Publication List:

Bodelier, P.L.E., B. Sorrell, H. Drake, T. Hurek, C. Lovell, P. Megonigal and P. Frenzel. 2005. Ecological aspects of microbes inhabiting the rhizosphere of wetland plants. In: J.T.A. Verhoven (ed.) Ecological Studies, Springer Verlag. In press.

Lovell, C.R. 2005. Belowground interactions among salt marsh plants and microorganisms. In: E. Kristensen, J.E. Kostka, and R.H. Hease (eds.) Interactions Between Macro- and Microorganisms in Marine Sediments, pp. 61-83. Coastal and Estuarine Studies Volume 60. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.

Lovell, C.R. and A.B. Leaphart. 2005. Community-level analysis: key genes of CO₂–reductive acetogenesis. In J.R. Leadbetter (ed.) Methods in Enzymology, pp. . Elsevier, San Diego, CA. In press.

Perkins, D.L., C.R. Lovell, B.V. Bronk, B. Setlow, P. Setlow, M.L. Myrick. 2005. The contribution of dipicolinic acid and calcium dipicolinate in the mid-infrared absorbance of Bacillus subtilis studied by FT-IR reflectance microspectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy 59:893-896.

Bagwell, C.E., and C.R. Lovell. 2004. A DNA-DNA hybridization method for the detection and quantification of specific bacterial taxa in natural environments. In: J.F.T Spencer and A.L. Ragout de Spencer (eds.) Environmental Microbiology, pp. 169-174. Methods in Biotechnology Series, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

LaRocque, J., P.W. Bergholz, C.E. Bagwell, and C.R. Lovell. 2004. Influence of host plant-derived and abiotic environmental parameters on the composition of the diazotroph assemblage associated with roots of Juncus roemerianus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 68:249-261.

Lovell, C.R. 2004. Diversity, microbial. In: M. Schaechter and J. Lederberg  (eds.), The Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology, pp. 326-339, Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

Matsui, G.Y., D.B. Ringelberg, and C.R. Lovell. 2004. Sulfate reducing bacteria in tubes constructed by the marine infaunal polychaete Diopatra cuprea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:7053-7065.

Perkins, D.L., C.R. Lovell, B.V. Bronk, B. Setlow, P. Setlow, and M.L. Myrick. 2004. The effects of autoclaving on bacterial endospores studied by Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy 58:749-753.

Torres, R., M.A. Goñi, G. Voulgaris, C.R. Lovell, J.T. Morris. 2004. Effects of low tide rainfall on intertidal zone material cycling. In: S. Fagherazzi (ed.) The Ecogeomorphology of Salt Marshes, pp. 93-114. Coastal and Estuarine Studies Volume 59. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.

Brown, M.M., M.J. Friez, and C.R. Lovell. 2003. Expression of nifH genes by diazotrophic bacteria in the rhizosphere of short form Spartina alterniflora. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 43:411-417.

Leaphart, A.B., M.J. Friez, and C.R. Lovell. 2003. Formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase sequences from salt marsh plant roots reveal a diversity of acetogenic bacteria and other bacterial functional groups. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69:693-696.

Bagwell, C.E., J.R. La Rocque, G.W. Smith, S.W. Polson, M.J. Friez, J.W. Longshore, and C.R. Lovell. 2002. Molecular diversity of diazotrophs in oligotrophic seagrass bed communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 39:113-119.

Beeson, K., D.L. Erdner, C.E. Bagwell, C.R. Lovell, and P.A. Sobecky. 2002. Differentiation of plasmids in marine diazotroph assemblages determined by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis. Microbiology 148:179-189.

Dang, H., and C.R. Lovell. 2002. Numerical dominance and phylotype diversity of marine Rhodobacter during early Colonization of submerged surfaces in coastal marine waters as determined by 16S rDNA sequence analysis and fluorescence in situ hybridization.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68:496-504.

Dang, H., and C.R. Lovell. 2002. Seasonal dynamics of particle-associated and free-living marine Proteobacteria in a salt marsh tidal creek as determined using fluorescence in situ hybridization. Environmental Microbiology 4:287-295.

