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  1. Macrofaunal control of microbial community structure in continental margin sediments

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  2. Improving the extraction efficiency of sedimentary carbohydrates by sequential hydrolysis

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, March 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  3. Effects of eutrophication on sedimentary organic carbon cycling in five temperate lakes

    Article • Biogeosciences, September 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  4. Origin of Short-Chain Organic Acids in Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes of the Mariana Convergent Margin

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, July 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  5. Experimental calibration of clumped isotopes in siderite between 8.5 and 62 °C and its application as paleo-thermometer in paleosols

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, June 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  6. Improving the Accuracy of Flow Cytometric Quantification of Microbial Populations in Sediments: Importance of Cell Staining Procedures

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, April 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  7. Effects of eutrophication on sedimentary organic carbon cycling in five temperate lakes

    Article • March 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  8. Marine Transform Faults and Fracture Zones: A Joint Perspective Integrating Seismicity, Fluid Flow and Life

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, March 2019, Frontiers

    umberta tinivella, Professor Mark Alexander Lever, Joao Duarte

  9. The Limits of Life and the Biosphere in Earth’s Interior

    Article • Oceanography, March 2019, The Oceanography Society

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  10. Environmental Fate of RNA Interference Pesticides: Adsorption and Degradation of Double-Stranded RNA Molecules in Agricultural Soils

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, January 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  11. Preservation of microbial DNA in marine sediments: Insights from extracellular DNA pools

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  12. Oxidation of Reduced Peat Particulate Organic Matter by Dissolved Oxygen: Quantification of Apparent Rate Constants in the Field

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, August 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  13. Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex

    Article • Science Advances, June 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever, Takeshi Tsuji

  14. Growth of sedimentary Bathyarchaeota on lignin as an energy source

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  15. D:L-Amino Acid Modeling Reveals Fast Microbial Turnover of Days to Months in the Subsurface Hydrothermal Sediment of Guaymas Basin

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, May 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  16. Aeolian dispersal of bacteria in southwest Greenland: their sources, abundance, diversity and physiological states

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

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  17. Transition from hydrothermal vents to cold seeps records timing of carbon release in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, February 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  18. Oxygen isotope fractionation in the siderite-water system between 8.5 and 62 °C

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  19. Distribution and isotopic composition of trimethylamine, dimethylsulfide and dimethylsulfoniopropionate in marine sediments

    Article • Marine Chemistry, November 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  20. Depth Distribution and Assembly of Sulfate-Reducing Microbial Communities in Marine Sediments of Aarhus Bay

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2017, ASM Journals

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  21. Size and composition of subseafloor microbial community in the Benguela upwelling area examined from intact membrane lipid and DNA analysis

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  22. Influence of Igneous Basement on Deep Sediment Microbial Diversity on the Eastern Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  23. Bioturbation as a key driver behind the dominance of Bacteria over Archaea in near-surface sediment

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2017, Nature

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  24. Microbial community assembly and evolution in subseafloor sediment

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  25. Exploration of cultivable fungal communities in deep coal-bearing sediments from ∼1.3 to 2.5 km below the ocean floor

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, January 2017, Wiley

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  26. Rifting under steam—How rift magmatism triggers methane venting from sedimentary basins

    Article • Geology, July 2016, Geological Society of America

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  27. IODP Expedition 337: Deep Coalbed Biosphere off Shimokita – Microbial processes and hydrocarbon system associated with deeply buried coalbed in the ocean

    Article • Scientific Drilling, June 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  28. The Guaymas Basin Hiking Guide to Hydrothermal Mounds, Chimneys, and Microbial Mats: Complex Seafloor Expressions of Subsurface Hydrothermal Circulation

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, February 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever, Barbara MacGregor

  29. A New Era of Methanogenesis Research

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  30. In Chaotropy Lies Opportunity

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  31. Origin, dynamics, and implications of extracellular DNA pools in marine sediments

    Article • Marine Genomics, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  32. Endospores, prokaryotes, and microbial indicators in arable soils from three long-term experiments

    Article • Biology and Fertility of Soils, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  33. Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to  2.5 km below the ocean floor

    Article • Science, July 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  34. UnculturedDesulfobacteraceaeand Crenarchaeotal group C3 incorporate13C-acetate in coastal marine sediment

    Article • Environmental Microbiology Reports, June 2015, Wiley

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  35. Methanogenic archaea and sulfate reducing bacteria co-cultured on acetate: teamwork or coexistence?

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, May 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  36. Life under extreme energy limitation: a synthesis of laboratory- and field-based investigations

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Reviews, May 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  37. A modular method for the extraction of DNA and RNA, and the separation of DNA pools from diverse environmental sample types

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, May 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  38. Ammonia‐oxidizing B acteria of the N itrosospira cluster 1 dominate over ammonia‐oxidizing A rchaea in oligotrophic surface sediments near t...

    Article • Environmental Microbiology Reports, April 2015, Wiley

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  39. Diversity of Methane-Cycling Archaea in Hydrothermal Sediment Investigated by General and Group-Specific PCR Primers

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2014, ASM Journals

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  40. Survival of prokaryotes in a polluted waste dump during remediation by alkaline hydrolysis

    Article • Ecotoxicology, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  41. Genetic Evidence of Subseafloor Microbial Communities

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  42. Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins

    Article • Nature, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  43. Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt

    Article • Science, March 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  44. Functional gene surveys from ocean drilling expeditions - a review and perspective

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, January 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  45. Endospore abundance and d:l-amino acid modeling of bacterial turnover in holocene marine sediment (Aarhus Bay)

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  46. Acetogenesis in the Energy-Starved Deep Biosphere – A Paradox?

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2012, Frontiers

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  47. Niche Separation of Methanotrophic Archaea (ANME-1 and -2) in Methane-Seep Sediments of the Eastern Japan Sea Offshore Joetsu

    Article • Geomicrobiology Journal, February 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  48. Acetogenesis in Deep Subseafloor Sediments of The Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank: A Synthesis of Geochemical, Thermodynamic, and Gene-based Evidence

    Article • Geomicrobiology Journal, February 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  49. Archaeoglobus sulfaticallidus sp. nov., a thermophilic and facultatively lithoautotrophic sulfate-reducer isolated from black rust exposed to hot ridge flank crustal fluids

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, January 2010, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  50. Metabolic variability in seafloor brines revealed by carbon and sulphur dynamics

    Article • Nature Geoscience, April 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  51. Fluids from the Oceanic Crust Support Microbial Activities within the Deep Biosphere

    Article • Geomicrobiology Journal, February 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  52. Trends in Basalt and Sediment Core Contamination During IODP Expedition 301

    Article • Geomicrobiology Journal, October 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  53. Microbial Community in Black Rust Exposed to Hot Ridge Flank Crustal Fluids

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2006, ASM Journals

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  54. Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  55. Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  56. Methanogen Diversity Evidenced by Molecular Characterization of Methyl Coenzyme M Reductase A (mcrA) Genes in Hydrothermal Sediments of the Guaymas Basin

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2005, ASM Journals

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever

  57. Response of microphytobenthic biomass to experimental nutrient enrichment and grazer exclusion at different land-derived nitrogen loads

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2005, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Mark Alexander Lever