Darwin Center programs and projects1011a + b: Anaerobic methane oxidation by Thermotoga species and other thermophilic microorganisms
Darwin Center publicationsBalk, M., Weijma, J., Goorissen, H.P., Ronteltap, M., Hansen, T.A., Stams, A.J.M.
(2007). Methanol utilizing Desulfotomaculum species utilizes hydrogen in a methanol-fed sulfate-reducing bioreactor
. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology73 (5): 1203-1211.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., Stams A. J. M.Balk, M.
(2007). Life in the absence of oxygen: alterative electron acceptors for anaerobic microorganisms in a petroleum environment
. Turkish Journal of Biology31: 59-66.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M.Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S., Balk, M., Stams, A.J.M.
(2007). Structural characterization of diabolic acid-based tetraester, tetraether and mixed ether/ester, membrane-spanning lipids of bacteria from the order Thermotogales
. Archives of Microbiology pp 629-641188 (6): 629-641.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., Hopmans E. C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stams A. J. M.Balk, M., Altinbas, M., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Stams, A.J.M. (2008). Desulfatirhabdium butyrativorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a butyrate-oxidizing, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from an anaerobic bioreactor.. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology58: 110-115.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stams A. J. M.Melike Balk, Ton van Gelder, Sander A. Weelink, and Alfons J. M. Stams (2008). (Per)chlorate Reduction by the Thermophilic Bacterium
Moorella perchloratireducens sp. nov., Isolated from Underground Gas Storage. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY74: 403-409.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., van Gelder A. H., Stams A. J. M.Balk M., Heilig, H.G.H., van Eekert, M.H.A., Stams, A.J.M., Rijpstra, R.C., Sinninghe-Damsté, J.S., de Vos, W.M., Kengen, S.W.M. (2009). Isolation and characterization of a new CO-utilizing strain, Thermoanaerobacter thermohydrosulfuricus subsp. carboxydovorans, isolated from a geothermal spring in Turkey. Extremophiles13: 885-894.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stams A. J. M.Balk M., Bose M., Ertem G., Rogoff D.A., Rothschild, L.J., Freund F.T.
(2009). Oxidation of water to hydrogen peroxide at the rock–water interface due to stress-activated electric currents in rocks
. Earth and Planetary Science Letters283: 87-92.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M.Jiang B., Henstra A.-M., Paulo P.L., Balk M., van Doesburg W., Stams A.J.M.
(2009). Atypical one-carbon metabolism of an acetogenic and hydrogenic Moorella thermoacetica strain
. Archives of Microbiology191(2): 123-131.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., Stams A. J. M.Weijers, J.W.H., Panota, E., Schouten, S., Balk, M., Stams, A.J.M., Rijpstra, I.C., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
(2009). Constraints on the biological source(s) of the orphan branched tetraether membrane lipids
. Geomicrobiology journal26 (6): 402-414.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stams A. J. M.Melike Balk, Farrakh Mehboob, Antonie H. van Gelder, W. Irene C. Rijpstra, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté and Alfons J. M. Stams (2010). (Per)chlorate reduction by an acetogenic bacterium, Sporomusa sp., isolated from an underground gas storage. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology88: 595-603.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., van Gelder A. H., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stams A. J. M.D. Z. Sousa, M. Balk, M. Alves, B. Schink, M. J. McInerney, H. Smidt, C. M. Plugge and A. J. M. Stams (2010). Degradation of Long-Chain Fatty Acids by Sulfate-Reducing and Methanogenic Communities.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., Stams A. J. M.