Publications

Scharhauser F, Saavedra DEM, Pröts P, Ott JA, Geier B, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Polikarpov M, Bourenkov G, Leisch N. 2024. Revision of the genus Robbea (Stilbonematinae: Desmodoridae), worldwide abundant marine nematodes with chromophoric Fe–Br inclusions and the description of a new stilbonematine genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae005, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae005

Albecker MA, Wilkins LGE, Krueger-Hadfield SA, Bashevkin SM, Hahn MW, Hare MP, Kindsvater HK, Sewell MA, Lotterhos KE, Reitzel AM, 2021. Does a complex life cycle affect adaptation to environmental change? Genome-informed insights for characterizing selection across complex life cycle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288 (1964), 20212122. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2122

Breinlinger S, Phillips TJ, Haram BN, Mares J, Yerena JAM, Hrouzek P, Sobotka R, Henderson WM, Schmieder P, Williams SM, Lauderdale JD, Wilde HD, Gerrin W, Kust A, Washington JW, Wagner C, Geier B, Liebeke M, Enke H, Niedermeyer THJ, Wilde S B. Hunting the eagle killer: A cyanobacterial neurotoxin causes vacuolar myelinopathy. Science,371(6536), 1335. doi:10.1126/science.aax9050

Franke M, Geier B, Hammel JU, Dubilier N, Leisch N. 2021. Coming together—symbiont acquisition and early development in deep-sea bathymodioline mussels. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1957), 20211044. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1044

Geier B, Oetjen J, Ruthensteiner B, Polikarpov M, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Liebeke M. 2021. Connecting structure and function from organisms to molecules in small-animal symbioses through chemo-histo-tomography. PNAS. 118(27)e2023773118; doi:10.1073/pnas.2023773118

Kröber E, Wende S, Kanukollu S, Buchen-Tschiskale C, Besaury L, Keppler F, Vuilleumier S, Kolb S, Bringel F. 2021.¹³C-chloromethane incubations provide evidence for novel bacterial chloromethane degraders in a living tree fern. Environmental Microbiology. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.15638

Janda M, Seah BKB, Jacob D, Beckmann J, Geier B, Liebeke M. 2021. Determination of Abundant Metabolite Matrix Adducts Illuminates the Dark Metabolome of MALDI-Mass Spectrometry Imaging Datasets. Analytical Chemistry.  93 (24), 8399-8407  doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04720

Kröber E, Cunningham MR, Peixoto J, Spurgin L, Wischer D, Kruger R, Kumaresan D. 2021. Comparative genomics analyzes indicate differential methylated amine utilization trait within members of the genus Gemmobacter. Environmental Microbiology Reports. doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12927

Mankowski A, Kleiner M, Erséus C, Leisch N, Sato Y, Volland J-M, Hüttel B, Wentrup C,Woyke T, Wippler J, Dubilier N, Gruber-Vodicka H. 2021. Highly variable fidelity drives symbiont community composition in an obligate symbiosis. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2021.04.28.441735

Mohr W, Lehnen N, Ahmerkamp S, Marchant HK, Graf JS, Tschitschko B, Yilmaz P, Littmann S, Gruber-Vodicka H, Leisch N, Weber M, Lott C, Schubert CJ, Milucka J, Kuypers MMM. 2021. Terrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between seagrass and a marine bacterium. Nature 600, 105–109. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04063-4.

Sato Y, Wippler J, Wentrup C, Ansorge R, Sadowski M, Gruber-Vodicka H, Dubilier N, Kleiner M. 2021. Fidelity varies in the symbiosis between a gutless marine worm and its microbial consortium. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.30.428904

Sogin E, Michellod D, Gruber-Vodicka H, Bourceau P, Geier B, D Meier, Seidel M, Hach PF, Procaccini G, Dubilier N, Liebeke M. 2021. Sugars dominate the seagrass rhizosphere. bioRxiv, 797522. doi:10.1101/797522

Sogin E, Kleiner M, Borowski C, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Dubilier N. 2021. Life in the dark: Phylogenetic and physiological diversity of chemosynthetic symbioses. Annual Review of Microbiology. 75 (1), 695-718. doi:10.1146/annurev-micro-051021-123130

Ücker M, Ansorge R, Sato Y, Sayavedra L, Breusing C, Dubilier N. 2021. Deep-sea mussels from a hybrid zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge host genetically indistinguishable symbionts. ISME J. doi:10.1038/s41396-021-00927-9

Ansorge R, Romano S, Sayavedra L, Rubin-Blum M, Gruber-Vodicka H, Scilipoti S, Molari M, Dubilier N, Petersen J. 2020. The hidden pangenome: comparative genomics reveals pervasive diversity in symbiotic and free-living sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. bioRxiv, 2020.2012.2011.421487. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.11.421487

Assié A, Leisch N, Meier DV, Gruber-Vodicka H, Tegetmeyer HE, Meyerdierks A, Kleiner M, Hinzke T, Joye S, Saxton M, Dubilier N, Petersen JM. 2020. Horizontal acquisition of a patchwork Calvin cycle by symbiotic and free-living Campylobacterota (formerly Epsilonproteobacteria). ISME J 14: 104–122. doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0508-7

Breusing C, Franke M, Young CR. 2020. Intra-host symbiont diversity in eastern Pacific cold seep tubeworms identified by the 16S-V6 region, but undetected by the 16S-V4 region. PLOS ONE 15(1):e0227053. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227053

Buck-Wiese H, Fanuel M, Liebeke M, Le Mai Hoang K, Pardo-Vargas A, Seeberger PH, Hehemann J-H, Rogniaux H, Jackson GP, Ropartz D. 2020.  Discrimination of β-1,4- and β-1,3-linkages in native oligosaccharides via charge transfer dissociation mass spectrometry. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 31(6):1249–59. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jasms.0c00087

