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Christopher Romanek

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Geomicrobiology


Zhang C.L., Huang Z., Li Y.L., Romanek C.S., Mills G.L., Wiegel J., Culp R., Noakes J. and White D.C. 2007 Lipid biomarkers, carbon isotopes, and phylogenetic characterization of autotrophic bacteria in Nevada and California hot springs. Submitted to Geomicrobiol. J.

Lee Y.-J., Romanek C.S. and Wiegel J., 2007. Clostridium aciditolerans sp. nov., an anaerobic spore-forming acid-tolerant bacterium from constructed wetland sediment. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 57, 311-315

Zhao W., Weber C., King G.M., Romanek C.S., Zhang C.L., Mills G., Sokolova T. and Wiegel J. 2006. Thermalkaliphus uzonensis gen. nov. sp. nov, a new aerobic thermophilic carbon-monoxide-tolerant bacterium isolated from a hot spring in Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka. Extremophiles 10, 337-345.

Lee Y-J, Romanek C.S. Mills G.L. and Wiegel J. 2006. Gracilibacter thermotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic thermotolerant bacterium from a constructed wetland receiving acid sulfate water. International J. Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56, 2089-2093.

Lee Y-J, Wagner I., Brice M.E., Kevbrin V.V., Mills G.L., Romanek C.S., and Wiegel J. 2005. Thermosediminibacter oceani gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thermosediminibacter litoriperuensis sp. nov., new anaerobic thermophilic bacteria isolated from Peru Margin. Extremophiles 9, 375-383.

Zhao W., Romanek C.S., Mills G., Wiegel J. and Zhang C.L. 2005. Geochemistry and Microbiology of Hot Springs in Kamchatka, Russia. Geological Journal of China Universities 11, 217-223

Pearson A., Huang Z., Ingalls A.E., Romanek C.S., Wiegel J., Freeman K.H., Smittenberg R.H. and Zhang C.L. 2004. Non-marine crenarchaeol in Nevada hot springs. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70, 5229-5237.

Kevbrin V.V., Romanek C.S. and Wiegel J. 2004. Alkalithermophiles: A double challenge from extreme environments. Section VI: Extremophiles and Biodiversity, Vol. 6 "Origins: Genesis, Evolution and the Biodiversity of Life". In: Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (COLE) (Ed. J. Seckbach), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, NL., 395-412.

Zhang C.L., Fouke B., Bonheyo G., Peacock A., White D., Huang Y. and Romanek C. 2004 Lipid biomarkers and carbon isotopes of modern travertine deposits (Yellowstone National Park, USA): Implications for biogeochemical dynamics in hot-spring systems, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68, 3157-3169.

Clemett S.J., Thomas-Keptra K.L., Shimmin J., Morphew M., McIntosh J.R., Bazylinski D.A., Kirschvink J.L., Wentworth S.J., McKay D.S., Vali H., Gibson E.K. Jr and Romanek C.S. 2002. Crystal morphology of MV-1 magnetite Amer. Mineral. 87, 1727-1730.

Romanek C.S., Zhang C.L., Li Y., Horita J., Vali H., Cole D.H. and Phelps T.J. 2003. Carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionations associated with dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacteria. Chem. Geol. 195, 5-16.

Lyons T.W., Zhang C. and Romanek C.S. 2003. Isotopic Records of Microbially Mediated Processes. Chem Geol. 195, 1-4.

Zhang, C., Vali, H., Romanek, C.S., Phelps, T.J. and Liu, S.V. 1998. Formation of single-domain magnetite by a thermophilic bacterium. Amer. Mineralogist 83, 140-1418.

Thomas-Keptra K., McKay D.S., Wentworth S.J., Stevens T.O., Taunton A.E., Allen C.C., Coleman A., Gibson E.K. Jr and Romanek C.S. 1998. Bacterial mineralization patterns in Columbia River basaltic environments: Implications for possible life in martian meteorite ALH84001. Geology 26, 1031-1034.


     
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