Leaphart, A.B., H.T. Spencer, and C.R. Lovell. 2002. Site directed mutagenesis of a putative catalytic and formyl phosphate binding site and substrate inhibition of N¹⁰-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 408:137-143.

Lovell, C.R. 2002. Plant-microbe interactions in the marine environment. In: G. Bitton (ed.) Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 5, pp. 2539-2554.  Wiley, New York.

Lovell, C.R., A.J. Lewitus, N. Eriksen, and Y.P. Chen. 2002. Resistance of the marine diatom Thalassiosira sp. to toxicity of phenolic compounds. Marine Ecology Progress Series 229:11-18.

Marinelli, R.L., C.R. Lovell, S.G. Wakeham, D.B. Ringelberg, and D.C. White. 2002. An experimental investigation of the control of bacterial community composition in macrofaunal burrows. Marine Ecology Progress Series 235:1-13.

Bagwell, C.E., M. Dantzler, P.W. Bergholz, and C.R. Lovell. 2001. Host specific ecotypic diversity of rhizoplane diazotrophs of the perennial glasswort, Salicornia virginica and selected salt marsh grasses. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 23:293-300.

Bergholz, P.W., C.E. Bagwell, and C.R. Lovell. 2001. Physiological diversity of rhizoplane diazotrophs of the saltmeadow cordgrass, Spartina patens.  Implications for host specific ecotypes. Microbial Ecology 42:466-473.

Leaphart, A.B., and C.R. Lovell. 2001. Recovery and analysis of formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase gene sequences from natural populations of acetogenic bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67:1392-1395.

Lovell, C.R., C.E. Bagwell, M. Czako, L. Marton, Y.M. Piceno, and D.B. Ringelberg. 2001. Stability of a rhizosphere microbial community exposed to natural and manipulated environmental variability. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 38:69-76.

Lovell, C.R., M.J. Friez, J.W. Longshore, and C.E. Bagwell. 2001. Recovery and phylogenetic analysis of nifH sequences from diazotrophic bacteria associated with dead aboveground biomass of Spartina alterniflora. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67:5308-5314.

Thompson, J.N., O.J. Reichman, P.J. Morin, G.A. Polis, M.E. Power, R.W. Sterner, C.A. Couch, L. Gough, R. Holt, D.U. Hooper, F. Keesing, C.R. Lovell, B.T. Milne, M.C. Molles, D.W. Roberts, and S.Y. Strauss. 2001. Frontiers of ecology. BioScience 51:15-24.

Bagwell, C.E., and C.R. Lovell. 2000. Microdiversity of culturable diazotrophs from the rhizoplanes of the salt marsh grasses Spartina alterniflora and Juncus roemerianus. Microbial Ecology 39:128-136.

Bagwell, C.E., and C.R. Lovell. 2000. Persistence of selected Spartina alterniflora rhizoplane diazotrophs exposed to natural and manipulated environmental variability. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66:4625-4633.

Dang, H., and C.R. Lovell. 2000. Bacterial primary colonization and early succession on surfaces in marine waters as analyzed by amplified rRNA gene restriction analysis and sequence analysis of 16S rRNA genes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66:467-475.

Lovell, C.R. 2000. Diversity, microbial. In: J. Lederberg (ed.) Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 2nd ed., pp. 55-70, Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

Lovell, C.R., Y.M. Piceno, J.M. Quattro, and C.E. Bagwell. 2000. Molecular analysis of diazotroph diversity in the rhizosphere of the smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66:3814-3822.

Noble, P.A., J.S. Almeida, and C.R. Lovell. 2000. Application of neural computing methods to analysis of phospholipid fatty acid profiles from natural microbial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66:694-699.

Piceno, Y.M. and C.R. Lovell. 2000. Stability of natural bacterial communities: I. Nutrient addition effects on rhizosphere diazotroph assemblage composition. Microbial Ecology 39:32-40.

Piceno, Y.M. and C.R. Lovell. 2000. Stability of natural bacterial communities: II. Plant resource allocation effects on rhizosphere diazotroph assemblage composition. Microbial Ecology 39:41-48.

