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GEOMICROBIOLOGY AND MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
PUBLICATIONS
Publications in the second millennium

Papers:

  1. Wynn-Williams, D.D., H.G.M. Edwards and F Garcia-Pichel. (2000) Functional biomolecules of Antactic stromatolitic and endolithic cyanobacterial communities. Eur. J. Phycol. 34:381-391

  1. Nübel, U, F. Garcia-Pichel and G Muyzer (2000) The halotolerance and phylogeny of cyanobacteria with tightly coiled trichomes (Spirulina Turpin) and the description of Halospirulina tapeticola gen. nov. et sp. nov.  Int. J. System.Evol. Microbiol. 50: 1265-1277

  1. Nübel, U, F. Garcia-Pichel, E Clavero and G Muyzer (2000) Matching molecular diversity and ecophysiology of benthic cyanobacteria and diatoms in communities along a salinity gradient. Environm. Microbiol. 2: 217-226

  1. Portwich, A and F. Garcia-Pichel (2000) A novel prokaryotic UVB photoreceptor in the cyanobacterium Chlorogloeopsis PCC6912. Photochem. Photobiol. 71: 493-499

  1. Edwards, HGM, F. Garcia-Pichel, EM Newton, DD Wynn-Williams (2000) Vibrational spectroscopy study of scytonemin, the UV-protective cyanobacterial pigment. Spectrochimica  Acta, A: 56:193-200

  1. Clavero, E, M. Hernández-Mariné, J. Grimalt and F. Garcia-Pichel (2000).  Ecophysiology of salinity tolerance in diatoms from hypersaline environments. J Phycol 36 1021-1034

  1. Pringault, O, and F. Garcia-Pichel (2000). Monitoring of oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis in a unicyanobacterial biofilm grown on benthic gradient chambers. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol 33:251-258.

  1. Abed, R, and F. Garcia-Pichel (2001). Long-term compositional changes after transplant in a microbial mat cyanobacterial community revealed with a polyphasic approach. Environ. Microbiol. 3: 53-62

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F, A López-Cortés, U Nübel (2001) Phylogenetic and morphological diversity of cyanobacteria in soil desert crusts from the Colorado Plateau. Appl. Environ. Microbiol 67:1902-1910

  1. Garcia-Pichel F and O Pringault  (2001). Cyanobacteria track the water in desert soils. Nature 413, 380 - 381

  1. Clavero, E, Garcia-Pichel, F, Grimalt, J.O., Hernández-Mariné, M (2001) Behaviour of diatoms apparently adapted to salinity. The case of Climaconeis scopulorioides and Amphora aff. hyalina  Nova Hedwigia  123:453-463

  1. Abed R, Garcia-Pichel F, Hernández-Mariné, M (2002). Polyphasic characterization of moderately halophilic, moderately thermophilic, filamentous cyanobacteria of very narrow trichomes: Halomicronema excentricum gen. novum, sp. nova. Arch. Microbiol  177:361-370

  1. Abed, R MM, Nimer Safi, Jürgen Köster, Jürgen Rullkotter and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. (2002). Microbial Diversity of a Polluted Microbial Mat and Its Community Changes Following Degradation of Petroleum Compounds. Appl Enviorn Microbiol  68:1674-1683

  1. López-Cortés, A, Garcia-Pichel, F, Nübel, U., and R Vázquez-Juárez (2002) Cyanobacterial diversity in extreme environments in Baja california, Mexico: a polyphasic study.  Int. Microbiol 4: 227-236

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F. B. Wade and J Farmer (2002).  Jet-suspended, calcite ballasted cyanobacterial waterwarts in a desert spring. J. Phycol 38:420-428

  1. Abed, RMM, W Schoenhuber, R. Amann, F Garcia-Pichel. (2002) Picobenthic cyanobacterial populations revealed by RNA targeted  In situ hybridization  Environm. Microbiol. 4:375-382

  1. Bebout, B, and 14 others (2003) Long term manipulations of intact microbial mats in a greenhouse collaboratory simulations of Earth-s present and past field environments. Astrobiol. 2: 383-400

