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Selected publications from the MBL/WHOI/Brown NAI Lead Team, 2006

Amaral-Zettler, L.A., Palacios, C., Zettler, E.R., Amils, R. & Sogin, M.L. (2006). A Three-Domain Approach to Microbial Diversity and Population Structure in the Rio Tinto. Astrobiology, 6(1):256.

Bach, W., Edwards, K.J., Hayes, J., Huber, J., Sievert, S. & Sogin, M.L. (2006). Energy in the Dark: Fuel for Life in the Deep Ocean and Beyond. EOS Transactions, 7:73, 78.

Baldo, L., Bordenstein, S., Wernegreen, J.J. & Werren, J.H. (2006). Widespread recombination throughout Wolbachia genomes. Mol Biol Evol, 23(2):437-49

Baldo, L., Dunning-Hotopp, J., Bordenstein, S., Biber, S., Jollie, K., Tettelin, H., Maiden, M., Hayashi, C. & Werren, J. (in press). A Multilocus Sequence Typing system for the endosymbiont Wolbachia. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Banning, E. & Edwards, K.J. (2006). Microbial diversity on Lo'ihi seamount basalt. International Society of Microbial Ecology, 11. Vienna, Austria.

Baross, J.A., Schrenk, M.O. & Huber, J.A. (2006). Limits of Carbon Life on Earth and Elsewhere. In: W.S.a.J. Baross (Ed.). Planets & Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology (pp. In Press). Cambridge University Press.

Bibring, J.P., Langevin, Y., Mustard, J.F., Poulet, F., Arvidson, R., Gendrin, A., Gondet, B., Mangold, N., Pinet, P., Forget, F., Berthe, M., Bibring, J.P., Gendrin, A., Gomez, C., Gondet, B., Jouglet, D., Poulet, F., Soufflot, A., Vincendon, M., Combes, M., Drossart, P., Encrenaz, T., Fouchet, T., Merchiorri, R., Belluci, G., Altieri, F., Formisano, V., Capaccioni, F., Cerroni, P., Coradini, A., Fonti, S., Korablev, O., Kottsov, V., Ignatiev, N., Moroz, V., Titov, D., Zasova, L., Loiseau, D., Mangold, N., Pinet, P., Doute, S., Schmitt, B., Sotin, C., Hauber, E., Hoffmann, H., Jaumann, R., Keller, U., Arvidson, R., Mustard, J.F., Duxbury, T., Forget, F. & Neukum, G. (2006). Global mineralogical and aqueous mars history derived from OMEGA/Mars Express data. Science, 312(5772):400-4

Biddle, J.F., Lipp, J.S., Lever, M.A., Lloyd, K.G., Sorensen, K.B., Anderson, R., Fredricks, H.F., Elvert, M., Kelly, T.J., Schrag, D.P., Sogin, M.L., Brenchley, J.E., Teske, A., House, C.H. & Hinrichs, K.U. (2006). Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103(10):3846-51

Bordenstein, S.R., Marshall, M.L., Fry, A.J., Kim, U. & Wernegreen, J.J. (2006). The tripartite associations between bacteriophage, Wolbachia, and arthropods. PLoS Pathog, 2(5):e43

Dhillion, A., Edwards, K.J., Webb, E.A., Rogers, D.R. & Sogin, M.L. (2006). Loi'hi metagenomics: Search for neutraphilic iron oxidation genes. AbSciCon. Washington, DC.

Edgcomb, V.E., Molyneaux, S.J., Boer, S., Wirsen, C.O., Atkins, M.S., Lloyd, K.G. & Teske, A. (2006). Survival and growth of two heterotrophic hydrothermal vent archaea, Pyrococcus strain GB-D and Thermococcus fumicolans, under hydrothermal vent and deep subsurface stress factors. Extremophiles, Submitted.

Edwards, K.J. (2006). Ocean crust weathering and the deep-ocean iron cycle. International society of Microbial Ecology, 11. Vienna, Austria.

Head, J.W., Marchant, D.R., Agnew, M.C., Fassett, C.I. & Kreslavsky, M.A. (2006). Extensive valley glacier deposits in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars: Evidence for Late Amazonian obliquity-driven climate change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 241:663-671.