Radfar, R., R. Shin, G.M. Sheldrick, W. Minor, C.R. Lovell, J.D. Odom, R.B. Dunlap, and L. Lebioda. 2000. The crystal structure of N10-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase from Moorella thermoacetica. Biochemistry 39:3920-3926.

Radfar, R., A. Leaphart, J.M. Brewer, W. Minor, J.D. Odom, R.B. Dunlap, C.R. Lovell, and L. Lebioda. 2000. Cation binding and thermostability of FTHFS monovalent cation sites and thermostability of N10-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase from Moorella thermoacetica. Biochemistry 39:14481-14486.

Watson, J., G.Y. Matsui, A. Leaphart, F.A. Rainey, J. Wiegel, and C.R. Lovell. 2000. Reductively debrominating strains of Propionigenium maris from burrows of bromophenol producing marine infauna.  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 50:1035-1042.

Lovell, C.R., T.M. Phillips, and C.C. Steward. 1999. Activity of marine sediment bacterial communities exposed to increasing concentrations of 4-bromophenol, a polychaete secondary metabolite. Marine Ecology Progress Series 179:241-246.

Phillips, T.M. and C.R. Lovell. 1999. Distributions of total and active bacteria in biofilms lining tubes of the onuphid polychaete Diopatra cuprea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 183:169-178.

Piceno, Y.M., P.A. Noble, and C.R. Lovell. 1999. Spatial and temporal assessment of diazotroph assemblage composition in vegetated salt marsh sediments using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis. Microbial Ecology 38:157-167.

Bagwell, C.E., Y.M. Piceno, A.L. Ashburne, and C.R. Lovell. 1998. Physiological diversity of the rhizosphere diazotroph assemblages of selected saltmarsh grasses. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64:4276-4282.

Palmer, M.A., A.P. Covich, B. Finlay, J. Gibert, K.D. Hyde, R.K. Johnson, T. Kairesalo, P.S. Lake, C.R. Lovell, R.J. Naiman, C. Ricci, F.F. Sabater, and D.L. Strayer. 1997. Biodiversity and ecosystem function in freshwater sediments. Ambio 26:571-577.

Roach, M.P., Y.P. Chen, S.A. Woodin, D.E. Lincoln, C.R. Lovell, and J.H. Dawson. 1997. Notomastus lobatus chloroperoxidase and Amphitrite ornata dehaloperoxidase both contain histidine as their proximal heme iron ligand. Biochemistry 36:2197-2202.

Steward, C.C. and C.R. Lovell. 1997. Respiration and assimilation of 4-bromophenol by estuarine sediment bacteria. Microbial Ecology 33:198-205.

Chen, Y.P., S.A. Woodin, D.E. Lincoln, and C.R. Lovell. 1996. An unusual dehalogenating peroxidase from the marine terebellid polychaete Amphitrite ornata. Journal of Biological Chemistry 271:4609-4612.

Steward, C.C., S.C. Nold, D.B. Ringelberg, D.C. White, and C.R. Lovell. 1996. Microbial biomass and community structure in the burrows of bromophenol producing and non-producing marine worms and surrounding sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 133:149-165.

Zhang, E., Y.P. Chen, M.P. Roach, D.E. Lincoln, C.R. Lovell, S.A. Woodin, J.H. Dawson, and L. Lebioda. 1996. Crystallization and initial spectroscopic characterization of the heme-containing dehaloperoxigenase from the marine polychaete Amphitrite ornata. Acta Crystallographica D52:1191-1193.

Lopez-de-Victoria, G., R.K. Zimmer-Faust, and C.R. Lovell. 1995. Computer assisted video motion analysis: a precise method for the study of motility and chemotaxis. Journal of Microbiological Methods 23:329-341.

Steward, C.C., T. Dixon, Y.P. Chen and C.R. Lovell. 1995. Enrichment and isolation of a reductively debrominating bacterium from the burrow of a bromometabolite producing marine hemichordate. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 41:637-642.

Chen, Y.P. and C.R. Lovell. 1994. Purification and properties of a homodimeric protocatechuate 4,5-dioxygenase from Rhizobium leguminosarum. Archives of Microbiology 161:191-195.

