Publications

2022

Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Warden, L.A., Berg, C., Jürgens, K., Moros, M. (2022): Evaluation of the distributions of hydroxylated glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in Holocene Baltic Sea sediments for reconstruction of sea surface temperature: the effect of changing salinity. Clim. Past 18: 2271-2288. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2271-2022.
Kuliński, K., Rehder, G., Asmala, E., Bartosova, A., Carstensen, J., Gustafsson, B., Hall, P. O. J., Humborg, C., Jilbert, T., Jürgens, K., Meier, H. E. M., Müller-Karulis, B., Naumann, M., Olesen, J. E., Savchuk, O., Schramm, A., Slomp, C. P., Sofiev, M., Sobek, A., Szymczycha, B., and Undeman, E. (2022): Biogeochemical functioning of the Baltic Sea. Earth Syst. Dynam., 13, 633–685, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-13-633-2022.
Henkel, J. V., Schulz-Vogt, H. N., Dellwig, O., Pollehne, F., Schott, T., Meeske, C., Beier, S., Jürgens, K. (2022): Biological manganese-dependent sulfide oxidation impacts elemental gradients in redox-stratified systems: indications from the Black Sea water column. ISMEJ 16: 1523-1533. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01200-3.
Piontek, J., Meeske, C., Hassenrück, C., Engel, A. and Jürgens, K. (2022): Organic matter availability drives the spatial variation in the community composition and activity of Antarctic marine bacterioplankton. Environ Microbiol. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16087

2021

Izabel-Shen, D., Höger, A.-L., Jürgens, K. (2021): Abundance-occupancy relationships along taxonomic ranks reveal a consistency of niche differentiation in marine bacterioplankton with distinct lifestyles. Front. Microbiol. 2:690712. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.69071

2020

J. Alneberg, C. Bennke, S. Beier, C. Bunse, C. Quince, K. Ininbergs, L. Riemann, M. Ekman, K. Jürgens, M. Labrenz, J. Pinhassi, A.F. Andersson (2020): Ecosystem-wide metagenomic binning enables prediction of ecological niches from genomes. Commun. Biol. 3: 119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0856-x.
Kuznecova, J., Šulčius, S., Vogts, A., Voss, M., Jürgens, K., Šimoliūnas, E. (2020): Nitrogen flow in diazotrophic cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae is altered by cyanophage infection. Front. Microbiol. 11:2010. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.02010

2019

Beier, S., P. Holtermann, D. Numberger, T. Schott, L. Umlauf and K. Jürgens (2019). A metatranscriptomics-based assessment of small-scale mixing of sulfidic and oxic waters on redoxcline prokaryotic communities. Environ. Microbiol. 21: 584-602, doi: doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14499
Herlemann, D. P. R., S. Markert, C. Meeske, A. F. Andersson, I. de Bruijn, C. Hentschker, F. Unfried, D. Becher, K. Jürgens and T. Schweder (2019). Individual physiological adaptations enable selected bacterial taxa to prevail during long-term incubations. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 85: e00825-19, doi: 10.1128/aem.00825-19
Köstner, N., K. Jürgens, M. Labrenz, G. J. Herndl and C. Winter (2019). Uneven host cell growth causes lysogenic virus induction in the Baltic Sea. PLoS One 14: e0220716, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220716
Robinson, T.-B., O. Wurl, E. Bahlmann, K. Jürgens and C. Stolle (2019). Rising bubbles enhance the gelatinous nature of the air-sea interface. Limnol. Oceanogr. 64: 2358-2372, doi: 10.1002/lno.11188
Rojas-Jimenez, K., A. Rieck, C. Wurzbacher, K. Jürgens, M. Labrenz and H.-P. Grossart (2019). A salinity threshold separating fungal communities in the Baltic Sea. Front. Microbiol. 10: 680, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00680
Schulz-Vogt, H. N., F. Pollehne, K. Jürgens, H. W. Arz, S. Beier, R. Bahlo, O. Dellwig, J. V. Henkel, D. P. R. Herlemann, S. Krüger, T. Leipe and T. Schott (2019). Effect of large magnetotactic bacteria with polyphosphate inclusions on the phosphate profile of the suboxic zone in the Black Sea. ISME J. 13: 1198-1208, doi: 10.1038/s41396-018-0315-6
Torres-Beltrán, M., A. Mueller, M. Scofield, M. G. Pachiadaki, C. Taylor, K. Tyshchenko, C. Michiels, P. Lam, O. Ulloa, K. Jürgens, J.-H. Hyun, V. P. Edgcomb, S. A. Crowe and S. J. Hallam (2019). Sampling and processing methods impact microbial community structure and potential activity in a seasonally anoxic fjord: Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. Front. Mar. Sci. 6: 132, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00132

