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Selected Publications

Hedlund, B.P., J.K. Cole, A.J. Williams, W. Hou, E. Zhou, W. Li, H. Dong. 2012. A review of the microbiology of the Rehai geothermal field in Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China. Geoscience Frontiers.pdf

Dodsworth, J. A., B. Hungate, J.R. de la Torre, H. Jiang, and B. P. Hedlund. 2011. Measuring nitrification, denitrification, and related biomarkers in continental geothermal ecosystems. Meth. Enzymol. 486: 171-203.pdf

Dodsworth, J. A., B. Hungate, and B. P. Hedlund. 2011. Assessment of ammonia oxidation, denitrification, and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) rates and associated microbial communities in two US Great Basin hot springs. Env. Microbiol.8:2371-2386.pdf

Hedlund, B.P., A.I. McDonald, J. Lam, J.A. Dodsworth, J.R. Brown, and B.A. Hungate. 2011. Potential role of Thermus thermophilus and T. oshimai in high rates of nitrous oxide (N2O) production in ~80C hot springs in the US Great Basin. Geobiol. 9:471-480.pdf

Zhang, C.L., B.P.Hedlund, and J. Meng. 2011. Diversity of archaea in terrestrial hot springs and role in ammonia oxidation. In De Bruijn FJ, (ed) Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology II: Metagenomics in Different Habitats. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey. pp. 381-394.pdf

Lefevre, C. T., F. Abreu, M. L. Schmidt, U. Lins, R. B. Frankel, B. P. Hedlund, and D. A. Bazylinski. 2010. Moderately thermophilic magnetotactic bacteria from hot springs in Nevada USA. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 76: 3740-3743.pdf

Vick, T. J., J. A. Dodsworth, K. C. Costa, E. L. Shock, and B. P. Hedlund. 2010. Microbiology and geochemistry of Little Hot Creek, a hot spring environment in the Long Valley Caldera. Geobiology 8: 140-154.pdf

Dodsworth, J. A. and B. P. Hedlund. 2010. Microbiology and geochemistry of Smith Creek and Grass Valley hot springs: Emerging evidence for wide distribution of novel thermophilic lineages in the US Great Basin. J. Earth Sci. 21: 315-318.pdf

Dodsworth, J. A., L. Li, S. Wei, B. P. Hedlund, J.A. Leigh, and P. de Figueiredo. 2010. Interdomain conjugal transfer of DNA from bacteria to archaea. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 76:5644-5647.pdf

Costa, K. C., J. B. Navarro, E. L. Shock, C. Zhang, D. Soukup, and B. P. Hedlund. 2009. Microbiology and geochemistry of Great Boiling and Mud Hot Springs in the United States Great Basin. Extremophiles 13: 447-459.pdf

Sun, H. J., V. Saccomanno, B. P. Hedlund, and C. P. McKay. 2009. Stereo-Specific Glucose Consumption May Be Used to Distinguish Between Chemical and Biological Reactivity on Mars: A Preliminary Test on Earth. Astrobiology 9: 443-446. pdf

Navarro, J.B., D.P. Moser, A. Flores, C. Ross, M.R. Rosen, H. Dong, G. Zhang, and B. P. Hedlund. 2009. Bacterial succession within an ephemeral hypereutrophic Mojave Desert playa lake. Microb. Ecol. 57:307-320.pdf

Elkins, J. G., V. Kunin, I. Anderson, K. Barry, E. Goltsman, A. Lapidus, B. P. Hedlund, P. Hugenholtz, N. Kyrpides, D. Graham, M. Keller, G. Wanner, P. Richardson, and K. O. Stetter. 2008. A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 105: 8102-8107.pdf

Zhang, C. L., Qi Ye, Z. Huang, W.-J. Li, J. Chen, Z. Song, W. Zhao, C. Bagwell, W.P. Inskeep, L. Gao, J. Wiegel, C. Romanek, and B. P. Hedlund. 2008. Global occurrence and biogeography of putative archaeal amoA genes in terrestrial hot springs. Appl Environ. Microbiol. 74: 6417-26.pdf

Costa, K. C., D. P. Moser, J. Hallmark, J. B. Navarro, D. Soukup, S. LaBahn, and B. P. Hedlund. 2008. Diversity of heterotrophic microorganisms and geochemistry in two ephemeral desert playa lakes. Geomicrobiol. J. 25:250-259.pdf

