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• Desbruyères, D., Segonzac, M. & Bright, M., 2006. Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. Denisia 18, Linz Museum, Austria, 544 pp. Printing co-funded by ChEss.
• Vinogradov, M.E. & Vereshchaka, A.L. (eds.) 2006. Ecosystems of the Atlantic hydrothermal vents. Moscow, Nauka, 348pp.

Books

• Baker, M., J. Hoyer, B. Hilbig, L. Menot, B. Narayanaswamy, E. Ramirez-Llodra, M. Steffensen (eds.) 2007. Deeper than Light.

Scientific papers

• Baco-Taylor, A. A.A. Rowden, L.A. Levin, C. R. Smith, D. Bowden. Initial characterization of cold seep faunal communities on the New Zealand Margin. In review, Marine Geology.
• Brooke, Sandra D. and Craig M. Young (submitted).  Where do the embryos of Riftia pachyptila develop?  Pressure tolerances, temperature tolerances and buoyancy during prolonged embryonic dispersal.  Deep-Sea Research II. 
• Cordes, E. E., D. C. Bergquist, and C. R. Fisher. 2009 Macroecology of Gulf of Mexico cold seeps. In Press, Annual Review of Marine Science.
• Levin, L.A., G.F. Mendoza, T. Konotchick and R. Lee. Macrobenthic communithy structure and trophic relationships within active and inactive Pacific hydrothermal sediments. In Press, Deep-Sea Research II.
• Lowell RP, Perfit MR, Seewald J, A Metaxas (Eds). Magma to Microbe: Modeling Hydrothermal Processes at Oceanic Spreading Centers. American Geophysical Union Monograph (in press)
• Matabos M., Le Bris N., Pendlebury S. & Thiébaut E. (in press). Role of physico-chemical environment on gastropod assemblages at hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise (13°N/EPR). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK.
• Miyazaki M, Nogi Y, Fujiwara Y, Horikoshi K, 2008. Psychromonas japonica sp. nov., Psychromonas aquimarina sp. nov., Psychromonas macrocephali sp. nov. and Psychromonas balaenossis sp. nov., psychrotrophic bacteria isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off Kagoshima, Japan. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology:in press
• Miyazaki M, Nogi Y, Ohta Y, Hatada Y, Fujiwara Y, Ito S, Horikoshi K, 2008. Microbulbifer agarilyticus sp. nov. and Microbulbifer thermotolerans sp. nov., agar-degrading bacteria isolated from deep-sea sediment. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology:in press
• Shea, K., A. Metaxas, C. R. Young, and C. R. Fisher. Processes and interactions in macrofaunal assemblages at hydrothermal vents: A modeling perspective. In Press. Geophysical Monographs Series.
• Shillito B., Hamel G., Duchi C., Cottin D., Sarrazin J., Sarradin P.M., Ravaux J., Gaill F. (in press). Live capture of megafauna from 2300m depth, using a newly-designed pressurized-recovery device. Deep-Sea Research.
• Smith, Craig R. 2008. Organic Falls on the Ocean Floor. The Encyclopedia of Islands, R. Gillespie and D. Clague, eds., University of California Press, in press.
• Thurber,A.R., Kerstin Kröger, Carlos Neira, and Helena Wiklund, Lisa A. Levin . Stable isotope signatures and methane use by New Zealand cold seep benthos. In Review, Marine Geology.
• Treude, T., C.R. Smith, F. Wenzhofer, E. Carney, A.F. Bernardino, A.K. Hannides, M. Kruger, A. Boetius (In Press). Biogeochemistry of a deep-sea chemosynthetic whale fall: rates and patterns of microbial sulfur and carbon metabolism. MEPS.
• Young, C.M.  (in press).  Hard-bottom communities in the deep sea.   In, Ecology of Marine Hard-Bottom Communities.  M. Wahl, ed.  Springer Verlag.
• Zelnio, Kevin A., Estefania Rodriguez, Marymegan Daly. "Hexacorals (Anthozoa: Actiniaria, Zoanthidea) from hydrothermal vents in the South-western Pacific". Marine Biology Research.

