Pub­lic­a­tions

Baloza, M., Henkel, S., Kasten, S., Holtappels, M., Molari, M. 2023. The Im­pact of Sea Ice Cover on Mi­cro­bial Com­munit­ies in Ant­arc­tic Shelf Sed­i­ments. Mi­croor­gan­isms 11, 1572.doi.org/​10.3390/​mi­croor­gan­isms11061572

Cardozo-Mino, M. G., Salter, I., Nöthig, E.-M., Metfies, K., Ramondenc, S., Wekerle, C., Krumpen, T., Boetius, A., Bienhold, C. 2023. A dec­ade of mi­cro­bial com­munity dy­nam­ics on sink­ing particles dur­ing high car­bon ex­port events in the east­ern Fram Strait. Fron­ti­ers in Mar­ine Sci­ence 10, 1173384. doi:10.3389/​fmars.2023.1173384.

Fadeev, E., Bastos, C., Hennenfeind, J., Biller, S., Sher, D., Wietz, M., Herndl, G. 2023. Char­ac­ter­iz­a­tion of mem­brane ves­icles in Alteromonas macleodii in­dic­ates po­ten­tial roles in their co­pio­trophic life­style. mi­cro­Life 4, 1–11. doi:10.1093/​femsml/​uqac025.

Golikov, A. V., Stauffer, J. B., Schindler, S. V., Taylor, J., Boehringer, L., Purser, A., Sabirov, R. M., Hoving, H.-J. 2023. Miles down for lunch: deep-sea in situ ob­ser­va­tions of Arc­tic finned oc­to­pods Cirroteuthis muelleri sug­gest pela­gic–benthic feed­ing mi­gra­tion. Pro­ceed­ings of the Royal So­ci­ety B. 290, 20230640. doi:10.1098/​rspb.2023.0640

Gros, V., Bonsang, B., Sarda-Estève, R., Nikolopoulos, A., Metfies, K., Wietz, M., Peeken, I. 2023. Con­cen­tra­tions of dis­solved di­methyl sulf­ide (DMS), meth­ane­thiol and other trace gases in con­text of mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies from the tem­per­ate At­lantic to the Arc­tic Ocean. Biogeosciences 20, 851–867. doi:0.5194/​bg-20-851-2023

Hoving, H. J. T., Boetius, A., Dunlop, K., Greinert, J., Haeckel, M., Jones, D. O., Simon-Lledo, E., Marcon, Y., Stratmann, T., Suck, I., Sweetman, A. K. 2023. Ma­jor fine-scale spa­tial het­ero­gen­eity in ac­cu­mu­la­tion of gelat­in­ous car­bon fluxes on the deep seabed. Fron­ti­ers in Mar­ine Sci­ence 10, 119224, doi:10.3389/​fmars.2023.1192242.

Krause, S. J. E., Liu, J., Yousavich, D. J., Robinson, D., Hoyt, D. W., Qin, Q., Wenzhöfer, F., Janssen, F., Valentine, D. L., Treude, T. 2023. Evid­ence of cryptic meth­ane cyc­ling and non-meth­ano­genic methyl­am­ine con­sump­tion in the sulfate-re­du­cing zone of sed­i­ment in the Santa Bar­bara Basin, Cali­for­nia, Biogeosciences 20, 4377-4390, doi:10.5194/​bg-20-4377-2023.

Li, X., Zhao, X., Dang, H., Zhang, C., Fernández-Urruzola, I., Liu, Z., Wenzhöfer, F., Glud, R. N. 2023. High vari­ab­il­ity in or­ganic car­bon sources and mi­cro­bial activ­it­ies in the hadopela­gic wa­ters. Lim­nol. Ocean­ogr. 68, 1704-1718. doi:10.1002/​lno.12379

Meyer, R., Appeltans, W., Duncan, W. D., Dimitrova, M., Gan, Y.-M., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Mungall, C., Paul, D. L., Provoost, P., Robertson, T., Schriml, L., Suominen, S., Walls, R., Sweetlove, M., Ung, V., Van de Putte, A., Wallis, E., Wieczorek, J., Buttigieg, P. L. 2023. Align­ing Stand­ards Com­munit­ies for Om­ics Biod­iversity Data: Sus­tain­able Dar­win Core-MIxS In­ter­op­er­ab­il­ity. Biod­iversity Data Journal 11, e112420. doi:10.3897/​BDJ.11.e112420.

Meyer, R., Davies, N., Pitz, K. J., Meyer, C., Samuel, R., Anderson, J., Appeltans, W., Barker, K., Chavez, F., Duffy, J. E., Goodwin, K. D., Hudson, M., Hunter, M. E., Karstensen, J., Laney, C., Leinen, M., Mabee, P., Macklin, J. A., Muller-Karger, F., Pade, N., Pearlman, J., Phillips, L., Provoost, P., Santi, I., Schigel, D., Schriml, L. M., Soccodato, A., Suominen, S., Thibault, K. M., Ung, V., van de Kamp, J., Wallis, E., Walls, R., Buttigieg, P. L. 2023. The found­ing charter of the Omic Biod­iversity Ob­ser­va­tion Net­work (Omic BON). GigaS­cience 12, gi­ad068. doi:10.1093/​gigas­cience/​gi­ad068.

