Publications
Scientific publications provide an in-depth look into the details of our research. We strive to ensure that all our publications are open-access.
A list of our publications with their respective DOIs can be found below.
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Novel insights on obligate symbiont lifestyle and adaptation to chemosynthetic environment as revealed by the giant tubeworm genomede
de Oliveira, A.L., Mitchell, J., Girguis, P.R., and Bright, M. 2022. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(1), msab347. doi:10.1093/molbev/msab347
Co-occurring activities of two autotrophic pathways in symbionts of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila
Leonard, J.M., Mitchell, J., Beinart, R.A., Delaney, J.A., Sanders, J.G., Ellis, G., Goddard, E.A., Girguis, P.R., and Scott, K.M. 2021. Applied and Env. Microbiology, 87(17), e00794-21. doi:10.1128/AEM.00794-21
Hydrogen does not appear to be a major electron donor for symbiosis with the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila
Mitchell, J.H., Leonard, J.M., Delaney, J., Girguis, P.R.*, and Scott, K.M.* 2020. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86(1). doi:10.1128/AEM.01522-19
Hydrothermal energy transfer and organic carbon production at the deep seafloor
LeBris, N., Yucel, M., Das, A., Sievert, S.M., and Girguis, P.R. 2019. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 531. doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00531
Linking hydrothermal geochemistry to organismal physiology: physiological versatility in Riftia pachyptilafrom sedimented and basalt-hosted vents
Robidart, J.C., Roque, A., Song, P., and Girguis, P.R. 2011. PLoS ONE, 6(7), e21692. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021692
The metabolic demands of endosymbiotic chemoautotrophic metabolism on host physiological capacities
Childress, J.J. and Girguis, P.R. 2011. Journal of Experimental Biology, 214, 312-325. doi:10.1242/jeb.049023
Thiotaurine and hypotaurine contents in hydrothermal-vent polychaetes without thiotrophic endosymbionts: correlation with sulfide exposure
Yancey, P.H., Ishikawa, J., Meyer, B., Girguis, P.R., and Lee, R. 2009. Journal of Experimental Zoology, 311A(6), 439-447. doi:10.1002/jez.541
A proteomic snapshot of life at a vent
Fisher, C.R. and Girguis, P.R. 2007. Science, 315(5809), 198-199 (Perspectives). doi:10.1126/science.1137739
Metabolite uptake, stoichiometry and chemoautotrophic function of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila: responses to environmental variations in substrate concentrations and temperature
Girguis, P.R. and Childress, J.J. 2006. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209(18), 3516-28. doi:10.1242/jeb.02404
On the edge of a deep biosphere: true animals in extreme environments
Childress J.J., Fisher C.R., and Girguis, P.R. 2003. In The Subseafloor Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges (eds. W.D. Wilcock, D.S. Kelley, J.A. Baross, E. DeLong, and C. Cary), American Geophysical Union Monographs, 144, 41-49. doi:10.1029/144GM04
Effects of metabolite uptake on proton-equivalent elimination by two species of deep-sea vestimentiferan tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila and Lamellibrachia cf luymesi
Girguis, P.R., Childress, J.J., Freytag, J.A., Klose, K.A., and Stuber, R. 2002. Journal of Experimental Biology, 205, 3055-3066. doi:10.1242/jeb.205.19.3055
Fate of nitrate acquired by the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila
Girguis, P.R., Lee, R.W., Desaulniers, N., Childress, J.J., Pospesel, M., Felbeck, H., and Zal, F. 2000. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66(7), 2783-27909. doi:10.1128/AEM.66.7.2783-2790.2000
Physiological functioning of carbonic anhydrase in the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila
Goffredi, S.K., Girguis, P.R., Childress. J.J., and Desaulniers, N.T. 1999. Biological Bulletin, 196(3), 257-264. doi:10.2307/1542950
H+ equivalent elimination by the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila
Girguis, P.R. and Childress, J.J. 1998. Cahiers de Marine Biologie, 39, 285-296.