2009

• Ahyong, S. 2009. New species and new records of hydrothermal vent shrimps from New Zealand (Caridea: Alvinocarididae: Hippolytidae). Crustaceana 82(7): 775-794
• Arellano, S.M. and C.M. Young, 2009. Spawning, development and the duration of larval life in a deep-sea cold-seep mussel.  Biol. Bull. 216: 149-162
• Baker, M.C. & German, C.R., 2009. Going for Gold! Who will win the race to exploit ores from the deep? Ocean Challenge Journal.
• Hilario, A., S. Vilar, M.R. Cunha & P. Tyler 2009. Reproductive aspects of two bythograeid crab species from hydrothermal vents in the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. MEPS 378: 153-160
• Warén, A. Bouchet, P. 2009. New gastropods from deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps off West Africa . Deep-Sea Research 2.
• Wiklund, H., A.G. Glover, P.J.Johannessen and T.G. Dahlgren 2009. Cryptic speciation at organic-rich marine habitats: a new bacterivore annelid from whale-fall and fish farms in the North-East Atlantic. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155: 774-785

2008

• Adams, D. K., and L. S. Mullineaux. 2008. Supply of gastropod larvae to hydrothermal vents reflects transport from local larval sources. Limnology and Oceanography:1945 – 1955
• Ahyong, S.T. 2008. Deepwater crabs from seamounts and chemosynthetic habitats off eastern New Zealand (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa 1708: 1-72
• Bettencourt, R., Dando, P., Costa, V., Rosa, D., Riou, V., Colaço, A., Sarrazin, J., Sarradin, P.M. and Serrão Santos, R. 2008. Changes in gill tissues of the vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus held for 6 months in aquaria at atmospheric pressure.Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 150 , 1: 1-7
• Company R., A. Serafim, R. Cosson, A. Fiala-Médioni, L. Camus, A. Colaço, R. Serrão Santos & M. J. Bebianno, 2008. Antioxidant biochemical responses to long-term copper exposure in Bathymodiolus azoricus from Menez-Gwen hydrothermal vent. Science of Total Environment.389, 407–417
• Corbari L., Zbinden M., Cambon-Bonavita M.A., Gaill F. & Compère P. 2008. Moult-related settlement of bacterial symbionts and mineral deposits in the branchial chamber of the MAR hydrothermal vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata. Aquatic Biology
• Corbera J., Segonzac M., Cunha, M.R. 2008. A new deep-sea genus of Nannastacidae (Crustacea, Cumacea) from the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field (Azores Triple Junction, Mid-Atlantic Ridge). Marine Biology Research.
• Cordes, E. E., M. McGinley, E. Podowski, E. L. Becker, S. Lessard-Pilon, S. T. Viada and C. R. Fisher. 2008. Coral communities of the deep Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research I. 55:777-787.
• Cosson, R., Thiébaut, E., Company, R., Castrec-Rouelle, M., Colaço, A., Martins, I., Sarradin, P.M., Bebianno, M.J. 2008. Spatial variability variation of metal bioaccumulation in the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus. Marine Environmental Research 65: 405-415.
• Dattaupta, S., M. A. Arthur, G. Telesnicki, and C. R. Fisher. 2008. Modification of sediment geochemistry by the hydrocarbon seep tubeworm Lamellibrachia luymesi: A combined empirical and modeling approach. Geochem. Cos. Acta. 72: 2298-2315.
• Dupperon, S. et al. 2008. Sulphur-oxidizing extracellular bacteria in the gills of Mytilidae associated with wood falls. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 63 , 338 - 349
• German, C.R., D.R. Yoergera, M. Jakubaa, T.M. Shank, C.H. Langmuir, K.Nakamura, 2008. Hydrothermal exploration with the Autonomous Benthic Explorer. Deep-Sea Research I 55: 203–219
• German, C.R. et al. 2008. Hydrothermal Exploration of the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.
