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2019  Boetius A. (2019) Global change mi­cro­bi­o­logy - big ques­tions about small life for our fu­ture. Nature Re­views Mi­cro­bi­o­logy. 17:331-332 doi:10.1038/s41579-019-0197-2
  Cavic­chi­oli, Ripple W.J., Tim­mis K.N., Azam F., Bakken L.R., Baylis M., Behren­feld M.J., Boetius A., et al. (2019) Sci­ent­ists’ warn­ing to hu­man­ity: mi­croor­gan­isms and cli­mate change. Nature Re­views Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, 17:569-586. doi:10.1038/s41579-019-0222-5
  Krumpen T., Belter H.J., Boetius A., Damm E., Haas C., Hendricks S., Nic­olaus M., Nöthig E.-M., Paul S., Peeken I., Ricker R., Stein R.(2019) Arc­tic warm­ing in­ter­rupts the Transpolar Drift and af­fects long-range trans­port of sea ice and ice-raf­ted mat­ter. Sci­entific Re­ports. 9(1):5459. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-41456-y
  Laso-Perez R.,Hahn C., van Vliet D.M., Te­get­meyer H., Schubotz F., Smit N.T., Pape T., Sah­ling H., Bo­hr­mann G., Boetius A., Knit­tel K., We­gener G. (2019) An­aer­obic de­grad­a­tion of non-meth­ane al­kanes by "Can­did­atus Meth­an­o­laparia" in hy­dro­car­bon seeps of the Gulf of Mex­ico. mBio 10(4):e01814-19. doi:10.1128/mBio.01814-19
 

Meven­kamp L., Guilini K., Boetius A., Grave J.D., La­force B., Vanden­berghe D., Vincze L., Van­reusel A. (2019) Re­sponses of an abyssal meiobenthic com­munity to short-term burial with crushed nod­ule particles in the south-east Pa­cific. Biogeosciences 16 (11), 2329-2341. doi:10.5194/bg-16-2329-2019
  Ry­bakova, Kre­men­et­skaia A., Vedenin A., Boetius A., Gebruk A. (2019) Deep-sea mega­benthos com­munit­ies of the Euras­ian Cent­ral Arc­tic are in­flu­enced by ice-cover and sea-ice algal falls. PloS one 14 (7), e02110092019. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211009
  *Ruff S. E., *Felden J., Gruber-Vodicka H. R., *Mar­con Y., Knit­tel K., *Ramette A., Boe­t­ius A. (2019) In situ de­vel­op­ment of a meth­an­o­trophic mi­cro­bi­ome in deep-sea sed­i­ments. The ISME Journal, 13:197-213. doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0263-1
  Varliero G., Bi­en­hold C., Schmid F., Boetius A., Mol­ari M.  (2019) Mi­cro­bial di­versity and con­nectiv­ity in deep-sea sed­i­ments of the South At­lantic Po­lar Front. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy. 10:665. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00665
 

Vedenin A., Gusky M., Gebruk A., Kre­men­et­skaia A., Ry­bakova E., Boetius A. (2018) Spa­tial dis­tri­bu­tion of benthic mac­ro­fauna in the Cent­ral Arc­tic Ocean. PLOS ONE, 13(10), e0200121. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200121.
 

Hahn, C. J., Laso-Pérez, R., Vul­cano, F.,  Vazioura­kis, K-M., Stokke, R. Steen, I.H.,  Teske, A.,  Boe­t­ius, A, Liebeke, L., Amann, R., Knit­tel, K.,  We­gener, G. Candidatus Eth­an­opere­dens, a ther­mo­philic genus of ar­chaea me­di­at­ing the an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of eth­ane. (in review)
 

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
 

*Hoff­mann K., Bi­en­hold C., But­ti­gieg PL., Knit­tel K., Laso-Pérez R., Rapp JZ.,  Boe­t­ius A., Of­fre P. Di­versity and meta­bol­ism of Woeseiales bac­teria, global mem­bers of mar­ine sed­i­ment com­munit­ies. ISME J. (ac­cep­ted)
 

Mol­ari M., Janssen F., Von­nahme T.R., Wen­zhöfer F., Boe­t­ius A. Mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies as­so­ci­ated with sed­i­ments and poly­metal­lic nod­ules of the Peru Basin. Biogeosciences. (submitted)
2018 Boetius A., Haeckel M. (2018) Mind the sea­floor. Sci­ence  359, 34-36. doi:10.1126/science.aap7301
  Buttigieg P.L., Fadeev E., Bienhold C., Hehemann L., *Offre P., Boetius A. (2018) Mar­ine mi­crobes in 4D – us­ing time series ob­ser­va­tion to as­sess the dy­nam­ics of the ocean mi­cro­bi­ome and its links to ocean health. Cur­rent Opin­ion in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 43: 169–185 doi:10.1016/j.mib.2018.01.015
  Fadeev E, Salter I, Schourup-Kristensen V, Nöthig, E-M, Metfies K, Engel A, Piontek J, Boe­t­ius A, Bi­en­hold C (2018) Mi­cro­bial com­mu­nit­ies in the east and west Fram Strait dur­ing sea ice melt­ing sea­son. Fron­ti­ers in Mar­ine Sci­ence, 5:429 doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00429
  Krukenberg V., Riedel D., Gruber-Vodicka H. R., Buttigieg P.L., Tegetmeyer H.E., Boetius A., We­gener G. (2018) Gene ex­pres­sion and ul­tra­struc­ture of meso- and ther­mo­philic meth­an­o­trophic con­sor­tia. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy. 20(5):1651-1666  doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14077
  Molari M., Guilini K., Lott C., Weber M., de Beer D., Meyer S., Ramette A., Wegener G., Wenzhöfer F., Martin D., Cibic T., De Vittor C., Vanreusel A., Boetius A. (2018) CO2 leak­age al­ters biogeo­chem­ical and eco­lo­gical func­tions of sub­mar­ine sands. Sci­ence Ad­vances 4, 2: eaao2040 doi1126/​sci­adv.aao2040
  Rapp J.Z., Fernandez-Mendez M., Bienhold C., Boetius A. (2018) Ef­fects of ice-algal ag­greg­ate ex­port on the con­nectiv­ity of bac­terial com­munit­ies in the cent­ral Arc­tic Ocean. Fron­ti­ers in Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, 9:1035. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.01035
  *Ruff S. E., *Felden J., Gruber-Vodicka H. R., *Marcon Y., Knittel K., *Ramette A.,Boetius A. (2018) In situ de­vel­op­ment of a meth­an­o­trophic mi­cro­bi­ome in deep-sea sed­i­ments. ISME J. 13:197–213 doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0263-1
  Vedenin, A., Gusky, M., Gebruk, A., Kremenetskaia, A., Rybakova, E.,Boe­t­ius, A. (2018) Spa­tial dis­tri­bu­tion of benthic mac­ro­fauna in the Cent­ral Arc­tic Ocean. PLOS ONE, 13(10), e0200121. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200121

 

2017 Jessen G. L., Lichtschlag A., Ramette A., Pantoja S., Rossel P.E., Schubert C.J., Struck U., Boetius A. (2017) Hyp­oxia causes pre­ser­va­tion of labile or­ganic mat­ter and changes mi­cro­bial com­munity com­pos­i­tion (Black Sea shelf) Sci­ence Ad­vances 3(2), e1601897; doi:10.1126/sciadv.1601897
  Pop Ristova P., Bienhold C., Wenzhöfer F., Rossel P.E., Boetius A. (2017) Tem­poral and spa­tial vari­ations of bac­terial and faunal com­munit­ies as­so­ci­ated with deep-sea wood falls. PloS one, 12(1), e0169906; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169906

 

2016 

Bienhold C., Zinger L., Boetius A., Ramette A. (2016) Di­versity and biogeo­graphy of bathyal and abyssal sea­floor bac­teria. PLOS ONE 11(1): e0148016. doi:1371/journal.pone.0148016.
 

