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  1. Environmental Gradients Shape Fungal Diversity and Functional Traits in Arctic Biocrusts

    Article • Journal of Fungi, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  2. Host Identity Shapes Bacterial Community Structure and Their Metabolic Potential in Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystem

    Article • November 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  3. Altitude-Driven Variation in Fungal Diversity and Functional Traits in Arctic Biocrusts

    Article • October 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  4. Polyphasic characterization and genomic insights of the cyanobacteria Aphanothece microscopica and A. stagnina from Southern Brazil with emphasis on fatty acid biosynthesis

    Article • Current Genetics, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  5. Detecting Environmental Stress In Situ Using Molecular Data: A Case Study with the Filamentous Green Alga Klebsormidium and Antarctic Biocrusts

    Article • Microorganisms, September 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  6. Summer and autumn photosynthetic activity in High Arctic biological soil crusts and their winter recovery

    Article • September 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  7. Unveiling the molecular mechanisms of the stress resilience of High Arctic Klebsormidium flaccidum : a multifaceted study

    Article • Plant and Cell Physiology, August 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  8. Detecting Environmental Stress In Situ Using Molecular Data: A Case Study with the Filamentous Green Alga <em>Klebsormidium </em>and Antarctic Biocrusts

    Article • June 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  9. Role of Climate and Edaphic Factors on the Community Composition of Biocrusts Along an Elevation Gradient in the High Arctic

    Article • Microorganisms, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  10. Microbial response to seasonal variation in arctic biocrusts with a focus on fungi and cyanobacteria

    Article • Environmental Research, December 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  11. Role of Climate and Edaphic Factors on the Community Composition of Biocrusts Along an Elevation Gradient in the High Arctic

    Article • November 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  12. Microalgal Diversity and Molecular Ecology: A Comparative Study of Classical and Metagenomic Approaches in Ponds of the Eifel National Park, Germany

    Article • Phycology, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  13. Microalgal Diversity and Molecular Ecology: A Comparative Study of Classical and Metagenomic Approaches in Ponds of the Eifel National Park, Germany

    Article • June 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  14. Microbial community composition of terrestrial habitats in East Antarctica with a focus on microphototrophs

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2024, Frontiers

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  15. Metagenomic Analysis of Antarctic Biocrusts Unveils a Rich Range of Cold-Shock Proteins

    Article • Microorganisms, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  16. Metagenomics Provides a Deeper Assessment of the Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Polar Soils Than Metabarcoding

    Article • Genes, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  17. Biocrusts from Iceland and Svalbard: Does microbial community composition differ substantially?

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, December 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  18. Temperature- and light stress adaptations in Zygnematophyceae: The challenges of a semi-terrestrial lifestyle

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, July 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  19. Desiccation tolerance in streptophyte algae and the algae to land plant transition: evolution of LEA and MIP protein families within the Viridiplantae

    Article • Journal of Experimental Botany, February 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  20. Metatranscriptomic and metabolite profiling reveals vertical heterogeneity within a Zygnema green algal mat from Svalbard (High Arctic)

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2019, Wiley

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  21. Biodiversity of biological soil crusts from the Polar Regions revealed by metabarcoding

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  22. Biological soil crusts of Arctic Svalbard and of Livingston Island, Antarctica

    Article • Polar Biology, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  23. Desiccation tolerance in the streptophyte green alga Klebsormidium: The role of phytohormones

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  24. The Origin and Evolution of the Plant Cell Surface: Algal Integrin-Associated Proteins and a New Family of Integrin-Like Cytoskeleton-ECM Linker Proteins

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, May 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  25. Transcriptomics of Desiccation Tolerance in the Streptophyte Green Alga Klebsormidium Reveal a Land Plant-Like Defense Reaction

    Article • PLOS One, October 2014, PLOS

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  26. The Contractile Vacuole as a Key Regulator of Cellular Water Flow in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, September 2014, ASM Journals

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  27. Snow ball earth and the split of Streptophyta and Chlorophyta

    Article • Trends in Plant Science, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  28. 5 Evolution of vacuolar targeting in algae

    Article • December 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  29. 6 Contractile vacuole s in green algae – structure and function

    Article • December 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  30. The SEC6 protein is required for function of the contractile vacuole inChlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Article • Journal of Cell Science, January 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  31. Origin of land plants: Do conjugating green algae hold the key?