  1. Wade, B.D. and F Garcia-Pichel (2003).  Evaluation of DNA extraction methods for molecular analyses of microbial communities in modern microbialites. Geomicrobiol. J.  40: 1-134

  1. Portwich, A and F Garcia-Pichel (2003). Biosynthetic pathway of mycosporines in the cyanobacterium Chlorogloeopsis PCC 6912.  Phycologia 42:384-392

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F., Johnson, S.L, Youngkin,D. and Belnap,J. (2003). Small-scale vertical distribution of bacterial biomass and diversity in biological soil crusts from arid lands in the Colorado Plateau. Microbial Ecology 46:312-321

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F, J. Belnap, S. Neuer, F Schanz (2003) Estimates of global cyanobacterial biomass and its distribution. Archive for Hydrobiology/Algological Studies 109: 213-228

  1. Abed, R., Golubic, S., Garcia-Pichel, F., Camoin, G. and Lee Seong-Joo (2003). Identity and speciation in marine benthic cyanobacteria:  The Phormidium- complex. Archive for Hydrobiology/Algological Studies, 109: 35-56

  1. Abed, R, S. Golubic, F. Garcia-Pichel, and G Camoin (2003). Characterization of microbialite forming cyanobacteria in a tropical lagoon; Tikehau Atoll, French Polynesia. Journal of Phycology. 39: 862-873

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F., Al Horani, F., Ludwig, R., Farmer, J., Wade, B. (2004) Balance between calcification and bioerosion in modern stromatolites.  Geobiology 2:49-57

  1. Pringault, O, Garcia-Pichel, F. (2004). Hydrotaxis of cyanobacteria in desert crusts. Microbial Ecology 47:363-373

  1. Smith, S.M., Abed, R.M.M. and F. Garcia-Pichel (2004) Biological soil crusts of sand dunes in Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, USA. Microbial Ecology 28:200-208

  1. Johnson, S.L., Budinoff, C.R., Belnap, J., Garcia-Pichel, F (2005). Relevance of ammonium oxidation in biological soil crust communities. Environmental Microbiology 7:1-12

  1. Rothrock, M and F Garcia-Pichel (2005) Microbial diversity of benthic mats along a tidal desiccation gradient.  Environmental Microbiology 7: 593-601

  1. Elser JJ JH Schampel, F Garcia-Pichel, BD Wade, V Souza, L Eguiarte, A Escalante and JD Farmer (2005) Effects of phosphorus enrichment and grazing snails on modern stromatolitic microbial communities. Freshwater Biology 50;1808-1825

  1. Reddy SG and F Garcia-Pichel (2005) Dyadobacter crusticola sp. nov. isolated from biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau, USA. Int. Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55 1295-1299

  1. Nagy, M, Perez, A and F Garcia-Pichel (2005) The prokaryotic diversity of biological soil crusts in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 54: 233-245

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F, (2006) Mechanistic models for the phototrophic microbial boring on carbonates. Sedimentary Geology 185: 205-213

  1. Chacon-Baca, E, E Berrendero. and F Garcia-Pichel (2006).  Molecular genetic and geologic signatures of  endolithic microbial communities in carbonates from Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Sedimentary Geology 185:215-228

  1. Reddy, SG, and F Garcia-Pichel (2006) The community and phylogenetic diversity of biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau studied by molecular fingerprinting and intensive cultivation. Microbial Ecology 52: 345-357

  1. Reddy, SG, M. Nagy and F Garcia-Pichel (2006) Belnapia moabensis gen. nov. et sp. nov., an oligotrophic bacterium from biological soil crusts in the  Colorado Plateau, USA. Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 51-58

  1. Bates, S, Reddy S G,  and F Garcia-Pichel (2006) Exophiala crusticola anam. nov.: A novel black yeast from biological soil crusts on the Colorado Plateau, USA Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56, 2697-2702

  1. Johnson, S L ,  Neuer, S, & Garcia-Pichel F (2006) An incomplete nitrogen cycle within biological soil crusts Environmental Microbiol. (in the press)