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.
 

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
 

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.
  Purser A., Marcon Y, Hoving HJ, Vecchione M, Piatkowski U, Eason D, Bluhm H, Boetius A. (2016) As­so­ci­ation of deep-sea in­cir­rate oc­to­pods with man­ganese-crusts and nod­ule fields in the Pa­cific Ocean. Cur­rent Bio­logy 26, Is­sue 24: R1268–R1269. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.052
 

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.

 

2015  Boetius A., Anesio A.M., Deming J.W., Mikucki J., Rapp J.Z. (2015) Mi­cro­bial eco­logy of the cryo­sphere: sea ice and gla­cial hab­it­ats. Nature Re­views Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 13:677–690. doi:10.1038/nrmicro3522.
  Degen R., Vedenin A., Gusky M., Boetius A., Brey T. (2015) Pat­terns and trends of mac­robenthic abund­ance, bio­mass and pro­duc­tion in the deep Arc­tic Ocean. Po­lar Re­search 34: 24008. doi:10.3402/polar.v34.24008.
  Fernández-Méndez M., Katlein C., Rabe B., Nicolaus M., Peeken I., Bakker K., Flores H., Boetius A. (2015) Pho­to­syn­thetic pro­duc­tion in the cent­ral Arc­tic Ocean dur­ing the re­cord sea-ice min­imum in 2012. Biogeosciences 12: 3525-3549. doi:10.5194/bg-12-3525-2015.
  Katlein C., Arndt S., Nicolaus M., Perovich D.K., Jakuba M.V., Suman S., Elliott S., Whitcomb L.L., McFarland C.J., Gerdes R., Boetius A., German C.R. (2015) In­flu­ence of ice thick­ness and sur­face prop­er­ties on light trans­mis­sion through Arc­tic sea ice. Journal of Geo­phys­ical Re­search: Oceans 120(9): 5932-5944. doi:10.1002/2015JC010914.
  Lichtschlag A., Donis D., Janssen F., Jessen G.L., Holtappels M., Wenzhöfer F., Mazlumyan S., Sergeeva N., Waldmann C., Boetius A. (2015) Ef­fects of fluc­tu­at­ing hyp­oxia on benthic oxy­gen con­sump­tion in the Black Sea (Crimean shelf). Biogeosciences 12: 5075-5092. doi:10.5194/bg-12-5075-2015.
  Pop Ristova P., Wenzhöfer F., Ramette A., Felden J. and Boetius A. (2015) Spa­tial scales of bac­terial com­munity di­versity at cold seeps (East­ern Medi­ter­ranean Sea). ISME Journal 9(6): 1306-1318. doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.217.
  Ruff S. E., Biddle J. F., Teske A. P., Knittel K., Boetius A., Ramette A. (2015) Global dis­per­sion and local di­ver­si­fic­a­tion of the meth­ane seep mi­cro­bi­ome. Pro­ceed­ings of the Na­tional Academy of Sci­ences USA 112(13): 4015-4020. doi:10.1073/pnas.1421865112.
  Wegener G., Krukenberg V., Riedel D., Tegetmeyer H.E., Boetius A. (2015) In­ter­cel­lu­lar wir­ing en­ables elec­tron trans­fer between meth­an­o­trophic ar­chaea and bac­teria. Nature 526(7574): 587-590. doi:10.1038/nature15733.

 

2014  Fernández-Méndez M., Wenzhöfer F., Peeken I., Sorensen H.L., Glud R.N. and Boetius A. (2014) Com­pos­i­tion, buoy­ancy reg­u­la­tion and fate of ice algal ag­greg­ates in the Cent­ral Arc­tic Ocean. PLoS ONE 9(9): e107452. doi:10.1371/​journal.pone.0107452.
  Feseker T., Boetius A., Wenzhöfer F., Blandin J., Olu K., Yoerger D.R., Camilli R., German C.R., de Beer D. (2014) Erup­tion of a deep-sea mud vol­cano trig­gers rapid sed­i­ment move­ment. 5: 5385. doi: 10.1038/​ncomms6385.
  Römer M., Sahling H., Pape T., dos Santos Ferreira C., Wenzhöfer F., Boetius A. and Bohrmann G. (2014) Meth­ane fluxes and car­bon­ate de­pos­its at a cold seep area of the Cent­ral Nile Deep Sea Fan, East­ern Medi­ter­ranean Sea. Mar­ine Geo­logy 347: 27-42.
  Zinger L., Boetius A., Ramette A. (2014) Bac­terial taxa-area and dis­tance-de­cay re­la­tion­ships in mar­ine en­vir­on­ments. Mo­lecu­lar Eco­logy 23(4): 954-964. doi: 10.1111/​mec.12640.

 

2013 Bayon G., Dupré S., Ponzevera E., Etoubleau J., Cheron S., Pierre C., Mascle J., Boetius A., de Lange G. (2013) Sea­floor car­bon­ate chim­neys built up at east­ern Medi­ter­ranean seeps dur­ing the last sap­ro­pel event. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/​ngeo1888.
  Bienhold C, Pop Ristova P, Wenzhöfer F, Dittmar T, Boetius A (2013) How Deep-Sea Wood Falls Sus­tain Chemo­syn­thetic Life. PLoS ONE 8(1): e53590. doi:10.1371/​journal.pone.0053590.
  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 (2013) Ex­port of algal bio­mass from the melt­ing Arc­tic sea ice. Sci­ence 339( 6126), pp. 1430-1432 . DOI: 10.1126/​sci­ence.1231346.
  Boetius A, Wenzhöfer F (2013) Sea­floor oxy­gen con­sump­tion fuelled by meth­ane from cold seeps. Nature Geoscience doi:10.1038/​ngeo1926.
  Cherkasheva A, Bracher A, Melsheimer C, Köberle C, Gerdes R, Nöthig E-M, Bauerfeind E, Boetius A (2013). 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.
  de Beer D., M. Haeckel, J. Neumann, G. Wegener, F. Inagaki, and A. Boetius, 2013. Sat­ur­ated CO2 in­hib­its mi­cro­bial pro­cesses in CO2-ven­ted deep-sea sed­i­ments. Biogeosciences 10:5639–5649.
  Felden, J., A. Lichtschlag, F.Wenzhöfer, D. de Beer, T. Feseker, P. Pop Ristova, G. de Lange, A. Boetius, 2013. Lim­it­a­tions of mi­cro­bial hy­dro­car­bon de­grad­a­tion at the Amon Mud Vol­cano (Nile Deep Sea Fan). Biogeosciences 10:3269–3283.
  Gobet A, Boetius A, Ramette A (2013) Bridging the gap between eco­lo­gical pat­terns: From clas­sical fin­ger­print­ing tech­niques to Next Gen­er­a­tion Se­quen­cing. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy. doi:10.1111/​1462-2920.12308.
  Jacob M, Soltwedel T, Boetius A, Ramette A (2013) 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
  Meyer S, Wegener G, Lloyd KG, Teske A, Boetius A, Ramette A (2013) Mi­cro­bial hab­itat con­nectiv­ity across spa­tial scales and hy­dro­thermal tem­per­at­ure gradi­ents at Guay­mas Basin. Front. Mi­cro­biol., 25 July 2013 | doi: 10.3389/​fm­icb.2013.00207.
  Ruff, S.E., Arnds, J., Knittel, K., Amann, R.I., Wegener, G., Ramette, A., Boetius, A. (2013) Mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies of deep sea meth­ane seeps at Hikur­angi con­tin­ental mar­gin (New Zea­l­and), Plo­sOne, 8(9) e72627
  Schöttner, S., F. Hoffmann, P. Cárdenas, H.T. Rapp, A. Boetius and A. Ramette. 2013. 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.
  Soltwedel T, Schauer U, Boebel O, Nöthig E-M, Bracher A, Metfies K, Schewe I, Klages M, Boetius A (2013). FRAM Fron­ti­ers in Arc­tic mar­ine Mon­it­or­ing: Per­man­ent Ob­ser­va­tions in a Gate­way to the Arc­tic Ocean, IEEE Pro­ceed­ings OCEAN­S’13.
  Stanev, E., Y. He, S. Grayek, A. Boetius 2013. 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.

