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Selected publications from the MBL/WHOI/Brown NAI Lead Team, 2003-2004

Amils, R., Gonzalez-Toril, E., Gomez, F., Fernanadez-Remolar, D., Rodriguez, N., Malki, M., Aguilera, A. & Amaral-Zettler, L.A.: Chemolithotrophy for early life on Earth: the Tinto River (Iberian Pyritic Belt) case. Origins, J. Seckbach (Ed.), The Netherlands: Kluwer Publishers 463-480

Bordenstein, S.R. & Wernegreen, J.J.: Bacteriophage flux in endosymbionts (Wolbachia): Lateral transfer, recombination rates, and the intracellular arena hypothesis. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21, 1981-1991 (2004)

Degnan, P.H., Lazarus, A.B., Brock, C. & Wernegreen, J. J.: Host-symbiont stability and fast evolutionary rates in an ant-bacterium association: Cospeciation of Camponotus species and their endosymbionts, Candidatus Blochmannia. Systematic Biology, 53, 95-110 (2004)

Edgcomb, V.E., Molyneaux, S.J., Saito, M.A., Lloyd, K.G., Boer, S., Wirsen, C.O., Atkins, M.S. & Teske, A.: Sulfide ameliorates metal toxicity in deep-sea hydrothermal vent archaea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70, 2551-2555 (2004)

Head, J.W., Mustard, J.F. , Kreslavsky, M.A. , Milliken, R.E. & Marchant, D.R.: Recent Ice Ages on Mars.. Nature, 426, 797-802 (2004)

Herbeck, J.T., Funk, D.J., Degnan, P.H. & Wernegreen, J.J.: A conservative test of genetic drift in the endosymbiotic bacterium Buchnera: slightly deleterious mutations in the chaperonin groEL. Genetics, 165, 1651-1660 (2003)

Herbeck, J.T., Wall, D.P. & Wernegreen, J.J.: Gene expression level influences amino acid usage, but not codon usage, in the tsetse fly endosymbiont Wigglesworthia. Microbiology, 149, 2585-2596 (2003)

Inagaki, F., Nunoura, T., House, C., Schippers, A., Teske, A., Hinrichs, K.-U., Cragg, B.A., Parkes, J., Biddle, J.F., Kelly, T.J., Brenchley, J.E., Neretin, L.N., Lauer, A., Lever, M., Suzuki, M., Delwiche, M., Takai, K., Colwell, F.S., Nealson, K.H., Horikoshi, K., D'Hondt, S.L. & Jørgensen, B.B.: Distribution of unidentified prokaryotes in deeply buried marine sediments. Science (Submitted, 2004)

Maule, J., Fogel, M., Steele, A., Wainwright, N., Pierson, D.L. & McKay, D.S.: Antibody binding in altered gravity: Implications for immunosorbent assay during spaceflight. Journal of Gravitional Physiology 10(2):47-55 (2003)

Medina, M., Collins, A.G., Taylor, J.W., Valentine, J.W., Lipps, J.H., Amaral Zettler, L.A. & Sogin, M.L.: Phylogeny of Opisthokonta and the evolution of multicellularity and complexity in Fungi and Metazoa. International Journal of Astrobiology, 2(3), 203-211 (2003)

Reznikoff, W.S., Bordenstein, S.R. & Apodaca,J.: Comparative sequence analysis of Tn5 transposase. Journal of Bacteriology 186:8240-8247 (2004)

Sorensen, K.B., Lauer, A. & Teske, A.: Archaeal phylotypes in a metal-rich, low-activity deep subsurface sediment of the Peru Basin, ODP leg 201, site 1231. Geobiology 2:151-161 (2004)

Wernegreen, J.J.: Endosymbiosis: lessons in conflict resolution. PLoS Biology, 2, E68 (2004)

Wernegreen, J.J., & Funk, D.J.: Mutation exposed: A neutral explanation for extreme base composition of an endosymbiont genome. Journal of Molecular Evolution 59(6):849-858 (2004)