Publications


Hinzke, T., Kleiner, M., Meister, M., Schluter, R., Hentschker, C., Pane-Farre, J., Hildebrandt, P., Felbeck, H., Sievert, S. M., Bonn, F., Volker, U., Becher, D., Schweder, T., & Markert, S. (2021). Bacterial symbiont subpopulations have different roles in a deep-sea symbiosis. Elife, 10. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58371
Ponnudurai, R., Heiden, S. E., Sayavedra, L., Hinzke, T., Kleiner, M., Hentschker, C., Felbeck, H., Sievert, S. M., Schluter, R., Becher, D., Schweder, T., & Markert, S. (2020). Comparative proteomics of related symbiotic mussel species reveals high variability of host-symbiont interactions. Isme Journal, 14(2), 649–656. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0517-6
Hinzke, T., Kleiner, M., Breusing, C., Felbeck, H., Hasler, R., Sievert, S. M., Schluter, R., Rosenstiel, P., Reusch, T. B. H., Schweder, T., & Markert, S. (2019). Host-microbe interactions in the chemosynthetic Riftia pachyptila symbiosis. Mbio, 10(6). https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02243-19
Ponnudurai, R., Sayavedra, L., Kleiner, M., Heiden, S. E., Thurmer, A., Felbeck, H., Schluter, R., Sievert, S. M., Daniel, R., Schweder, T., & Markert, S. (2017). Genome sequence of the sulfur-oxidizing Bathymodiolus thermophilus gill endosymbiont. Standards in Genomic Sciences, 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-017-0266-y
Gardebrecht, A., Markert, S., Sievert, S. M., Felbeck, H., Thurmer, A., Albrecht, D., Wollherr, A., Kabisch, J., Le Bris, N., Lehmann, R., Daniel, R., Liesegang, H., Hecker, M., & Schweder, T. (2012). Physiological homogeneity among the endosymbionts of Riftia pachyptila and Tevnia jerichonana revealed by proteogenomics. Isme Journal, 6(4), 766–776. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2011.137
Markert, S., Gardebrecht, A., Felbeck, H., Sievert, S. M., Klose, J., Becher, D., Albrecht, D., Thurmer, A., Daniel, R., Kleiner, M., Hecker, M., & Schweder, T. (2011). Status quo in physiological proteomics of the uncultured Riftia pachyptila endosymbiont. Proteomics, 11(15), 3106–3117. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201100059
Muller, F., Brissac, T., Le Bris, N., Felbeck, H., & Gros, O. (2010). First description of giant Archaea (Thaumarchaeota) associated with putative bacterial ectosymbionts in a sulfidic marine habitat. Environmental Microbiology, 12(8), 2371–2383. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02309.x
Garcia-Esquivel, Z., & Felbeck, H. (2009). Comparative performance of juvenile red abalone, Haliotis rufescens, reared in laboratory with fresh kelp and balanced diets. Aquaculture Nutrition, 15(2), 209–217. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2095.2008.00585.x
Arndt-Sullivan, C., Lechaire, J. P., & Felbeck, H. (2008). Extreme tolerance to anoxia in the Lucinoma aequizonata symbiosis. Journal of Shellfish Research, 27(1), 119–127. https://doi.org/10.2983/0730-8000(2008)27[119:ettait]2.0.co;2
Robidart, J. C., Bench, S. R., Feldman, R. A., Novoradovsky, A., Podell, S. B., Gaasterland, T., Allen, E. E., & Felbeck, H. (2008). Metabolic versatility of the Riftia pachyptila endosymbiont revealed through metagenomics. Environmental Microbiology, 10(3), 727–737. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01496.x
Markert, S., Arndt, C., Felbeck, H., Becher, D., Sievert, S. M., Hugler, M., Albrecht, D., Robidart, J., Bench, S., Feldman, R. A., Hecker, M., & Schweder, T. (2007). Physiological proteomics of the uncultured endosymbiont of Riftia pachyptila. Science, 315(5809), 247–250. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1132913
Garcia-Esquivel, Z., & Felbeck, H. (2006). Activity of digestive enzymes along the gut of juvenile red abalone, Haliotis rufescens, fed natural and balanced diets. Aquaculture, 261(2), 615–625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2006.08.022
Dufour, S. C., & Felbeck, H. (2006). Symbiont abundance in thyasirids (Bivalvia) is related to particulate food and sulphide availability. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 320, 185–194. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps320185
Felbeck, H., & Bartlett, D. H. (2006). Third International Symposium on Hydrothermal Vent and Seep Biology : La Jolla, USA, September 12-16, 2005. Station biologique de Roscoff.