2018

Alneberg, J., J. Sundh, C. Bennke, S. Beier, D. Lundin, L. W. Hugerth, J. Pinhassi, V. Kisand, L. Riemann, K. Jürgens, M. Labrenz and A. F. Andersson (2018). Data Descriptor: BARM and BalticMicrobeDB, a reference metagenome and interface to meta-omic data for the Baltic Sea. Sci. Data 5: 180146, doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.146
Bergen, B., M. Naumann, D. P. R. Herlemann, U. Gräwe, M. Labrenz and K. Jürgens (2018). Impact of a Major inflow event on the composition and distribution of bacterioplankton communities in the Baltic Sea. Front. Mar. Sci. 5: 383, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00383
Jürgens, K. and G. T. Taylor (2018). Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of oxygen-deficient water columns. In: Microbial Ecology of the Oceans. Ed. by J. M. Gasol and D. L. Kirchman. Third Edition. Hoboken: Wiley: 231-288, 9781119107187
Klier, J., O. Dellwig, T. Leipe, K. Jürgens and D. P. R. Herlemann (2018). Benthic bacterial community composition in the oligohaline-marine transition of surface sediments in the Baltic Sea based on rRNA analysis. Front. Microbiol. 9: 236, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00236
Scheibner, M. v., D. P. R. Herlemann, A. M. Lewandowska and K. Jürgens (2018). Phyto- and bacterioplankton during early spring conditions in the Baltic Sea and response to short-term experimental warming. Front. Mar. Sci. 5, 231, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00231
Shen, D., K. Jürgens and S. Beier (2018). Experimental insights into the importance of ecologically dissimilar bacteria to community assembly along a salinity gradient. Environ. Microbiol. 20: 1170-1184, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14059
Shen, D., S. Langenheder and K. Jürgens (2018). Dispersal modifies the diversity and composition of active bacterial communities in response to a salinity disturbance. Front. Microbiol. 9: 2188, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02188
Wylezich, C., D. P. R. Herlemann and K. Jürgens (2018). Improved 18S rDNA amplification protocol for assessing protist diversity in oxygen-deficient marine systems. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 81: 83-94, doi: 10.3354/ame01864

2017

● Beier, S., Shen, D., Schott, T., Jürgens, K. (2017): Metatranscriptomic data reveal the effect of different community properties on multifunctional redundancy. Molec. Ecol. 26: 6813-6826.

● Ribas Ribas, M., Mustaffa, N.I.H., Rahlff, J., Stolle, C., Wurl, O. (2017): Sea Surface Scanner (S3): A catamaran for high-resolution measurements of biogeochemical properties of the sea surface microlayer; Journal Atm. Ocean. Technol.; Doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0017.1

● Rahlff, J., Stolle, C., Giebel, H.-A., Brinkhoff, T., Ribas-Ribas, M., Hodapp, D., Wurl, O. (2017): High wind speeds prevent formation of a distinct bacterioneuston community in the sea-surface microlayer; FEMS Microbiol. Ecol.; Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix041

● Engel, A., Bange, H.W., Cunliffe, M., Burrows, S.M., Friedrichs, G., Galgani, L., Herrmann, H., Hertkorn, N., Johnson, M., Liss, P., Quinn, P., Schartau, M., Soloviev, A., Stolle, C., Upstill-Goddard, R., van Pinxteren, M., Zaencker, B. (2017): The ocean’s vital skin: Towards an integrated understanding of the sea surface microlayer; Front. Marin. Science; Doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00165

● Anderson, R., Jürgens, K., Hansen, P.J. (2017): Mixotrophic phytoflagellate bacterivory field measurements strongly biased by standard approaches: a case study. Front. Microbiol. 8: 1398. Doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01398

● Köstner, N., Scharnreitner, L., Jürgens, K., Labrenz, M., Herndl, G.J.,Winter, C. (2017): High viral abundance as a consequence of low viral decay in the Baltic Sea redoxcline. Plos One 12(6): e0178467.

● Rogge, A., Vogts, A., Voss, M., Jürgens, K., Jost, G., Labrenz, M. (2017): Success of chemolithoautotrophic SUP05 and Sulfurimonas GD17 cells in pelagic Baltic Sea redox zones is facilitated by their lifestyles as k- and r-strategists. Environ.Microbiol. 19: 2495-2506.

● Herlemann, D.P.R., Manecki, M., Dittmar, T., Jürgens, K. (2017): Limited decomposition of terrigenous dissolved organic matter in the Baltic Sea: Role of abiotic and biotic factors. Environ.Microbiol. 19: 3098-3117.

● Andersson, A., Tamminen, T., Lehtinen, S., Jürgens, K., Labrenz, M., Viitasalo, M. (2017): The pelagic food web. In: Biological Oceanography of the Baltic Sea, Eds: Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, P., Schubert, H., Radziejewska, T. (eds). Springer: p.281-332.

● Fuchs, A., Klier, J., Pinto, F., Selmeczy, G.B., Szabó, B., Padisák, J., Jürgens, K., Casper, P. (2017): Effects of artificial thermocline deepening on sedimentation rates and microbial processes in the sediment. Hydrobiologia 799: 65-81.

● Seidel, M., Manecki, M., Herlemann, D.P.R., Deutsch, B., Schulz-Bull, D., Jürgens, K., Dittmar, T. (2017): Composition and transformation of dissolved organic matter in the Baltic Sea. Front. Earth Sci. 5: 31.doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00031

● Weber, F., Mylnikov, A.P., Jürgens, K., Wylezich, C. (2017): Culturing Protists from the Baltic Sea: Mostly the “usual suspects” but a few novelties as well. J. Euk. Microbiol. 64: 153-163

● v.Scheibner, M., Sommer, U., Jürgens, K. (2017): Tight Coupling of Glaciecola spp. and diatoms during cold-water phytoplankton spring blooms. Front. Microbiol. 8: 27. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00027

2016

● D. Herlemann, D. Lundin, A. Andersson, M. Labrenz, K. Jürgens (2016): Phylogenetic signals of salinity and season in bacterial community composition across the salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea. Frontiers Microbiol. 7:1883.doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01883

● B. Bergen, S. Endres, A. Engel, M. Zark, T. Dittmar, U. Sommer, K. Jürgens (2016): Acidification and warming affect prominent bacteria during two seasonal phytoplankton bloom mesocosms. Environ. Microbiol. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13549.