Huang, Z., B. P. Hedlund, J. Wiegel, J. Zhou, and C. L. Zhang. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of uncultivated Crenarchaeota in Great Basin hot springs of moderately elevated temperature. Geomicrobiol. J. 24: 535-542.pdf

Hedlund, B.P. and J.T. Staley. 2006. Isolation and characterization of Pseudoalteromonas strains with divergen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon catabolic properties. Env. Microbiol. 8:178-182.pdf

Stetter, K.O., M.J. Hohn, H. Huber, R. Rachel, E. Mathur, B.P. Hedlund, U. Jahn. 2005. A novel kingdom of parasitic archaea. In W.P. Inskeep and T.R. McDermott (eds.) Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park, Montana State University Publications, Bozeman, MT, USA. pp. 249-259.pdf

Oakley, B., M. North, J.F. Franklin, B. P. Hedlund, and J.T. Staley. 2004. Diversity and distribution of Frankia strains symbiotic with Ceanothus in California. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 6444-6452.pdf

Gu, A.Z., B.P. Hedlund, J.T. Staley, S.E. Strand, and H.D. Stensel. 2004. Analysis and comparison of the microbial community structures of two enrichment cultures capable of reductively dechlorinating TCE and cis-DCE. Env. Microbiol. 6: 45-54.pdf

Hedlund, B.P. and J.T. Staley. 2003. Microbial Endemism and Biogeography. In A.T. Bull (ed.) Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting, ASM Press, Washington DC , USA . pp. 225-231.

Hedlund, B.P. and J.T. Staley. 2002. Phylogeny of the genus Simonsiella and other members of the Neisseriaceae. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 52: 1377-1382.pdf

Rachel, R., M. Bettstetter, B P. Hedlund, M. Haring, A. Kessler, K. O. Stetter, and D. Prangishvili. 2002. Remarkable morphological diversity of viruses and virus-like particles in hot terrestrial environments. Arch Virol. 147: 2419-2429.pdf

Hohn, M. J., B. P. Hedlund, and H. Huber. 2002. Detection of 16S rDNA sequences representing the novel phylum Nanoarchaeota: indication for a world-wide distribution in high temperature biotopes. Syst Appl Microbiol. 25: 551-554.

Jenkins, C., R. Samudrala, I. Armstrong, B.P. Hedlund, G. Petroni, N. Michailova, N. Pinel, R. Overbeek, G. Rosati, and J. T. Staley. 2002. Genes for the cytoskeletal protein tubulin in the bacterial genus Prosthecobacter. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 99: 17049-17054.pdf

Hedlund, B.P. and J.T. Staley. 2001. Vibrio cyclotrophicus sp. nov., a polycyclic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading marine bacterium. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 51: 61-66.pdf

Rockne, K.J., J.C. Chee-Sanford, R.A. Sanford, Hedlund, B.P., J.T. Staley, and S.E. Strand. 2000. Anaerobic naphthalene degradation by microbial pure cultures under nitrate-reducing conditions. Appl Env Microbiol. 66: 1595-1601.pdf

Ward, N.L., F.A. Rainey, B.P. Hedlund, B.P., J.T. Staley, W. Ludwig, and E. Stackebrandt. 2000. Comparative phylogenetic analyses of members of the order Planctomycetales and the division Verrucomicrobia: 23S rRNA gene sequence analysis supports the 16S rRNA gene sequence-derived phylogeny. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 50: 1965-1972.pdf

Hedlund, B.P., A.D. Geiselbrecht, T.J. Bair, and J.T. Staley. 1999. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation by a new marine bacterium, Neptunomonas naphthovorans gen. nov., sp. nov. Appl Env Microbiol. 65: 251-259.pdf

Geiselbrecht,, A.D, B.P. Hedlund, M.A. Tichi, and J.T. Staley. 1998. Isolation of marine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading Cycloclasticus strains from the Gulf of Mexico and comparison of their PAH degradation ability with that of Puget Sound Cycloclasticus strains. Appl Env Microbiol. 64: 4703-4710.pdf

Hedlund, B.P., J.J. Gosink, and J.T. Staley. 1997. Verrucomicrobia div. nov., a new division of the bacteria containing three new species of Prosthecobacter. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 72: 29-38.pdf

Hedlund, B.P., J.J. Gosink, and J.T. Staley. 1996. Phylogeny of Prosthecobacter, the fusiform caulobacters: Members of a recently discovered division of the Bacteria. Int. J. System. Bacteriol. 46: 960-966.pdf