Publications

For your convenience, here is a list of select publications, including links to PDF files.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Wankel, S. D., L. Germanovich, M. D. Lilley, G. Genc, C. J. DiPerna, A. S. Bradley, E. J. Olson, and Girguis, P.R. 2011. Geochemical flux and metabolic activity associated with the hydrothermal subsurface. In review at Nature Geoscience.

George W. Luther, Alyssa J Findlay, Daniel J. MacDonald, Shannon M. Owings, Thomas E Hanson, Roxanne A. Beinart, Peter R. Girguis. 2011. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of sulfide oxidation by oxygen: a look at inorganically controlled reactions and biologically mediated processes in the environment. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00062.

Scott, K.M., Fox, G., and Girguis, P.R.. 2011. Measuring Isotope Fractionation by Autotrophic Microorganisms and Enzymes. Methods in Enzymology 494:281-299.

Rabaey, K., Girguis, P.R. and Nielsen, L. 2011. Metabolic and practical considerations on microbial electrosynthesis. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 22:1-7.

Childress, J.J. and Girguis, P.R. 2010. The metabolic demands of endosymbiotic chemoautotrophic metabolism on host physiological capacities. Journal of Experimental Biology 214:312-325.

Wankel, S.D., S.B. Joye, Samarkin, V.A., Shah, S.R., Friederich, G., Kyriazi, J., and Girguis, P.R. 2010. New constraints on methane fluxes and rates of anaerobic methane oxidation in a Gulf of Mexico brine pool via in situ mass spectrometry. Deep Sea Research II. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.05.009

Girguis, P.R., Mark E. Nielsen, and Israel Figueroa. 2010. Harnessing energy from marine productivity using bioelectrochemical systems. Current Opinions in Biotech., 21(3):252-258.

Girguis, P.R., Nielsen, M.E. and Reimers, CE. 2009. Fundamentals of sediment-hosted microbial fuel cells. In Bioelectrochemical systems, First Edition (Ed. K. Raebey). Springer Verlag Press.

Nielsen, M.E., Wu, D.M., Girguis, P.R. and Reimers, C.E. 2009. Influence of substrate on electron transfer mechanisms in chambered benthic microbial fuel cells. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2009, 43 (22), pp 8671–8677.

Yancey, P.H., Ishikawa, J., Meyer, B., Girguis, P.R., and Lee, R. 2009. Hypotaurine and thiotaurine in polychaetes without endosymbionts from hydrothermal vents: correlation with sulfide exposure. J. Exp. Zool. 311A:439-447.

White, H.K., Reimers, C.E., Cordes, E.E., Dilly, G.F., and Girguis, P.R. 2009. Quantitative population dynamics of microbial communities in plankton-fed microbial fuel cells: examining the relationship between power production, geochemistry and microbial ecology. The ISME Journal (26 Feb 2009) doi: 10.1038/ismej.2009.12

Nielsen, M.E., Reimers, C.E., White, H.K., Sharma, S and Girguis, P.R. 2008. Sustainable energy from deep ocean cold seeps. Energy and Environmental Science, 1 (5): 584-593.

Nyholm, S. V., J. Robidart, and Girguis, P.R. 2008. Coupling metabolite flux to transcriptomics: Insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying primary productivity by the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Ridgeia piscesae. Biol. Bull. 214: 255–265.

Newton, I.L.G., Girguis, P.R., and Cavanaugh, C.M. 2008. Comparative genomics of vesicomyid endosymbionts. BMC Genomics 9: 585.

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. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73(21):7029-7040

Fisher, C. R. and Girguis, P.R. 2007. A proteomic snapshot of life at a vent. Science 315: 198-199 (Perspectives).

Girguis, P.R.*, McBride, L. R.*, and Reimers, C.E. 2006. Power storage and conversion from an ocean microbial energy source. Proceedings of the Marine Technology Society / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. (* = authors contributed equally).

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.

Girguis, P.R. and Lee, R.W. 2006. Thermal tolerance and preference of alvinellids. Science 312: 231.

Reimers, C., Girguis, P.R., Stecher III, H.A., Tender, L.M., Ryckelynck, N., and Whaling, P. 2006. Microbial fuel cell energy from an ocean cold seep. Geobiology 4: 123–136.

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.

Girguis, P.R., Cozen, A., and DeLong, E.E. 2005. Growth rates of methane-oxidizing archaeal-bacterial consortia in deep-sea marine sediments: insights into the physiology of microbially-mediated anaerobic methane oxidation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71: 3725-3733.

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, pages 41-49.

Girguis, P.R., Orphan, V.J., Hallam, S.J., and 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. U.C. Santa Barbara. Dissertation.

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.

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.

Girguis, P.R. and Childress, J.J. 1998. H+ equivalent elimination by the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Cahiers de Marine Biologie 39:295-296.