 

2012Amend, Anthony S., Oliver, Tom A., Amaral-Zettler, Linda A., Boetius, Antje, Fuhrman, Jed A., Horner-Devine, M. Claire, Huse, Susan M., Welch, David B. Mark, Martiny, Adam C.,Ramette, Alban, Zinger, Lucie, Sogin, Mitchell L., Martiny, Jennifer B. H. (2012) Mac­roe­co­lo­gical pat­terns of mar­ine bac­teria on a global scale. Journal of Biogeo­graphy 1365-2699, doi.org/​10.1111/​jbi.12034.
Biddle JF, Cardman Z, Mendlovitz H, Albert DB, Lloyd KG, Boetius A, Teske A (2012) An­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane at dif­fer­ent tem­per­at­ure re­gimes in Guay­mas Basin hy­dro­thermal sed­i­ments. ISME Journal 6, 1018-1031, doi:10.1038/​is­mej.2011.164.
Bienhold C, Boetius A, Ramette A. 2012. The en­ergy-di­versity re­la­tion­ship of com­plex bac­terial com­munit­ies in Arc­tic deep-sea sed­i­ments. The ISME Journal 6:724-732.
Gobet A, Böer SI, Huse SM, van Beusekom JE, Quince C, Sogin ML, Boetius A and Ramette A (2012). Di­versity and dy­nam­ics of rare and of res­id­ent bac­terial pop­u­la­tions in coastal sands. ISME Journal Volume: 6 Is­sue: 3 Pages: 542-553. DOI: 10.1038/​is­mej.2011.132.
Grünke S, A. Lichtschlag, D. de Beer, J. Felden, V. Salman, A. Ramette, H. N. Schulz-Vogt, and A. Boetius (2012). Mats of psychro­philic thio­trophic bac­teria as­so­ci­ated with cold seeps of the Bar­ents Sea. Biogeosciences, 9, 2947–2960, 2012 DOI: 10.5194/​bg-9-2947-2012.
Holler T, Wegener G, Niemann H, Deusner C, Ferdelman TG, Boetius A, Brunner B and Widdel F (2012). Car­bon and sul­fur back flux dur­ing an­aer­obic mi­cro­bial ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane and coupled sulfate re­duc­tion. PNAS: 109(51):21170-21173. doi: 10.1073/​pnas.1218683109.
Pop Ristova P, Wenzhöfer F, Ramette A, Zabel M, Fischer D, Sabine K & Boetius A (2012), Bac­terial di­versity and biogeo­chem­istry of dif­fer­ent chemo­syn­thetic hab­it­ats of the REGAB cold seep (West African mar­gin, 3160 m wa­ter depth). Biogeosciences, 9: 5031 - 5048. doi:10.5194/​bg-9-5031-2012.
Schöttner S, Wild C, Hoffmann F, Boetius A, Ramette A. 2012. Spa­tial Scales of Bac­terial Di­versity in Cold-Wa­ter Coral Reef Eco­sys­tems. PLoS ONE 7(3):
e32093. doi:10.1371/​journal.pone.0032093
Wegener G, Bausch M, Holler T, Thang NM, Mollar XM, Kellermann MY, Hinrichs K-U, Boetius A. 2012. As­sess­ing sub-sea­floor mi­cro­bial activ­ity by com­bined stable iso­tope prob­ing with deu­ter­ated wa­ter and 13C-bi­car­bon­ate. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, pub­lished on­line, doi:10.1111/​j.1462-2920.2012.02739.x
Yanagawa K, Morono Y, de Beer D, Haeckel M, Sunamura M, Futagami T, Hoshino T, Terada T, Nakamura K, Urabe T, Rehder G, Boetius A and Inagaki F. (2012) Meta­bol­ic­ally act­ive mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies in mar­ine sed­i­ment un­der high-CO2 and low-pH ex­tremes. ISME doi: 10.1038/​is­mej.2012.124.
2011Duperron, S., H. Guezi, S.M. Gaudron, P. Pop Ristova, F. Wenzhöfer und A. Boetius. 2011. Re­l­at­ive abund­ances of meth­ane- and sul­phur-ox­id­ising sym­bionts in the gills of a cold seep mus­sel and link to their po­ten­tial en­ergy sources. Geo­bi­o­logy 9, 481-491.
Girnth, A.-C., S. Grünke, A. Lichtschlag, J. Felden, K. Knittel, F. Wenzhöfer, D. de Beer und A. Boetius. 2011. A novel, mat-form­ing Thio­mar­gar­ita pop­u­la­tion as­so­ci­ated with a sulf­idic fluid flow from a deep-sea mud vol­cano. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 13, 495-505.
Gobet, A.*, S.I. Böer*, S.M. Huse, J.E.E. van Beusekom, C. Quince, M.L. Sogin, A. Boetius und A. Ramette. 2011. Di­versity and dy­nam­ics of rare and of res­id­ent bac­terial pop­u­la­tions in coastal sands. ISME Journal doi:10.1038/​is­mej.2011.132.
Grünke, S., J. Felden, A. Lichtschlag, A.-C. Girnth, D. de Beer, F. Wenzhöfer und A. Boetius. 2011. Niche dif­fer­en­ti­ation among mat-form­ing, sulf­ide-ox­id­iz­ing bac­teria at cold seeps of the Nile Deep Sea Fan (East­ern Medi­ter­ranean Sea). Geo­bi­o­logy 9, 330-348.
Holler, T., G. Wegener, H. Niemann, C. Deusner, T.G. Ferdelman, A. Boetius, B. Brunner und F. Widdel. 2011. Car­bon and sul­fur back flux dur­ing an­aer­obic mi­cro­bial ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane and coupled sulfate re­duc­tion. Pro­ceed­ings of the Na­tional Academy of Sci­ence 108, E1484–E1490.
Holler T., Widdel F., Knittel K., Amann R., Kellermann M., Hinrichs K.U., Teske A., Boetius A., Wegener G. (2011) Ther­mo­philic an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane by mar­ine mi­cro­bial con­sor­tia. ISME doi:10.1038/​is­mej.2011.77
Ritt, B., C. Pierre, O. Gauthier, F. Wenzhöfer, A. Boetius und J. Sarrazin. 2011. Di­versity and dis­tri­bu­tion of cold-seep fauna as­so­ci­ated with dif­fer­ent geo­lo­gical and en­vir­on­mental set­tings at mud vol­ca­noes and pock­marks of the Nile Deep-Sea Fan. Mar­ine Bio­logy 158, 1187-1210.
Rossel P, Elvert M, Ramette A, Boetius A, Hinrichs KU (2011). Factors con­trolling the dis­tri­bu­tion of an­aer­obic meth­an­o­trophic com­munit­ies in mar­ine en­vir­on­ments: Evid­ence from in­tact po­lar mem­brane lip­ids. GCA, 75:164-184
Schneider von Deimling J., Rehder G., Greinert J., McGinnnis D.F., Boetius A., Linke P. (2011) Quan­ti­fic­a­tion of seep-re­lated meth­ane gas emis­sions at Tom­mel­iten, North Sea. Con­tin­ental Shelf Re­search 31 (2011) 867–878
Schubert CJ, Vazquez F, Lösekann T, Knittel K, Tonolla M, Boetius A (2011) Evid­ence for an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of­meth­ane in sed­i­ments of a fresh­wa­ter sys­tem (Lago di Cadagno) FEM­SEC DOI:10.1111/​j.1574-6941.2010.01036.x
Zinger, L., L.A. Amaral-Zettler, J.A. Fuhrman, M.C. Horner-Devine, S.M. Huse, D.B. Mark Welch, J.B.H. Martiny, M. Sogin, A. Boetius und A. Ramette. 2011. Global pat­terns of bac­terial beta-di­versity in sea­floor and sea­wa­ter eco­sys­tems. PLoS ONE 6, e24570.
2010Wei C-L, Rowe GT, Escobar-Briones E, Boetius A, Soltwedel T, et al. (2010) Global Pat­terns and Pre­dic­tions of Sea­floor Bio­mass Us­ing Ran­dom Forests. PLoS ONE 5(12): e15323. doi:10.1371/​journal.pone.0015323
Orcutt BN, Samantha BJ, Kleindienst S, Knittel K, Ramette A, Reitz A, Samarkin V, Treude T, and Boetius A (2010) Im­pact of nat­ural oil and higher hy­dro­car­bons on mi­cro­bial di­versity, dis­tri­bu­tion and activ­ity in Gulf of Mex­ico cold seep sed­i­ments. Deep-Sea Re­search II, 57:2008–2021
Lichtschlag A, Felden J, Wenzhöfer F, Schubotz F, Ertefai T, Boetius A, deBeer D (2010) Meth­ane and sulf­ide fluxes in per­man­ent an­oxia: in situ stud­ies at the Dv­urechenskii mud vol­cano (Sor­okin Trough, Black Sea) Geochim­ica Cosmochim­ica Acta 74, 5002-5018