Golde, H.M., M.P. Crosby, C.R. Lovell and S.E. Stancyk. 1994. Reduction of marine sediment oxygen uptake: Pre-treatment for the determination of infaunal respiration rates. Marine Ecology Progress Series 111:203-207.

Lopez-de-Victoria, G., D.R. Fielder, R.K. Zimmer-Faust and C.R. Lovell. 1994. Motility behavior of Azospirillum species in response to aromatic compounds. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 40:705-711.

Lovell, C.R. 1994. DNA probes for the detection and identification of acetogenic bacteria. In: H. Drake (ed.) Acetogenesis, pp. 236-253, Chapman and Hall, New York.

Lovell, C.R. and Y. Piceno. 1994. Purification of DNA from estuarine sediments. Journal of Microbiological Methods 20:161-174.

Pinckney, J., Y. Piceno and C.R. Lovell. 1994. Short-term changes in the vertical distribution of benthic microalgal biomass in intertidal, muddy sediments. Diatom Research 9:143-153.

Yoon, K.S., Y.P. Chen, D.E. Lincoln, C.R. Lovell, L.W. Knapp, and S.A. Woodin. 1994. Localization of the chloroperoxidase of the capitellid polychaete Notomastus lobatus. Biological Bulletin 187:215-222.

Chen, Y.P., G. Lopez-de-Victoria and C.R. Lovell. 1993. Utilization of aromatic compounds as carbon and energy sources during growth and N2-fixation by free-living nitrogen fixing bacteria. Archives of Microbiology 159:207-212.

Lewinski, K., Y. Hui, C.G. Jakob, C.R. Lovell and L. Lebioda. 1993. Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic data for formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase from Clostridium thermoaceticum. Journal of Molecular Biology 229:1153-1156.

Lopez-de-Victoria, G., and C.R. Lovell. 1993. Chemotactic behavior of Azospirillum species to aromatic compounds. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59:2951-2955.

Steward, C.C., J. Pinckney, Y. Piceno and C.R. Lovell. 1992. Bacterial numbers and activity, microalgal biomass and productivity and meiofaunal distribution in sediments naturally contaminated with biogenic bromophenols. Marine Ecology Progress Series 90:61-71.

Steward, C.C. and C.R. Lovell. 1992. Improved method for recovery and quantitation of assimilated radiolabel from sediment bacteria. Journal of Microbiological Methods 16:221-230.

Chen, Y.P., D.E. Lincoln, S.A. Woodin and C.R. Lovell. 1991. Purification and properties of a unique flavin-containing chloroperoxidase from the capitellid polychaete Notomastus lobatus. Journal of Biological Chemistry 266:23909-23915.

Lovell, C.R. and Y. Hui. 1991. Design and testing of a functional group specific DNA probe for the study of natural populations of acetogenic bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 57:2602-2609.

Chen, Y.P., and C.R. Lovell. 1990. Purification and characterization of catechol-1,2-dioxygenase from Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viceae Strain USDA 2370. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 56:1971-1973.

Lovell, C.R., A. Przybyla, and L.G. Ljungdahl. 1990. Primary structure of the thermostable formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase from Clostridium thermoaceticum. Biochemistry 29:5687-5694.

Lovell, C.R., A. Przybyla and L. Ljungdahl. 1988. Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of the Clostridium thermoaceticum gene encoding thermostable formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase. Archives of Microbiology 149:280-285.

Lovell, C.R. and A. Konopka. 1985. Excretion of photosynthetically fixed organic carbon by metalimnetic phytoplankton. Microbial Ecology 11:1-9.

Lovell, C.R. and A. Konopka. 1985. Primary and bacterial productivity in two dimictic Indiana lakes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 49:485-491.

Lovell, C.R. and A. Konopka. 1985. Seasonal bacterial production in a dimictic Indiana lake as measured by increases in cell numbers and thymidine incorporation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 49:492-500.

Lovell, C.R. and A. Konopka. 1985. Thymidine incorporation by free-living and particle-bound bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 49:501-504.

Lovell, C.R. and A. Konopka. 1985. The effects of temperature on bacterial production in a dimictic eutrophic lake. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 31:135-140.