Hahlbeck, E., Pospesel, M. A., Zal, F., Childress, J. J., & Felbeck, H. (2005). Proposed nitrate binding by hemoglobin in Riftia pachyptila blood. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 52(10), 1885–1895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2004.12.011
Duplessis, M. R., Dufour, S. C., Blankenship, L. E., Felbeck, H., & Yayanos, A. A. (2004). Anatomical and experimental evidence for particulate feeding in Lucinoma aequizonata and Parvilucina tenuisculpta (Bivalvia : Lucinidae) from the Santa Barbara Basin. Marine Biology, 145(3), 551–561. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-004-1350-6
Duplessis, M. R., Ziebis, W., Gros, O., Caro, A., Robidart, J., & Felbeck, H. (2004). Respiration strategies utilized by the gill endosymbiont from the host lucinid Codakia orbicularis (Bivalvia : Lucinidae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70(7), 4144–4150. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.70.7.4144-4150.2004
Felbeck, H., Arndt, C., Hentschel, U., & Childress, J. J. (2004). Experimental application of vascular and coelomic catheterization to identify vascular transport mechanisms for inorganic carbon in the vent tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 51(3), 401–411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2003.10.012
Childress, J. J., Fisher, C. R., Felbeck, H., & Girguis, P. (2004). On the edge of a deep biosphere: real animals in extreme environments. In W. S. D. Wilcock, E. F. DeLong, D. S. Kelley, J. A. Baross, & S. C. Cary (Eds.), The subseafloor biosphere at mid-ocean ridges (pp. 41–49). American Geophysical Union.
Dufour, S. C., & Felbeck, H. (2003). Sulphide mining by the superextensile foot of symbiotic thyasirid bivalves. Nature, 426(6962), 65–67. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02095
Gros, O., Liberge, M., Heddi, A., Khatchadourian, C., & Felbeck, H. (2003). Detection of the free-living forms of sulfide-oxidizing gill endosymbionts in the lucinid habitat (Thalassia testudinum environment). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69(10), 6264–6267. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.69.10.6264-6267.2003
Gros, O., Liberge, M., & Felbeck, H. (2003). Interspecific infection of aposymbiotic juveniles of Codakia orbicularis by various tropical lucinid gill-endosymbionts. Marine Biology, 142(1), 57–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-002-0921-7
Bright, M., Arndt, C., Keckeis, H., & Felbeck, H. (2003). A temperature-tolerant interstitial worm with associated epibiotic bacteria from the shallow water fumaroles of Deception Island, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 50(10–11), 1859–1871. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0967-0645(03)00095-x
Garcia-Esquivel, Z., Bricelj, V. M., & Felbeck, H. (2002). Metabolic depression and whole-body response to enforced starvation by Crassostrea gigas postlarvae. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 133(1), 63–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1095-6433(02)00112-5
Arndt, C., Gaill, F., & Felbeck, H. (2001). Anaerobic sulfur metabolism in thiotrophic symbioses. Journal of Experimental Biology, 204(4), 741–750.
Girguis, P. R., Lee, R. W., Desaulniers, N., Childress, J. J., Pospesel, M., Felbeck, H., & Zal, F. (2000). Fate of nitrate acquired by the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66(7), 2783–2790. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.66.7.2783-2790.2000
Hentschel, U., Millikan, D. S., Arndt, C., Cary, S. C., & Felbeck, H. (2000). Phenotypic variations in the gills of the symbiont-containing bivalve Lucinoma aequizonata. Marine Biology, 136(4), 633–643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050723
Gros, O., Frenkiel, L., & Felbeck, H. (2000). Sulfur-oxidizing endosymbiosis in Divaricella quadrisulcata (Bivalvia : Lucinidae): Morphological, ultrastructural, and phylogenetic analysis. Symbiosis, 29(4), 293–317.
Gros, O., Duplessis, M. R., & Felbeck, H. (1999). Embryonic development and endosymbiont transmission mode in the symbiotic clam Lucinoma aequizonata (Bivalvia : Lucinidae). Invertebrate Reproduction & Development, 36(1–3), 93–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/07924259.1999.9652683
Millikan, D. S., Felbeck, H., & Stein, J. L. (1999). Identification and characterization of a flagellin gene from the endosymbiont of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 65(7), 3129–3133.