● T.H. Haileselasie, J. Mergeay, L.J .Weider, R. Sommaruga, T.A. Davidson, M. Meerhoff, H., Arndt, K. Jürgens, E. Jeppesen, L. D. Meester (2016): Environment not dispersal limitation drives clonal composition of Arctic Daphnia in a recently deglaciated area. Molec.Ecol. doi: 10.1111/mec.13843

● O. Wurl, C. Stolle, C. V. Thuoc, P. T. Thu, X. Mari (2016): Biofilm-like properties of the sea surface and predicted effects on air-sea CO₂ exchange. Progress Oceanography. doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2016.03.002

● D. Numberger, G. Dehnhardt, D. Herlemann, K. Jürgens, H. Schulz-Vogt (2016): Comparative analysis of the fecal flora of five harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). MicrobiologyOpen doi: 10.1002/mbo3.369.

2015

● Rieck, A., Herlemann, D.P.R., Jürgens, K., Grossart, H.-P. (2015): Particle-associated differ from free-living bacteria in surface waters of the Baltic Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol.6, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01297

● Orlikowska, A., Stolle, C., Pollehne, F., Jürgens, K., Schulz-Bull, D.E. (2015): Dynamics of halocarbons in coastal surface waters during short term mesocosm experiments. Environ. Chem. 12:515-525.

● Mylnikov, A.P., Weber, F., Jürgens, K., Wylezich, C. (2015): Massisteria marina has a sister: Massisteria voersi sp. nov., a rare species isolated from coastal waters of the Baltic Sea. Europ. J. Protistol. 51: 299-310

● Bergen, B., Herlemann, D.P.R., Jürgens, K. (2015): Zonation of bacterioplankton communities along aging upwelled water in the northern Benguela upwelling. Frontiers in Microbiology doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00621

● Berg, C., Listmann, L., Vandieken, V., Vogts, A., Jürgens, K. (2015): Chemoautotrophic growth of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota enriched from a pelagic redox gradient in the Baltic Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00786

● Eronen-Rasimus, E., Lyra, C., Rintala, J.-M., Jürgens, K., Ikonen, V., Kaartokallio, H. (2015): Ice formation and growth shape bacterial community structure in Baltic Sea drift ice. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 91: doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiu022

● Berg, C., Vandieken, V., Thamdrup, B., Jürgens, K. (2015): Significance of archaeal nitrification in hypoxic waters of the Baltic Sea. ISME J. 9: 1319-1332.

2014

●   Salka, I., Wurzbacher, C., Garcia, S.L., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K., Grossart, H.-P. (2014): Distribution of acI-Actinorhodopsin genes in Baltic Sea salinity gradients indicates adaptation of facultative freshwater photoheterotrophs to brackish waters. Environ. Microb. 16: 586-597.

●   Glaubitz, S., Abraham, W.-R., Jost, G., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2014): Pyruvate utilization by a chemolithoautotrophic epsilonproteobacterial key player of pelagic Baltic Sea redoxclines. FEMS Microb. Ecol. 87: 770–779.

●   v.Scheibner, M., Dörge, P., Biermann, A., Sommer, U., Hoppe, H.-G., Jürgens, K. (2014): Impact of warming on phyto-bacterioplankton coupling and bacterial community composition in experimental mesocosms. Environ. Microbiol. 16: 718-733.

●   Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia, M., Farnelid, H., Jürgens, K., Riemann, L. (2014): Cultivation and isolation of N2-fixing bacteria from suboxic waters in the Baltic Sea. FEMS Microb. Ecol. 88: 358-371.

●   Herlemann, D.P.R., Manecki, M., Meeske, C., Pollehne, F., Labrenz, M., Schulz-Bull, D., Dittmar, T., Jürgens, K.: Uncoupling of bacterial and terrigenous dissolved organic matter dyanmics in decomposition experiments. PLOS One 9(4): e93945.doic: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093945

●   Weber, F., Anderson, R., Foissner, W., Mylnikov, A.P., Jürgens, K. (2014): Morphological and molecular approaches reveal highly stratified protist communities along Baltic Sea pelagic redox gradients. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 73: 1-16

●   Bergen, B., Herlemann, D.P.R., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2014): Distribution of the verrucomicrobial clade Spartobacteria along a salinity gradient in the Baltic Sea. Environ.Microbiol.Reports 6: 625-630

●   Herlemann, D.P.R., Woelk, J., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2014): Diversity and abundance of “Pelagibacterales” (SAR11) in the Baltic Sea salinity gradient. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 37: 601-604

●   Frey, C., Hietanen, S., Jürgens, K., Labrenz, M., Voss, M. (2014): N and O isotope fractionation in nitrate during chemolithoautotrophic denitrification by Sulfurimonas gotlandica. Environ. Sci. Technol. 48: 13229–13237.