Molari, M., Hassenrueck, C., Laso-Pérez, R., Wegener, G., Offre, P., Scilipoti S., Boetius, A. 2023. A hy­dro­geno­trophic Sulfurimonas is glob­ally abund­ant in deep-sea oxy­gen-sat­ur­ated hy­dro­thermal plumes. Nature Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 8, 651–665. doi:10.1038/​s41564-023-01342-w.

Pachiadaki, M., Janssen, F. Carreiro-Silva, M., Morato, T., Carreira, G. P. , Frazão, H. C.,  Heimbach, P., Iglesias, I., Muller-Karger, F. E., Santos, M. M., Smith, L. M., Vardaro, M. F., Visser, F., Waniek, J. J., Zinkann, A.-C., Colaço, A. 2023. Co-design­ing a mul­tidiscip­lin­ary deep-ocean ob­serving pro­gramme at the Mid-At­lantic Ridge in the Azores re­gion: a blue­print for syn­ergy in deep ocean re­search and con­ser­va­tion, ICES Journal of Mar­ine Sci­ence 80(2), 352–354, doi:10.1093/​ices­jms/​fsac189.

Priest, T., von Appen, W.-J., Oldenburg, E., Popa, O., Torres-Valdés, S., Bienhold, C., Metfies, K., Boulton, W., Mock, T., Fuchs, B., Amann, R., Boetius, A., Wietz, M. 2023. At­lantic wa­ter in­flux and sea-ice cover drive taxo­nomic and func­tional shifts in Arc­tic mar­ine bac­terial com­munit­ies. ISME Journal 17, 1612–1625; doi:10.1038/​s41396-023-01461-6..

Rahlff, J., Wietz, M., Giebel, H., Bayfield, O., Nilsson, E., Bergstroem, K., Kieft, K., Anantharaman, K., Ribas-Ribas, M., Wurl, O., Hoetzinger, M., Antson, A., Holmfeldt, K. 2023. Eco­ge­n­om­ics and cul­tiv­a­tion re­veal dis­tinct­ive viral-bac­terial com­munit­ies in the sur­face mi­cro­layer of a Baltic Sea slick. ISME Com­mu­nic­a­tions 3, 97. doi:10.1038/​s43705-023-00307-8

Ramirez-Llodra, E., Argentino, C., Baker, M., Boetius, A., Costa, C., Dahle, H., Denny, E. M., Dessandier, P. A., Eilertsen, M. H., Ferre, B., German, C. R., Hand, K., Hilário, A.,  Hislop, L., Jamieson, J. W., Kalnitchenko, D., Mall, A., Panieri, G., Purser, A.,  Ramalho, S. P., Reeves, E. P., Rolley, L., Pereira, S. I., Ribeiro, P. A., Sert, M. F., Steen, I. H.,  Stetzler, M., Stokke, R., Victorero, L., Vulcano, F., Vågenes, S., Waghorn, K. A., Buenz S. 2023. Hot vents be­neath an icy ocean. Ocean­o­graphy 36, 6-17.

Santi, I., Beluche, O., Beraud, M., Buttigieg, P. L., Casotti, R., Cox, C. J., Cunliffe, M., Davies, N., de Cerio, O. D., Exter, K., Kervella, A. E., Kotoulas, G.,  Lagaisse, R., Laroquette, A., Louro, B., Not, F., Obst, M., Pavloudi, C.,  Poulain, J., Præbel, K., Vanaverbeke, J.,  Pade, N. 2023. European mar­ine om­ics biod­iversity ob­ser­va­tion net­work: a stra­tegic out­line for the im­ple­ment­a­tion of om­ics ap­proaches in ocean ob­ser­va­tion. Fron­ti­ers in Mar­ine Sci­ence 10, 1118120. doi.10.3389/​fmars.2023.1118120.

Stoll, N., Wietz, M., Juricke, S., Pausch, F., Peter, C., Massing, J., Seifert, M., Zeising, M., Käß, M., McPherson, R., Suckow, B. 2023. “Wis­senschaft fürs Wohnzi­m­mer" − two years of in­ter­act­ive, sci­entific livestreams weekly on You­Tube. Po­lar­forschung 91, 31-43. doi:10.5194/​polf-91-31-2023.

von Jackowski, A., Walter, M., Spiegel, T., Buttigieg, P.L., Molari, M. 2023. Drivers of pela­gic and benthic mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies on Cent­ral Arc­tic seamounts. Front. Mar. Sci. 10, 1216442. doi:10.3389/​fmars.2023.1216442.

Xiao, W., Xu, Y., Zhang, C., Lin, J., Wu, W., Lü, X., Tan, J.,  Zhang, X.,  Zheng, F.,  Song, X.,  Zhu, Y.,  Yang, Y., Zhang, H., Wenzhöfer, F., Rowden, A. A., Glud, R. N. 2023. Dis­en­tangling ef­fects of sea sur­face tem­per­at­ure and wa­ter depth on hy­droxylated iso­pren­oid GDGTs: In­sights from the hadal zone and global sed­i­ments. Geo­phys­ical Re­search Let­ters 50, e2023GL103109. doi:10.1029/​2023GL103109.