• Gollner S, Ivanenko VN, Martinez Arbizu P (2008) A new species of deep-sea Tegastidae (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from 9°50´N on the East Pacific Rise, with remarks on its ecology. Zootaxa 1866:323-336
• Halary S, Riou V et al. 2008. 3D FISH for the quantification of methane and sulphur-oxidizing endosymbionts in bacteriocytes of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus. ISME Journal 2:284-292
• Harmer, T.L., R.D. Rotjan, A.D. Nussbaumer, M.Bright, A.W. Ng, E.G. DeChaine, & C.M. Cavanaugh 2008. Free-living tubeworm endosymbionts found at deep-sea vents. AEM 3895–3898
• Hilario, A. & Cunha, M.R., 2008. On some frenulate species (Annelida: Polychaeta: Siboglinidae) from mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic). Scientia Marina 72(2): 361-371
• Johnson, S., Warén, A., Vrijenhoek, R.C. 2008. DNA barcoding of Lepeteodrilus limpets reveals cryptic species. Journal of Shellfish Research 27: 43 – 51.
• Kadar E, Bettencourt R 2008. Ultrastructural and molecular evidence for potentially symbiotic bacteria within the byssal plaques of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus. Biometals 21:395-404
• Kadar E, Checa AG, Oliveira A, Machado JP 2008. Shell nacre ultrastructure and depressurisation dissolution in the deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus. Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology 178:123-130
• Kadar E, Davis SA, Lobo-da-Cunha A 2008. Cytoenzymatic investigation of intracellular digestion in the symbiont-bearing hydrothermal bivalve Bathymodiolus azoricus. Marine Biology 153:995-1004
• Kaim, A., Jenkins, R.G., Warén, A. 2008. Provannid and provannid-like gastropods from the late Cretaceous cold seeps of Hokkaido (Japan) and the fossil record of the Provannidae (Gastropoda: Abyssochrysoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154 (3): 421-436
• Kelly N, A Metaxas 2008. Diversity of invertebrate colonists on simple and complex substrates at hydrothermal vents on the Juan de Fuca ridge. Aquatic Biology 3: 271-281
• Kelly N. & A. Metaxas, 2008. Population structure of two deep-sea hydrothermal vent gastropods from the Juan de Fuca Ridge, NE Pacific. Marine Biology 153: 457-471
• Khripounoff, A., A. Vangriesheim, P. Crassous, M. Segonzac, V. Lafon, A. Warén, 2008. Temporal variation of currents, particulate flux and organism supply at two deep-sea hydrothermal fields of the Azores Triple Junction. Deep-Sea Research I 55: 532-551
• Komai, T. and M. Segonzac 2008. Taxonomic review of the hydrothermal vent shrimp genera Rimicaris Williams & Rona and Chorocaris Martin & Hessler (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae). Journal of Shellfish Research
• Lenihan, H. S., S. W. Mills, L. S. Mullineaux, C. H. Peterson, C. R. Fisher, and F. Micheli. 2008. Biotic interactions at hydrothermal vents: Recruitment inhibition by the mussel Bathymodiolus thermophilus. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Paper 55:1707-1717.
• Logan C, Evans MB, Ward ME, Scott JL, Carnegie RB, Van Dover CL 2008. Comparative ultrastructure of digestive diverticulae in bathymodiolin mussels: Discovery of an unknown spherical inclusion (SIX) in digestive cells of a seep mussel. J Shellfish Research 27:97-105.
• Martins, I., Colaço A, Dando PR, Martins I, Desbruyères D, Sarradin PM, Marques JC, Serrão Santos R. 2008. Size-dependent variations on the nutritional pathway of Bathymodiolus azoricus evidenced by a C-flux model Ecological Modelling 217: 59–71
• Martins I, Colaco A, Lesongeur F, Godfroy A, Sarradin PM, Cousson RP, Santos RS (2008) Metal exposure and physiological condition of the mussel, Bathymodiolus azoricus, from the Eiffel Tower hydrothermal vent site. Marine Environmental Research 66:42-42
• Mullaugh, K.M., G. W. Luther, S. Ma, T. S. Moore, M. Yucel, E. Becker, E. Podowski, C. R. Fisher, R. E. Trouwborst and B. K. Peirson. 2008. Voltammetric solid state (micro)electrodes: electrochemical sensors for the in situ study of FE 2+ oxidation kinetics in hot springs and S 2O 3 2- production at hydrothermal vents.. Electroanalysis 20: 280 – 290.