2013

●   Anderson, R., Wylezich, C., Glaubitz, S., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2013): Impact of protist grazing on a key bacterial group for biogeochemical cycling in Baltic Sea pelagic oxic / anoxic interfaces. Environ. Microbiol. 15: 1580-1594.

●   Bruckner, C.G., Mammitzsch, K., Jost, G., Wendt, J., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2013) Chemolithoautotrophic denitrification of epsilonproteobacteria in marine pelagic redox gradients. Environ. Microbiol. 15: 1505-1513.

●   Glaubitz, S., Kießlich, K., Meeske, C., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2013): SUP05 dominates the gammaproteobacterial sulfur oxidizer assemblages in pelagic redoxclines of the central Baltic and Black Seas. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79: 2767-2776.

●   Herlemann, D.P.R., Lundin, D., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K., Zheng, Z., Aspeborg, H., Andersson, A.F. (2013): Metagenomic de novo assembly of an aquatic representative of the verrucomicrobial class Spartobacteria. mBio 4(3): doi:10.1128/mBio.00569-12.

●   Berg, C., Labrenz, M., Beckmann, S., Jost, G., Jürgens, K. (2013): Acetate-utilizing bacteria at an oxic-anoxic interface in the Baltic Sea. FEMS Microb. Ecol. 85: 251-261.

●   Farnelid, H., Bentzon-Tilia, M., Andersson, A.F., Bertilsson, S., Jost, G., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K., Riemann, L. (2013): Active nitrogen-fixing heterotrophic bacteria at and below the chemocline of the central Baltic Sea. ISME J. 7: 1413-1423.

●   Labrenz, M., Grote, J., Mammitzsch, K., Boschker, H. T. S., Laue, M., Jost, G., Glaubitz, S., Jürgens. K. (2013): Sulfurimonas gotlandica sp. nov., a chemoautotrophic and psychrotolerant epsilonproteobacterium isolated from a pelagic Baltic Sea redoxcline, and an emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 63: 4141-4148.

2012

● Grote, J., Schott, T., Bruckner, C.G., Glöckner, F.O., Jost, G., Teeling, H., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2012): Genome and physiology of a model Epsilonproteobacterium responsible for sulfide detoxification in marine oxygen depletion zones. PNAS 109: 506-510.

● Feike, J., Jürgens, K., Hollibaugh, JT, Krüger, S., Jost, G., Labrenz, M. (2012): Measuring unbiased metatranscriptomics in pelagic aerobic ammonium oxidation zones of the central Baltic Sea based on a new in situ fixation system. ISME J. 6: 461-470.

● Hietanen S., Jäntti H., Buizert C., Jürgens K, Labrenz, M., Voss M., Kuparinen J. (2012): Hypoxia and nitrogen processing in the Baltic Sea water column. Limnol. Ocenogr. 57: 325-337.

● Lewandowska, A.M., Breithaupt, P., Hillebrand, H., Hoppe, H.-G., Jürgens, K., Sommer, U. (2012): Responses of primary productivity to increased temperature and phytoplankton diversity. J. Sea Res. 72: 87-93.

● Kudryavtsev A., Wylezich C., Pawlowski J. (2011): Ovalopodium desertum n. sp. and the phylogenetic relationships of Cochliopodiidae (Amoebozoa). Protist, 162:571-589, doi:10.1016/j.protis.2011.04.002

●[ van Pinxteren, M., Müller, C., Iinuma, Y., Stolle, C., Herrmann, H. (in press): Chemical characterization of dissolved organic compounds from coastal sea surface microlayers (Baltic Sea, Germany). Environm. Sci. Technol. DOI: 10.1021/es204492b

● Cunliffe, M., Engel, A., Frka, S., Gašparović, B., Guitart, C., Murrell, J.C., Salter, M., Stolle, C., Upstill-Goddard, R., Wurl, O. (in press): Sea surface microlayers: a unified physicochemical and biological perspective of the air-ocean interface. Prog. Ocean. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.08.004A.

● Weber, F., Campo, J.d., Wylezich, C., Massana, R., Jürgens, K. (2012): Unveiling trophic functions of uncultured protist taxa by incubation experiments in the brackish Baltic Sea. PLOS One 7: e41970. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041970

● Wey, J.K., Jürgens, K., Weitere, M. (2012): Seasonal and successional influences on bacterial community composition exceed that of potozoan grazing in river biofilms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78: 2013- 2024.

● Anderson, R., Winter, C., Jürgens, K. (2012): Protist grazing and viral lysis as prokaryotic mortality factors at Baltic Sea oxic-anoxic interfaces. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 467: 1-14.

● Dunthorn, M., Klier, J., Bunge, J. and Stoeck, T. (2012), Comparing the Hyper-Variable V4 and V9 Regions of the Small Subunit rDNA for Assessment of Ciliate Environmental Diversity. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 59: 185–187. doi: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2011.00602.x

● Engel M, Behnke A, Klier J, Buschbaum C, Volkenborn N, Stoeck T (2012):
Effects of the bioturbating lugworm Arenicola marina on the structure of benthic protistan communities. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. (in press).