Franke M, Geier B, Hammel JU, Dubilier N, Leisch N. 2020. Becoming symbiotic – the symbiont acquisition and the early development of bathymodiolin mussels. bioRxiv 2020.10.09.333211. doi:10.1101/2020.10.09.333211

Geier B, Liebeke M. 2020. Die chemische Sprache von Symbiosen sichtbar machen. Biospektrum 26:493–495. doi:10.1007/s12268-020-1435-x

Geier B, Oetjen J, Ruthensteiner B, Polikarpov M, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Liebeke M. 2020. CHEMHIST, connecting structure and function from organisms to molecules in small animal symbioses through chemo-histo-tomography. bioRxiv 2020.09.28.316802. doi:10.1101/2020.09.28.316802

Geier B, Sogin EM, Michellod D, Janda M, Kompauer M, Spengler B, Dubilier N, Liebeke M. 2020. Spatial metabolomics of in situ host–microbe interactions at the micrometre scale. Nature Microbiology. 5(3):498–510. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0664-6

Gruber-Vodicka HR, Seah BKB, Pruesse E. 2020. phyloFlash: Rapid Small-Subunit rRNA Profiling and Targeted Assembly from Metagenomes. mSystems 5. doi:10.1128/mSystems.00920-20

Hahn CJ, Laso-Pérez R, Vulcano F, Vaziourakis K-M, Stokke R, Steen IH, Teske A, Boetius A, Liebeke M, Amann R, Knittel K, Wegener G. 2020. “Candidatus Ethanoperedens,” a Thermophilic Genus of Archaea Mediating the Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethane. mBio 11:e00600-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00600-20

Ponnudurai R, Heiden SE, Sayavedra L, Hinzke T, Kleiner M, Hentschker C, Felbeck H, Sievert SM, Schlüter R, Becher D, Schweder T, Markert S. 2020. Comparative proteomics of related symbiotic mussel species reveals high variability of host–symbiont interactions. ISME J 14: 649–656. doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0517-6

Schucht PJ, Ruehr PT, Geier B, Glaw F, Lambertz M. 2020. Armored with skin and bone: A combined histological and mu CT-study of the exceptional integument of the Antsingy leaf chameleon Brookesia perarmata (Angel, 1933). Journal of Morphology 281(7):754–64. https://publons.com/publon/10.1002/jmor.21135

Seah BKB, Volland J-M, Leisch N, Schwaha T, Dubilier N, Gruber-Vodicka HR. 2020. Kentrophoros magnus sp. nov. (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea), a new flagship species of marine interstitial ciliates. bioRxiv 2020.03.19.998534. doi:10.1101/2020.03.19.998534

Sichert A, Corzett CH, Schechter MS, Unfried F, Markert S, Becher D, Fernandez-Guerra A, Liebeke M, Schweder T, Polz MF, Hehemann J-H. Verrucomicrobia use hundreds of enzymes to digest the algal polysaccharide fucoidan. Nature Microbiology 5(8):1026–39. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0720-2

Sogin EM, Leisch N, Dubilier N. 2020. Chemosynthetic symbioses. Current Biology 30:R1137–R1142. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.050

Vohsen SA, Anderson KE, Gade AM, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Dannenberg RP, Osman EO, Dubilier N, Fisher CR, Baums IB. 2020.  Deep-sea corals provide new insight into the ecology, evolution, and the role of plastids in widespread apicomplexan symbionts of anthozoans. Microbiome 8(1):34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00798-w

Ansorge R, Romano S, Sayavedra L, Porras MÁG, Kupczok A, Tegetmeyer HE, Dubilier N, Petersen J. 2019. Functional diversity enables multiple symbiont strains to coexist in deep-sea mussels. Nature Microbiology 4: 2487–2497. doi:10.1038/s41564-019-0572-9

Alexandrov T, Ovchinnikova K, Palmer A, Kovalev V, Tarasov A, Stuart L, Nigmetzianov R, Fay D, Key METASPACE Contributors. 2019. METASPACE: A community-populated knowledge base of spatial metabolomes in health and disease. bioRxiv 539478. doi:10.1101/539478

Berg JS, Pjevac P, Sommer T, Buckner CRT, Philippi M, Hach PF, Liebeke M, Holtappels M, Danza F, Tonolla M, Sengupta A, Schubert CJ, Milucka J, Kuypers MMM. n.d. Dark aerobic sulfide oxidation by anoxygenic phototrophs in anoxic waters. Environmental Microbiology 21: 1611-1626. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14543

Geier B, Franke M, Ruthensteiner B, González Porras MÁ, Gruhl A, Wörmer L, Moosmann J, Hammel JU, Dubilier N, Leisch N, Liebeke M. 2019.  Correlative 3D anatomy and spatial chemistry in animal-microbe symbioses: developing sample preparation for phase-contrast synchrotron radiation based micro-computed tomography and mass spectrometry imaging. In: Developments in X-Ray Tomography XII. International Society for Optics and Photonics. 1111306. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530652

Gruber-Vodicka HR, Leisch N, Kleiner M, Hinzke T, Liebeke M, McFall-Ngai M, Hadfield MG, Dubilier N. 2019. Two intracellular and cell type-specific bacterial symbionts in the placozoan Trichoplax H2. Nature Microbiology 4: 1465–1474. doi:10.1038/s41564-019-0475-9

Liebeke M, Puskás E. 2019. Drying Enhances Signal Intensities for Global GC–MS Metabolomics. Metabolites 9(4), 68. doi:10.3390/metabo9040068

Romero Picazo D, Dagan T, Ansorge R, Petersen JM, Dubilier N, Kupczok A. 2019. Horizontally transmitted symbiont populations in deep-sea mussels are genetically isolated. ISME J 13: 2954–2968. doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0475-z