• Miyazaki M, Nogi Y, Fujiwara Y, Kawato M, Kubokawa K, Horikoshi K, 2008. Neptunomonas japonica sp. nov., an Osedax japonicus symbiont-like bacterium isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off Kagoshima, Japan. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58:866–871
• Omoregie EO, Mastalerz V, de Lange G, Straub KL, Kappler A, Røy H, Stadnitskaia A, Foucher JP, Boetius AB. 2008. Biogeochemistry and Community Composition of Iron- and Sulfur-Precipitating Microbial Mats at the Chefren Mud Volcano (Nile Deep Sea Fan, Eastern Mediterranean). Appl Environ Microbiol 74 (10): 3198–3215
• Orcutt, B., V. Samarkin, A. Boetius, S. Joye 2008. On the relationship between methane production and oxidation by anaerobic methanotrophic communities from cold seeps of the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Microbiology 10(5), 1108–1117
• Rossel, P.E., Lipp, J.S., Fredricks, H.F., Arnds, J.A., Boetius, A., Elvert, M., Hinrichs, K.-U 2008. Intact polar lipids of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and associated bacteria. Organic Geochemistry, oi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.02.021
• Rouse, G., N. Wilson, S. Goffredi, S. Johnson, T. Smart, C. Widmer, C. Young & R. Vrijenhoek 2008. Spawning and development in Osedax boneworms (Siboglinidae, Annelida). Marine Biology10.1007/s00227-008-1091-z
• Sasaki, T., Okutani, T. and Fujicura, K. 2008. A new species of Pyropelta (Gastropoda: Pyropltidae) from hydrothermal vents in the Okinawa Trough, Southwestern Japan. Journal of Molluscan Studies 74: 309-316
• Sarradin P.-M., Lannuzel D., Waeles M., Crassous P., Le Bris N., Caprais J.C., Fouquet Y., Fabri M.C. & Riso R. 2008. Dissolved and particulate metals (Fe, Zn, Cu, Cd, Pb) in two habitats from an active hydrothermal field on the EPR at 13°N. Stoten.
• Schmidt C., R. Vuillemin, Ch. Le Gall, F. Gaill, N. Le Bris. 2008. Geochemical energy sources for microbial primary production in the environment of hydrothermal vent shrimps. Marine Chemistry
• Sellanes, J., E. Quiroga & C. Neira (2008). Megafauna community structure and trophic relationships at the recently discovered Concepcio´n Methane
  Seep Area, Chile, ~36degS. ICES Journal of Marine Science Advance Access. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn099
• Tyler, P.A., S. Pendlebury, S. Mills, L. Mullineaux, K. Eckelbarer, M. Baker & C. Young, 2008. Reproduction of gastropods from vents on the East Pacific Rise and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Journal of Shellfish Research 27:1, 107-118
• Von Cosel R & K. Olu, 2008.. A new genus and new species of Vesicomyidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from cold seeps on the Barbados accretionary prism, with comments on other species. Zoosystema 30(4): 929-944
• Vrijenhoek RC, Collins P, Van Dover CL (2008). Bone-eating worms: Habitat specialists or generalists? Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0350
• Waite, T. J., T. S. Moore, J. J. Childress, H. Hsu-Kim, K. M. Mullaugh, D. B. Nuzzio, A. N. Paschal, J. Tsang, C. R. Fisher, and G. W. Luther III. 2008. Variation in sulfur speciation with shellfish presence at a Lau Basin diffuse flow vent site. J. Shellfish Res. 27: 163-168.