Santillano D, Boetius A, Ramette A (2010) De­vel­op­ment of a dsrA-based Fin­ger­print­ing Strategy to En­able High-through­put Ana­lysis of Sulfate-Re­du­cing Mi­cro­bial Guilds. AEM 76 (15), 5308–5311
Grünke S, Lichtschlag A, de Beer D, Kuypers M, Lösekann-Behrens T, Ramette A, Boetius A (2010) Novel ob­ser­va­tions of Thiobac­terium, a sul­fur-stor­ing Gammapro­teo­bac­terium pro­du­cing gelat­in­ous mats. ISME J 4, 1031–1043
Felden J, Wenzhöfer F, Feseker T, Boetius A (2010) Trans­port and con­sump­tion of oxy­gen and meth­ane in dif­fer­ent hab­it­ats of the Håkon Mosby Mud Vol­cano. Lim­no­logy and Ocean­o­graphy 55(6), 2010, 2366–2380
Girnth AC, Grünke S, Lichtschlag A, Felden J , Knittel K, Wenzhöfer F, deBeer D, Boetius A (2010) A novel, mat-form­ing Thio­mar­gar­ita pop­u­la­tion as­so­ci­ated with a sulf­idic fluid flow from a deep-sea mud vol­cano. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy doi:10.1111/​j.1462-2920.2010.02353.x
Lichtschlag, A, Felden J, Brüchert, V, Boetius, A, deBeer D (2010) Geo­chem­ical pro­cesses and chemo­syn­thetic primary pro­duc­tion in dif­fer­ent thio­trophic mats of the Håkon Mosby Mud Vol­cano (Bar­ents Sea). Lim­no­logy and Ocean­o­graphy 55/​2: 931-949
2009Aquilina A, Knab N.J., Knittel K., Kaur G., Geissler A., Kelly S. P., Fossing H., Boot C. S., Parkes R. J., Mills R.A., Boetius A., Lloyd J.R., Pancost R. D. (2009) Bio­marker in­dic­at­ors for an­aer­obic ox­id­izers of meth­ane in brack­ish-mar­ine sed­i­ments with dif­fus­ive meth­ane fluxes. Or­ganic Geo­chem­istry doi:10.1016/​j.orggeo­chem.2009.09.009
Holler T, Wegener, G, Knittel, K, Boetius, A, Brunner, B, Kuypers MM, Widdel F (2009) Sub­stan­tial 13C/​12C and D/​H frac­tion­a­tion dur­ing an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane by mar­ine con­sor­tia en­riched in vitro. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy Re­ports 1 (5): 370-376
Niemann H, Fischer D, Graffe D, Knittel K, Montiel A, Heilmayer O, Nothen K, Pape T, Kasten S, Bohrmann G, Boetius A, Gutt J (2009). Biogeo­chem­istry of a low-activ­ity cold seep in the Larsen B area, west­ern Wed­dell Sea, Ant­arc­tica. Biogeosciences 6(11): 2383-2395
Cambon Bonavita M.A., Nadalig T, Roussel E, Delage E, Duperron S, Caprais J.C., Boetius A and Sibuet M (2009). Di­versity and dis­tri­bu­tion of meth­ane ox­id­iz­ing mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies as­so­ci­ated with dif­fer­ent faunal as­semblages in a gi­ant pock­mark of the Ga­bon con­tin­ental mar­gin. Deep-Sea Re­search II 56 (23): 2248-2258
Knittel K, Boetius A (2009). The an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane - pro­gress with an un­known pro­cess. An­nual Re­views of Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 63:311–34
Böer S, Arnosti C, van Beusekom J, Boetius A. (2009) Tem­poral vari­ations in mi­cro­bial activ­it­ies and car­bon turnover in sub­tidal sandy sed­i­ments. Biogeosciences 6 (7): 1149-1165 2009
Duperron S., de Beer D, Zbinden M, Boetius A, Schipani V, Kahil N, Gaill F (2009) Mo­lecu­lar char­ac­ter­iz­a­tion of bac­teria as­so­ci­ated with the troph­o­some and the tube of La­mel­li­b­ra­chia sp., a siboglinid an­nelid from cold seeps in the east­ern Medi­ter­ranean, FEMS Mi­cro­bi­o­logy Eco­logy 69 (3): 395-409
Huguen, C., J.-P. Foucher, J. Mascle, H. Ondréas, M. Thouement, S. Gontharet, A. Stadnitskaia, C. Pierre, G. Bayon, L. Loncke, A. Boetius, I. Bouloubassi, G. De Lange, J.-C. Caprais, Y. Fouquet, M. Woodside J., S. Dupré and the NAUTINIL Scientific Party. 2009. Menes cal­dera, a highly act­ive site of brine seep­age in the East­ern Medi­ter­ranean Sea: "In situ" ob­ser­va­tions from the NAU­T­INIL ex­ped­i­tion (2003). Mar­ine Geo­logy. 261:138-152.
Omoregie E. O., H. Niemann, V. Mastalerz, G. de Lange, A. Stadnitskaia, J. Mascle, J.-P. Foucher and A. Boetius. 2009. Mi­cro­bial meth­ane ox­id­a­tion and sulfate re­duc­tion at cold seeps of the deep East­ern Medi­ter­ranean Sea. Mar­ine Geo­logy. 261:114-127.
Wegener, G; Boetius, A (2009) An ex­per­i­mental study on short-term changes in the an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane in re­sponse to vary­ing meth­ane and sulfate fluxes. BIOGEOSCIENCES 6 (5): 867-876 2009
Treude, T., C.R. Smith, F. Wenzhöfer, E. Carney, A.F. Bernardino, A.K. Hannides, M. Krüger und A. Boetius. 2009. Biogeo­chem­istry of a deep-sea whale fall: sulfate re­duc­tion, sulf­ide ef­flux and meth­ano­gen­esis. Mar­ine Eco­logy-Pro­gress Series 382, 1-21.
Böer S, Hedtkamp S, Beusekom JE, Fuhrman JA, Boetius AB, Ramette A (2009) Time- and sed­i­ment depth-re­lated vari­ations in bac­terial di­versity and com­munity struc­ture in sub­tidal sands. ISME doi:10.1038/​is­mej.2009.29
Schöttner S, Hoffmann F, Wild C, Rapp HT, Boetius A, Ramette A (2009) Inter- and in­tra-hab­itat bac­terial di­versity as­so­ci­ated with cold-wa­ter cor­als. ISME 3 (6): 756-759
Weaver, PPE; Boetius, A; Danovaro, R; Freiwald, A; Gunn, V; Heussner, S; Morato, T; Schewe, I; van den Hove, S (2009) The Fu­ture of In­teg­rated Deep-Sea Re­search in Europe: The HER­MI­ONE Pro­ject; OCEAN­O­GRAPHY 22 (1): 178-191 Sp. Iss. SI MAR
Boetius, A; Wenzhofer, F (2009) In Situ Tech­no­lo­gies for Study­ing Deep-Sea Hot­spot Eco­sys­tems, OCEAN­O­GRAPHY 22 (1): 177-177 Sp. Iss. SI MAR
Vanreusel, A; Andersen, AC; Boetius, A; Connelly, D; Cunha, MR; Decker, C; Hilario, A; Kormas, KA; Maignien, L; Olu, K; Pachiadaki, M; Ritt, B; Rodrigues, C; Sarrazin, J; Tyler, P; Van Gaever, S; Vanneste, H (2009) Biod­iversity of Cold Seep Eco­sys­tems Along the European Mar­gins, OCEAN­O­GRAPHY 22 (1): 110-127 Sp. Iss. SI MAR
Foucher, JP; Westbrook, GK; Boetius, A; Ceramicola, S; Dupre, S; Mascle, J; Mienert, J; Pfannkuche, O; Pierre, C; Praeg, D (2009) Struc­ture and Drivers of Cold Seep Eco­sys­tems, OCEAN­O­GRAPHY 22 (1): 92-109 Sp. Iss. SI MAR
2008Dupré, S., Buffet, G., Mascle, J., Foucher, J.-P., Gauger, S., Boetius, A., Marfia, C., the AsterX AUV Team, the Quest ROV Team and the BIONIL Scientific Party, 2008. High-res­ol­u­tion map­ping of large gas emit­ting mud vol­ca­noes on the Egyp­tian con­tin­ental mar­gin (Nile Deep Sea Fan) by AUV sur­veys. Mar­ine Geo­phys­ical Re­searches, 29: 275-290. doi:10.1007/​s11001-009-9063-3
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). En­viron. Mi­cro­biol. 10.1111/​j.1462-2920.2008.01712.x
Wegener G, Shovitri M, Knittel K, Niemann H, Hovland M, and Boetius A (2008) Biogeo­chem­ical pro­cesses and mi­cro­bial di­versity of the Gull­faks and Tom­mel­iten meth­ane seeps (North­ern North Sea). Biogeosciences 5, 1127–1144