● Wylezich, C., Karpov, S.A., Mylnikov, A.P., Anderson, R., Jürgens, K. (2012): Ecologically relevant choanoflagellates collected from hypoxic water masses of the Baltic Sea have untypical mitochondrial cristae. BMC Microbiology 12: 271. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-271

2011

● Anderson, R., Kjelleberg, S., McDougald, D., Jürgens, K. (2011): Species-specific patterns in the vulnerability of carbon-starved bacteria to protist grazing. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 64: 105-116.

● Herlemann,D.P.R., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K., Bertilsson, S., Waniek, J.J., Andersson, A. F. (2011) Transitions in bacterial communities along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea. doi:ISMEJ.2011.41

● Stolle, C., Labrenz, M., Meeske, C., Jürgens, K. (2011) The bacterioneuston community structure of the southern Baltic Sea and its dependence on meteorological conditions. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77 (11), doi: 10.1128/AEM.00042-11

● Wohlers-Zöllner, J., Breithaupt, P., Walther, K., Jürgens, K., Riebesell, U. (2011) Temperature and nutrient stoichiometry interactively modulate organic matter cycling in a pelagic algal-bacterial community. Limnol. Oceanogr. 56: 599-610

● Wylezich, C., Jürgens, K. (2011): Protist diversity in suboxic and sulfidic waters of the Black Sea. Environ. Microbiol. 13: 2939-2956.

● Labrenz, M. & Druschel, G. K. (2011). Zinc. In Encyclopedia of Geobiology (Eds. Joachim Reitner and Volker Thiel). Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series 20, 905-908, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9212-1_214.

2010

● Glaubitz, S., Labrenz, M., Jost, G., Jürgens, K. (2010) Diversity of active chemolithoautotrophic prokaryotes in the sulfidic zone of a Black Sea pelagic redoxcline as determined by rRNA-based stable isotope probing. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 74: 32-41

● Jost, G., Martens-Habbena, W., Pollehne, F., Schnetger, B., Labrenz, M. (2010) Anaerobic sulfur oxidation in the absence of nitrate dominates microbial chemoautotrophy beneath the pelagic chemocline of the eastern Gotland Basin, Baltic Sea. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 71: 226-236

● Labrenz, M., Sintes, E., Toetzke, F., Zumsteg, A., Herndl, G. J., Seidler, M., Jürgens, K. (2010) Relevance of a crenarchaeotal subcluster related to Candidatus Nitrosopumilus maritimus to ammonia oxidation in the suboxic zone of the central Baltic Sea. ISME J 4: 1496-1508

● Scheckenbach, F., Hausmann, K., Wylezich, C., Weitere, M., Arndt, H. (2010) Large-scale patterns in biodiversity of microbial eukaryotes from the abyssal sea floor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107: 115-120

● Stolle, C., Nagel, K., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2010) Succession of the sea-surface microlayer in the coastal Baltic Sea under natural and experimentally induced low-wind conditions. Biogeosciences 7: 2975-2988

● Walochnik, J., Wylezich, C., Michel, R. (2010) The genus Sappinia: History, phylogeny and medical relevance. Exp Parasitol 126: 4-13

● Wylezich, C., Nies, G., Mylnikov, A. P., Tautz, D., Arndt, H. (2010) An evaluation of the use of the LSU rRNA D1-D5 domain for DNA-based taxonomy of eukaryotic protists. Protist 161: 342-352

2009

● Ayo, B., Latatu, A., Artolozaga, I., Jürgens, K., Iriberri, J (2009) Factors affecting preference responses of the freshwater ciliate Uronema nigricans to bacterial prey. J Euk Microbiol 56: 188-19

● Bass, D., Chao, E. E.-Y., Nikolaev, S., Yabuki, A., Ishida, K.-I., Berney, C., Pakzad, U., Wylezich, C., Cavalier-Smith, T. (2009) Phylogeny of novel naked filose and reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea revised. Protist 160: 75-109

● Deines, P., Matz, C., Jürgens, K. (2009): Toxicity of violacein-producing bacteria fed to bacterivorous freshwater plankton. Limnol Oceanogr 54: 1343-1352

● Glaubitz, S., Lueders, T., Abraham, W.-R., Jost, G., Jürgens, K., Labrenz, M. (2009) ¹³C-isotope analyses reveal that chemolithoautotrophic Gamma- and Epsilonproteobacteria feed a microbial food web in a pelagic redoxcline of the central Baltic Sea. Environ Microbiol 11: 326-337

● Kudryavtsev, A., Wylezich, C., Schlegel, M., Walochnik, J., Michel, R. (2009) Ultrastructure, SSU rRNA gene sequences and phylogenetic relationships of Flamella Schaeffer, 1926 (Amoebozoa), with description of three new species. Protist 160: 21-40

● Loquay, N., Wylezich, C., Arndt, H. (2009) Composition of groundwater nanoprotist communities in different aquifers based on aliquot cultivation and genotype assessment of cercomonads. Fund Appl Limnol 174: 261-269

● Rodríguez-Martínez, R., Labrenz, M., del Campo, J., Forn, I., Jürgens, K., Massana, R. (2009) Distribution of the uncultured protist MAST-4 in the Indian Ocean, Drake Passage and Mediterranean Sea assessed by real-time quantitative PCR. Environ Microbiol 11: 397-408

● Stock, A., Jürgens, K., Bunge, J., Stoeck, T. (2009): Protistan diversity in the suboxic and anoxic waters of the Gotland Deep (Baltic Sea) as revealed by 18S rRNA clone libraries. Aquat Microb Ecol 55: 267-284