• Wegener G, Niemann H, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U, Boetius A 2008. Assimilation of methane and inorganic carbon by microbial communities mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environ Microbiol doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01653.x
• Zbinden M., Shillito B., Le Bris N., De Villardi De Montlaur C., Roussel E., Guyot F., Gaill F. & Cambon-Bonavita M.-A. 2008. New insigths on the metabolic diversity among the epibiotic microbial communitiy of the hydrothermal shrimp Rimicaris exoculata. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

2007

• Baker M E. Ramirez-Llodra K. Kusek P. Tyler & C. German 2007. ChEss and InterRidge celebrate the 30th anniversary of the discovery of hydrothermal vents. InterRidge News
• Bettencourt, R., P. Roch, S. Stefanni, D. Rosa, A. Colaço & R. S. Santos 2007. Deep sea immunity: unveiling immune constituents from the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus. Marine Environmental Research 64(2): 108-127
• Bergquist D., J. Eckner, I. Urcuyo, E. Cordes, S. Hourdez, S. Macko & C. Fisher 2007. Using stable isotopes and quantitative community characteristics to determine a local hydrothermal vent food web. Marine Ecology - Progress Series, 330: 49-65
• Braby, C.E., G.W. Rouse, S.B. Johnson, W.J. Jones & R.C. Vrijenhoek, 2007. Bathymetric and temporal variation among Osedax boneworms and associated megafauna on whale-falls in Monterey Bay, California. Deep-Sea Research I 54: 1773-1791
• Brand, G. L., R. V. Horak, N. Le Bris, S.K. Goffredi, S.L. Carney, B. Govenar and P.H. Yancey, 2007. Hypotaurine and thiotaurine as indicators of sulfide exposure in bivalves and vestimentiferans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Marine Ecology 28: 208-218
• Carney SL J. R. Flores K. M. Orobona D. A. Butterfield C. R. Fisher & S. W. Schaeffer 2007. Environmental differences in hemoglobin gene expression in the hydrothermal vent tubeworm, Ridgeia piscesae. Comp. Biochem. Phys. B. 146:326–337
• Chao, L. S.-L., R. E. Davis, and C. L. Moyer. 2007. Characterization of bacterial community structure in vestimentiferan tubeworm Ridgeia piscesae trophosomes. Mar. Ecol. 28:1-14.
• Colaco A, D. Desbruyeres & J. Guezennec 2007. Polar lipid fatty acids as indicators of trophic associations in a deep-sea vent system community . In: The Biology of Vents, Seeps, Whale and Wood Falls Marine Ecology - 28:1 - March 2007, L. Levin, J. Barry, H. Felbeck, C. Smith, C. Young Eds.
• Connelly, D., C.R.German, M.Asada, K.Okino, A.Egorov, T.Naganuma, N.Pimenov, G.Cherkashev & K.Tamaki 2007. Hydrothermal activity on the ultra-slow spreading southern Knipovich Ridge Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst. Doi:10.1029/2007GC001652
• Copley JTP, P. Jorgensen P & R. Sohn R, 2007.  Assessment of decadal-scale ecological change at a deep Mid-Atlantic hydrothermal vent and reproductive time-seres in the shrimp Rimicaris exoculata.  Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 87: 859-867
• Copley JTP, H. Flint, T. Ferrero & C. Van Dover. 2007.  Diversity of meiofauna and free-living nematodes in hydrothermal vent mussel beds on the northern and southern East Pacific Rise.  Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 87, (5), 1141-1152
• Cordes EE D. C. Bergquist M. L. Redding & C. R. Fisher 2007. Growth of Seepiophila jonesi: a second species of long-lived tubeworm. Marine Ecology 28:160–168
• Cordes EE S. L. Carney S. Hourdez R. Carney J. M. Brooks & C. R. Fisher 2007. Cold seeps of the deep Gulf of Mexico : Community structure and biogeographic comparisons to Atlantic and Caribbean seep communities. Deep-Sea Research I 54:637–653
• Daly, M. & L. Gusmao, 2007. The first sea anemone (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Aciniaria) from a whale fall. Journal of Natural History 41(1-4): 1-11
• Dattagupta S J. Martin S. Liao R. S. Carney & C. R. Fisher 2007. Deep-sea hydrocarbon-seep gastropod Bathynerita naticoidea responds to cues from the food and habitat-providing mussel, Bathymodiolus childressi. Marine Ecology 28:193–198
• Dattagupta, S., G. Telesnicki, K. Luley, B. Predmore, M. McGinley, and C. R. Fisher. 2007, Submersible operated peepers for collecting pore water from deep-sea sediments Limnol. Ocean. Methods. 5: 263-268.