Rossel, P.E., Lipp, J.S., Fredricks, H.F., Arnds, J.A., Boetius, A., Elvert, M., Hinrichs, K.-U., 2008. In­tact po­lar lip­ids of an­aer­obic meth­an­o­trophic ar­chaea and as­so­ci­ated bac­teria. Or­ganic Geo­chem­istry, oi:10.1016/​j.orggeo­chem.2008.02.021
Wegener G, Niemann H, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U, Boetius A (2008) As­sim­il­a­tion of meth­ane and in­or­ganic car­bon by mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies me­di­at­ing the an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane. En­viron Mi­cro­biol 10 (9), 2287–2298
Orcutt, B., V. Samarkin, A. Boetius, S. Joye. (2008). On the re­la­tion­ship between meth­ane pro­duc­tion and ox­id­a­tion by an­aer­obic meth­an­o­trophic com­munit­ies from cold seeps of the Gulf of Mex­ico. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 10(5), 1108–1117
Omoregie EO, Mastalerz V, de Lange G, Straub KL, Kappler A, Røy H, Stadnitskaia A, Foucher JP, Boetius AB (2008). Biogeo­chem­istry and Com­munity Com­pos­i­tion of Iron- and Sul­fur-Pre­cip­it­at­ing Mi­cro­bial Mats at the Chefren Mud Vol­cano (Nile Deep Sea Fan, East­ern Medi­ter­ranean). Appl En­viron Mi­cro­biol 74 (10): 3198–3215
2007Jorgensen BB, Boetius A, (2007). Feast and fam­ine – mi­cro­bial life in the deep-sea bed. Nature Mi­cro­bi­o­logy Re­views, 5, 770-781
Dupré, S. et al., (2007). Sea­floor geo­lo­gical stud­ies above act­ive gas chim­neys off Egypt (Cent­ral Nile Deep Sea Fan). Deep Sea Re­search Part I: Ocean­o­graphic Re­search Pa­pers, 54: 1146-1172.
Preisler A., DeBeer D., Lichtschlag A., Larvik G. Boetius A., Joergensen B, (2007) Bio­lo­gical and chem­ical sulf­ide ox­id­a­tion in a Beg­gia­toa in­hab­it­ated sed­i­ment. ISME Journal 1-13
Lösekann T, Knittel K, Nadalig T, Fuchs B, Niemann H, Boetius A and Amann R (2007) Di­versity and Abund­ance of Aer­obic and An­aer­obic Meth­ane Ox­id­izers at the Haakon Mosby Mud Vol­cano, Bar­ents Sea. Ap­plied and En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, AEM 73(10), 3348-3362
Treude T, Orphan V, Knittel K, Gieseke A, Boetius A (2007) Con­sump­tion of meth­ane and CO2 by meth­an­o­trophic mi­cro­bial mats from gas seeps of the an­oxic Black Sea. Ap­plied and En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 73(7), 2271-2283
Nauhaus K., Albrecht M., Elvert M., Boetius A., Widdel F. (2007) In Vitro cell growth of mar­ine ar­chaeal-bac­terial con­sor­tia by an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane with sulph­ate. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, 9(1), 187–196
2006Niemann H, Lösekann T, de Beer D, Elvert M, Nadalig T, Knittel K, Amann R, Sauter EJ, Schlüter M, Klages M, Foucher JP, Boetius A (2006) Novel mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies of the Haakon Mosby mud vol­cano and their role as meth­ane sink. Nature, (443) 854-858
Niemann, H., Duarte, J., Hensen, C., Omoregie, E., Magalhães, V.H., Elvert, M., Pinheiro, L, Kopf, A., Boetius, A. (2006) Mi­cro­bial meth­ane turnover at mud vol­ca­noes of the Gulf of Cadiz. Geo­chem­ica Cosmo­chem­ica Acta 70, 5336-5335
Inagaki F, Kuypers MM, Tsunogai U, Ishibashi J, Nakamura K, Treude T, Ohkubo S, Nakaseama M, Gena K, Chiba H, Hirayama H, Nunoura T, Takai K, Jørgensen BB, Horikoshi K, Boetius A (2006) Mi­cro­bial com­munity in a sed­i­ment-hos­ted CO2 lake of the south­ern Ok­inawa Trough hy­dro­thermal sys­tem. PNAS 103 (38), 13899-13900
Sauter, E., Muyakshin S.I., Charlou J.L., Schlüter M, Boetius A, Jerosch K, Damm E, Foucher JP, Klages M (2006) Meth­ane dis­charge from a deep-sea sub­mar­ine mud vol­cano into the up­per wa­ter column by gas hy­drate-coated meth­ane bubbles. Earth and Plan­et­ary Sci­ence Let­ters 243: 354-365.
de Beer, D., Sauter, E., Niemann, H., Witte, U. & Boetius, A. (2006). In situ fluxes and zon­a­tion of mi­cro­bial activ­ity in sur­face sed­i­ments of the Håkon Mosby Mud Vol­cano. Lim­no­logy and Ocean­o­graphy 51(3): 1315-1331.
2005Niemann H, Elvert M, Hovlan M, Orcutt B, Judd A, Suck I, Gutt J, Joye S, Damm E, Finster K, Boetius A,( 2005). Meth­ane emis­sion and con­sump­tion at a North Sea gas seep (Tom­mel­iten area). Biogeosciences, 2, 335–351
Elvert M, Hopmans E. C., Treude T., Boetius A., Suess E. (2005). Spa­tial vari­ation of meth­an­o­trophic con­sor­tia at cold meth­ane seeps: Im­plic­a­tions from a high res­ol­u­tion mo­lecu­lar and iso­topic ap­proach. Geo­bi­o­logy 3(3), 195-209.
Tarpgaard I, Boetius A and Finster K (2005) Des­ulfobac­ter psychro­tol­er­ans sp. nov., a new psychro­tol­er­ant sulfate-re­du­cing bac­terium and de­scrip­tions of its physiolo­gical re­sponse to tem­per­at­ure changes. Ant­onie van Leeuwen­hoek DOI 10.1007/​s10482-005-9014-1
Treude T, Knittel K, Blumenberg M, Seifert R, Boetius A (2005) Sub­sur­face mi­cro­bial meth­an­o­trophic mats in the Black Sea. AEM 71: 6375-6378
Orcutt B, Joye SB, Boetius A, Elvert M, Samarkin V (2005). Mo­lecu­lar biogeo­chem­istry of sulfate re­duc­tion, meth­ano­gen­esis and the an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane at Gulf of Mex­ico cold seeps. Geochim­ica et Cosmochim­ica Acta, 69, 4267-4281.
Krüger M, Treude T, Wolters H, Nauhaus K, Boetius A (2005) Mi­cro­bial meth­ane turnover in dif­fer­ent mar­ine hab­it­ats. Pa­laeo­geo­graphy, Pa­laeo­cli­mato­logy, Pa­laeoe­co­logy 227: 6-17
Wild C, Rasheed M, Jantzen C, Cook P, Struck U, Huettel M, Boetius A (2005) Benthic meta­bol­ism and de­grad­a­tion of nat­ural par­tic­u­late or­ganic mat­ter in car­bon­ate and silic­ate reef sands of the North­ern Red Sea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 298, 69-78
Nauhaus K, Treude T, Boetius A, Krüger M. (2005) En­vir­on­mental reg­u­la­tion of the an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane: a com­par­ison of ANME-I and ANME-II com­munit­ies. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 7(1), 98-106
Knittel, K., Lösekann, T., Boetius, A., Kort, R., and Amann, R. (2005). Di­versity and dis­tri­bu­tion of meth­an­o­trophic ar­chaea at cold seeps. Ap­plied and En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 71: 467-479.
2004Boetius A., Suess E. (2004) Hy­drate Ridge: A nat­ural labor­at­ory for the study of mi­cro­bial life fueled by meth­ane from near-sur­face gas hy­drates. Chem­ical Geo­logy 205, 291-310
Orcutt, BN, Boetius, A, Lugo, S., MacDonald, IR, Samarkin, VA. (2004) Life at the Edge of Meth­ane Ice: Mi­cro­bial Cyc­ling of Car­bon and Sul­fur in Gulf of Mex­ico Gas Hy­drates. Chem­ical Geo­logy 205, 239-251
Joye, SB, Boetius, A, Orcutt, BN, JP Montoya, Schulz, HN, Erickson, MJ, Lugo S. (2004) The an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane and sulfate re­duc­tion in sed­i­ments from Gulf of Mex­ico cold seeps. Chem­ical Geo­logy 205, 219-238