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  32. The System of Contractile Vacuoles in the Green Alga Mesostigma viride (Streptophyta)

    Article • Protist, August 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  33. Evolution of vacuolar targeting in algae

    Article • Botanica Marina, April 2009, De Gruyter

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  34. Streptophyte algae and the origin of embryophytes

    Article • Annals of Botany, March 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  35. Chlamydial genes shed light on the evolution of photoautotrophic eukaryotes

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  36. Gain and loss of polyadenylation signals during evolution of green algae

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, April 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  37. Function and Evolution of the Vacuolar Compartment in Green Algae and Land Plants (Viridiplantae)

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  38. Phylogenetic Analyses of Nuclear, Mitochondrial, and Plastid Multigene Data Sets Support the Placement of Mesostigma in the Streptophyta

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, December 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  39. The GapA/B Gene Duplication Marks the Origin of Streptophyta (Charophytes and Land Plants)

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, March 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  40. EST analysis of the scaly green flagellate Mesostigma viride (Streptophyta): Implications for the evolution of green plants (Viridiplantae)

    Article • BMC Plant Biology, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  41. Inhibition of Contractile Vacuole Function by Brefeldin A

    Article • Plant and Cell Physiology, March 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  42. Inhibition of Contractile Vacuole Function by Brefeldin A

    Article • Plant and Cell Physiology, January 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  43. PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTOPLASTS OBTAINED FROM THE PRASINOPHYTE SCHERFFELIA DUBIA (CHLOROPHYTA)1

    Article • Journal of Phycology, November 2004, Wiley

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  44. A STUDY OF CELL WALL AND FLAGELLA FORMATION DURING CELL DIVISION IN THE SCALY GREEN ALGA, SCHERFFELIA DUBIA (CHLOROPHYTA)1

    Article • Journal of Phycology, September 2004, Wiley

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  45. Structure of N‐glycosidic Carbohydrates of Secretory Proteins of Tetrahymena thermophila

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, July 2003, Wiley

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  46. Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) from the Scaly Green Flagellate Scherffelia dubia Pascher emend. Melkonian et Preisig

    Article • Protist, July 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  47. Flagellar Membrane Proteins of Tetraselmis striata Butcher (Chlorophyta)

    Article • Protist, August 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  48. The Golgi apparatus of the scaly green flagellate Scherffelia dubia : uncoupling of glycoprotein and polysaccharide synthesis during flagellar regeneration

    Article • Planta, March 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  49. V-ATPase is a Major Component of the Golgi Complex in the Scaly Green Flagellate Scherffelia dubia

    Article • Protist, October 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  50. THE CELL WALL (THECA) OF TETRASELMIS STRIATA (CHLOROPHYTA): MACROMOLECULAR COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE COMPLEX POLYSACCHARIDES

    Article • Journal of Phycology, October 1998, Wiley

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  51. Scale-associated glycoproteins of Scherffelia dubia (Chlorophyta) form high-molecular-weight complexes between the scale layers and the flagellar membrane

    Article • Planta, August 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  52. Lectin binding of flagellar scale-associated glycoproteins in different strains ofTetraselmis(chlorophyta)

    Article • European Journal of Phycology, November 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  53. Anterograde transport of algal scales through the Golgi complex is not mediated by vesicles

    Article • Trends in Cell Biology, August 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  54. Intra‐Golgi Transport Mediated by Vesicles?

    Article • Botanica Acta, June 1995, Wiley

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  55. The structure of an acidic trisaccharide component from a cell wall polysaccharide preparation of the green alga Tetraselmis striata Butcher

    Article • Carbohydrate Research, February 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  56. Structure, composition, and biogenesis of prasinophyte cell coverings

    Article • PROTOPLASMA, March 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  57. 2‐KETO‐SUGAR ACIDS IN GREEN FLAGELLATES: A CHEMICAL MARKER FOR PRASINOPHYCEAN SCALES1,2

    Article • Journal of Phycology, August 1991, Wiley

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  58. Scale formation in algae

    Article • Journal of Electron Microscopy Technique, February 1991, Wiley

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  59. Isolation, purification, and characterization of flagellar scales from the green flagellateTetraselmis striata (Prasinophyceae)

    Article • PROTOPLASMA, February 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Burkhard Becker

  60. Identification of 3‐deoxy‐manno‐2‐octulosonic acid, 3‐deoxy‐5‐O‐methyl‐manno‐2‐octulosonic acid and 3‐deoxy‐lyxo‐2‐heptulosaric acid in the cell wall (theca) of the green alga Tetraselmis striata Butcher (Prasinophyceae)

    Article • European Journal of Biochemistry, June 1989, Wiley

    Professor Burkhard Becker