Head, J.W., Nahm, A.L., Marchant, D.R. & Neukum, G. (2006). Modification of the dichotomy boundary on Mars by Amazonian mid-latitude regional glaciation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(L08S03):doi:10.1029/2005GL024360.

Huang, J. & Gogarten, J.P. (2006). Ancient chlmaydial endosymbiosis facilitated the establishment of the plastid. Submitted.

Huang, J. & Gogarten, J.P. (2006). Ancient horizontal gene transfer can benefit phylogenetic reconstruction. Trends Genet, 22(7):361-6

Huber, J.A. & Sogin, M.L. (2006). Metagenomics of diffuse hydrothermal vents: Determining the distribution of anaerobic thermophilic life in subseafloor habitats [Abstract]. Astrobiology, 6:111.

Huber, J.A., Butterfield, D.A. & Baross, J.A. (2006). Diversity and distribution of subseafloor Thermococcales populations at an active deep-sea volcano in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. JGR Biogeosciences, In Press.

Huber, J.A., Johnson, H.P., Butterfield, D.A. & Baross, J.A. (2006). Microbial life in ridge flank crustal fluids. Environ Microbiol, 8(1):88-99

Huber, J.A., Morrison, H., Mark Welch, D., Huse, S., Neal, P. & Sogin, M. (2006). The International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM) and a strategy for exploring microbial diversity throughout the world's oceans [Abstract]. Seamount Biogeosciences Network Workshop. La Jolla, CA.

Huber, J.A., Morrison, H.G., Mark Welch, D., Huse, S.M., Neal, P.R. & Sogin, M.L. (2006). Deep sampling of bacterial diversity at diffuse flow hydrothermal vents on Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge [Abstract]. RIDGE Theoretical Institute: From Magma to Microbes. Mammoth Lakes, CA.

Hugler, M., Huber, H., Molyneaux, S.J., Vetriani, C. & Sievert, S.M. (2006). Autotrophic CO2 fixation via the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle in different lineages within the phylum Aquificae: Evidence for two ways of citrate cleavage. Environ. Microbiol., In Press.

Hutchison, L., Mustard, J., Gendrin, A., Fernandez-Remolar, D., Amils, R. & Amaral-Zettler, L. (2006). Using a Visible and Near IR Spectral Variance Index in Rio Tinto, Spain to Combine Datasets of Different Spatial Resolution. Astrobiology, 6(1):225.

Inagaki, F., Nunoura, T., Nakagawa, S., Teske, A., Lever, M., Lauer, A., Suzuki, M., Takai, K., Delwiche, M., Colwell, F.S., Nealson, K.H., Horikoshi, K., D'Hondt, S. & Jorgensen, B.B. (2006). Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103(8):2815-20

Ivanov, M.A. & Head, J.W. (2006). Alba Patera, Mars: Topography, Structure, and Evolution of Unique Late Hesperian-Early Amazonian Shield Volcano. J. Geophys. Res.-Planets, In Press.

Kormas, K.A., Tivey, M.K., Von Damm, K. & Teske, A. (2006). Bacterial and archaeal phylotypes associated with distinct mineralogical layers of a white smoker spire from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent site (9 degrees N, East Pacific Rise). Environ Microbiol, 8(5):909-20

Kreslavsky, M.A. & Head, J.W. (2006). Modification of craters in the Northern Plains of Mars: Implications for the Amazonian climate history. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, In Press.

Kreslavsky, M.A., Head, J.W. & Marchant, D.R. (2006). Periods of active permafrost layer formation during the geological history of Mars: Implciations for circum-polar and mid-latitude surface processes. Planet. Space Sciences Spec. Issue on Polar Processes, In Press.

Ley, R.E., Harris, J.K., Wilcox, J., Spear, J.R., Miller, S.R., Bebout, B.M., Maresca, J.A., Bryant, D.A., Sogin, M.L. & Pace, N.R. (2006). Unexpected diversity and complexity of the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat. Appl Environ Microbiol, 72(5):3685-95.

Lloyd, K.G., Lapham, L. & Teske, A. (2006). An Anaerobic Methane Oxidizing Community of only the ANME-1 Phylotype in a Gulf of Mexico Sediment. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., Submitted.