• Devey C C. R. Fisher & K. Kusek 2007. Introduction to the InterRidge Special Issue. Oceanography 20(12-13)
• Devey C C. R. Fisher & S. Scott 2007. Responsible science at hydrothermal vents. Oceanography 20:162–171
• Duperron S, Sibuet M, MacGregor BJ, Kuypers MMM, Fisher CR, Dubilier N. 2007. Diversity, relative abundance, and metabolic potential of bacterial endosymbionts in three Bathymodiolus mussel species from cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Microbiology 9: 1423-1438
• Duperron, S ., Fiala-Médioni, A., Caprais, J.C., Olu-Le Roy, K., Sibuet, M., 2007. Evidence for chemoautotrophic symbiosis in a Mediterranean cold seep clam (Bivalvia: Lucinidae): comparative sequence analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA, APS reductase and RubisCO genes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 59(1), 64-70.
• Duperron et al. 2007 Unexpected co-occurrence of six bacterial symbionts in the gills of the cold seep mussel Idas sp. (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Environmental Microbiology Volume 10 Issue 2 , Pages 433 – 445
• Faure, B., Chevaldonné, P., Pradillon, F., Thiebaut, E., Jollivet, D., 2007. Spatial and temporal dynamics of reproduction and settlement in the Pompeii worm, Alvinella pompejana (Polychaeta: Alvinellidae). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 348: 197-211
• Fisher, C.R., K. Takai & N. Le Bris 2007. Hydrothermal vent ecosystems. Oceanography 20:14–23
• Fisher, C.R. & P. Girguis 2007. Perspective; Proteomic snapshot of life at a vent. Science 315:198–199
• Fisher, C R., H. Roberts, E. Cordes, and B. Bernard. 2007. Cold seeps and associated communities of the Gulf of Mexico. Oceanography 20-4: 68 – 79.
• Fujikura K K. Amaki J. Barry Y. Fujiwara Y. Furushima R. Iwase H. Yamamoto & T. Maruyama 2007. Long-term in situ monitoring of spawning behavior and fecundity in Calyptogena spp. Marine Ecology Progress Series 333:185–193
• Fujiwara Y K. Masaru T. Yamamoto T. Yamanaka et al. 2007. Three-year investigations into sperm whale-fall ecosystems in Japan . Marine Ecology 28(1):219–232
• Gollner, S., J.Zekely, B.Govenar, N.Le Bris, H.Nemeschkal, C.Fisher, M. Bright. 2007. Study of tubeworm-associated permanent meiobenthic communities from two chemically different hydrothermal vent sites on the East Pacific Rise. MEPS 337: 39-49.
• Gollner S J. Zekely B. Govenar N. Le Bris H. L. Nemechkal C. R. Fisher & M. Bright. 2007. Tubeworm-associated permanent meiobenthic communities from two chemically different hydrothermal vent sites on the East Pacific Rise. Marine Ecology Progress Series 337:39–49
• Govenar B & C. Fisher 2007. Experimental evidence of habitat provision by the siboglinid polychaete Riftia pachyptila. Marine Ecology 28:13–14
• Gros, O. , Gaill, F., 2007. Extracellular bacterial association in gills of “wood mussels”. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 48, 103-109
• Gros, O. , Guibert, J., Gaill, F. 2007 Gill-symbiosis in mytilidae associated with wood fall environments. Zoomorphology. 126, 163-172
• Haase, K.M., S.Petersen, A.Koschinsky, R.Seifert, C.Devey, N.Dubilier, S.Fretzdorff, D.Garbe-Schönberg, C.R.German, O.Giere, R.Keir, J.Kuever, K.Lackschewitz, J.Mawick, H.Marbler, B.Melchert, C.Mertens, H.Paulick, M.Perner, M.Peters, S.Sander, O.Schmale, T.Shank, J.Stecher, H.Strauss, J.Süling, U.Stöber, M.Walter, S.Weber, U.Westernströer, D.Yoerger & F.Zielinski. 2007. Young volcanism and related hydrothermal activity at 5°S on the slow-spreading southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q11002, doi:10.1029/2006GC001509.