Sogin EM, Puskás E, Dubilier N, Liebeke M. 2019. Marine Metabolomics: a method for nontargeted measurement of metabolites in seawater by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. mSystems 4(6): e00638-19. doi:10.1128/mSystems.00638-19

Wilkins LGE, Leray M, O’Dea A, Yuen B, Peixoto RS, Pereira TJ, Bik HM, Coil DA, Duffy JE, Herre EA, Lessios HA, Lucey NM, Mejia LC, Rasher DB, Sharp KH, Sogin EM, Thacker RW, Thurber RV, Wcislo WT, Wilbanks EG, et al. 2019. Host-associated microbiomes drive structure and function of marine ecosystems. PLOS Biology 17(11):e3000533. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000533

Bang C, Dagan T, Deines P, Dubilier N, Duschl WJ, Fraune S, Hentschel U, Hirt H, Hülter N, Lachnit T, Picazo D, Pita L, Pogoreutz C, Rädecker N, Saad MM, Schmitz RA, Schulenburg H, Voolstra CR, Weiland-Bräuer N, Ziegler M, Bosch TCG. 2018. Metaorganisms in extreme environments: Do microbes play a role in organismal adaptation? Zoology 127: 1–19. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2018.02.004

Callbeck CM, Lavik G, Ferdelman TG, Fuchs B, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Hach PF, Littmann S, Schoffelen NJ, Kalvelage T, Thomsen S, Schunck H, Löscher CR, Schmitz RA, Kuypers MMM. 2018. Oxygen minimum zone cryptic sulfur cycling sustained by offshore transport of key sulfur oxidizing bacteria. Nature Communications 9: 1729. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04041-x

Kitzinger K, Koch H, Lücker S, Sedlacek C J, Herbold C, Schwarz J, Daebeler A, Mueller A J, Lukumbuzya M, Romano S, Leisch N, Karst S M, Kirkegaard R, Albertsen M, Nielsen P H, Wagner M, Daims H. 2018. Characterization of the first “Candidatus Nitrotoga” isolate reveals metabolic versatility and separate evolution of widespread nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. mBio 9: e01186-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01186-18

Krukenberg V, Riedel D, Gruber‐Vodicka HR, Buttigieg PL, Tegetmeyer HE, Boetius A, Wegener G. 2018. Gene expression and ultrastructure of meso- and thermophilic methanotrophic consortia. Environmental Microbiology 20:1651–1666. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14077

Krylova EM, Sahling H, Borowski C 2018. Resolving the status of the families Vesicomyidae and Kelliellidae (Bivalvia: Venerida), with notes on their ecology. Journal of Molluscan Studies 84(1): 69-91. https://doi.org/:10.1093/mollus/eyx050

Laumer CE, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Hadfield MG, Pearse VB, Riesgo A, Marioni JC, Giribet G. 2018. Support for a clade of Placozoa and Cnidaria in genes with minimal compositional bias. eLife 7: e36278. doi:10.7554/eLife.36278

Pende N, Wang J, Weber PM, Verheul J, Kuru E, Rittmann SK-MR, Leisch N, VanNieuwenhze MS, Brun YV, den Blaauwen T, Bulgheresi S. 2018. Host-polarized cell growth in animal symbionts. Current Biology 28(7): 1039-1051.e5. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.028

Petersen JM, Kemper A, Gruber-Vodicka H, Cardini U, Geest M van der, Kleiner M, Bulgheresi S, Mußmann M, Herbold C, Seah BKB, Antony CP, Liu D, Belitz A, Weber M. 2018. Author Correction: Chemosynthetic symbionts of marine invertebrate animals are capable of nitrogen fixation. Nature Microbiology 3: 961. doi:10.1038/s41564-018-0196-5

Pjevac P, Meier DV, Markert S, Hentschker C, Schweder T, Becher D, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Richter M, Bach W, Amann R, Meyerdierks A. 2018. Metaproteogenomic profiling of microbial communities colonizing actively venting hydrothermal chimneys. Frontiers in Microbiology 9: 680. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.00680

Puentes-Cala E, Liebeke M, Markert S, Harder J. 2018a. Anaerobic degradation of bicyclic monoterpenes in Castellaniella defragrans. Metabolites 8(1): 12. doi:10.3390/metabo8010012

Puentes-Cala E, Liebeke M, Markert S, Harder J. 2018b. Limonene dehydrogenase hydroxylates the allylic methyl group of cyclic monoterpenes in the anaerobic terpene degradation by Castellaniella defragrans. Journal of Biological Chemistry jbc.RA117.001557. doi:10.1074/jbc.RA117.001557

Ruff SE, Felden J, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Marcon Y, Knittel K, Ramette A, Boetius A. 2018. In situ development of a methanotrophic microbiome in deep-sea sediments. The ISME Journal 13: 197–213. doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0263-1

Avcı B, Hahnke RL, Chafee M, Fischer T, Gruber‐Vodicka H, Tegetmeyer HE, Harder J, Fuchs BM, Amann RI, Teeling H. 2017. Genomic and physiological analyses of ‘Reinekea forsetii’ reveal a versatile opportunistic lifestyle during spring algae blooms. Environmental Microbiology 19:1209–1221. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13646

Dubilier N. 2017. Big questions in microbiology - High tide for marine microbes. Cell 169:771. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.009

Jäckle O. 2017. Mund- und darmlos in den Sedimenten mariner Tropen - Symbiose macht’s möglich In: Hempel G, Hempel I, Hornidge A-K, editors. Klüger Nutzen - Besser Schützen: Bremer Forschung an Tropischen Küsten. Bremen, Germany: Edition Falkenberg. pp. 43–46.