Zehnle, H., Otersen, C., Benito Merino, D. and Wegener, G. 2023. Po­ten­tial for the an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of ben­zene and naph­thalene in ther­mo­philic mi­croor­gan­isms from the Guay­mas Basin. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, 14, 1279865. doi:10.3389/​fm­icb.2023.1279865

Zehnle, H., Laso-Pérez, R., Lipp, J. S., Teske, A. P., Wegener, G. 2023. Candidatus Al­kan­o­phaga ar­chaea from Guay­mas Basin hy­dro­thermal vent sed­i­ment ox­id­ize pet­ro­leum al­kanes. Nature Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 8, 1199–1212. doi:10.1038/​s41564-023-01400-3.

Zhang, C., Fang, Y.-X., Yin, X., Lai H., Kuang, Z., Zhang, T.,  Xu, X.P.,  Wegener, G., Wang, J.-H., Dong, X. 2023. The ma­jor­ity of mi­croor­gan­isms in gas hy­drate-bear­ing sub­sea­floor sed­i­ments fer­ment mac­ro­molec­ules. Mi­cro­bi­ome 11, 37. doi:10.1186/​s40168-023-01482-5.

Aguzzi, J., Flögel, S., Marini, S., Thomsen, L., Albiez, J., Weiss, P., Picardi, G., Calisti, M., Stefanni, S., Mirimin, L., Vecchi, F., Laschi, C., Branch, A., Clark, E. B., Foing, B., Wedler, A., Chatzievangelou, D., Tangherlini, M., Purser, A., Dartnell, L., Danovaro, R. 2022. Developing technological synergies between deep-sea and space research. ELEMENTA: Science in the Anthropocene 10, 1-19. doi:10.1525/elementa.2021.00064

Benito Merino, D, Zehnle H, Teske A, Wegener G. 2022. Deep-Branch­ing Anme-1c Ar­chaea Grow at the Up­per Tem­per­at­ure Limit of An­aer­obic Ox­id­a­tion of Meth­ane. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 13. doi: 10.17615/​g208-0220.

Bienhold, C., Schourup-Kristensen, V., Krumpen, T., Nöthig, E.-M., Wenzhöfer, F., Korhonen, M., Vredenborg, M., Hehemann, L., Boetius, A. 2022. Ef­fects of sea ice re­treat and ocean warm­ing on the Laptev Sea con­tin­ental slope eco­sys­tem (1993 vs 2012). Fron­ti­ers in Mar­ine Sci­ence 9. doi:10.3389/​fmars.2022.1004959.

Busch, K., Slaby, B. M., Bach, W., Boetius, A., Clefsen, I., Colaço, A., Creemers, M., Cristobo, J., Federwisch, L., Franke, A., Gavriilidou, A., Hethke, E., Kenchington, F., Mienis, S., Mills, A., Riesgo, P., Ríos, E. M., Roberts, D., Sipkema, L., Pita, P. J., Schupp, J., Xavier, H. T., Rapp, H. T., Hentschel, U. 2022. Biod­iversity, en­vir­on­mental drivers, and sus­tain­ab­il­ity of the global deep-sea sponge mi­cro­bi­ome. Nature Com­mu­nic­a­tions 13(1), 1-6. doi:10.1038/​s41467-022-32684-4.

Chadwick, G. L., Skennerton, C. T., Laso-Pérez, R.,  Leu,A. O., Speth, D. R., Yu, H., Morgan-Lang, C, Hatzenpichler, R., Goudeau, D., Malmstrom, R., Brazelton, W. J., Woyke, T., Hallam, S. J., Tyson, G. W., Wegener, G., Boetius,  A., Orphan, V. J. 2022. Com­par­at­ive ge­n­om­ics re­veals elec­tron trans­fer and syn­trophic mech­an­isms dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing meth­an­o­trophic and meth­ano­genic ar­chaea. PLoS Biol 20(1), e3001508. doi:10.1371/​journal.pbio.3001508.

Chatzievangelou, D., Thomsen, L., Doya, C., Purser, A., Jacopo, A. 2022. Tran­sects of the deep: Op­por­tun­it­ies with tele-op­er­ated res­id­ent sea­floor ro­bots. Fron­ti­ers in Mar­ine Sci­ence 9, 833617. doi:10.3389/​fmars.2022.833617.

Cuvelier, D., Ramalho, S. P., Purser, A., Haeckel, M. 2022. Im­pact of re­turn­ing sci­entific cruises and pro­longed on-site pres­ence on lit­ter abund­ance at the deep-sea nod­ule fields in the Peru Basin. Mar­ine Pol­lu­tion Bul­letin 184, 114162. doi:10.1016/​j.mar­pol­bul.2022.114162.