• Järnegren J., Rapp H.T., Young C.M. 2007. Similar reproductive cycles and life-history traits in congeneric limid bivalves with different modes of nutrition. Marine Ecology. 28:183-192.
• Järnegren J., Schander C., Sneli J-A., Rønningen V., Young C.M. 2007.  Four genes, morphology and ecology – distinguishing a new species of Acesta (Mollusca; Bivalvia) from the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biology 151 (2)
• Jorgensen BB, Boetius A (2007). Feast and famine – microbial life in the deep-sea bed. Nature Microbiology Reviews, 5, 770-781
• Kadar, E. 2007. Postcapture depuration of essential metals in the deep sea hydrothermal mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Ecotoxicology 78: 99-106
• Kadar E., V. Costa & M. Segonzac 2007. Trophic influences of metal accumulation in natural pollution laboratories at deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Science of the Total Environment.
• Kappel, E. 2007. The Oceanography Society Magazine, Special Issue on InterRidge. 208pp.
• Kelly N, Metaxas A, Butterfield D. 2007. Spatial and temporal patterns in colonization of deep-sea hydrothermal vent invertebrates on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, NE Pacific. Aquatic Biology 1: 1-16
• Kelly N, A Metaxas 2007. Influence of habitat on the reproductive biology of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent limpet Lepetodrilus fucensis (Vetigastropoda: Mollusca) from the Northeast Pacific. Marine Biology 151: 649-662
• Kieneke, A. and J. Zekely, 2007. Desmodasys abyssalis n. sp. First record of a deep sea gastrotrich belonging to an East Pacific hydrothermal vent meiofauna. (JMBA2, published online).
• Komai, T, O. Giere and M. Segonzac, 2007. New records of Alvinocaridid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from hydrothermal vent fields on the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge, including a new species of the genus Opaepele. Species Diversity12: 237-253
• Kon T M. Nohara Y. Yamanoue Y. Fujiwara M. Nishida & T. Nishikawa 2007. Phylogenetic position of a whale-fall lancelet (Cephalochordata) inferred from whole mitochondrial genome sequences. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:127
• Krylova, E., Sahling, H. 2007. Vesicomyidae (Bivalvia): trends of morphological adaptations. World Congress of Malacology, Antwerp, Belgium, 15-20 July 2007. Abstracts, pp.121-122.
• Kuwahara H, Yoshida T, Takaki Y, Shimamura S, Nishi S, Harada M, Matsuyama K, Takishita K, Kawato M, Uematsu K, Fujiwara Y, Sato T, Kato C, Kitagawa M, Kato I, Maruyama T 2007. Reduced genome of the thioautotrophic intracellular symbiont in a deep-sea clam, Calyptogena okutanii. Current Biology 17:881-886
• Le Bris, N., Gaill, F., 2007. How does the annelid Alvinella pompejana deal with an extreme hydrothermal environment? Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology. 6, 197–221.