● Stolle, C., Nagel, K., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2010) Bacterial activity in the sea-surface microlayer: in situ investigations in the Baltic Sea and the influence of sampling devices. Aquat Microb Ecol 58: 67-78

● Wohlers, J., Engel, A., Zöllner, E., Breithaupt, P., Jürgens, K., Hoppe, H.-G., Sommer, U., Riebesell, U. (2009) Changes in biogenic carbon flow in response to sea surface warming. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106: 7067-7072

● Wylezich, C., Walochnik, J., Michel, R. (2009) High genetic diversity of Sappinia-like strains (Amoebozoa, Thecamoebidae) revealed by SSU rRNA investigations. Parasitol Res 105: 869-873

● Zöllner, E., Hoppe, H.-G., Sommer, U., Jürgens, K. (2009) Effect of zooplankton-mediated trophic cascades on marine microbial food web components (bacteria, nanoflagellates, ciliates). Limnol Oceanogr 54: 262-275

2008

●    Atamna-Ismaeel, N., Sabehi, G., Sharon, I., Witzel, K.-P., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K., Barkay, T., Stomp, M., Huisman, J., Beja, O. (2008) Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems. ISME J 2: 656-662

●    Corno, G., Jürgens, K. (2008) Structural and functional patterns of bacterial communities in response to protist predation along an experimental productivity gradient. Environ Microbiol 10: 2857-2871

●    Gasol, J. M., Pinhassi, J., Alonso-Sáez, L., Ducklow, H., Herndl, G. J., Koblízek, M., Labrenz, M., Luo, Y., Morán, X. A. G., Reinthaler, T., Simon, M. (2008) Towards a better understanding of microbial carbon flux in the sea. Aquat Microb Ecol 53: 21-38

●    Grote, J., Jost, G., Labrenz, M., Herndl, G. J., Jürgens, K. (2008) Epsilonproteobacteria represent the major portion of chemoautotrophic bacteria in sulfidic waters of pelagic redoxclines of the Baltic and Black Seas. Appl Environ Microbiol 74: 7546-7551

●    Hoppe, H.-G., Breithaupt, P., Walther, K., Koppe, R., Bleck, S., Sommer, U., Jürgens, K. (2008) Climate warming in winter affects the coupling between phytoplankton and bacteria during the spring bloom: a mesocosm study. Aquat Microb Ecol 51: 105-115

●    Jost, G., Zubkov, M. V., Yakushev, E., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2008) High abundance and dark CO₂ fixation of chemolithoautotrophic prokaryotes in anoxic waters of the Baltic Sea. Limnol Oceanogr 53: 14-22

●    Montagnes, D. J. S., Barbosa, A. B., Boenigk, J., Davidson, K., Jürgens, K., Macek, M., Parry, J. D., Roberts, E. C., Šimek, K. (2008) Selective feeding behaviour of key free-living protists: avenues for continued study. Aquat Microb Ecol 53: 83-98

● Salka, I., Moulisová, V., Koblížek, M., Jost, G., Jürgens, K., Labrenz, M. (2008) Abundance, depth distribution, and composition of aerobic bacteriochlorophyll a-producing bacteria in four basins of the central Baltic Sea. Appl Environ Microbiol 74: 4398-4404

● Vázquez-Domínguez, E., Duarte, C. M., Agustí, S., Jürgens, K., Vaqué, D., Gasol, J. M. (2008) Microbial plankton abundance and heterotrophic activity across the Central Atlantic Ocean. Prog Oceanogr 79: 83-94

2007

●    Falk, S., Hannig, M., Gliesche, C., Wardenga, R., Köster, M., Jürgens, K., Braker, G. (2007) nirS-containing denitrifier communities in the water column and sediment of the Baltic Sea. Biogeosciences 4: 255-268

●    Gattinger, A., Höfle, M. G., Schloter, M., Embacher, A., Böhme, F., Munch, J. C., Labrenz, M. (2007) Traditional cattle manure application determines abundance, diversity and activity of methanogenic Archaea in arable European soil. Environ Microbiol 9: 612-624

●    Grote, J., Labrenz, M., Pfeiffer, B., Jost, G., Jürgens, K. (2007) Quantitative distributions of Epsilonproteobacteria and a Sulfurimonas subgroup in pelagic redoxclines of the central Baltic Sea. Appl Environ Microbiol 73: 7155-7161

●    Hannig, M., Lavik, G., Kuypers, M. M. M., Woebken, D., Martens-Habbena, W., Jürgens, K. (2007) Shift from denitrification to anammox after inflow events in the central Baltic Sea. Limnol Oceanogr 52: 1336-1345

●    Jeppesen, E., Søndergaard, M., Pedersen, A., Jürgens, K., Strzelczak, A., Lauridsen, T., Johansson, L. (2007) Salinity induced regime shift in shallow brackish lagoons. Ecosystems 10: 48-58

●    Labrenz, M., Jost, G., Jürgens, K. (2007) Distribution of abundant prokaryotic organisms in the water column of the central Baltic Sea with an oxic-anoxic interface. Aquat Microb Ecol 46: 177-190

2006

●    Brettar, I., Labrenz, M., Flavier, S., Bötel, J., Kuosa, H., Christen, R., Höfle, M. G. (2006) Identification of a Thiomicrospira denitrificans-like epsilonproteobacterium as a catalyst for autotrophic denitrification in the central Baltic Sea. Appl Environ Microbiol 72: 1364-1372

