Thioploca from Chilean coast

Seminar chaired by Kurt Hanselmann: hanselma@botinst.unizh.ch

Thioploca papers for 10 November 2000

Gallardo, V. A. 1977. Large benthic microbial communities in sulphide biota under Peru-Chile Subsurface Countercurrent. Nature 268:331-332.

Gallardo, V. A., E. Klingelhoeffer, W. Arntz, and M. Graco. 1998. First report of the bacterium Thioploca in the Benguela ecosystem off Namibia. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 78:1007-1010.

Schulz, H. N., T. Brinkhoff, T. G. Ferdelman, M. Hernandez Marine, A. Teske, and B. B. Jorgensen. 1999. Dense populations of a giant sulfur bacterium in Namibian shelf sediments. Science 284:493-495.

Otte, S., J. G. Kuenen, L. P. Nielsen, H. W. Paerl, J. Zopfi, H. N. Schulz, A. Teske, B. Strotmann, V. A. Gallardo, and B. B. Jorgensen. 1999. Nitrogen, carbon and sulfur metabolism in natural Thioploca samples. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:3184-3157.

Teske, A., M. L. Sogin, L. P. Nielsen, and H. W. Jannasch. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships of a large marine Beggiatoa. System. Appl. Microbiol. 22:39-44.

Jorgensen, B. B., and V. A. Gallardo. 1999. Thioploca spp.: Filamentous sulfur bacteria with nitrate vacuoles. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 28:301-313.

Brinkhoff, T., G. Muyzer, C.O. Wirsen, and J. Kuever. 1999. Thiomicrospira chilensis sp. nov., a mesophilic obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a Thioploca mat. Int. J. System. Bact. 49:875-879