Dorschel, B., Hehemann, L., Viquerat, S., Warnke, F., Dreutter, S., Tenberge, Y. S., Accettella, D., An, L., Barrios, F., Bazenova, E., Black, J., Bohoyo, F., Davey, C., De Santis, L., Dotti, C. E., Fremand, A. C., Frewell, P. T., Gales, J. A., Gao, J., Gasperini, L., Greenbaum, J. S., Jencks, J. H., Hogan, K., Hong, J. K., Jakobsson, M., Jensen, L., Kool, J., Larin, S., Larter, R. D., Leitchenkov, G., Loubrieu, B., Mackay, K., Mayer, L., Millan, R., Morlighem, M., Navidad, F., Nitsche, F. O., Nogi, Y., Pertuisot, C., Post, A. L., Pritchard, H. D., Purser, A., Rebesco, M., Rignot, E., Roberts, J. L., Rovere, M., Ryzhov, I., Sauli, C., Schmitt, T., Silvano, A., Smith, J., Snaith, H., Tate, A. J., Tinto, K., Vandenbossche, P., Weatherall, P., Wintersteller, P., Yang, C., Zhang, T., Arndt, J.E. 2022. The in­ter­na­tional ba­thy­met­ric chart of the South­ern Ocean Ver­sion 2. Sci­entific Data 9, 275. doi:10.1038/​s41597-022-01366-7

Gollner, S. , Haeckel, M. , Janssen, F. , Lefaible, N. , Molari, M. , Papadopoulou, S., Reichart, G. , Alexandre, J. T. , Vink, A., Vanreusel, A. 2022. Res­tor­a­tion ex­per­i­ments in poly­metal­lic nod­ule areas. In­teg­rated. En­vir­on­mental As­sess­ment and Man­age­ment 18(3), 682-696. doi:10.1002/​ieam.4541.

German, C. R., Reeves, E. P., Türke, A., Diehl, A., Albers, E., Bach, W.,  Purser,A. . Ramalho, S. P.  Suman, S. Mertens, C. Walter, M.Ramirez-Llodra, E.  Schlindwein, V. Bünz S., Boetius, A. 2022. Vol­can­ic­ally hos­ted vent­ing with in­dic­a­tions of ul­tramafic in­flu­ence at Au­rora hy­dro­thermal field on Gakkel Ridge. Nature Com­mu­nic­a­tions, 13(1), 1-11. doi:10.1038/​s41467-022-34014-0

Hörstmann, C., Buttigieg, P. L., John, U., Raes, E. J., Wolf‐Gladrow, D., Bracher, A., Waite, A. M. 2022. Mi­cro­bial di­versity through an ocean­o­graphic lens: re­fin­ing the concept of ocean provinces through trophic‐level ana­lysis and pro­ductiv­ity‐spe­cific length scales. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, 24(1), 404-419. doi:10.1111/​1462-2920.15832

Hoving, H. J., Amon, D., Bodur, Y., Haeckel, M., Jones, D. O. B., Neitzel, P., Simon-Lledo, E., Smith, C. R., Stauffer, J. B., Sweetman, A. K., Purser, A. 2022. The abyssal voy­age of the ar­go­nauts: Deep-sea in situ ob­ser­va­tions re­veal the con­tri­bu­tion of ceph­alo­pod egg cases to the (in)or­ganic car­bon pump. Deep Sea Re­search Part 1 183, 103719. DOI:10.1016/​j.dsr.2022.103719

Jørgensen, B. B., Wenzhöfer, F., Egger, M., Glud, R. N. 2022. Sed­i­ment oxy­gen con­sump­tion: Role in the global mar­ine car­bon cycle. Earth-Sci­ence Re­views 228, doi:103987.10.1016/​j.earscirev.2022.103987.

Leinen, M., Chavez, F., Meyer, R., Buttigieg, P. L., Davies, N., Casotti, R., Fischer, A. 2022. The Ocean Bio­molecu­lar Ob­serving Net­work (OBON). Mar­ine Tech­no­logy So­ci­ety Journal, 56(3), 106-107. doi:10.7554/​eLife.67667.

Leonard, K., Buttigieg, P. L., Hudson, M., Paul, K., Pearlman, J., Juniper, S. K. 2022. Two-eyed see­ing: Em­bra­cing the power of In­di­gen­ous know­ledge for a healthy and sus­tain­able Ocean. Plos Bio­logy 20(10), e3001876. doi:10.1371/​journal.pbio.3001876

Linley, T. D., Gerringer, M. E., Richie, H., Weston, J. N. J., Scott-Murray, A., Fernandez, V., Hernandez, J. L. C., Wenzhöfer, F., Glud, R. N., Jamieson, A. J. 2022. In­de­pend­ent ra­di­ation of snail­fishes into the hadal zone con­firmed by Paraliparis selti sp. nov. (Scorpaeni­formes: Lipar­idae) from the Atacama Trench, SE Pa­cific. Mar­ine Biod­iversity 52, 56.  doi:10.1007/​s12526-022-01294-0. 

Morganti, T. M., Slaby, B. M., de Kluijver, A., Busch, K., Hentschel, U., Middelburg, J., Mollenhauer, G., Dannheim, J., Rapp, H., Purser, A., Boetius, A. 2022. Gi­ant sponge grounds of Cent­ral Arc­tic seamounts are as­so­ci­ated with ex­tinct seep life. Nature Com­mu­nic­a­tions 13(638). doi:10.1038/​s41467-022-28129-7.