●    Corno, G., Jürgens, K. (2006) Direct and Iindirect effects of protist predation on population size structure of a bacterial strain with high phenotypic plasticity. Appl Environ Microbiol 72: 78-86

●    Hannig, M., Braker, G., Dippner, J., Jürgens, K. (2006) Linking denitrifier community structure and prevalent biogeochemical parameters in the pelagial of the central Baltic Proper (Baltic Sea). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 57: 260-271

●    Masín, M., Zdun, A., Ston-Egiert, J., Nausch, M., Labrenz, M., Moulisová, V., Koblízek, M. (2006) Seasonal changes and diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs in the Baltic Sea. Aquat Microb Ecol 45: 247-254

2005

●    Becks, L., Hilker, F. M., Malchow, H., Jürgens, K., Arndt, H. (2005) Experimental demonstration of chaos in a microbial food web. Nature 435: 1226-1229

●    Berglund, J., Jürgens, K., Bruchmüller, I., Wedin, M., Andersson, A. (2005) Use of group-specific PCR primers for identification of chrysophytes by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Aquat Microb Ecol 39: 171-182

●    Höfle, M. G., Flavier, S., Christen, R., Bötel, J., Labrenz, M., Brettar, I. (2005) Retrieval of nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequences from environmental DNA following 16S rRNA-based community fingerprinting. Environ Microbiol 7: 670-675

●    Labrenz, M., Jost, G., Pohl, C., Beckmann, S., Martens-Habbena, W., Jürgens, K. (2005) Impact of different in vitro electron donor/acceptor conditions on potential chemolithoautotrophic communities from marine pelagic redoxclines. Appl Environ Microbiol 71: 6664-6672

●    Labrenz, M., Lawson, P. A., Tindall, B. J., Collins, M. D., Hirsch, P. (2005) Roseisalinus antarcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel aerobic bacteriochlorophyll a-producing α-proteobacterium isolated from hypersaline Ekho Lake, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55: 41-47

●    Matz, C., Jürgens, K. (2005) High motility reduces grazing mortality of planktonic bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 71: 921-929

2004

●    Labrenz, M., Banfield, J. F. (2004) Sulfate-reducing bacteria-dominated biofilms that precipitate ZnS in a subsurface circumneutral-pH mine drainage system. Microb Ecol 47: 205-217

●    Labrenz, M., Brettar, I., Christen, R., Flavier, S., Bötel, J., Höfle, M. G. (2004) Development and application of a real-time PCR approach for quantification of uncultured bacteria in the central Baltic Sea. Appl Environ Microbiol 70: 4971-4979

●    Matz, C., Deines, P., Boenigk, J., Arndt, H., Eberl, L., Kjelleberg, S., Jürgens, K. (2004) Impact of violacein-producing bacteria on survival and feeding of bacterivorous nanoflagellates. Appl Environ Microbiol 70: 1593–1599

●    Pernthaler, J., Zöllner, E., Warnecke, F., Jürgens, K. (2004) Bloom of filamentous bacteria in a mesotrophic lake: Identity and potential controlling mechanism. Appl Environ Microbiol 70: 6272-6281

●    Sala, M. M., Jürgens, K. (2004) Bacterial growth on macrophyte leachate in the presence and absence of bacterivorous protists. Arch Hydrobiol 161: 371-389

2003

●    Labrenz, M., Lawson, P. A., Tindall, B. J., Collins, M. D., Hirsch, P. (2003) Saccharospirillum impatiens gen. nov., sp nov., a novel γ-Proteobacterium isolated from hypersaline Ekho Lake (East Antarctica). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53: 653-660

●    Massana, R., Jürgens, K. (2003) Composition and population dynamics of planktonic bacteria and bacterivorous flagellates in seawater chemostat cultures. Aquat Microb Ecol 32: 11-22

●    Matz, C., Jürgens, K. (2003) Interaction of nutrient limitation and protozoan grazing determines the phenotypic structure of a bacterial community. Microb Ecol 45: 384-398

●    Sommer, U., Sommer, F., Santer, B., Zöllner, E., Jürgens, K., Jamieson, C., Boersma, M., Gocke, K. (2003) Daphnia versus copepod impact on summer phytoplankton: functional compensation at both trophic levels. Oecologia 135: 639-647

2002

●    Zöllner, E., Santer, B., Boersma, M., Hoppe, H.-G., Jürgens, K. (2003) Cascading predation effects of Daphnia and copepods on microbial food web components. Freshwater Biol 48: 2174-2193

●    Boenigk, J., Matz, C., Jürgens, K., Arndt, H. (2002) Food concentration-dependent regulation of food selectivity of interception-feeding bacterivorous nanoflagellates. Aquat Microb Ecol 27: 195-202

●    Collins, M. D., Lawson, P. A., Labrenz, M., Tindall, B. J., Weiss, N., Hirsch, P. (2002) Nesterenkonia lacusekhoensis sp. nov., isolated from hypersaline Ekho Lake, East Antarctica, and emended description of the genus Nesterenkonia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52: 1145-1150

●    Degans, H., Zöllner, E., van der Gucht, K., De Meester, L., Jürgens, K. (2002) Rapid Daphnia-mediated changes in microbial community structure: an experimental study. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 42: 137-149

