AMD PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO THIS PROJECT:

• Schrenk, M.O., Edwards, K.J., Goodman, R.M., Hamers, R.J. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Distribution of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and Leptospirillum ferrooxidans: implications for generation of acid mine drainage.  Science, 279, 1519-1522.

• Edwards, K.J., Schrenk, M.O., Hamers, R.J., and Banfield, J.F.  (1998) Microbial Oxidation of Pyrite: Experiments using Microorganisms from an Extreme Acidic Environment. American Mineralogist, 83, 1444-1453.

• Edwards, K.J., Goebel, B., Rodgers, T. M., Schrenk, M.O., Cardona, M.M., Gihring, T.M., Hu, B., McGuire, M., N. R. Pace, Hamers, R.J.,  and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Environmental conditions, microbial populations, and the role of attachment in oxidative dissolution of pyrite at Iron Mt. Geomicrobiology Journal, 16,155-179.

• Edwards, K.J., Gihring, T.M., and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Interdependence of microbial populations and environmental conditions at an extreme acid mine drainage environment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 65, 3627-3632.

• Edwards, K.J, Bond, P.L., Gihring, T.M., and Banfield, J.F. (2000) An archaeal iron-oxidizing acidophile important in acid mine drainage. Science, 287, 1796-1798.

• Banfield, J.F. and Marshall, C.R. (2000) Genomics and the Geosciences. Science, 287, 605-606

• Edwards, K.J., Bond, P.L. and Banfield, J.F. (2000) Characteristics of attachment and growth of Thiobacillus caldus on sulfide minerals. Environmental Microbiology, 2, 324-332.

• Bond, P.L., Smriga, S.P., Banfield, J.F. (2000) Phylogeny of microorganisms populating a thick, subaerial, lithotrophic biofilm at an extreme acid mine drainage site.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66, 3842-3849

• Edwards, K.J., Bond, P.L., Druschel G.K., McGuire, M.M., Hu., B., Hamers, R.J., Banfield, J.F. (2000)  Geochemical and biological aspects of sulfide mineral dissolution: Lessons from Iron Mountain, California. Chemical Geology, 169, 383-397.

• Bond, P.L., Druschel, G.K., and Banfield J.F.  (2000) Comparison of acid mine drainage microbial communities in physically and geochemically distinct ecosystems.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66, 4962-4973.

• Bond, P.L. and Banfield, J.F.  (2001) Design and performance of rRNA targeted oligonucleotide probes for in situ detection and phylogenetic identification of microorganisms inhabiting acid mine drainage environments.  Microbial Ecology, 41: 149-161.

• Edwards, K.J., Hu., B., Hamers, R.J., Banfield, J.F. (2001) A new look at microbial leaching patterns on sulfide minerals, FEMS Microbiology Ecology,  34,  197-206

• McGuire, M.M., Edwards, K.J., Banfield, J.F., Hamers, R.J. (2001) Kinetics, Surface Chemistry, and Structural Evolution of Microbially Mediated Sulfide Mineral Dissolution. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta,65 57-72.

• McGuire, M., Banfield, J.F., and Hamers, R.J. (2001) Quantitative determination of elemental sulfur at the arsenopyrite surface after oxidation by ferric iron: mechanistic implications, Geochemical Transactions 4, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1039/b104111h

• Gihring, T.M.,  Bond, P.L., Peters, S., and Banfield, J.F.  (2003) Arsenic resistance in the Archaeon Ferroplasma acidarmanus: new insights into structure and evolution of arsenic genes.  Extremophiles, 7, 123-130

• Macalady, J. and Banfield J.F. Molecular Geomicrobiology: Genes and Geochemical Cycling. (2003) Frontiers: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 209, 1-17

• Baker, B.J. and Banfield, J.F. (2003) Microbial communities associated with acid mine drainage.  FEMS Microbiology Rev., 44, 139-152

• Baker, B., Hugenholtz, P.H., Dawson S.C., and Banfield, J.F. (2003) Circumneutral pH habitats within extremely acidophilic protists host Rickettsiales-lineage endosymbionts with an intervening sequence in their 16S rDNAs.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69, 5512-5518

• Druschel, G.K., Hamers, R.J., and Banfield, J.F. (2003) Kinetics and mechanism of polythionate oxidation to sulfate at low pH by O2 and Fe3+.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Vol. 67, No. 23, p. 4457-4469.

• Druschel, G.K., Hamers, R.J., Luther, G.W., and Banfield, J.F. (2003) Kinetics and mechanisms of trithionate and tetrathionate oxidation at low pH by hydroxyl radicals.  Aquatic Geochemistry, 9, 145-164.