Oguri, K., Turnewitsch, R., Masque, P., Zabel, M., Stewart, H. A., Stehlikova, J., MacKinnon, G., Rowden, A. A., Wenzhöfer, F., Glud, R. N. 2022. Sed­i­ment­a­tion, Ac­cu­mu­la­tion and Car­bon Burial in Four Hadal Trench Sys­tems. Journal of Geo­phys­ical Re­search: Biogeosciences 127, e2022JG006814. doi:10.1029/​2022JG006814.

Shimabukuro, M., Zeppilli, D., Leduc, D., Wenzhöfer, F., Berg, P., Rowden, A. A.,  Glud, R. N. 2022. In­tra-and inter-spa­tial vari­ab­il­ity of meiofauna in hadal trenches is linked to mi­cro­bial activ­ity and food avail­ab­il­ity. Sci­entific Re­ports 12(1), 1-11. doi:10.1038/​s41598-022-08088-1.

Schoening, T., Durden, J. M., Faber, C., Felden, J., Heger, K., Hoving, H.-J., Kiko, R., Köser, K., Krämmer, C., Kwasnitschka, T., Möller, K. O., Nakath, D., Nass, A., Nattkemper, T. W., Purser, A., Zurowietz, M. 2022. Mak­ing mar­ine im­age data FAIR. Sci. Data 9, 414. doi:10.1038/​s41597-022-01491-3

Smith, L. M., Cimoli, L., LaScala-Gruenewald, D., Pachiadaki, M., Phillips, B., Pillar, H., Stopa, J. E., Baumann-Pickering, S., Beaulieu, S. E., Bell, K. L., Harden-Davies, H., Gjerde, K. M., Heimbach, P., Howe, B., Janssen, F., Levin, L. A., Ruhl, H. A., Soule, A., Stocks, K., Vardaro, M. F., Wright, D. J. 2022. The Deep Ocean Ob­serving Strategy: Ad­dress­ing Global Chal­lenges in the Deep Sea Through Col­lab­or­a­tion, Mar­ine Tech­no­logy So­ci­ety Journal 56(3), 50-66. doi:10.4031/​MTSJ.56.3.11.

Stauffer, J., Purser, A., Griffiths, H. G., Smith, C. R., Hoving, H.-J. 2022. Food falls from the north­west­ern Wed­dell Sea. Fron­ti­ers in Mar­ine Re­search 9, 1055318. doi:10.3389/​fmars.2022.1055318

Stratmann, T. 2022. The Proka­BioDen data­base, a global data­base of benthic proka­ryotic bio­masses and dens­it­ies in the mar­ine realm. Sci­entific Data 9(1), 1-10.

Stratmann, T., Simon-Lledó, E., Morganti, T. M., de Kluijver, A., Vedenin, A., Purser, A. 2022. Hab­itat types and mega­benthos com­pos­i­tion from three sponge-dom­in­ated high-Arc­tic seamounts. Sci­entific Re­ports 12(1), 206, doi:10.10.1038/​s41598-022-25240-z.

Vanni, C., Schechter, M. S., Acinas, S. G., Barberán, A., Buttigieg, P. L., Casamayor, E. O., Delmont, T. O., Duarte, C. M., Eren, A. M., Finn, R. D., Kottmann, R., Mitchell, A., Sánchez, P., Siren, K., Steinegger, M., Gloeckner, F. O., Fernandez-Guerra, A. 2022. Uni­fy­ing the known and un­known mi­cro­bial cod­ing se­quence space. eLife 11, e67667. doi:10.7554/​eLife.67667.

von Jackowski, A., Becker, K. W., Wietz, M., Bienhold, C., Zäncker, B., Nöthig, E.-M., Engel, A. 2022. Vari­ations of mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies and sub­strate re­gimes in the east­ern Fram Strait between sum­mer and fall. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 24, 4124-4136. doi: 10.1111/​1462-2920.16036.

Vulcano, F., Hahn, C. J,  Roerdink, D.,  Dahle, H., Reeves, E. P., Wegener, G., Steen, I. H., Stokke, R. 2022. Phylo­gen­etic and func­tional di­verse ANME-1 thrive in Arc­tic hy­dro­thermal vents. FEMS Mi­cro­bi­o­logy Eco­logy 98(11), fiac117. doi:10.1093/​fem­sec/​fiac117

Wegener, G., R. Laso-Pérez, V. J. Orphan, Boetius, A. 2022. An­aer­obic De­grad­a­tion of Al­kanes by Mar­ine Ar­chaea. Annu Rev Mi­cro­biol 76, 553-77. doi:10.1146/​an­nurev-mi­cro-111021-045911.

Wietz, M, López-Pérez  M.,  Sher, D., Biller, S. J., Rodriguez-Valera, F. 2022. Mi­crobe Pro­file: Alteromonas macleodii − a Wide­spread, Fast-Re­spond­ing, ‘In­ter­act­ive’ Mar­ine Bac­terium. Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 168, 001236. doi:10.1099/​mic.0.001236.

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Dyksma S., Bischof K., Fuchs B.M., Hoff­mann K., Meier D., Meyerdierks A., Pjevac P., Probandt D., Richter M., Stepanauskas R., Mußmann M. (2016) Ubi­quit­ous Gammapro­teo­bac­teria dom­in­ate dark car­bon fix­a­tion in coastal sed­i­ments. The ISME Journal 10: 1939-1953. doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.257.