Kreutzmann A-C, Dubilier N. 2017. Dunkle Energie: Symbiosen zwischen Tieren und chemosynthetischen Bakterien In: Hempel G, Hagel W, Bischof K, editors. Faszination Meeresforschung. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 231–244. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-49714-2_22

Leisch N, Pende N, Weber PM, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Verheul J, Vischer NOE, Abby SS, Geier B, Blaauwen T den, Bulgheresi S. 2017. Asynchronous division by non-ring FtsZ in the gammaproteobacterial symbiont of Robbea hypermnestra. Nature Microbiology 2:16182. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.182

Ponnudurai R, Kleiner M, Sayavedra L, Petersen JM, Moche M, Otto A, Becher D, Takeuchi T, Satoh N, Dubilier N, Schweder T, Markert S. 2017a. Metabolic and physiological interdependencies in the Bathymodiolus azoricus symbiosis. The ISME Journal 11:463–477. doi:10.1038/ismej.2016.124

Ponnudurai R, Sayavedra L, Kleiner M, Heiden SE, Thürmer A, Felbeck H, Schlüter R, Sievert SM, Daniel R, Schweder T, Markert S. 2017b. Genome sequence of the sulfur-oxidizing Bathymodiolus thermophilus gill endosymbiont. Standards in Genomic Sciences 12:50. doi:10.1186/s40793-017-0266-y

Rochfort S, Wyatt MA, Liebeke M, Southam AD, Viant MR, Bundy JG. 2017. Aromatic metabolites from the coelomic fluid of Eisenia earthworm species. European Journal of Soil Biology 78:17–19. doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2016.11.008

Rubin-Blum M, Antony CP, Borowski C, Sayavedra L, Pape T, Sahling H, Bohrmann G, Kleiner M, Redmond MC, Valentine DL, Dubilier N. 2017. Short-chain alkanes fuel mussel and sponge Cycloclasticus symbionts from deep-sea gas and oil seeps. Nature Microbiology 2:17093. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.93

Seah BKB, Schwaha T, Volland J-M, Huettel B, Dubilier N, Gruber-Vodicka HR. 2017. Specificity in diversity: Single origin of a widespread ciliate-bacteria symbiosis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284:20170764. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0764

Tavormina PL, Kellermann MY, Antony CP, Tocheva EI, Dalleska NF, Jensen AJ, Valentine DL, Hinrichs K-U, Jensen GJ, Dubilier N, Orphan VJ. 2017. Starvation and recovery in the deep-sea methanotroph Methyloprofundus sedimenti. Molecular Microbiology 103:242–252. doi:10.1111/mmi.13553

Urbaniak T, Soto M, Liebeke M, Koschek K. 2017. Insight into the mechanism of reversible ring-opening of 1,3-Benzoxazine with thiols. The Journal of Organic Chemistry 82:4050–4055. doi:10.1021/acs.joc.6b02727

Verma A, Ojha AK, Pal Y, Kumari P, Schumann P, Gruber-Vodicka H, Dastager SG, Natarajan RK, Mayilraj S, Krishnamurthi S. 2017a. An investigation into the taxonomy of “Bacillus aminovorans” and its reclassification to the genus Domibacillus as Domibacillus aminovorans sp. nov. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 40:458–467. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2017.07.003

Verma A, Pal Y, Khatri I, Ojha AK, Gruber-Vodicka H, Schumann P, Dastager S, Subramanian S, Mayilraj S, Krishnamurthi S. 2017b. Examination into the taxonomic position of Bacillus thermotolerans Yang et al., 2013, proposal for its reclassification into a new genus and species Quasibacillus thermotolerans gen. nov., comb. nov. and reclassification of B. encimensis Dastager et al., 2015 as a later heterotypic synonym of B. badius. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 40:411–422. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2017.07.010

Assié A, Borowski C, van der Heijden K, Raggi L, Geier B, Leisch N, Schimak MP, Dubilier N, Petersen JM. 2016. A specific and widespread association between deep-sea Bathymodiolus mussels and a novel family of Epsilonproteobacteria. Environmental Microbiology Reports 8:805–813. doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12442

Berg JS, Michellod D, Pjevac P, Martinez‐Perez C, Buckner CRT, Hach PF, Schubert CJ, Milucka J, Kuypers MMM. 2016. Intensive cryptic microbial iron cycling in the low iron water column of the meromictic Lake Cadagno. Environmental Microbiology 18:5288–5302. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13587

Breusing C, Biastoch A, Drews A, Metaxas A, Jollivet D, Vrijenhoek RC, Bayer T, Melzner F, Sayavedra L, Petersen JM, Dubilier N, Schilhabel MB, Rosenstiel P, Reusch TBH. 2016. Biophysical and population genetic models predict the presence of “phantom” stepping stones connecting Mid-Atlantic Ridge vent ecosystems. Current Biology 26:2257–2267. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.062

Hamann E, Gruber-Vodicka H, Kleiner M, Tegetmeyer HE, Riedel D, Littmann S, Chen J, Milucka J, Viehweger B, Becker KW, Dong X, Stairs CW, Hinrichs K-U, Brown MW, Roger AJ, Strous M. 2016. Environmental Breviatea harbour mutualistic Arcobacter epibionts. Nature 534:254–258. doi:10.1038/nature18297

Hao J, Liebeke M, Sommer U, Viant MR, Bundy JG, Ebbels TMD. 2016. Statistical correlations between NMR spectroscopy and direct infusion FT-ICR mass spectrometry aid annotation of unknowns in metabolomics. Analytical Chemistry 88:2583–2589. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02889

Kreutzmann A-C, Schulz-Vogt HN. 2016. Oxidation of molecular hydrogen by a chemolithoautotrophic Beggiatoa strain. Appl Environ Microbiol 82:2527–2536. doi:10.1128/AEM.03818-15

