Symbiont Studies

Goffredi SK, Orphan VJ, Rouse GW, Jahnke L, Embaye T, Turk K, Lee R, Vrijenhoek RC (2005) Evolutionary innovation: a bone-eating marine symbiosis. Environmental Microbiology 7: 1369-1378  Link to PDF

Goffredi SK, Waren A, Orphan VJ, Van Dover CL, Vrijenhoek RC (2004) Novel forms of structural integration between microbes and a vent gastropod from the Indian Ocean. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70: 3082-3090  Link to PDF

Rouse GW, Goffredi SK, Vrijenhoek RC (2004) OsedaxRouse GW, Goffredi SK, Vrijenhoek RC (2004) Osedax: Bone-Eating Marine Worms with Dwarf Males. Science 305: 668-671  Link to PDF

Hurtado LA, Mateos M, Lutz RA, Vrijenhoek RC (2003) Coupling of bacterial endosymbiont and host mitochondrial genomes in the hydrothermal vent clam Calyptogena magnifica. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69: 2058-2064  Link to PDF

Won Y, Hallam SJ, O'Mullan GD, Vrijenhoek RC (2003) Cytonuclear disequilibrium in a hybrid zone involving deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels of the genus Bathymodiolus. Molecular Ecology 12: 3185-3190  Link to PDF

Di Meo C.A., Wilbur A.E., Holben W.E., Feldman R.A., Vrijenhoek R.C. and Cary S.C. 2000 Genetic Variation Among Endosymbionts of Widely Distributed Vestimentiferan Tubeworms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66:651-658  Link to PDF

Peek, A. S., R. A. Feldman, R. A. Lutz and R. C. Vrijenhoek, 1998 Cospeciation of chemoautotrophic bacteria and deep sea clams. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 95: 9962-9966. abstract   full paper (pdf)

Peek, A. S., R. C. Vrijenhoek and B. S. Gaut, 1998 Accelerated evolutionary rate in sulfur-oxidizing endosymbiotic bacteria associated with the mode of symbiont transmission. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15: 1514-1523. abstract    full paper (pdf)

Feldman, R. A., M. B. Black, C. S. Cary, R. A. Lutz and R. C. Vrijenhoek, 1997 Molecular phylogenetics of bacterial endosymbionts and their vestimentiferan hosts. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 6: 268-277  Link to PDF

Revised:  10 July 2006