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*Fernán­dez-Mén­dez M., Turk-Kubo K. A., Rapp J. Z., But­ti­gieg P. L., Krumpen T., Zehr J. P., Boe­t­ius A. (2016) Diazo­troph di­versity in the sea ice, melt ponds and wa­ter column of the Cent­ral Arc­tic Ocean. Fron­ti­ers in Aquatic Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 7:1884 doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01884.

Hanke A., Berg J., Hargesheimer T., Tegetmeyer H.E., Sharp C., Strous M. (2016). Se­lect­ive pres­sure of tem­per­at­ure on com­pet­i­tion and cross-feed­ing within de­ni­tri­fy­ing and fer­ment­at­ive mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 6:1461. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01461.

Hassen­rück C., Fink A., *Lichtsch­lag A., Te­get­meyer H., De Beer D., *Ramette A. (2016) Quan­ti­fic­a­tion of the ef­fects of ocean acid­i­fic­a­tion on sed­i­ment mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies in the en­vir­on­ment: the im­port­ance of eco­sys­tem ap­proaches. FEMS Mi­cro­bi­o­logy Eco­logy 92(5): fiw027. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiw027.

ten Hoopen P., Amid C., But­ti­gieg P. L., Pafilis E., Bravakos P., Cerdeño-Tárraga A. M., Gibson R., Kahlke T., Legaki A., Kada N. M., Papastefanou G., Pereira E., Rossello M., Toribio A. L., Cochrane G. (2016). Value, but high costs in post-de­pos­ition data cur­a­tion. Data­base. bav126. doi:1093/database/bav126.

Jessen G. L., *Lichtsch­lag, A., Struck, U., Boe­t­ius A. (2016) Dis­tri­bu­tion and com­pos­i­tion of thio­trophic mats in the hyp­oxic zone of the Black Sea (150-170m wa­ter depth, Crimea mar­gin). Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 7:1011. doi:3389/fmicb.2016.01011

Kerou M., Of­fre P., Valledor L., Abby S., Melcher M., Nagler M., Weckwerth W., Schleper C. (2016) Pro­teo­m­ics and com­par­at­ive ge­n­om­ics of Nitrososphaera viennensis re­veal the core gen­ome and ad­apt­a­tions of ter­restrial ar­chaeal am­mo­nia-ox­id­izers. PNAS 201601212. doi:10.1073/pnas.1601212113.

Koureas D, Hardisty A, Vos R, Agosti D, Arvanitidis C, Bogatencov P, But­ti­gieg P.L., de Jong Y, Horvath F, Gkoutos G, Groom Q, Kliment T, Kõljalg U, Manakos I, Marcer A, Marhold K, Morse D, Mergen P, Penev L, Pettersson L, Svenning J, van de Putte A, Smith V (2016) Uni­fy­ing European Biod­iversity In­form­at­ics (Bi­oUnify). Re­search Ideas and Out­comes 2: e7787. doi:10.3897/rio.2.e7787

Krukenberg V., *Hard­ing K., Richter M., Glöckner F.-O., Gruber Vodicka H., Adam B., Berg J., Knittel K., Te­get­meyer H.E., 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:1111/1462-2920.13283.

Laso-Pérez R., We­gener G., Knittel K., Widdel F., *Hard­ing K. J., Kruken­berg V., Meier D. V., Richter M., Te­get­meyer H. E., Riedel D., Richnow H.-H., Adrian L., Thorsten R., Lechtenfeld O., Musat F. (2016) Ther­mo­philic ar­chaea ac­tiv­ate bu­tane via al­kyl-CoM form­a­tion. Nature 539(7629): 396-401. doi:10.1038/nature20152.

Roca‐Martí, M., Puigcorbé,V., Rutgers van der Loeff, M.M., Katlein, C., *Fernán­dez‐Méndez, M., Peeken, I., Masqué, P. (2016) Car­bon ex­port fluxes and ex­port ef­fi­ciency in the cent­ral Arc­tic dur­ing the re­cord sea‐ice min­imum in 2012: a joint 234Th/​238U and 210Po/​210Pb study. Journal of Geo­phys­ical Re­search: Oceans. 121(7): 5030-5049. doi:10.1002/​2016JC011816.

Rossel P.E., Bienhold C., Boetius A., Dittmar T. (2016) Dis­solved or­ganic mat­ter in pore wa­ter of Arc­tic Ocean sed­i­ments: in­flu­ence of the en­vir­on­ment on the mo­lecu­lar com­pos­i­tion. Or­ganic Geo­chem­istry 97: 41-52. doi:1016/j.orggeochem.2016.04.003.

*Ruff S.E., Kuhfuss H., We­gener G., Lott C., *Ramette A., Wiedling J., Knittel K., *Weber M. (2016) Meth­ane seep in shal­low-wa­ter per­meable sed­i­ment har­bors high di­versity of an­aer­obic meth­an­o­trophic com­munit­ies, Elba, Italy. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 7:374. doi:3389/fmicb.2016.00374.

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.

