Publications

2000

Bauer, S., Tholen, A., Overmann, J., Brune, A. (2000): Characterization of abundance and diversity of lactic acid bacteria in the hindgut of wood- and soil-feeding termites by molecular and culture-dependent techniques. Arch. Microbiol. 173: 126–137 (Online)
Brune, A., Friedrich, M. (2000): Microecology of the termite gut: structure and function on a microscale. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 3: 263–269 (Online)
Brune, A., Frenzel, P., Cypionka, H. (2000): Life at the oxic-anoxic interface: microbial activities and adaptations. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 24: 691–710 (Online)
Ji, R., Kappler, A., Brune, A. (2000): Transformation and mineralization of synthetic ¹⁴C-labeled humic model compounds by soil-feeding termites. Soil Biol. Biochem. 32: 1281–1291 (Online)
Kappler, A., Ji, R., Brune, A. (2000): Synthesis and characterization of specifically ¹⁴C-labeled humic model compounds for feeding trials with soil-feeding termites. Soil Biol. Biochem. 32: 1271–1280 (Online)
Tholen, A., Brune, A. (2000): Impact of oxygen on metabolic fluxes and in situ rates of reductive acetogenesis in the hindgut of the wood-feeding termite Reticulitermes flavipes. Environ. Microbiol. 2: 436–449 (Online)

Berchtold, M., Chatzinotas, A., Schönhuber, W., Brune, A., Amann, R., Hahn, D., König, H. (1999): Differential enumeration and in situ localization of micro-organisms in the hindgut of the lower termite Mastotermes darwiniensis by hybridization with rRNA-targeted probes. Arch. Microbiol. 172: 407–416 (Online)
Kappler, A., Brune, A. (1999): Influence of gut alkalinity and oxygen status on mobilization and size-class distribution of humic acids in the hindgut of soil-feeding termites. Appl. Soil Ecol. 13: 219–229 (Online)
Schmitt-Wagner, D., Brune, A. (1999): Hydrogen profiles and localization of methanogenic activities in the highly compartmentalized hindgut of soil-feeding higher termites (Cubitermes spp.). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65: 4490–4496 (Online)
Tholen, A., Brune, A. (1999): Localization and in situ activities of homoacetogenic bacteria in the highly compartmentalized hindgut of soil-feeding higher termites (Cubitermes spp.). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65: 4497–4505 (Online)

Benz, M., Brune, A., Schink, B. (1998): Anaerobic and aerobic oxidation of ferrous iron at neutral pH by chemoheterotrophic nitrate-reducing bacteria. Arch. Microbiol. 169: 159–165 (Online)
Benz, M., Schink, B., Brune, A. (1998): Humic acid reduction by Propionibacterium freudenreichii and other fermenting bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64: 4507–4512 (Online)
Brauman, A., Müller, J.A., Garcia, J.-L., Brune, A., and Schink, B. (1998): Fermentative degradation of 3-hydroxybenzoate in pure culture by a novel strictly anaerobic bacterium, Sporotomaculum hydroxybenzoicum gen. nov., sp. nov.. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 48: 215–221 (Online)
Breznak, J.A., Brune, A. (1998): Termites infest microbiology meetings. Isoptera Newsletter 8: 1–2
Brune, A. (1998): Le plus petit bioréacteur du monde. Biofutur 183: 40–43 (Online)
Brune, A. (1998): Microbial degradation of aromatic compounds: aerobic versus anaerobic processes. Mitt. Dtsch. Bodenkdl. Ges. 87: 65–78
Brune, A. (1998): Termite guts: the world's smallest bioreactors. Trends Biotechnol. 16: 16–21 (Online)

Ebert, A., Brune, A. (1997): Hydrogen concentration profiles at the oxic-anoxic interface: a microsensor study of the hindgut of the wood-feeding lower termite Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63: 4039–4046 (Online)
Tholen, A., Schink, B., Brune, A. (1997): The gut microflora of Reticulitermes flavipes, its relation to oxygen, and evidence for oxygen-dependent acetogenesis by the most abundant Enterococcus sp.. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 24: 137–149 (Online)

Brune, A., Kühl, M. (1996): pH profiles of the extremely alkaline hindguts of soil-feeding termites (Isoptera: Termitidae) determined with microelectrodes. J. Insect Physiol. 42: 1121–1127 (Online)