Publications 1993

Department of biogeochemistry

Direktor: Prof Dr. Bo Barker Jørgensen

Canfield, D. E., B. B. Jørgensen, H. Fossing; R. Glud, J. Gundersen, N. B. Ramsing, B. Thamdrup, J. W.

Hansen, L. P. Nielsen and P. 0.J. Hall: Pathways of organic carbon oxidation in three continental margin sediments. Mar. Geol. 113, 27- 40 (1993).

Canfield, D. E., B. Thamdrup and J. W. Hansen: The anaerobic degradation of organic matter in Danish coastal sediments: Iron reduction, manganese reduction, and sulfate reduction. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 57, 3867- 3883 (1993).

Iversen, N. and B. B. Jørgensen: Diffusion coefficients of sulfate and methane in marine sediments: influence of porosity. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 57, 571-578 (1993).

Jensen, H. S. and B. Thamdrup: Iron-bound phosphorus in marine sediments as measured by bicarbonate-dithionite extraction. Hydrobiologia 253, 47-59 (1993).

Luther, G. W. III and T. G. Ferdelmann: Voltametric characterization of Iron (II) Sulfide Complexes in Laboratory Solutions and in Marine Waters and Porewaters. Environ. Science and Technol. 27, 1154 -1163 (1993).

Thamdrup, B., K. Finster, J. W. Hansen and F. Bak: Bacterial disproportionation of elemental sulfur coupled to chemical reduction of iron or manganese. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 101-108 (1993).

Micro sensor group

Bebout, B.M., M. W. Fitzpatrick and H. W. Paerl: Identification of the sources of energy for nitrogen fixation and physiological characterization of nitrogen-fixing members of a marine microbial mat community. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 1495 - 1503 (1993).

Berninger, U.-G., S.A. Wickham and B.J. Finlay: Trophic coupling within the microbial food web: a study with fine temporal resolution in a eutrophic freshwater ecosystem. Freshwater Biol. 30, 419-432 (1993).

Garcia-Pichel, F. and R. W. Castenholz: Occurrence of UV-absorbing mycosporine-like compounds among cyanobacterial isolates and an estimate of their screening capacity. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 163-169 (1993).

Garcia-Pichel, F., C. E. Wingard and R. W. Castenholz: Evidence regarding the UV sunscreen role of a Mycosporine-like compound in the cyanobacterium Gloeocapsa sp. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 170-176 (1993).

Glud, R. N., J. K. Gundersen, N. P. Revsbech and B. B. Jørgensen: In situ measurements of total and diffusive oxygen uptake of sediments. In: Trends in Microbial Ecology, Proc. 6th ISME, Eds. R. Guerrero, C. Pedrós- Alió. Spanish Soc. Microbiol., Barcelona 1993, 427-430.

Kühl,M.: Photosynthesis, 0₂ respiration and sulfur cycling in a cyanobacterial biofilm. In: Trends in Microbial Ecology, Proc. 6th ISME, Eds. R. Guerrero, C. Pedrós- Alió. Spanish Soc. Microbiol., Barcelona 1993, 163-167.

Paerl, H. W., B. M. Bebout, S. B. Joye and D. J. Des Marais: Microscale characterization of dissolved organic matter production and uptake in marine microbial mat communities. Limnol. and Oceanogr. 38, 1150-1161 (1993).

Paerl, H. W., L. E. Prufert-Bebout and C Guo: Ironstimulated N₂ fixation and growth in natural and cultured populations of the planktonic marine cyanobacteria Trichodesmium spp. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60, 1044-1047 (1993).

Ploug, H., C. Lassen and B. B. Jørgensen: Action spectra of microalgal photosynthesis and depth distribution of spectral scalar irradiance in a coastal marine sediment of Limfjorden, Denmark. FEMS Mircobiol. Ecol. 102, 261-270 (1993).

Proteau, P.J., W H. Gerwick, F. Garcia-Pichel and R. Castenholz: The structure of scytonemin, an ultraviolet sunscreen pigment from the sheaths of cyanobacteria. Experientia 49, 825-820 (1993).

Prufert-Bebout, L. E., H. W. Paerl and C Lassen: Growth, nitrogen fixation and spectral attenuation in cultivated Trichodesmium Species. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 1367-1375 (1993).

Rasmussen, K. A., I. G. Macintyre and L. E. Prufert: Modern stromatolite reffs fringing a brackish coastline, Chetumal Bay, Belize. Geology 21, 199-202 (1993).

Wickham, S.A., J.F.. Gilbert and U.-G. Berninger: Effects of rotifers and ciliates on the growth and survival of Daphnia. Journal Plankt. Res. 15, 317 - 334 (1993).

Molecular ecology group

Corstjens,P. and G.Muyzer: Phylogenetic Analysis of the Metal-Oxidizing Bacteria Leptothrix discophora and Sphaerotilus natans using 16S rDNA Sequencing Data System. Appl. Microbiol. 16, 219 - 223 (1993).

Muyzer G., E. C. De Waal and A. G. Uitterlinden: Profiling of Complex Microbial Populations by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Analysis of Polymerase Chain Reaction-Amplified Genes Coding for 16S rRNA. Appl. and Environ. Microbiol. 59, 695-700 (1993).

Muyzer, G., N. B. Ramsing and R. Lillebœk: Molecular probes for monitoring microorganisms in the environment. Protocolls in Molecular Ecology, Leiden 1, 1-16 (1993).

Ramsing, N. B., M. Kühl and B. B. Jørgensen: Distribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria and 0₂-H₂S in biofilm determined by oligonucleotide probes and microelectrodes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 3840-3849 (1993).

- Identification of sulfate-reducing bacteria using 16S rRNA binding oligonucleotide probes. In: Trends in Microbial Ecology, Proc. 6th ISME, Eds. R.Guerrero, C. Pedrós- Alió. Spanish Soc. Microbiol., Barcelona 1993, 521-526.

Department of microbiology

Direktor: Prof Dr. Friedrich Widdel

Harder J.: Ribonucleotide reductases and their occurrence in microorganisms: a link to the RNA/DNA transition. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 12, 275-294 (1993).

Rabus, R., R. Nordhaus, W. Ludwig and F. Widdel: Complete oxidation of toluene under strictly anoxic conditions by a new sulfate-reducing bacterium. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 1444-1451 (1993).

Sun, X., J. Harder, M. Krook, H. Jörnvall, B. -M. Sjöberg and P.Reichard: A possible glycine radical in anaerobic ribonucleotide reductase from Escherichia coli L:. nucleotide sequence of the cloned nrdD gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 577-581 (1993).

Widdel,F.: Metabolic capacities of sulfate-reducing bacteria under various environmental conditions. In: Trends in Microbial Ecology, Proc. 6th ISME, Eds. R.Guerrero, C. Pedrós- Alió. Spanish Soc. Microbiol., Barcelona 1993, 87-91.

Widdel, F., S. Schnell, S. Heising, A. Ehrenreich, B.Aßmus and B. Schink: Anaerobic ferrous iron oxidation by anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. Nature 362, 834-835 (1993).