#Sal­man, V., Berben, T., Bowers, R. M., Woyke, T., Teske, A., & Angert, E. R. (2016). In­sights into the single cell draft gen­ome of “Candidatus Achroma­tium palustre”. Stand­ards in ge­n­omic sci­ences, 11(1): 1. doi:10.1186/s40793-016-0146-x.

Sen A., Ondréas H., Gaillot A., Mar­con Y., Augustin J.M., Olu K. (2016) The use of mult­i­beam backs­cat­ter and ba­thy­metry as a means of identi­fy­ing faunal as­semblages in a deep-sea cold seep. Deep Sea Re­search Part I: Ocean­o­graphic Re­search Pa­pers 110: 33-49. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2016.01.005.

Soltwedel T., Bauerfeind E., Bergmann M., Bracher A., Budaeva N., Busch K., Cherkasheva A., Fahl K., Grzelak K., Hasemann C., Jacob M., Kraft A., Lalande C., Metfies K., Nöthig E.M., Meyer K., Quéric N.V., Schewe I., Wlodarska-Kowalczuk M., Klages M. (2016) Nat­ural vari­ab­il­ity or an­thro­po­gen­ic­ally-in­duced vari­ation? In­sights from 15 years of mul­tidiscip­lin­ary ob­ser­va­tions at the arc­tic open-ocean LTER site HAUS­GARTEN. Eco­lo­gical In­dic­at­ors 65: 89-102. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.10.001.

#Von­nahme, T. R., Devetter, M., Žárský, J. D., Šabacká, M., & Elster, J. (2016). Con­trols on mi­croalgal com­munity struc­tures in cryo­con­ite holes upon high-Arc­tic gla­ciers, Sval­bard. Biogeosciences 13(3): 659-674. doi:10.5194/bg-13-659-2016.

We­gener G., Kellermann M.Y., Elvert M. (2016) Track­ing activ­ity and func­tion of mi­croor­gan­isms by stable iso­tope prob­ing of mem­brane lip­ids (in­vited re­view). Cur­rent opin­ion in bi­o­tech­no­logy 41: 43-52. doi:1016/j.copbio.2016.04.022

Wegener G., Krukenberg V., *Ruff S.E., Kellermann M.Y., Knittel K. (2016). Meta­bolic cap­ab­il­it­ies of mi­croor­gan­isms in­volved in and as­so­ci­ated with the an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 7:46. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00046.

Wenzhöfer F., Kazumasa O., Middelboe M., Turnewitsch R., Toyofuku T., Kitazato H., Glud R.N. (2016) Benthic car­bon min­er­al­iz­a­tion in hadal trenches: As­sess­ment by in situ O2 mi­cro­pro­file meas­ure­ments. Deep Sea Re­search I 116: 276-286. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2016.08.013.

Winkel, M., #Sal­man-Carvalho, V., Woyke, T., Richter, M., Schulz-Vogt, H. N., Flood, B., Bailey, J. V., Mußmann, M. (2016) Single-cell se­quen­cing of Thio­mar­gar­ita re­veals ge­n­omic flex­ib­il­ity for ad­apt­a­tion to dy­namic redox con­di­tions. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 7: 964. doi:3389/fmicb.2016.00964.

Yilmaz P., Yarza P., Rapp J.Z., Glöckner F.O. (2016). Ex­pand­ing the World of Mar­ine Bac­terial and Ar­chaeal Clades. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 6:1524. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01524.

Ahmerkamp S., Winter C., Janssen F., Kuypers M.M.M., Holtappels M. (2015) The im­pact of bed­form mi­gra­tion on benthic oxy­gen fluxes. Journal of Geo­phys­ical Re­search: Biogeosciences 120: 2229–2242. doi:10.1002/2015JG00310.

Bayer B., Vojvoda J., #Of­fre P., Alves R.J.E., Elisabeth N., Garcia J.A., Volland J.-M., Srivastava A., Schleper C., Herndl G.J. (2016) Physiolo­gical and ge­n­omic char­ac­ter­iz­a­tion of two novel mar­ine thau­marchaeal strains in­dic­ates niche dif­fer­en­ti­ation. ISME Journal 10, 1051–1063. doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.200.

Nolla-Ardèvol V., Peces M., Strous M., Te­get­meyer H.E. (2015) Meta­gen­ome from a Spirulina di­gest­ing bio­gas re­actor: ana­lysis via bin­ning of con­tigs and clas­si­fic­a­tion of short reads. BMC Mi­cro­bi­o­logy. 15:277. doi:10.1186/s12866-015-0615-1.

Stagars M. H., Ruff S. E., Amann R., Knittel K. (2015) High di­versity of an­aer­obic al­kane-de­grad­ing mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies in mar­ine seep sed­i­ments based on their (1-methylal­kyl) suc­cin­ate syn­thase genes. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 6: 1511. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01511.

Thessen A. E., Bunker D. E., But­ti­gieg P. L., Cooper L. D., Dahdul W. S., Domisch S., Franz N.M., Jaiswal P., Lawrence-Dill C. J., Midford P. E., Mungall C. J., Ramírez M. J., Specht C. D., Vogt L., Vos R. A., Walls R. L., White J. W., Zhang G., Deans A. R., Huala E., Lewis S. E., Mabee P. M. (2015) Emer­ging se­mantics to link phen­o­types and en­vir­on­ment. PeerJ 3: e1470. doi:10.7717/peerj.1470.

