosymbionts of the ciliate Kentrophoros. University of Bremen. (2013)
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