Reimers, C.E., Stecher III, H.A., Westall, J.C., Alleau, Y., Howell, K.A., Soule, L., White, H.K., and Girguis, P.R. 2007. Substrate Degradation Kinetics, Microbial Diversity and the Current Efficiency of Microbial Fuel Cells supplied with Marine Plankton. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. Published ahead of print on 31 August 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01209-07 [pdf]
Girguis, P.R. and Lee, R.W. 2006. Thermal tolerance and preference of alvinellids. Science 312: 231. [abstract]
Girguis, P.R., Childress, J.J. 2006. Metabolite uptake, stoichiometry and chemoautotrophic function of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila: responses to environmental variations in substrate concentrations and temperature. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209: 3516-3528. [pdf]
Reimers, C., Girguis, P.R., Stecher, H.,Tender, L., Ryckelynck, N., and Whaling, P. 2006. Microbial fuel cell energy from an ocean cold seep. Geobiology 4: 123–136. [pdf]
Girguis, P.R., Cozen, A., DeLong, E.E. 2005. Growth and Population Dynamics of Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Archaea and Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in a Continuous-Flow Bioreactor. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71: 3725-3733. [pdf]
Childress J.J., Fisher C.R., Felbeck, H., and Girguis, P.R. 2003. On the edge of a deep biosphere: true animals in extreme environments. In The Subseafloor Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges, (eds. W.D. Wilcock, D.S. Kelley, J.A. Baross, E. DeLong, C. Cary), American Geophysical Union Monographs. Volume 144, 408 p.
Girguis, P.R., Orphan, V.J., Hallam, S.J., DeLong, E.F. 2003. Growth and Methane Oxidation Rates of Anaerobic Methanotrophic Archaea in a Continuous-Flow Bioreactor. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69: 5472-5482. [pdf]
Hallam, S.J., Girguis, P.R., Preston, C.M., Richardson, P.M., DeLong. E.F. 2003.Identification of Methyl Coenzyme M Reductase A (mcrA) Genes Associated with Methane-Oxidizing Archaea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69: 5492-5502. [pdf]
Girguis, P.R., Childress, J.J., Freytag, J.A., Klose, K.A., and Stuber, R. 2002. Effects of metabolite uptake on proton-equivalent elimination by two species of deep-sea vestimentiferan tubeworm,Riftia pachyptila and Lamellibrachia cf luymesi. Journal of Exp. Biology 205: 3055-3066. [pdf]
Freytag, J.K., Girguis, P.R., Birquist, D.A., Fisher, C.R., and Childress, J.J. 2001. A paradox resolved: Sulfide acquisition by roots of seep tubeworms sustains net chemoautotrophy. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science 98 (23): 13408–13413. [pdf]
Girguis, P.R. 2000. Metabolite flux of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila: stoichiometric balance of the chemoautotrophic symbiosis and the potential rates of primary production. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Girguis, P.R., Lee, R.W., Childress, J.J., Pospesel, M., Desaulniers, N.T., Zal, F., Felbeck, H. 2000. Fate of Nitrate acquired by the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66 (7): 2783-27909. [pdf]
Goffredi, S.K., Girguis, P.R., Childress. J.J., Desaulniers, N.T. 1999. Physiological Functioning of Carbonic Anhydrase in the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Biological Bulletin 196:257-264. [pdf]
Girguis, P.R., Childress, J.J. 1998. Proton equivalent elimination rates by the vestimentiferan tubeworm Riftia pachyptila: Ramifications for metabolite flux. Cahiers de Marine Biologie 39:285-296.
Girguis, P.R., Desaulniers, N., and Childress, J.J. Proton equivalent elimination by the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. 1996. American Society of Zoology, in American Zoologist 36 (5):119.
Publications Submitted and In Preparation
Girguis, P.R., and Childress, J.J. Rates of net primary productivity by the chemoautotrophic symbioses Riftia pachyptila and Tevnia jerichonana.
Girguis, P.R., Cozen, A.A., DeLong, E.F., and Stakes, D. Quantitative microbial community analyses of sediments along the Medocino Fracture Zone: Microbial proxies for geochemical processes.
Girguis, P.R., Frederich, G., and Erickson, J. Development of a small, highly sensitive in situ mass spectrometer for oceanic water and sediment dissolved gas analysis.