Hentschel, U., Berger, E. C., Bright, M., Felbeck, H., & Ott, J. A. (1999). Metabolism of nitrogen and sulfur in ectosymbiotic bacteria of marine nematodes (Nematoda, Stilbonematinae). Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 183, 149–158. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps183149
Pospesel, M. A., Hentschel, U., & Felbeck, H. (1998). Determination of nitrate in the blood of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila using a bacterial nitrate reduction assay. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 45(12), 2189–2200. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0967-0637(98)00054-5
Felbeck, H., & Jarchow, J. (1998). Carbon release from purified chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Physiological Zoology, 71(3), 294–302.
Maxwell, B., & Felbeck, H. (1998). An abundant heme protein in Riftia pachyptila symbionts is a nitrite reductase. Cahiers De Biologie Marine, 39(3–4), 317–320.
Hughes, D. S., Felbeck, H., & Stein, J. L. (1998). Signal transduction and motility genes from the bacterial endosymbionts of Riftia pachyptila. Cahiers De Biologie Marine, 39(3–4), 305–308.
Hentschel, U., Pospesel, M. A., & Felbeck, H. (1998). Evidence for a nitrate uptake mechanism in the hydrothermal vent tube-worm Riftia pachyptila. Cahiers De Biologie Marine, 39(3–4), 301–304.
Felbeck, H., & Jarchow, J. (1998). The influence of different incubation media on the carbon transfer from the bacterial symbionts to the hydrothermal vent tube-worm Riftia pachyptila. Cahiers De Biologie Marine, 39(3–4), 279–282.
Arndt, C., Schiedek, D., & Felbeck, H. (1998). Metabolic responses of the hydrothermal vent tube worm Riftia pachyptila to severe hypoxia. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 174, 151–158. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps174151
Arndt, C., Schiedek, D., & Felbeck, H. (1998). Anaerobiosis in the hydrothermal vent tube-worm Riftia pachyptila. Cahiers De Biologie Marine, 39(3–4), 271–273.
Hughes, D. S., Felbeck, H., & Stein, J. L. (1997). A histidine protein kinase homolog from the endosymbiont of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 63(9), 3494–3498.
Hentschel, U., Hand, S. C., & Felbeck, H. (1996). The contribution of nitrate respiration to the energy budget of the symbiont-containing clam Lucinoma aequizonata: A calorimetric study. Journal of Experimental Biology, 199(2), 427–433.
Felbeck, H., & Turner, P. J. (1995). CO2 transport in catheterized hydrothermal vent tubeworms, Riftia pachyptila (vestimentifera). Journal of Experimental Zoology, 272(2), 95–102. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1402720203
Hentschel, U., & Felbeck, H. (1995). Nitrate respiration in chemoautotrophic symbionts of the bivalve Lucinoma aequizonata is not regulated by oxygen. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 61(4), 1630–1633.
Boetius, A., & Felbeck, H. (1995). Digestive enzymes in marine invertebrates from hydrothermal vents and other reducing environments. Marine Biology, 122(1), 105–113. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00349283
Wiley, S., & Felbeck, H. (1995). D-alanine metabolism in the lucinid clam Lucinoma aequizonata. Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology, 164(7), 561–569.
Polz, M. F., Distel, D. L., Zarda, B., Amann, R., Felbeck, H., Ott, J. A., & Cavanaugh, C. M. (1994). Phylogenetic analysis of a highly specific association between ectosymbiotic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and a marine nematode. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 60(12), 4461–4467.
Distel, D. L., Felbeck, H., & Cavanaugh, C. M. (1994). Evidence for phylogenetic congruence among sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophic bacterial endosymbionts and their bivalve hosts. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 38(5), 533–542. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00178852
Hentschel, U., & Felbeck, H. (1993). Nitrate respiration in the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Nature, 366(6453), 338–340. https://doi.org/10.1038/366338a0
Fiala-Medioni, A., Boulegue, J., Ohta, S., Felbeck, H., & Mariotti, A. (1993). Source of energy sustaining the Calyptogena populations from deep trenches in subduction zones off Japan. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 40(6), 1241–1258. https://doi.org/10.1016/0967-0637(93)90136-q
Hentschel, U., Cary, S. C., & Felbeck, H. (1993). Nitrate respiration in chemoautotrophic symbionts of the bivalve Lucinoma aequizonata. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 94(1), 35–41. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps094035