Kallmeyer, J and Boetius A. (2004) The ef­fects of tem­per­at­ure and pres­sure on rates of sulfate re­duc­tion and an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane in hy­dro­thermal deep-sea sed­i­ments of Guay­mas Basin. Ap­plied and En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 70, 2:1231-1233
2003Treude, T, Boetius, A, Knittel, K, Wallmann, K, Jørgensen, BB (2003). An­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane above gas hy­drates at Hy­drate Ridge, NE Pa­cific. Mar­ine Eco­logy Pro­gress Series 264:1-14
Witte U., Wenzhöfer F., Sommer S., Boetius A., Heinz P., Pfannkuche O., Aberle N., Sand M., Cremer A., Abraham W.R., Jørgensen B.B. (2003) In situ ex­per­i­mental evid­ence of the fate of a phyto­de­tritus pulse at the abyssal sea­floor. Nature 424, 763-766
Knittel, K., Boetius, A., Lemke, A., Eilers, H., Lochte, K., Pfannkuche, O., Linke, P., and Amann, R. (2003) Activ­ity, dis­tri­bu­tion, and di­versity of sulfate re­du­cers and other bac­teria above gas hy­drate (Cas­ca­dia Mar­gin, OR). Geo­mic­ro­bi­o­logy Journal 20, 269-294
Elvert M, Boetius A, Knittel K, Jørgensen BB (2003). Char­ac­ter­iz­a­tion of spe­cific mem­brane fatty acids as chemo­taxo­nomic mark­ers for sulfate-re­du­cing bac­teria of the genus Des­ulfosar­cina/​Des­ul­fo­coc­cus in­volved in an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane. Geo­mic­ro­bi­o­logy Journal 20, 403-419
Hensen C., Zabel M., Pfeifer K., Schwenk T., Kasten S., Riedinger N, Schulz A., Boetius A. (2003) Con­trol of sulfate pore-wa­ter pro­files by sed­i­ment­ary events and the sig­ni­fic­ance of an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane for the burial of sul­fur in mar­ine sed­i­ments. Geochim­ica et Cosmochim­ica Acta 67, (14)
2002Michaelis W, Seifert R, Nauhaus K, Treude T, Thiel V, Blumenberg M, Knittel K, Gieseke A, Peterknecht K, Pape T, Boetius A, Amann R, Jorgensen BB, Widdel F, Peckmann J, Pimenov NV, Gulin MB (2002) Mi­cro­bial Reefs in the Black Sea Fueled by An­aer­obic Ox­id­a­tion of Meth­ane, Sci­ence 297, 1013-1015.
Smith KL, Baldwin RB, Karl DM, Boetius A (2002) Benthic com­munity re­sponses to pulses in pela­gic food sup­ply: North Pa­cific sub­trop­ical gyre. Deep-Sea Re­search I 49, 971-990.
Nauhaus K, Boetius A, Krüger M, Widdel F (2002) In vitro demon­stra­tion of an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane coupled to sulph­ate re­duc­tion in sed­i­ment from a mar­ine gas hy­drate area. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy 4(5), 296-305.
Boetius A., B.B. Jørgensen, R. Amann, J.P. Henriet, K.-U. Hinrichs, K. Lochte, B.J. MacGregor and G. Voordouw (2002) Mi­cro­bial Sys­tems in Sed­i­ment­ary En­vir­on­ments of Con­tin­ental Mar­gins, In Ocean Mar­gin Sys­tems. We­fer, G., Bil­lett, D., Hebbeln, D., Jør­gensen, B.B., Schlüter, M., and van Weer­ing, T. (eds), Heidel­berg: Springer-Ver­lag, p. 479-495.
Hinrichs KU, Boetius AB (2002) The an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane: new in­sights in mi­cro­bial eco­logy and biogeo­chem­istry. In Ocean Mar­gin Sys­tems. We­fer, G., Bil­lett, D., Hebbeln, D., Jør­gensen, B.B., Schlüter, M., and van Weer­ing, T. (eds), Heidel­berg: Springer-Ver­lag, p. 457-477.
2000Boetius, A., Ravenschlag, K., Schubert, C., Rickert, D., Widdel, F., Gieseke, A., Amann, R., Jørgensen, B.B., Witte, U., Pfannkuche, O. (2000) A mar­ine mi­cro­bial con­sor­tium ap­par­ently me­di­at­ing an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane. Nature 407, 623-626.
Boetius, A., Springer, B., Petry, C. (2000) Mi­cro­bial activ­ity and par­tic­u­late mat­ter in the benthic neph­el­oid layer (BNL) of the deep Ar­a­bian Sea. Deep Sea Re­search II 47, 2687-2706.
Boe­t­ius, A., Fer­del­mann, T., Lochte, K. (2000) Bac­terial activ­ity in sed­i­ments of the deep Ar­a­bian Sea in re­la­tion to ver­tical flux. Deep Sea Re­search II 47, 2835-2875.
Christiansen, B., Boetius, A. (2000) Mass sed­i­ment­a­tion of the swim­ming crab Charyb­dis smithii (Crus­ta­cea: Deca­poda) in the deep Ar­a­bian Sea. Deep Sea Re­search II 47, 2673-2685.
Boetius A., Lochte K. (2000) Re­gional vari­ation of total mi­cro­bial bio­mass in sed­i­ments of the deep Ar­a­bian Sea. Deep-Sea Re­search II 47, 149-168.
Lochte, K., Boetius, A., Petry, C. (2000) Mi­cro­bial food webs un­der severe nu­tri­ent lim­it­a­tions: life in the deep sea. In: Bell, C.R., Bryl­in­sky, M., John­son-Green, P. (eds.) Mi­cro­bial Biosys­tems: New Fron­ti­ers. Pro­ceed­ings of the 8th In­ter­na­tional Sym­posium on Mi­cro­bial Eco­logy. At­lantic Canada So­ci­ety for Mi­cro­bial Eco­loggy, Hal­i­fax, Canada. pp. 95-102.
1999Grahl, C., Boetius, A., Nöthig, E.-M. (1999) Pela­gic-benthic coup­ling in the Laptev Sea af­fected by sea ice. In: Kas­sens, H., H.A. Bauch, I. Dmitrenko, H. Eicken, H.-W. Hub­ber­ten, M. Melles, J. Thiede and L. Timok­hov (eds.) Land-Ocean Sys­tems in the Siberian Arc­tic: Dy­nam­ics and His­tory. Springer-Ver­lag, Ber­lin, 1998, 143-152.
Pfannkuche, O., Boetius, A., Lochte, K., Lundgreen, U., Thiel, H. (1999) Re­sponses of deep-sea benthos to un­usual sed­i­ment­a­tion pat­terns in the North­east At­lantic in 1992. Deep-Sea Re­search I 46, 573-596.
1998Boetius, A., Damm, E. (1998) Benthic oxy­gen up­take, hy­dro­lytic po­ten­tials and mi­cro­bial bio­mass at the Arc­tic con­tin­ental slope. Deep-Sea Re­search I 45, 239-275.
1996Boetius, A., Lochte, K. (1996) High pro­teo­lytic activ­it­ies of deep-sea bac­teria from oli­go­trophic po­lar sed­i­ments. In: Si­mon, M., Güde, H. (ed­it­ors) Sixth In­ter­na­tional Work­shop on Aquatic Mi­cro­bial Eco­logy, Archive of Hy­dro­bi­o­logy 48, 269-276.
Boetius, A., Scheibe, S., Tselepides, A., Thiel, H. (1996). Mi­cro­bial bio­mass and activ­it­ies in deep-sea sed­i­ments of the East­ern Medi­ter­ranean: trenches are benthic hot­spots. Deep-Sea Re­search I 43, 1439-1460.
Boetius, A. and K. Lochte (1996) The ef­fect of or­ganic mat­ter com­pos­i­tion on hy­dro­lytic po­ten­tials and growth of benthic bac­teria in deep-sea sed­i­ments. Mar­ine Eco­logy Pro­gress Series 140, 235-250.
1995Boetius, A., Felbeck, H. (1995). Di­gest­ive en­zymes in mar­ine in­ver­teb­rates from hy­dro­thermal vents and other re­du­cing en­vir­on­ments. Mar­ine Bio­logy 122, 105-113.
Boetius, A. (1995). Mi­cro­bial hy­dro­lytic en­zyme activ­it­ies in deep-sea sed­i­ments. Hel­goländer Meeresun­ter­suchun­gen 49, 177-178.
Boetius, A., Lochte, K. (1994). Reg­u­la­tion of mi­cro­bial en­zymatic de­grad­a­tion of or­ganic mat­ter in deep-sea sed­i­ments. Mar­ine Eco­logy Pro­gress Series 104, 299-307.