• Tyson, G.W., Chapman, J., Hugenholtz, P., Allen, E., Ram, R.J., Richardson, P., Solovyev, V., Rubin, E., Rokhsar, D., and Banfield, J.F. (2004) Insights into microbial community structure and metabolism by reconstruction of genomes from a natural environment.  Nature,428, 37 – 43.

• Macalady, J.L.,  Vestling, M.M., Baumler, D., Boekelheide, N, Kaspar, CW, and Banfield JF (2004) Tetraether-linked membrane monolayers in Ferroplasma spp.:  a key to survival in acid. Extremophiles, 8: 411-419

• Druschel, G.K., Baker, B.J., Gihring, T.H. and Banfield, J.F. (2004) Acid mine drainage biogeochemistry at Iron Mountain, California. Geochemical Transactions. 5, 13-32.

• Baker, B.J., Lutz, M.A., Dawson, S.C., Bond, P.L., and Banfield, J.F. (2004) Metabolically active eukaryotes in extremely acidic mine drainage. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70, 6264-6271

• Ram, R.J., VerBerkmoes, N.C., Thelen, M. P., Tyson, G.W., Baker, B.J. Blake, R.C. II, Shah, M., Hettich, R.L. and Banfield, J.F. (2005)Community proteomics of a natural microbial biofilm, Science, May 5 Science Express.

• Tyson, G.W., Lo, I., Baker, B.B., Allen, E.E., Hugenholtz, P. and Banfield, J.F. (2005) Genome-Directed Isolation of the Key Nitrogen Fixer, Leptospirillum ferrodiazotrophum sp. nov., from an Acidophilic Microbial Community. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, in press.

REVIEWS and PERSPECTIVES:

• Allen, E.E. and Banfield, J.F. (2005) Community genomics in microbial ecology and evolution. Nature Reviews Microbiology, Web publication 6.2005.

• Tyson, G.W. and Banfield J.F. (2005) Cultivating the uncultivated: a community genomics perspective.  Trends in Microbiology, in press.

• Newman D.K  and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Geomicrobiology: elucidation of the molecular-scale interactions that underpin biogeochemical systems. Science, 296, 1071- 1077.

OTHER AMD-RELATED PUBLICATIONS:

• Suzuki, Y. and Banfield, J.F. (1999) The geomicrobiology of Uranium. Uranium - Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and the Environment.  Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 38, 393-432.
• Suzuki, Y., Kelly, S. Kemner, K., and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Nanometer-scale UO2 bioremediation products. Nature, 419, 134.

• Suzuki, Y., Kelly, S.D., Kemner, K.M., Banfield J.F. (2003) Microbial Populations Stimulated for U(VI) Reduction in Uranium Mine Sediment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology,69: 1337-1346

• Suzuki, Y., S.D. Kelly, K.M. Kemner, J.F. Banfield (2003) Enzymatic U(VI) Reduction by Desulfosporosinus spp. Radiochimica Acta, 92, 11-16.

• Suzuki Y., Kelly S.D., Kemner K.M., Banfield J.F. (2005) Direct microbial reduction and subsequent preservation of uranium in natural near-surface sediment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, 1790-1797.

METALS AND AMD-IMPACTED SYSTEMS:

• Labrenz, M., Druschel, G.K., Thomsen-Ebert, T., Gilbert, B., Welch, S.A., Kemner, K., Logan, G.A., Summons, R., De Stasio, G., Bond, P.L., Lai, B., Kelley, S.D. and Banfield, J.F. (2000) Natural formation of sphalerite (ZnS) by sulfate-reducing bacteria. Science, 290, 1744-1747.

• Druschel, G.K., Labrenz, M., Thomsen-Ebert, T., Fowle, D.A. and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Biogenic Precipitation of Monomineralic Nanocrystalline Sulfides: Implications of Observed and Modeled Processes to Ore Deposition.  Economic Geology, 97, 1319-1329.

• Labrenz  M., and Banfield JF (2004) Microbial diversity in a natural ZnS-producing biofilm dominated by sulfate-reducing bacteria in a subsurface acid mine drainage system, Microbial Ecology, 47, 205-217.

• Gihring T.M., Druschel G.K., McKlesky, B., Hamers, R.J., and Banfield, J.F.  (2001) Rapid arsenite oxidation by Thermus aquaticus and Thermus thermophilus: Field and laboratory implications. Environmental Science and Technology35; 3857-3862

• Gihring, T.M. and Banfield, J.F. (2001) Arsenite oxidation and arsenate respiration by a new Thermus isolate, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 204, 335-340.