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Horst Felbeck is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to ecology, oceanography, and molecular biology.

Their work spans several topics related to marine biology and ecology, microbial community ecology and physiology, protist diversity and phylogeny, as well as environmental DNA applications in biodiversity studies.

Recent publications by Felbeck include the following:

  • "Bacterial symbiont subpopulations have different roles in a deep-sea symbiosis," 2021, eLife
  • "Metabolic differences between symbiont subpopulations in the deep-sea tubeworm Riftia pachyptila," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Felbeck has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Tjorven Hinzke
  • Manuel Kleiner
  • Mareike Meister
  • Rabea Schlüter
  • Christian Hentschker

Their research outputs have been published mainly in the following venues:

  • eLife
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Chemoautotrophic Potential of the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm, Riftia pachyptila Jones (Vestimentifera).

    Horst Felbeck

  • Calvin-Benson cycle and sulphide oxidation enzymes in animals from sulphide-rich habitats

    Horst Felbeck;James J. Childress;George N. Somero

  • Sulfur-oxidizing bacterial endosymbionts: analysis of phylogeny and specificity by 16S rRNA sequences.

    D. L. Distel;D. J. Lane;Gary J Olsen;S. J. Giovannoni

  • Physiological proteomics of the uncultured endosymbiont of Riftia pachyptila.

    Stephanie Markert;Cordelia Arndt;Horst Felbeck;Dörte Becher

  • Bacterial symbionts and low 13C/12C ratios in tissues of Pogonophora indicate unusual nutrition and metabolism

    A. J. Southward;Eve C. Southward;P. R. Dando;G. H. Rau;G. H. Rau

  • Metabolic versatility of the Riftia pachyptila endosymbiont revealed through metagenomics.

    Julie C. Robidart;Shellie R. Bench;Robert A. Feldman;Alexey Novoradovsky

  • Sulfide oxidation and carbon fixation by the gutless clamSolemya reidi: an animal-bacteria symbiosis

    Horst Felbeck

  • Evidence for phylogenetic congruence among sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophic bacterial endosymbionts and their bivalve hosts

    D. L. Distel;H. Felbeck;C. M. Cavanaugh

  • Microhabitat variation in the hydrothermal vent mussel, Bathymodiolus thermophilus, at the Rose Garden vent on the Galapagos Rift

    C.R. Fisher;J.J. Childress;A.J. Arp;J.M. Brooks

  • Chemoautotrophic Symbiosis in a Hydrothermal Vent Gastropod

    Jeffrey L. Stein;S. Craig Cary;Robert R. Hessler;Russell D. Vetter

  • Endosymbiosis in the lucinid clams Lucinoma aequizonata, Lucinoma annulata and Lucina floridana : a reexamination of the functional morphology of the gills as bacteria-bearing organs

    D. L. Distel;H. Felbeck

  • Mussel growth supported by methane as sole carbon and energy source.

    S. Craig Cary;Charles R. Fisher;Horst Felbeck

  • First description of giant Archaea (Thaumarchaeota) associated with putative bacterial ectosymbionts in a sulfidic marine habitat

    Félix Muller;Terry Brissac;Terry Brissac;Nadine Le Bris;Horst Felbeck

  • Phylogenetic analysis of a highly specific association between ectosymbiotic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and a marine nematode

    M F Polz;D L Distel;B Zarda;R Amann

  • Habitat characterization and nutritional strategies of the endosymbiont-bearing bivalve Lucinoma aequizonata

    SC Cary;RD Vetter;H. Felbeck

  • Inorganic carbon uptake in hydrothermal vent tubeworms facilitated by high environmental pCO2

    James J. Childress;Raymond W. Lee;Nancy K. Sanders;Horst Felbeck

  • Significance of the occurrence of chemoautotrophic bacterial endosymbionts in lucinid clams from Bermuda

    M. Schweimanns;H. Felbeck

  • FREE D-AMINO ACIDS IN THE TISSUES OF MARINE BIVALVES.

    Horst Felbeck;Sandra Wiley

  • Chemoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing symbiotic bacteria on marine nematodes: Morphological and biochemical characterization.

    Martin F. Polz;Horst Felbeck;Rudolf Novak;Monika Nebelsick

  • Primary production in deep-sea hydrothermal vent organisms: roles of sulfide-oxidizing bacteria

    Horst Felbeck;George N. Somero

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Childress
James J. Childress University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas Schweder
Thomas Schweder University of Greifswald
George N. Somero
George N. Somero Stanford University
Dörte Becher
Dörte Becher University of Greifswald
Ute Hentschel
Ute Hentschel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Daniel Desbruyères
Daniel Desbruyères French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Uwe Völker
Uwe Völker University of Greifswald
Nadine Le Bris
Nadine Le Bris Université Paris Cité
Rolf Daniel
Rolf Daniel University of Göttingen

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