Book Chapters (peer-re­viewed)

2011Knittel K, Boetius A. (2011). An­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane. In: Thiel V, Re­it­ner J. (eds). En­cyc­lo­pe­dia of Geo­bi­o­logy. Springer, Ber­lin Heidel­berg New York. Part A 36-47
2010Amaral-Zettler L, Artigas LF, Baross J, Bharathi PAL, Boetius A, Chandramohan D, Herndl G, Kogure K, Neal P, Pedrós-Alió C, Ramette A, Schouten S, Stal L, Thessen A, de Leeuw J, Sogin ML (2010) A Global Census of Mar­ine Mi­crobes. In 'Life in the World’s Oceans' (Ed. AD McIntyre), Black­well Pub­lish­ing
Boetius A, Wenzhöfer F (2010) Meth­ods for the study of cold seep eco­sys­tems. In: Tim­mith K Hand­book of Hy­dro­car­bon and Lipid Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Springer, Part 31 Ex­per­i­mental Pro­to­cols and Ap­pen­dices, 3443-3451
Boetius A. Knittel K. (2010). Hab­it­ats of an­aer­obic meth­ane ox­id­izers. In: Tim­mith K Hand­book of Hy­dro­car­bon and Lipid Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Springer, Part 21 Mi­cro­bial Com­munit­ies Based on Hy­dro­car­bons, Oils and Fats: Nat­ural Hab­it­ats. 2193-2199
Knittel K., Boetius A. (2010). An­aer­obic Meth­ane Ox­id­izers. In: Tim­mith K (Ed.) Hand­book of Hy­dro­car­bon and Lipid Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Springer, Part 19 The Mi­crobes (6): 2194-2202
Niemann H., Boetius A. (2010) Mud Vol­ca­noes. In: Tim­mith K (Ed.) Hand­book of Hy­dro­car­bon and Lipid Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Springer, Part 3 Trans­fer from the Geo­sphere to Bio­sphere, 205-214
2002Boetius A., B.B. Jørgensen, R. Amann, J.P. Henriet, K.-U. Hinrichs, K. Lochte, B.J. MacGregor and G. Voordouw (2002) Mi­cro­bial Sys­tems in Sed­i­ment­ary En­vir­on­ments of Con­tin­ental Mar­gins, In Ocean Mar­gin Sys­tems. We­fer, G., Bil­lett, D., Hebbeln, D., Jør­gensen, B.B., Schlüter, M., and van Weer­ing, T. (eds), Heidel­berg: Springer-Ver­lag, p. 479-495
Hinrichs KU, Boetius A (2002) The an­aer­obic ox­id­a­tion of meth­ane: new in­sights in mi­cro­bial eco­logy and biogeo­chem­istry. In Ocean Mar­gin Sys­tems. We­fer, G., Bil­lett, D., Hebbeln, D., Jør­gensen, B.B., Schlüter, M., and van Weer­ing, T. (eds), Heidel­berg: Springer-Ver­lag, p. 457-477
2000Lochte, K., Boetius, A., Petry, C. (2000) Mi­cro­bial food webs un­der severe nu­tri­ent lim­it­a­tions: life in the deep sea. In: Bell, C.R., Bryl­in­sky, M., John­son-Green, P. (eds.) Mi­cro­bial Biosys­tems: New Fron­ti­ers. Pro­ceed­ings of the 8th In­ter­na­tional Sym­posium on Mi­cro­bial Eco­logy. At­lantic Canada So­ci­ety for Mi­cro­bial Eco­loggy, Hal­i­fax, Canada. pp. 95-102.