●    Druschel, G. K., Labrenz, M., Thomsen-Ebert, T., Fowle, D. A., Banfield, J. F. (2002) Geochemical Modeling of ZnS in biofilms: An example of ore depositional processes. Econ Geol 97: 1319-1329

●    Jeppesen, E., Sondergaard, M., Christoffersen, K., Theil-Nielsen, J., Jürgens, K. (2002) Cascading trophic interactions in the littoral zone: an enclosure experiment in shallow Lake Stigsholm, Denmark. Arch Hydrobiol 153: 533-555

●    Jürgens, K., Matz, C. (2002) Predation as a shaping force for the phenotypic and genotypic composition of planktonic bacteria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 81: 413-434

●    Matz, C., Boenigk, J., Arndt, H., Jürgens, K. (2002) Role of bacterial phenotypic traits in selective feeding of the heterotrophic nanoflagellate Spumella sp.. Aquat Microb Ecol 27: 137-148

●    Matz, C., Deines, P., Jürgens, K. (2002) Phenotypic variation in Pseudomonas sp. CM10 determines microcolony formation and survival under protozoan grazing. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 39: 57-65

2001

●    Boenigk, J., Matz, C., Jürgens, K., Arndt, H. (2001) Confusing selective feeding with differential digestion in bacterivorous nanoflagellates. J Eukaryot Microbiol 48: 425-432

●    Boenigk, J., Matz, C., Jürgens, K., Arndt, H. (2001) The influence of preculture conditions and food quality on the ingestion and digestion process of three species of heterotrophic nanoflagellates. Microb Ecol 42: 168-176

●    De Stasio, G., Gilbert, B., Frazer, B. H., Nealson, K. H., Conrad, P. G., Livi, V., Labrenz, M., Banfield, J. F. (2001) The multidisciplinarity of spectromicroscopy: from geomicrobiology to archaeology. J Electron Spectrosc Relat Phenom 114-116: 997-1003

●    Labrenz, M., Hirsch, P. (2001) Physiological diversity and adaptations of aerobic heterotrophic bacteria from different depths of hypersaline, heliothermal and meromictic Ekho Lake (East Antarctica). Polar Biol 24: 320-327

●    Langenheder, S., Jürgens, K. (2001) Regulation of bacterial biomass and community structure by metazoan and protozoan predation. Limnol Oceanogr 46: 121-134

●    Matz, C., Jürgens, K. (2001) Effects of hydrophobic and electrostatic cell surface properties of bacteria on feeding rates of heterotrophic nanoflagellates. Appl Environ Microbiol 67: 814-820

●    Zubkov, M. V., Zollner, E., Jürgens, K. (2001) Digestion of bacterial macromolecules by a mixotrophic flagellate, Ochromonas sp., compared with that by two heterotrophic flagellates, Spumella pudica and Bodo saltans. Eur J Protistol 37: 155-166

2000

●    Jürgens, K., Gasol, J. M., Vaqué, D. (2000) Bacteria - flagellate coupling in microcosm experiments in the Central Atlantic Ocean. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 245: 127-147

●    Jürgens, K., Jeppesen, E. (2000) The impact of metazooplankton on the structure of the microbial food web in a shallow, hypertrophic lake. J Plankton Res 22: 1047-1070

●    Jürgens, K., Sala, M. M. (2000) Predation-mediated shifts in size distribution of microbial biomass and activity during detritus decomposition. Oikos 91: 29-40

●    Jürgens, K., Šimek, K. (2000) Functional response and particle size selection of Halteria cf. grandinella, a common freshwater oligotrichous ciliate. Aquat Microb Ecol 22: 57-68

●    Labrenz, M., Druschel, G. K., Thomsen-Ebert, T., Gilbert, B., Welch, S. A., Kemner, K. M., Logan, G. A., Summons, R. E., De Stasio, G., Bond, P. L., Lai, B., Kelly, S. D., Banfield, J. F. (2000) Formation of sphalerite (ZnS) deposits in natural biofilms of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Science 290: 1744-1747

●    Labrenz, M., Tindall, B. J., Lawson, P. A., Collins, M. D., Schumann, P., Hirsch, P. (2000) Staleya guttiformis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Sulfitobacter brevis sp. nov., α-3-Proteobacteria from hypersaline, heliothermal and meromictic Antarctic Ekho Lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50: 303-313

●    Lawson, P. A., Collins, M. D., Schumann, P., Tindall, B. J., Hirsch, P., Labrenz, M. (2000) New LL-diaminopimelic acid-containing actinomycetes from hypersaline, heliothermal and meromictic Antarctic Ekho Lake: Nocardioides aquaticus sp. nov. and Friedmanniella lacustris sp. nov.. System Appl Microbiol 23: 219-229

●    Šimek, K., Jürgens, K., Nedoma, J., Comerma, M., Armengol, J. (2000) Ecological role and bacterial grazing of Halteria spp.: small freshwater oligotrichs as dominant pelagic ciliate bacterivores. Aquat Microb Ecol 22: 43-56

●    Söller, R., Hirsch, P., Blohm, D., Labrenz, M. (2000) Differentiation of newly described Antarctic bacterial isolates related to Roseobacter species based on 16S-23S rDNA internal transcribed spacer sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50: 909-915