  1. Reddy, SG, Garcia-Pichel F (2007) Description of Patulibacter americanus gen. nov. et sp. nov, and of the Conexibacteriaceae (fam. nova) and Conexibacteriales (ordo novum) within the division Actinobacteria.  Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (submitted)

  1. Reddy, SG, and F Garcia-Pichel  (2007) Description of Sphingomonas mucosissima sp. nov. , and Sphingomonas desiccabilis sp. nov. from biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau, USA (in the press)

  1. Reddy, S.G, R Potrafka and Garcia-Pichel F (2007) Modestobacter versicolor sp. nov., an actinobacterium from biological soil crusts that produces melanins under oligotrophy, with emended descriptions of the genus Modestobacter and M. multiseptatus (submitted)

  1. Yeager, C M , Kornosky, J L, Morgan, R L,. Cain,  E C, Belnap. J, Garcia-Pichel, F and Kuske  C R (2007) Numerically Dominant N2-fixing Cyanobacteria in Biological Soil Crusts of the Colorado Plateau, USA  (in the press)

  1. Do, T, Swingley W, Stout, V, Meeks, J and F Garcia-Pichel (2007) Molecular genetics and genomic analysis of scytonemin biosynthesis in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 J Bacteriol (submitted)




Book chapters

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F., U. Nübel, G. Muyzer and M Kühl (2000). On Cyanobacterial Community Diversity: which diversity and how to quantify it.  In Bell CR, Brylisnky M, Johnson-Green P (eds). Microbial biosystems: New Frontiers. Canada Sociey for Microbial Ecology, Halifax

  1. Overmann, J and F. Garcia-Pichel (2000). The phototrophic way of life. In Dworkin, M (ed). The Prokaryotes (Electronic Edition). Springer-Verlag. Heidelberg (http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/books/10125/)

  1. Castenholz, R W, and F. Garcia-Pichel. (2000). Cyanobacterial responses to UV-radiation. In  M. Potts. and B.A. Whitton (Eds.) The ecology of cyanobacteria., pp.591-611 Kluwer, Dordrecht.

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F. (2000) Cyanobacteria  In  Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 2nd Edition, J Lederberg (Ed.) Academic Press, San Diego

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F. and R W Castenholz (2001) Photomovements of microorganims in sedimentary environments. In  D-P Haeder (Ed) Comprehensive Series in Photosciences, vol 1: Photomovements. Elsevier, Amsterdam (in the press), pp. 401-418

  1. Garcia-Pichel, F. and J Belnap (2001) Microenvironments of biological soil crusts In  J Belnap and O L Lange (Eds.) Biological Soil Crusts: Structure, Function and Management. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg

  1. Belnap. J, D. Evans and Garcia-Pichel, F. (2001) Global change and biological soil crusts. In  J Belnap and O L Lange (Eds.) Biological Soil Crusts: Structure, Function and Management. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.

  1. Garcia-Pichel  (2002). Biological soil crusts. In Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology. Academic Press, San Diego

  1. Carson E, Dowling, T. Eguiarte. L.E, Elser, J., Escalante, A.. Farmer, J. Garcia-Pichel, F, Roopnarine P, Souza, V., Tang, C., and B., Wade (2004). Cuatro Cienegas: a living lab for the study of present and past biospheres. In  Badino, G , Bernabei, T, De Vivo, A., Giulivo, I. Savino, G (Eds). Under the desert. The mysterious waters of Cuatro Cienegas. Edizionin Tintoretto-La Venta

  1. Garcia-Pichel (2005) Microbes and the search for Life beyond Earth, In Fundaments and Challenges in Astrobiology, M. Vazquez-Abeledo (Ed), Science SignPost.

  1. Garcia-Pichel F and Reddy, SGN (2006) The genus Dyadobacter, In Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th Edition, John G. Holt (Ed), Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore (in the press)

  1. Garcia-Pichel F (2007) Molecular ecology and Environmental Genomics. In The cyanobacteria: molecular biology, genomics and evolution, A. Herrero, (Ed), Horizon Sci.Press, London. (in the press)