Krukenberg V, Harding K, Richter M, Glöckner FO, Gruber‐Vodicka HR, Adam B, Berg JS, Knittel K, Tegetmeyer HE, Boetius A, Wegener G. 2016. Candidatus Desulfofervidus auxilii, a hydrogenotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium involved in the thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environmental Microbiology 18:3073–3091. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13283

Lehnen N, Marchant H, Schwedt A, Milucka J, Lott C, Weber M, Dekaezemacker J, Seah BKB, Hach PF, Mohr W, Kuypers MMM. 2016. High rates of microbial dinitrogen fixation and sulfate reduction associated with the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 39:476–483. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2016.08.004

Meier DV, Bach W, Girguis PR, Gruber‐Vodicka HR, Reeves EP, Richter M, Vidoudez C, Amann R, Meyerdierks A. 2016. Heterotrophic Proteobacteria in the vicinity of diffuse hydrothermal venting. Environmental Microbiology 18:4348–4368. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13304

Montanaro J, Gruber D, Leisch N. 2016. Improved ultrastructure of marine invertebrates using non-toxic buffers. PeerJ 4:e1860. doi:10.7717/peerj.1860

Okamura B, Gruhl A. 2016. Myxozoa + Polypodium: A common route to endoparasitism. Trends in Parasitology 32:268–271. doi:10.1016/j.pt.2016.01.007

Petersen JM, Kemper A, Gruber-Vodicka H, Cardini U, van der Geest M, Kleiner M, Bulgheresi S, Mußmann M, Herbold C, Seah BKB, Antony CP, Liu D, Belitz A, Weber M. 2016. Chemosynthetic symbionts of marine invertebrate animals are capable of nitrogen fixation. Nature Microbiology 2:16195. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.195

Sahling H, Borowski C, Escobar-Briones E, Gaytán-Caballero A, Hsu C-W, Loher M, MacDonald I, Marcon Y, Pape T, Römer M, Rubin-Blum M, Schubotz F, Smrzka D, Wegener G, Bohrmann G. 2016. Massive asphalt deposits, oil seepage, and gas venting support abundant chemosynthetic communities at the Campeche Knolls, southern Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences 13:4491–4512. doi:10.5194/bg-13-4491-2016

Schimak MP, Kleiner M, Wetzel S, Liebeke M, Dubilier N, Fuchs BM. 2016. MiL-FISH: Multilabeled oligonucleotides for Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization improve visualization of bacterial cells. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82:62–70. doi:10.1128/AEM.02776-15

Spurgeon DJ, Liebeke M, Anderson C, Kille P, Lawlor A, Bundy JG, Lahive E. 2016. Ecological drivers influence the distributions of two cryptic lineages in an earthworm morphospecies. Applied Soil Ecology 108:8–15. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.07.013

Wippler J, Kleiner M, Lott C, Gruhl A, Abraham PE, Giannone RJ, Young JC, Hettich RL, Dubilier N. 2016. Transcriptomic and proteomic insights into innate immunity and adaptations to a symbiotic lifestyle in the gutless marine worm Olavius algarvensis. BMC Genomics 17:942. doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3293-y

Zimmermann J, Wentrup C, Sadowski M, Blazejak A, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Kleiner M, Ott JA, Cronholm B, De Wit P, Erséus C, Dubilier N. 2016. Closely coupled evolutionary history of ecto- and endosymbionts from two distantly related animal phyla. Molecular Ecology 25:3203–3223. doi:10.1111/mec.13554

Dubilier N, McFall-Ngai M, Zhao L. 2015. Microbiology: Create a global microbiome effort. Nature 526:631. doi:10.1038/526631a

Gruhl A. 2015. Myxozoa In: Wanninger A, editor. Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 1. pp. 165–177. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-1862-7_7

Gruhl A, Schwaha T. 2015. Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) In: Schmidt-Rhaesa A, Harzsch S, Purschke G, editors. Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems. Oxford University Press. pp. 325–340.

Kleiner M, Wentrup C, Holler T, Lavik G, Harder J, Lott C, Littmann S, Kuypers MMM, Dubilier N. 2015. Use of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by a bacteria-animal symbiosis from seagrass sediments: Role of CO and H₂ in a marine symbiosis. Environmental Microbiology 17:5023–5035. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12912

Klose J, Polz MF, Wagner M, Schimak MP, Gollner S, Bright M. 2015. Endosymbionts escape dead hydrothermal vent tubeworms to enrich the free-living population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112:11300–11305. doi:10.1073/pnas.1501160112

Liebeke M, Strittmatter N, Fearn S, Morgan AJ, Kille P, Fuchser J, Wallis D, Palchykov V, Robertson J, Lahive E, Spurgeon DJ, McPhail D, Takáts Z, Bundy JG. 2015. Unique metabolites protect earthworms against plant polyphenols. Nature Communications 6:7869. doi:10.1038/ncomms8869

Sayavedra L, Kleiner M, Ponnudurai R, Wetzel S, Pelletier E, Barbe V, Satoh N, Shoguchi E, Fink D, Breusing C, Reusch TB, Rosenstiel P, Schilhabel MB, Becher D, Schweder T, Markert S, Dubilier N, Petersen JM. 2015. Abundant toxin-related genes in the genomes of beneficial symbionts from deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels. eLife 4:e07966. doi:10.7554/eLife.07966

Seah BKB, Gruber-Vodicka HR. 2015. gbtools: Interactive visualization of metagenome bins in R. Frontiers in Microbiology 6:1451. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01451

Beinart RA, Nyholm SV, Dubilier N, Girguis PR. 2014. Intracellular Oceanospirillales inhabit the gills of the hydrothermal vent snail Alviniconcha with chemosynthetic, γ-Proteobacterial symbionts. Environmental Microbiology Reports 6:656–664.

