Espada-Hinojosa S, Karthäuser C, Srivastava A, Schuster L, Winter T, de Oliveira AL et al. Comparative genomics of a vertically transmitted thiotrophic bacterial ectosymbiont and its close free-living relative. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2023 Nov 27;24(1):e13889. Epub 2023 Nov 27. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13889

Oliveira ALD, Srivastava A, Espada‐Hinojosa S, Bright M. The complete and closed genome of the facultative generalist Candidatus Endoriftia persephone from deep‐sea hydrothermal vents. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2022 Nov;22(8):3106-3123. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13668

Espada-Hinojosa S, Drexel J, Kesting J, Kniha E, Pifeas I, Schuster L et al. Host-symbiont stress response to lack-of-sulfide in the giant ciliate mutualism. PLoS ONE. 2022 Feb 25;17(2):e0254910. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254910

Oliveira ALD, Mitchell J, Girguis P, Bright M. Novel Insights on Obligate Symbiont Lifestyle and Adaptation to Chemosynthetic Environment as Revealed by the Giant Tubeworm Genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2022 Jan 1;39(1):msab347. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab347

Gollner S, Govenar B, Arbizu PM, Mullineaux LS, Mills S, Le Bris N et al. Animal Community Dynamics at Senescent and Active Vents at the 9°N East Pacific Rise After a Volcanic Eruption. Frontiers in Marine Science . 2020 Jan 24;6:832. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00832

Bright M, Espada-Hinojosa S, Volland J-M, Drexel J, Kesting J, Kolar I et al. Thiotrophic bacterial symbiont induces polyphenism in giant ciliate host Zoothamnium niveum. Scientific Reports. 2019 Oct 21;9:15081. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51511-3

Polzin J, Arevalo P, Nussbaumer T, Polz MF, Bright M. Polyclonal symbiont populations in hydrothermal vent tubeworms and the environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 2019 Feb 13;286(1896):20181281. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1281

Volland J-M, Schintlmeister A, Zambalos H, Reipert S, Mozetič P, Espada Hinojosa SM et al. NanoSIMS and tissue autoradiography reveal symbiont carbon fixation and organic carbon transfer to giant ciliate host. The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology. 2018 Mar;12(3):714-727. doi: 10.1038/s41396-018-0069-1

Mullineaux LS, Metaxas A, Beaulieu SE, Bright M, Gollner S, Grupe BM et al. Exploring the ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in a metacommunity framework. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2018 Feb 21;5:49. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00049

Tsao H-F, Scheikl U, Volland J-M, Köhsler M, Bright M, Walochnik J et al. 'Candidatus Cochliophilus cryoturris' (Coxiellaceae), a symbiont of the testate amoeba Cochliopodium minus. Scientific Reports. 2017 Jun 13;7(1):3394. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-03642-8

Schuster L, Bright M. A novel colonial ciliate Zoothamnium ignavum sp. nov. (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) and its ectosymbiont Candidatus Navis piranensis gen. nov., sp. nov. from shallow-water wood falls. PLoS ONE. 2016 Sep 28;11(9):e0162834. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162834

Klose J, Aistleitner K, Horn M, Krenn L, Dirsch V, Zehl M et al. Trophosome of the Deep-Sea Tubeworm Riftia pachyptila Inhibits Bacterial Growth. PLoS ONE. 2016 Jan 5;11(1):e0146446. e0146446. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146446

Gollner S, Govenar B, Martinez Arbizu P, Mills S, Le Bris N, Weinbauer M et al. Differences in recovery between deep-sea hydrothermal vent and vent-proximate communities after a volcanic eruption. Deep-Sea Research. Part 1: Oceanographic Research Papers. 2015 Dec 1;106:167-182. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2015.10.008

Plum C, Gollner S, Martinez Arbizu P, Bright M. Diversity and composition of the copepod communities associated with megafauna around a cold seep in the Gulf of Mexico with remarks on species biogeography. Marine Biodiversity. 2015 Sep;45(3):419–432. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0310-8

Aistleitner K, Anrather D, Schott T, Klose J, Bright M, Ammerer G et al. Conserved features and major differences in the outer membrane protein composition of chlamydiae. Environmental Microbiology. 2015 Apr;17(4):1397-1413. Epub 2014 Oct 21. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12621

Klose J, Polz MF, Wagner M, Schimak M-P, Gollner S, Bright M. Endosymbionts escape dead hydrothermal vent tubeworms to enrich the free-living population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2015;112(36):11300-11305. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1501160112

Gollner S, Govenar B, Fischer C, Bright M. Size matters at deep-sea hydrothermal vents: different diversity and habitat fidelity patterns of meio- and macrofauna. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 2015;520:57-66. doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11078

Eichinger I, Schmitz-Esser S, Schmid M, Fisher CR, Bright M. Symbiont-driven sulfur crystal formation in a thiotrophic symbiosis from deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2014 Aug;6(4):364-372. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12149

Bright M, Espada Hinojosa SM, Lagkouvardos I, Volland J-M. The giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its thiotrophic epibiont Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli: a model system to study interspecies cooperation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2014 Apr 7;5:145. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00145