Publications of W. Liesack

Shrestha, P., Noll, M. and Liesack, W.: (2007) Phylogenetic identity, growth-response time and rRNA operon copy number of soil bacteria indicate different stages of community succession, Environmental Microbiology, 9, October, pp. 2464–2474.

Dedysh, S., Belova, S., Bodelier, P., Smirnova, K., Khmelenina, V., Chidthaisong, A., Trotsenko, Y., Liesack, W. and Dunfield, P.: (2007) Methylocystis heyeri sp. nov., a novel type II methanotrophic bacterium possessing 'signature' fatty acids of type I methanotrophs, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 57, pp. 472–479.

Dunfield, Peter, Yuryev, A., Senin, P., Smirnova, A. V., Stott, M. B., Hou, S. B., Ly, B., Saw, J. H., Zhou, Z. M., Ren, Y., Wang, J. M., Mountain, B. W., Crowe, M. A., Weatherby, T. M., Bodelier, P. L. E., Liesack, W., Feng, L., Wang, L. and Alam, M.: (2007) Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia, Nature, 450, pp. 879–882.

Pankratov, T. A., Tindall, B. J., Liesack, W. and Dedysh, S. N.: (2007) Mucilaginibacter paludis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Mucilaginibacter gracilis sp. nov., pectin-, xylan- and laminarin-degrading members of the family Sphingobacteriaceae from acidic Sphagnum peat bog, Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 57, pp. 2349–2354.

Pankratov, T., Kulichevskaya, I., Liesack, W. and Dedysh, S.: (2006) Isolation of aerobic, gliding, xylanolytic and laminarinolytic bacteria from acidic Sphagnum peatlands and emended description of Chitinophaga arvensicola (Kämpfer et al. 2006), International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 56, December, pp. 2761–2764.

Dedysh, S., Pankratov, T., Belova, S., Kulichevskaya, I. and Liesack, W.: (2006) Phylogenetic analysis and in situ identification of bacteria community composition in an acidic sphagnum peat bog, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72, March, pp. 2110–2117.

Conrad, Ralf, Erkel, Christoph and Liesack, Werner: (2006) Rice Cluster I methanogens, an important group of Archaea producing greenhouse gas in soil, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 17, pp. 262–267.

Erkel, C., Kube, M., Reinhardt, R. and Liesack, W.: (2006) Genome of rice cluster I archaea - the key methane producers in the rice rhizosphere, Science, 313, pp. 370–372.

Kulichevskaya, I., Guzev, V., Gorlenko, V., Liesack, W. and Dedysh, S.: (2006) Rhodoblastus sphagnicola sp. nov., a novel acidophilic purple non-sulfur bacterium from Sphagnum peat bog, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 56, pp. 1397–1402.

Lu, Yahai, Rosencrantz, Dirk, Liesack, Werner and Conrad, Ralf: (2006) Structure and activity of bacterial community inhabiting rice roots and the rhizosphere, Environmental Microbiology, 8 (8), pp. 1351–1360.

Ricke, P., Kube, M., Nakagawa, S., Erkel, C., Reinhardt, R. and Liesack, W.: (2005) First genome data from uncultured upland soil cluster alpha methanotrophs provide further evidence for a close phylogenetic relationship to Methylocapsa acidiphila B2 and for high-affinity methanotrophy involving particulate methane monooxygenase, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71 (11), pp. 7472–7482.

Noll, M., Matthies, D., Frenzel, P., Derakshani, M. and Liesack, W.: (2005) Succession of bacterial community structure and diversity in a paddy soil oxygen gradient, Environmental Microbiology, 7 (3), pp. 382–395.

Dedysh, S., Smirnova, K., Khmelenina, V., Suzina, N., Liesack, W. and Trotsenko, Y.: (2005) Methylotrophic autotrophy in Beijerinckia mobilis, Journal of Bacteriology, 187, pp. 3884–3888.

Erkel, C., Kemnitz, D., Kube, M., Ricke, P., Chin, K., Dedysh, S., Reinhardt, R., Conrad, R. and Liesack, W.: (2005) Retrieval of first genome data for rice cluster I methanogens by a combination of cultivation and molecular techniques, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 53, pp. 187–204.

Dedysh, S., Ricke, P. and Liesack, W.: (2004) NifH and NifD phylogenies: an evolutionary basis for understanding nitrogen fixation capabilities of methanotrophic bacteria, Microbiology, 150, May, pp. 1301–1313.

Dedysh, S. N., Berestovskaya, Y. Y., Vasylieva, L. V., Belova, S. E., Khmelenina, V. N., Suzina, N. E., Trotsenko, Y. A., Liesack, W. and Zavarzin, G. A.: (2004) Methylocella tundrae sp nov., a novel methanotrophic bacterium from acidic tundra peatlands, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 54, January, pp. 151–156.

Ricke, P., Erkel, C., Kube, M., Reinhardt, R. and Liesack, W.: (2004) Comparative analysis of the conventional and novel pmo (Particulate methane monooxygenase) Operons from Methylocystis strain SC2, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70 (5), pp. 3055–3063.

Yimga, M. T., Dunfield, P. F., Ricke, P., Heyer, H. and Liesack, W.: (2003) Wide distribution of a novel pmoA-like gene copy among type II methanotrophs, and its expression in Methylocystis strain SC2, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69 (9), pp. 5593–5602.

Avrahami, S., Liesack, W. and Conrad, R.: (2003) Effects of temperature and fertilizer on activity and community structure of soil ammonia oxidizers, Environmental Microbiology, 5 (8), pp. 691–705.

Dedysh, S., Dunfield, P., Derakshani, M., Stubner, S., Heyer, J. and Liesack, W.: (2003) Differential detection of type II methanotrophic bacteria in acidic peatlands using newly developed 16S rRNA-targeted fluorescent oligonucleotide probes, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 43, pp. 299–308.