Markert, S., Arndt, C., Felbeck, H., Feldman, R.A., Becher, D., Sievert, S.M., Hügler, M., Albrecht, D., Robidart, J., Bench, S., Hecker, M. & Schweder, T. (Submitted, 2006). Approaching the uncultivable endosymbiont of Riftia pachyptila by physiological proteomics. Science.

Milkovich, S.M., Head, J.W. & Marchant, D.R. (2006). Debris-covered piedmont glaciers along the northwest flank of the Olympus Mons scarp: Evidence for low-latitude ice accumulation during the Late Amazonian of Mars. Icarus, 181:388-407.

Palacios, C., Amaral-Zettler, L.A., Zettler, E.R., Amils, R. & Sogin, M.L. (2006). SARST-V6 Reveals Interesting Aspects of the Ecological Diversity in the Extremely Acidic Rio Tinto (Spain). Proceedings of the Ocean Sciences Meeting, 20-24 February 2006 :93. Honolulu, Hawaii.

Paraskevopoulos, C., Bordenstein, S.R., Wernegreen, J.J., Werren, J.H. & Bourtzis, K. (in press). owards a Wolbachia multilocus sequence typing system: Discrimination of Wolbachia strains present in Drosophila species. Current Microbiology.

Patterson, D.J., Remsen, D., Norton, C. & Marino, W. (2006). Taxonomic Indexing -- Extending the Role of Taxonomy. Systematic Biology, 55:367-373.

Remsen, D.P., Norton, C. & Patterson, D.J. (2006). Taxonomic informatics tools for the electronic Nomenclator Zoologicus. Biol Bull, 210(1):18-24.

Rogers, D.R., Webb, E.A. & Edwards, K.J. (2006). Protein and gene expression under Fe-deplete and Fe-replete conditions in cultures of the marine lithotroph Marinobacter aquaeolei. nternational Society of Microbial Ecology, 11. Vienna, Austria.

Rouxel, O.J. & Bekker, A. (2006). New insights into Precambrian ocean redox state chemistry coupled iron and sulfur isotope analyses. AbSciCon. Washington, DC.

Rouxel, O.J. (2006). The environmental impact of life on Early Earth: Using Iron and Sulfur isotopes as tracers of redox changes in the Proterozoic Oceans. GERM Workshop. Columbia University, New York.

Rouxel, O.J., Bekker, A., Slack, J.S. & Grenne, T. (2006). Record of hydrothermal plume processes in Paleoproterozoic jasper and iron formation. AbSciCon. Washington, DC.

Slack, J.S., Grenne, T., Bekker, A., Rouxel, O.J. & Lindberg, P.A. (in review). Suboxic deep seawater in the late Paleoproterozoic. Nature.

Sogin, M.L., Morrison, H.G., Huber, J.A., Mark Welch, D., Huse, S.M., Neal, P.R., Arrieta, J.M. & Herndl, G.J. (2006). Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the under-explored "rare biosphere". Proc. Natl. Acad. 103, In Press.

Sorensen, K.B. & Teske, A. (2006). Stratified communities of active archaea in deep marine subsurface sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol, 72(7):4596-603.

Teske, A. (2006). Enigmatic Archaeal and Eukaryotic Life at hydrothermal vents and in marine subsurface sediments. In: J. Seckbach (Ed.). Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats, and Astrobiology (COLE). Springer.

Teske, A. (2006). Microbial community composition in deep marine subsurface sediments of ODP Leg 201: Sequencing surveys and cultivations. In: B.B. Jørgensen (Ed.). Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 201 (pp. 1-20).

Toner, B., Santelli, C.M., Rogers, D.R. & Edwards, K.J. (2006). Low-temperature weathering of hydrothermal chimney sulfide minerals at Juan de Fuca Ridge. AbSciCon. Washington, DC.

Wells, L.E., Armstrong, J.A. & Huber, J.A. (2006). Disciplinary aspirations and educational opportunities. In: W.S.a.J. Baross (Ed.). Planets & Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology (pp. In Press). Cambridge University Press.

Wernegreen, J.J. (submitted). Genomic signatures of intracellularity: Evolutionary patterns and paces in bacterial mutualists and parasites. In: M. Palen, S. Gill, K. Nelson & G. Preston (Eds.). Pathogenomics. Washington, D.C.: ASM Press.