Fagervold SK, Romano C, Kalenitchenko D, Borowski C, Nunes-Jorge A, Martin D, Galand PE. 2014. Microbial communities in sunken wood are structured by wood-boring bivalves and location in a submarine canyon. PLoS ONE 9:e96248. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096248

Hao J, Liebeke M, Astle W, Iorio MD, Bundy JG, Ebbels TMD. 2014. Bayesian deconvolution and quantification of metabolites in complex 1D NMR spectra using BATMAN. Nature Protocols 9:1416–1427. doi:10.1038/nprot.2014.090

Jan C, Petersen JM, Werner J, Teeling H, Huang S, Glöckner FO, Golyshina OV, Dubilier N, Golyshin PN, Jebbar M, Cambon-Bonavita M-A. 2014. The gill chamber epibiosis of deep-sea shrimp Rimicaris exoculata: An in-depth metagenomic investigation and discovery of Zetaproteobacteria. Environmental Microbiology 16:2723–2738. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12406

Koschinsky A, Kausch M, Borowski C. 2014. Metal concentrations in the tissues of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus: Reflection of different metal sources. Marine Environmental Research 95:62–73. doi:10.1016/j.marenvres.2013.12.012

Mora-Lugo R, Zimmermann J, Rizk AM, Fernandez-Lahore M. 2014. Development of a transformation system for Aspergillus sojae based on the Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated approach. BMC Microbiology 14:247. doi:10.1186/s12866-014-0247-x

Ott JA, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Leisch N, Zimmermann J. 2014a. Phylogenetic confirmation of the genus Robbea (Nematoda: Desmodoridae, Stilbonematinae) with the description of three new species. Systematics and Biodiversity 12:434–455. doi:10.1080/14772000.2014.941038

Ott JA, Leisch N, Gruber-Vodicka HR. 2014b. Eubostrichus fertilis sp. n., a new marine nematode (Desmodoridae: Stilbonematinae) with an extraordinary reproductive potential from Belize, Central America. Nematology 16:777–787. doi:10.1163/15685411-00002807

Pende N, Leisch N, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Heindl NR, Ott J, den Blaauwen T, Bulgheresi S. 2014. Size-independent symmetric division in extraordinarily long cells. Nature Communications 5:4803. doi:10.1038/ncomms5803

Petersen J, Dubilier N. 2014. Gene swapping in the dead zone. eLife 3:e04600. doi:10.7554/eLife.04600

Russell JA, Dubilier N, Rudgers JA. 2014. Nature’s microbiome: Introduction. Molecular Ecology 23:1225–1237. doi:10.1111/mec.12676

Wentrup C, Wendeberg A, Schimak M, Borowski C, Dubilier N. 2014. Forever competent: Deep-sea bivalves are colonized by their chemosynthetic symbionts throughout their lifetime. Environmental Microbiology 16:3699–3713. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12597

Kleiner M, Young JC, Shah M, VerBerkmoes NC, Dubilier N. 2013. Metaproteomics reveals abundant transposase expression in mutualistic endosymbionts. mBio 4:e00223-13-e00223-13. doi:10.1128/mBio.00223-13

Marcon Y, Sahling H, Borowski C, dos Santos Ferreira C, Thal J, Bohrmann G. 2013. 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. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2013.01.008

McFall-Ngai M, Hadfield MG, Bosch TCG, Carey HV, Domazet-Lošo 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. 2013. Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:3229–3236. doi:10.1073/pnas.1218525110

Raggi L, Schubotz F, Hinrichs K-U, Dubilier N, Petersen JM. 2013. Bacterial symbionts of Bathymodiolus mussels and Escarpia tubeworms from Chapopote, an asphalt seep in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Microbiology 15:1969–1987. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12051

Wentrup C, Wendeberg A, Huang JY, Borowski C, Dubilier N. 2013. Shift from widespread symbiont infection of host tissues to specific colonization of gills in juvenile deep-sea mussels. The ISME Journal 7:1244–1247. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.5

Gros O, Elisabeth NH, Gustave SDD, Caro A, Dubilier N. 2012. Plasticity of symbiont acquisition throughout the life cycle of the shallow-water tropical lucinid Codakia orbiculata (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Environmental Microbiology 14:1584–1595. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02748.x

Kellermann MY, Schubotz F, Elvert M, Lipp JS, Birgel D, Prieto-Mollar X, Dubilier N, Hinrichs K-U. 2012. Symbiont–host relationships in chemosynthetic mussels: A comprehensive lipid biomarker study. Organic Geochemistry 43:112–124. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.10.005

Kleiner M, Petersen JM, Dubilier N. 2012. Convergent and divergent evolution of metabolism in sulfur-oxidizing symbionts and the role of horizontal gene transfer. Current Opinion in Microbiology 15:621–631. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2012.09.003

Kleiner M., Wentrup C, Lott C, Teeling H, Wetzel S, Young J, Chang Y-J, Shah M, VerBerkmoes NC, Zarzycki J, Fuchs G, Markert S, Hempel K, Voigt B, Becher D, Liebeke M, Lalk M, Albrecht D, Hecker M, Schweder T, Dubilier N. 2012. Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy use. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:E1173–E1182. doi:10.1073/pnas.1121198109

Petersen JM, Wentrup C, Verna C, Knittel K, Dubilier N. 2012. Origins and evolutionary flexibility of chemosynthetic symbionts from deep-sea animals. The Biological Bulletin 223:123–137. doi:10.1086/BBLv223n1p123

van der Heijden K, Petersen JM, Dubilier N, Borowski C. 2012. Genetic connectivity between North and South Mid-Atlantic Ridge chemosynthetic bivalves and their symbionts. PLoS ONE 7:e39994. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039994

