Publications of the Christner Research Group

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Refereed PUBLICATIONS:

Amato, P., S.M. Doyle, J.R. Battista, and B.C. Christner. Implications of subzero metabolic activity on long-term microbial survival in terrestrial and extraterrestrial permafrost. In revision for Astrobiology.

Doyle, S.M., M. Dieser, E. Broemsen, and B.C. Christner. General adaptations in cold-adapted microorganisms. Submitted to L. Whyte and R.V. Miller (eds), Polar and Sub-Polar Microbiology. American Society of Microbiology Press, Washington, D.C.

Junge, K., B.C. Christner, and J.T. Staley. 2010. Diversity of Psychrophilic Bacteria from Sea Ice - and Glacial Ice Communities. Submitted to K. Horikoshi, G. Antranikian, A. Bull, F. Robb, and K. Stetter (eds), Extremophiles Handbook. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.

Fricker, H.A., R. Powell, J. Priscu, S. Tulaczyk, S. Anandakrishnan, B. Christner, D. Holland, H. Horgan, R. Jacobel, J. Mikucki, A. Mitchell, R. Scherer, and J. Severinghaus. Siple Coast Subglacial Aquatic Environments: The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project. Submitted to M. Siegert and M. Kennicutt (eds), Proceedings of the Chapman Conference on the Exploration and Study of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.

Christner, B.C. 2010. Bioprospecting for microbial products that affect ice crystal formation and growth. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 85:481-489.

Phillips, V.T.J., C. Andronache, B.C. Christner, C.E. Morris, D.C. Sands, A. Bansemer,
A. Lauer, C. McNaughton, and C. Seman. 2009. Potential impacts from biological
aerosols on ensembles of continental clouds simulated numerically. Biogeosciences,
6:987-1014.

Amato, P., and B.C. Christner. 2009. Energy metabolism response to low temperature and frozen conditions in Psychrobacter cryohalolentis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75:711-718.

Amato, P., S.M. Doyle, and B.C. Christner. 2009. Macromolecular synthesis by yeasts under frozen conditions. Environmental Microbiology, 11:589-596.

Christner, B.C., R. Cai, C.E. Morris, K.S. McCarter, C.M. Foreman, M.L. Skidmore, S.N. Montross, and D.C. Sands. 2008. Geographic, seasonal, and precipitation chemistry influence on the abundance and activity of biological ice nucleators in rain and snow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105:18854-18859.

Priscu, J.C., B.C. Christner,  J.E. Dore, B.N. Popp, M.B. Westley, and K.L. Casciotti. 2008. Supersaturated N₂O in a perennially ice-covered lake: molecular and stable isotopic evidence for a biogeochemical relict. Limnology and Oceanography, 53:2439-2450.

Priscu, J.C., S. Tulaczyk, M. Studinger, M.C. Kennicutt II, B.C. Christner, and C.M.
Foreman. 2008. Antarctic Subglacial Water: Origin, Evolution and Microbial Ecology. In W.
Vincent and J. Laybourn-Parry (eds), Polar Limnology. Oxford University Press, pp. 119-135.

Raymond, J.A., B.C. Christner, and S.C. Schuster. 2008. An ice-adapted bacterium from the Vostok ice core. Extremophiles, 12:713-717.

Christner, B.C., C.E. Morris, C.M. Foreman, R. Cai, and D.C. Sands. 2008. Ubiquity of biological ice nucleators in snowfall.  Science, 319:1214.

Christner, B.C., M.L. Skidmore, J.C. Priscu, M. Tranter, and C.M. Foreman. 2008. Bacteria in
subglacial environments. In R. Margesin, F. Schinner, J.-C. Marx, and C. Gerday (eds),
Psychrophiles: From Biodiversity to Biotechology. Springer, New York.

Christner, B.C., G. Royston-Bishop, C.F. Foreman, B.R. Arnold, M. Tranter, K.A. Welch, W. B. Lyons, A.I. Tsapin, M. Studinger, and J.C. Priscu. 2006. Limnological conditions in Subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica. Limnology and Oceanography, 51:2485-2501.

Priscu, J.C., B.C. Christner, C.F. Foreman, and G. Royston-Bishop. 2006. Biological material in ice cores. In S. Elias (ed.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, pp. 1156-1166.
Elsevier, UK.

Royston-Bishop, G., J.C. Priscu, M. Tranter, B.C. Christner, M.J. Siegert, and V. Lee. 2005. Incorporation of particulates into accreted ice above Subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology, 40:145-150.

Christner, B.C., J.A. Mikucki, C.M. Foreman, J. Denson, and J.C. Priscu. 2005.  Glacial ice cores: a model system for developing extraterrestrial decontamination protocols. Icarus, 174:572-584.

Christner, B.C., E. Mosley-Thompson, L.G. Thompson, and J.N. Reeve. 2005.  Recovery and identification of bacteria from polar and non-polar glacial ice. In S. O. Rogers and J. Castello (eds), Life in Ancient Ice, pp. 209-227. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Priscu, J.C., and B.C. Christner. 2004.  Earth’s icy biosphere. In Bull, Alan T. (ed.), Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting, pp. 130-145. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.

Christner, B.C., B.H. Kvitko, and J.N. Reeve. 2003  Molecular identification of bacteria and eukarya inhabiting an Antarctic cryoconite hole.  Extremophiles, 7:177-183.  

Christner, B.C., E. Mosley-Thompson, L.G. Thompson, and J.N. Reeve.  2003.  Bacterial recovery from ancient ice. Environmental Microbiology 5:433-436.

Christner, B.C.  2002.  Incorporation of DNA and protein precursors into macromolecules by bacteria at -15^oC.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68:6435-6438.  

Christner, B.C., E. Mosley-Thompson, L.G. Thompson, V. Zagorodnov, K. Sandman, and J.N. Reeve.  2002.  Isolation and identification of bacteria from ancient and modern ice core archives.  In:  The Patagonian Ice Fields. A unique natural laboratory for environmental and climate change studies, edited by G. Casassa, F.V. Sepúlveda, and R. Sinclair, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York.

Christner, B.C., E. Mosley-Thompson, L.G. Thompson, and J.N. Reeve.  2001.  Isolation of bacteria and 16S rDNAs from Lake Vostok accretion ice.  Environmental Microbiology 3:570-577.

Christner, B.C., E. Mosley-Thompson, L.G. Thompson, V. Zagorodnov, K. Sandman, and J.N. Reeve.  2000.  Recovery and identification of viable bacteria immured in glaical ice.  Icarus 144:479-485. 

PH. D. THESIS:

Christner, B.C.  2002. Detection, recovery, isolation, and characterization of bacteria in glacial ice and Lake Vostok accretion ice.  Ph.D thesis, Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University. 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Christner, B.C. and J.C. Priscu. 2008. Antarctica: a last frontier for microbial exploration. Microbiology Today, 35:70-73.

Doyle, S.M., P. Amato, and B.C. Christner. 2008. Life in and under the Antarctic ice sheets (cover article). Microscopy Today, 16:6-9.

Christner, B.C., and J.C. Priscu. 2005. Subglacial Lake Vostok. Invited contributor to the Encyclopedia of Water, edited by Jay H. Lehr, John Wiley and Sons Publishing.

Christner, B.C. 2004. Cryoconite hole ecosystems in Antarctic glacier ice. Invited contributor to the Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, edited by Beau Riffenburgh, Routledge Reference.