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Haeckel, M. , Vink, A. , Janssen, F., Kasten, S. (2020) En­vir­on­mental Im­pacts of Deep Seabed Min­ing / T. Heidar (ed­itor) , In: New Know­ledge and Chan­ging Cir­cum­stances in the Law of the Sea, Deep Seabed Min­eral Re­sources and the Mar­ine En­vir­on­ment, Leiden, The Neth­er­lands, Brill Nijhoff . doi: 10.1163/​9789004437753_018

Wegener, G. , Laso-Pérez, R., Boetius, A. (2020) With a little help from my friends – life fueled by gas re­lease from the seabed: deep sea vents and seeps. Ed­itor: Ken­neth Tim­mis. In: A child-cent­ric mi­cro­bi­o­logy edu­ca­tion frame­work

Knittel K, We­gener G, Boe­t­ius A. (2019) An­aer­obic meth­ane ox­id­izers. In: Mi­cro­bial Com­munit­ies Util­iz­ing Hy­dro­car­bons and Lip­ids: Mem­bers, Meta­ge­n­om­ics and Eco­physiology, Hand­book of Hy­dro­car­bon and Lipid Mi­cro­bi­o­logy. Ed­itor: T. J. Mc­Gen­ity. Springer In­ter­na­tional Pub­lish­ing, pp. 113-132. doi:10.1007/978-3-303-14785-3_7

Teske A., Carvalho V. Mar­ine Hy­dro­car­bon Seeps - Mi­cro­bi­o­logy and Biogeo­chem­istry of a Global Mar­ine Hab­itat. Springer Nature Switzer­land (in press)

Teske A., Carvalho V. Large sul­fur-ox­id­iz­ing bac­teria at Gulf of Mex­ico hy­dro­car­bon seeps. In: Mar­ine Hy­dro­car­bon Seeps - Mi­cro­bi­o­logy and Biogeo­chem­istry of a Global Mar­ine Hab­itat. Ed­it­ors: A. Teske and V. Carvalho. Springer Nature Switzer­land (in press)

We­gener G., Knittel K., Bohrmann G., Schubotz F. Benthic deep-sea life as­so­ci­ated with as­phaltic hy­dro­car­bon emis­sions in the south­ern Gulf of Mex­ico. In: Mar­ine Hy­dro­car­bon Seeps - Mi­cro­bi­o­logy and Biogeo­chem­istry of a Global Mar­ine Hab­itat. Ed­it­ors: A. Teske and V. Carvalho. Springer Nature Switzer­land (in press)

Speich S., Lee T., Muller-Karger F. E., Lorenzoni L., Pascual A., Jin D., Delory E., Reverdin G., Siddorn J., Lewis M. R., Marba N., But­ti­gieg P. L., et al. (2019). Ocean­ob­s19: An Ocean of Op­por­tun­ity. Fron­ti­ers in Mar­ine Sci­ence 6, 570.

Dittami S.M, Arboleda E., Auguet J.C., Bigalke A., Briand E., Cárdenas P., Cardini U., Decelle J., Engelen A. H., Eveillard D., Gachon C.M., Griffiths S.M., Harder T., Kayal E., Kazamia E., Lallier F., Medina M., Marzinelli E., Mor­ganti T.,  Núñez Pons L., Pardo S., Valverde J.P., Saha M., Selosse M.A., Skillings D., Stock W., Sunagawa S., Toulza E., Vorobev A., Leblanc C., and Not F. (2019). A com­munity per­spect­ive on the concept of mar­ine holo­bi­onts: cur­rent status, chal­lenges, and fu­ture dir­ec­tions. PeerJ Re­prints doi:10.7287/​peerj.pre­prints.27519v1.

Kahlert M., Alfjorden A., Apunte-Ramos K., Bailet B., Pérez Burillo J., Carrera Gonzalez A. G., Castro D., Di Bernardi C., Dully V., Fekete J., Frühe L., González R., Gratsia E., Hanjalić J., Kamberović J., Kelly A.-M., Meriggi C., Nousiainen I., Ørberg S., Orr J., Quintana C., Papatheodoulou A., Sargac J., Shahbaz M., Tapolczai K., Tosic K., Wallin I., Zupančič M., Bohman P., But­ti­gieg P. L., Häubner N., Leese F., Macher J., Peura S., Roslin T., Strand M., Terenius O., Vasselon V., Weigand A. M. (2019). New mo­lecu­lar meth­ods to as­sess biod­iversity. Po­ten­tials and pit­falls of DNA metabar­cod­ing: a work­shop re­port. Re­search Ideas and Out­comes: e38915. ht­tps://​doi.org/​10.3897/​rio.5. e38915.

Driemel A., Fahrbach E., Rohardt G., Beszczynska-Moller A., Boe­t­ius A. et al. (2017) From pole to pole: 33 years of phys­ical ocean­o­graphy on­board R/​V Po­larstern. Earth Sys­tem Sci­ence Data. Vol 9(1); 211-220 DOI 10.5194/essd-9-211-2017