Wendeberg A, Zielinski FU, Borowski C, Dubilier N. 2012. Expression patterns of mRNAs for methanotrophy and thiotrophy in symbionts of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis. The ISME Journal 6:104–112. doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.81

Hügler M, Petersen JM, Dubilier N, Imhoff JF, Sievert SM. 2011. Pathways of carbon and energy metabolism of the epibiotic community associated with the deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata. PLoS ONE 6:e16018. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016018

Kleiner M, Woyke T, Ruehland C, Dubilier N. 2011. The Olavius algarvensis metagenome revisited: Lessons learned from the analysis of the low-diversity microbial consortium of a gutless marine worm In: de Bruijn FJ, editor. Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology II. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 319–333. doi:10.1002/9781118010549.ch32

Petersen JM, Zielinski FU, Pape T, Seifert R, Moraru C, Amann R, Hourdez S, Girguis PR, Wankel SD, Barbe V, Pelletier E, Fink D, Borowski C, Bach W, Dubilier N. 2011. Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses. Nature 476:176–180. doi:10.1038/nature10325

Zielinski FU, Gennerich H-H, Borowski C, Wenzhöfer F, Dubilier N. 2011. In situ measurements of hydrogen sulfide, oxygen, and temperature in diffuse fluids of an ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal vent field (Logatchev, 14°45′N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge): Implications for chemosymbiotic bathymodiolin mussels. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 12:Q0AE04. doi:10.1029/2011GC003632

2010

Petersen JM, Dubilier N. 2010. Symbiotic methane oxidizers In: Timmis KN, editor. Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 1977–1996. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4_145

Petersen JM, Ramette A, Lott C, Cambon‐Bonavita M-A, Zbinden M, Dubilier N. 2010. Dual symbiosis of the vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata with filamentous gamma- and epsilonproteobacteria at four Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent fields. Environmental Microbiology 12:2204–2218. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02129.x

Rühland C, Dubilier N. 2010. Gamma- and epsilonproteobacterial ectosymbionts of a shallow-water marine worm are related to deep-sea hydrothermal vent ectosymbionts. Environmental Microbiology 12:2312–2326. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02256.x

Verna C, Ramette A, Wiklund H, Dahlgren TG, Glover AG, Gaill F, Dubilier N. 2010. High symbiont diversity in the bone-eating worm Osedax mucofloris from shallow whale-falls in the North Atlantic. Environmental Microbiology 12:2355–2370. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02299.x

Zielinski F, Dubilier N. 2010. Der Eu­k­a­ryoten-Zellkern als öko­lo­gis­che Nis­che für Bak­ter­ien. BIOspektrum 01.10:12–15.

 2009

Petersen JM, Dubilier N. 2009. Methanotrophic symbioses in marine invertebrates. Environmental Microbiology Reports 1:319–335. doi:10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00081.x

Zielinski FU, Pernthaler A, Duperron S, Raggi L, Giere O, Borowski C, Dubilier N. 2009. Widespread occurrence of an intranuclear bacterial parasite in vent and seep bathymodiolin mussels. Environmental Microbiology 11:1150–1167. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01847.x

 2008

Dubilier N, Bergin C, Lott C. 2008. Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: The art of harnessing chemosynthesis. Nature Reviews Microbiology 6:725–740. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1992

Lösekann T, Robador A, Niemann H, Knittel K, Boetius A, Dubilier N. 2008. Endosymbioses between bacteria and deep-sea siboglinid tubeworms from an Arctic Cold Seep (Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, Barents Sea). Environmental Microbiology 10:3237–3254. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01712.x

Martínez‐García M, Stief P, Díaz‐Valdés M, Wanner G, Ramos‐Esplá A, Dubilier N, Antón J. 2008. Ammonia-oxidizing Crenarchaeota and nitrification inside the tissue of a colonial ascidian. Environmental Microbiology 10:2991–3001. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01761.x

Rühland C, Blazejak A, Lott C, Loy A, Erséus C, Dubilier N. 2008. Multiple bacterial symbionts in two species of co-occurring gutless oligochaete worms from Mediterranean sea grass sediments. Environmental Microbiology 10:3404–3416. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01728.x

 2007

Dubilier N. 2007. The searchlight and the bucket of microbial ecology. Environmental Microbiology 9:2–3. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01222_2.x

Duperron S, Sibuet M, MacGregor BJ, Kuypers MMM, Fisher CR, Dubilier N. 2007. Diversity, relative abundance and metabolic potential of bacterial endosymbionts in three Bathymodiolus mussel species from cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Microbiology 9:1423–1438. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01259.x

Haase KM, Petersen S, Koschinsky A, Seifert R, Devey CW, Keir R, Lackschewitz KS, Melchert B, Perner M, Schmale O, Süling J, Dubilier N, Zielinski F, Fretzdorff S, Garbe‐Schönberg D, Westernströer U, German CR, Shank TM, Yoerger D, Giere O, Kuever J, Marbler H, Mawick J, Mertens C, Stöber U, Walter M, Ostertag‐Henning C, Paulick H, Peters M, Strauss H, Sander S, Stecher J, Warmuth M, Weber S. 2007. Young volcanism and related hydrothermal activity at 5°S on the slow-spreading southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 8:Q11002. doi:10.1029/2006GC001509

Musat N, Giere O, Gieseke A, Thiermann F, Amann R, Dubilier N. 2007. Molecular and morphological characterization of the association between bacterial endosymbionts and the marine nematode Astomonema sp. from the Bahamas. Environmental Microbiology 9:1345–1353. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01232.x

Pernice M, Wetzel S, Gros O, Boucher-Rodoni R, Dubilier N. 2007. Enigmatic dual symbiosis in the excretory organ of Nautilus macromphalus (Cephalopoda: Nautiloidea). Proceedings Biological Sciences 274:1143–1152. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.0353