Book Chapters and Journ­als (not re­viewed)

2017 Bienhold C. and Boetius A. (2017) Mik­roor­gan­is­men des Tief­see­bodens: Viel­falt, Ver­teilung und Funk­tion. In: Fasz­in­a­tion Meeres­forschung. Ein öko­lo­gisches Lesebuch. 2. Au­flage. Ed­itoren: G. Hempel, K. Bis­chof, W. Ha­gen, Springer-Spek­trum Ver­lag, Heidel­berg pp. 211-222. DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-49714-2_20
2012 Boetius A, J Gutt, E Helmke, B Meyer (2012) Leben im und unter dem Eis – zur Viel­falt des Lebens in po­laren Lebens­räu­men. In: Die Viel­falt des Lebens. Ed. Er­win Beck. ISBN 978-3-527-33212-0. p 246.
  Youle, M; Rohwer, F; Stacy, A; Whiteley, M; Steel, BC; Delalez, NJ; Nord, AL; Berry, RM; Armitage, JP; Kamoun, S; Hogenhout, S; Diggle, SP; Gurney, J; Pollitt, EJG; Boetius, A; Cary, SC (2012) The Mi­cro­bial Olympics; Nat Rev Mi­crob (10) 8: 583-588; DOI: 10.1038/​nr­mi­cro2837.
2011 Boetius, A. und H. Boetius. 2011. Das Dunkle Paradies – Ent­deck­ung der Tief­see. Ran­dom House Ber­tels­mann, pp. 456.
2010 Boetius A (2010) Vor­bild Angler­fisch - Warum Frauen sel­ten an die Spitze kom­men, ist kaum un­ter­sucht. Ta­gesspiegel PO­SI­TIONEN, 6.10.10
  Boetius A (2010) Win­zige Helfer ge­gen die Pest. DFG forschung 3/​10: 4-9
2009 Boetius A, Bienhold C, Schöttner S, Ufkes J, Ramette A (2009) Fin­ger­ab­drücke mik­robi­eller Ge­meinsch­aften im Meer. Biospek­trum 7: 726-729
  Boetius, A; Joye, S (2009) Thriv­ing in Salt. SCI­ENCE 324 (5934): 1523-1525
  Ramette, A. and Boetius A. (2009) How to use a Crys­tal Ball in En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy: De­vel­op­ing new ways to ex­plore com­plex data­sets. En­vir­on­mental Mi­cro­bi­o­logy Re­ports 1(1):3-26
  Ramette A, Tiedje JM, Boetius A (2009) Im­pact of space, time and com­plex en­vir­on­ments on mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies. Clin­ical Mi­cro­bi­o­logy and In­fec­tion 15(s1):60-62
2008 Boetius A, Holler T, Knittel K, Felden J, Wenzhöfer F (2008) The Seabed as Nat­ural Labor­at­ory: Les­sons From Un­cul­tiv­ated Meth­an­o­trophs. Mi­cro­biol Monogr, doi:10.1007/​7171_2008_15 1. Springer-Ver­lag Ber­lin Heidel­berg
2007 Boetius, A., Priede I.G., Mevel C. (2007). In­fra­struc­ture and crit­ical tech­no­logy. In: The Deep Sea Fron­tier – Sci­ence Chal­lenges for a sus­tain­able fu­ture. ISBN 978-92-79-05266-8. European Com­munit­ies
2006 Boetius A (2006) Mik­roor­gan­is­men des Meeres­bodens. In: "Fasz­in­a­tion Meeres­forschung". Ein Lesebuch. Ed­itoren: G. und I. Hempel, S. Schiel, Hauschild Ver­lag, Bre­men, pp. 464
2005 Boetius A (2005) Lost City Life. Sci­ence 307, 1420-1422
  Boetius A (2005) Mi­cro­fauna – mac­ro­fauna in­ter­ac­tion in the sea­floor: les­sons from the tube­worm. PLOS Bio­logy, Vol 3(3) 0375-0378
2004 Weaver P, Billet DM, Boetius A, Danovaro R, Freiwald A, Sibuet M (2004) Hot­spot Eco­sys­tem Re­search on Europe’s Deep-Ocean Mar­gins. Ocean­o­graphy 17 (4), 49-59
  Widdel F, Boetius A, Rabus R (2004) An­aer­obic bio­de­grad­a­tion of hy­dro­car­bons in­clud­ing meth­ane. The Proka­ryotes On­line Ver­sion, Re­lease 3.16; 1991, 1994-2004 Springer-Ver­lag New York, LLC
2003 Klages, M., Boetius, A., Christensen, J.P., Deubel, H., Piepenburg, D., Schewe, I., Soltwedel, T. (2003) The benthos of Arc­tic Seas and its role for the car­bon cycle at the sea­floor. In: Stein, R., Mac­don­ald, R.W. (eds) The Arc­tic Or­ganic Car­bon Cycle, Springer Ver­lag, Heidel­berg: 139-167
1999 Grahl, C., Boetius, A., Nöthig, E.-M. (1999) Pela­gic-benthic coup­ling in the Laptev Sea af­fected by sea ice. In: Kas­sens, H., H.A. Bauch, I. Dmitrenko, H. Eicken, H.-W. Hub­ber­ten, M. Melles, J. Thiede and L. Timok­hov (eds.) Land-Ocean Sys­tems in the Siberian Arc­tic: Dy­nam­ics and His­tory. Springer-Ver­lag, Ber­lin, 1998, 143-152

 

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