• Levin, L., J. Barry, H. Felbeck, C. Smith, C. Young Eds 2007. The Biology of Vents, Seeps, Whale and Wood Falls Marine Ecology - 28:1 - March 2007
• Levin, L. and G. Mendoza 2007. Community structure and nutrition of deep methane seep macroinfauna from the Aleutian Margin and Florida Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology 28: 131-151
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• Neulinger , S.C. , Sahling, H., Suling, J. & Imhoff, J., 2006. Presence of two phylogenetically distinct groups in the deep.sea mussel Acharaz (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Solemyidae). MEPS, 312: 161-168
• Nielsen, J.G., P.R. Moller and M. Segonzac, 2006. Ventichthys biospeedoi n. gen. et sp. (Teleostei, Ophidiidae) from a hydrothermal vent in the South East Pacific. Zootaxa 1247: 13-24
• Oliver PG, Sellanes J. 2005. New species of Thyasiridae from a methane seepage area off Concepción , Chile . Zootaxa 1092: 1-20
• Ondréas, H., K. Olu, Y. Fouquet, J. Charlou, A. Gay, B. Dennielou, J. Donval, A. Fifis, T. Nadalig, P. Cochonat, E. Cauquil , J. Bourillet, M. Moigne and M. Sibuet 2005. ROV study of a giant pockmark on the Gabon continental margin. Geo-Marine Letters 25(5): 281
• Postec A., L. Urios, B. Ollivier, J. Quérellou and A. Godfroy 2005. Continuous enrichment culture and molecular monitoring to investigate the microbial diversity of thermophiles inhabiting the deep-sea hydrothermal ecosystems. Current Microbiology 50: 1-7
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• Pradillon, F., N. Le Bris, B. Shillito, C. Young and F. Gaill 2005. Influence of environmental conditions on early development of the hydrothermal vent polychaete Alvinella pompejana.Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 1551-1561.
• Pradillon, F ., Zbinden, M., Mullineaux, L. S., Gaill, F., 2005. Processes controlling physico-chemical gradients associated to Alvinella pompejana (Polychateta: Alvinellidae) populations. Marine Ecology Progress series. 302, 147-157. (IF: 2.315)
• Pflugfelder B., Fisher C. R., Bright M. 2005. The color of the trophosome: elemental sulfur distribution in the endosymbionts of Rifia pachyptila Jones, 1981 (Vestimentifera, Siboglinidae). Marine Biology 146: 895-901.
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• Salerno J.L., Macko S. A., Hallam, S.J., Bright M., Won Y.-J., McKiness Z., Van Dover C.L. 2005. Characterization of symbiont population in life-history stages of mussels from chemosynthetic environments. Biological Bullentin 208: 145-155.
• Sancho, G., C. R. Fisher, S. Mills, F. Micheli, G. A. Johnson, H. S. Lenihan, C. H. Peterson, and L. S. Mullineaux. 2005. Selective predation by the zoarcid fish Thermarces cerberus at hydrothermal vents. Deep-Sea Research 152:837-844.
• Sarradin, P.M., N. Le Bris, C. Le Gall and P. Rodier 2005. Fe analysis by the ferrozine method: Adaptation to FIA towards in situ analysis in hydrothermal environment.Talanta 66: 1131-1138.
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• Stöhr, S. and M. Segonzac 2005. Deep-sea ophiurids (Echinodermata) from reducing and non-reducing environments in the North Atlantic Ocean .Journal of Marine Biological Association of the U.K. 85: 383-402.
• Tarasov, V.G., Gebruk, A.V., Mironov, A.N., Moskalev, L.I. 2005. Deep-sea and shallow water hydrothermal vent communities: Two different phenomena? Chemical Geology, 224: 5-39.
• Thebault, M.T., L. Izem, J.P. Leroy, E. Gobin, G. Charrier and J.P. Raffin 2005. AMP-deaminase in elasmobranch fish: A comparative histochemical and enzymatic study. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 141: 472-479.
• Tyler, P.A., German, C.R., Tunnicliffe, V., and 18 international members of the ChEss programme steering group, 2005. Biologists do not pose a threat to deep-sea vents. Nature, 434: 18.
• Van Dover CL, Doerries MB 2005. Community structure in mussel beds at Logatchev hydrothermal vents and a comparison of macrofaunal species richness on slow- and fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges. PSZN Marine Ecology 26:110-120.
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