Pradillon F, Schmidt A, Peplies J, Dubilier N. 2007. Species identification of marine invertebrate early stages by whole-larvae in situ hybridisation of 18S ribosomal RNA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 333:103–116. doi:10.3354/meps333103

 2006

Blazejak A, Kuever J, Erseus C, Amann R, Dubilier N. 2006. Phylogeny of 16S rRNA, Ribulose 1,5-Bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, and Adenosine 5’-Phosphosulfate reductase genes from gamma- and alphaproteobacterial symbionts in gutless marine worms (Oligochaeta) from Bermuda and the Bahamas. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72:5527–5536. doi:10.1128/AEM.02441-05

da Silva SG, Gillan D, Dubilier N, Ridder C. 2006. Characterization by 16S rRNA gene analysis and in situ hybridization of bacteria living in the hindgut of a deposit-feeding echinoid (Echinodermata). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 86:1209–1213. doi:10.1017/S0025315406014202

Duperron S, Bergin C, Zielinski F, Blazejak A, Pernthaler A, McKiness ZP, DeChaine E, Cavanaugh CM, Dubilier N. 2006. A dual symbiosis shared by two mussel species, Bathymodiolus azoricus and Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae), from hydrothermal vents along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Environmental Microbiology 8:1441–1447. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01038.x

Musat N, Werner U, Knittel K, Kolb S, Dodenhof T, van Beusekom JEE, de Beer D, Dubilier N, Amann R. 2006. Microbial community structure of sandy intertidal sediments in the North Sea, Sylt-Rømø Basin, Wadden Sea. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 29:333–348. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2005.12.006

Rühland C, Bergin C, Lott C, Dubilier N. 2006. Darmlose marine Würmer: Symbiosen mit mikrobiellen Konsortien. BIOspektrum 12:600–602.

Woyke T, Teeling H, Ivanova NN, Huntemann M, Richter M, Gloeckner FO, Boffelli D, Anderson IJ, Barry KW, Shapiro HJ, Szeto E, Kyrpides NC, Mussmann M, Amann R, Bergin C, Rühland C, Rubin EM, Dubilier N. 2006. Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium. Nature 443:950–955. doi:10.1038/nature05192

de Beer D, Wenzhöfer F, Ferdelman TG, Boehme SE, Huettel M, Beusekom JEE van, Böttcher ME, Musat N, Dubilier N. 2005. Transport and mineralization rates in North Sea sandy intertidal sediments, Sylt-Rømø Basin, Wadden Sea. Limnology and Oceanography 50:113–127. doi:10.4319/lo.2005.50.1.0113

Dubilier N, Blazejak A, Rühland C. 2005. Symbioses between bacteria and gutless marine oligochaetes In: Overmann J, editor. Molecular Basis of Symbiosis. New York: Springer. pp. 251–275.

Duperron S, Nadalig T, Caprais J-C, Sibuet M, Fiala-Médioni A, Amann R, Dubilier N. 2005. Dual symbiosis in a Bathymodiolus sp. mussel from a methane seep on the Gabon Continental Margin (Southeast Atlantic): 16S rRNA phylogeny and distribution of the symbionts in gills. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71:1694–1700. doi:10.1128/AEM.71.4.1694-1700.2005

Urakawa H, Dubilier N, Fujiwara Y, Cunningham DE, Kojima S, Stahl DA. 2005. Hydrothermal vent gastropods from the same family (Provannidae) harbour epsilon- and gamma-proteobacterial endosymbionts. Environmental Microbiology 7:750–754. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00753.x

Dubilier N. 2004. Mul­tiple bac­ter­ial en­dosym­bionts in gut­less mar­ine worms: com­pet­it­ors or part­ners? Nova Acta Leopoldina NF 88:107–112.

Gillan DC, Dubilier N. 2004. Novel epibiotic Thiothrix bacterium on a marine amphipod. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:3772–3775. doi:10.1128/AEM.70.6.3772-3775.2004

Krieger J, Giere O, Dubilier N. 2000. Localization of RubisCO and sulfur in endosymbiotic bacteria of the gutless marine oligochaete Inanidrilus leukodermatus (Annelida). Marine Biology 137:239–244.

Dubilier N, Amann R, Erséus C, Muyzer G, Park S, Giere O, Cavanaugh CM. 1999. Phylogenetic diversity of bacterial endosymbionts in the gutless marine oligochete Olavius loisae (Annelida). Marine Ecology Progress Series 178:271–280.

Giere O, Preusse J-H, Dubilier N. 1999. Tubificoides benedii (Tubificidae, Oligochaeta) – a pioneer in hypoxic and sulfidic environments. An overview of adaptive pathways. Hydrobiologia 406:235–241. doi:10.1023/A:1003711914788

Dubilier N, Giere O, Distel DL, Cavanaugh CM. 1995a. Characterization of chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts in a gutless marine worm Oligochaeta, Annelida) by phylogenetic 16S rRNA sequence analysis and in situ hybridization. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 61:2346–2350.

Dubilier N, Giere O, Grieshaber MK. 1995b. Morphological and ecophysiological adaptations of the marine Oligochaete Tubificoides benedii to sulfidic sediments. American Zoologist 35:163–173.

Dubilier N. 1988. H₂S—A settlement cue or a toxic substance for Capitella sp. I larvae? The Biological Bulletin 174:30–38. doi:10.2307/1541756

Giere O, Rhode B, Dubilier N. 1988. Structural peculiarities of the body wall of Tubificoides benedii (Oligochaeta) and possible relations to its life in sulphidic sediments. Zoomorphology 108:29–39. doi:10.1007/BF00312212