James J. Childress

Best Publications

• The biology of hydrothermal vent animals: physiology, biochemistry, and autotrophic symbioses

  J.J. Childress;C.R. Fisher

  506
  Citations

• LIFE AT STABLE LOW OXYGEN LEVELS: ADAPTATIONS OF ANIMALS TO OCEANIC OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYERS

  James J. Childress;Brad A. Seibel

  503
  Citations

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

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

  453
  Citations

• A methanotrophic marine molluscan (bivalvia, mytilidae) symbiosis: mussels fueled by gas.

  James J. Childress;C. R. Fisher;J. M. Brooks;M. C. Kennicutt

  451
  Citations

• Are there physiological and biochemical adaptations of metabolism in deep-sea animals?

  Unknown

  413
  Citations

• A Violation of the Metabolism-Size Scaling Paradigm: Activities of Glycolytic Enzymes in Muscle Increase in Larger-Size Fish

  George N. Somero;James J. Childress

  408
  Citations

• Deep-sea hydrocarbon seep communities: evidence for energy and nutritional carbon sources

  James M. Brooks;M. C. Kennicutt;C. R. Fisher;S. A. Macko

  394
  Citations

• Depth-related enzymic activities in muscle, brain and heart of deep-living pelagic marine teleosts

  J. J. Childress;G. N. Somero

  323
  Citations

• The respiratory rates of midwater crustaceans as a function of depth of occurrence and relation to the oxygen minimum layer off Southern California.

  James J Childress

  311
  Citations

• Chemical Composition and Buoyancy of Midwater Crustaceans as Function of Depth of Occurrence off Southern California

  J. J. Childress;M. Nygaard

  263
  Citations

• The chemical composition of midwater fishes as a function of depth of occurence off southern California

  James J Childress;Mary H Nygaard

  258
  Citations

• Chemical and biological interactions in the Rose Garden hydrothermal vent field, Galapagos spreading center

  Kenneth S. Johnson;James J. Childress;Robert R. Hessler;Carole M. Sakamoto-Arnold

  256
  Citations

• Sulfide Binding by the Blood of the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila.

  Alissa J. Arp;James J. Childress

  246
  Citations

• Oxygen consumption rates of midwater fishes as a function of depth of occureence

  J.J. Torres;B.W. Belman;J.J. Childress

  225
  Citations

• Temporal change in megafauna at the Rose Garden hydrothermal vent (Galapagos Rift; eastern tropical Pacific)

  Robert R. Hessler;William M. Smithey;Michel A. Boudrias;Clifford H. Keller

  221
  Citations

• The Sulphide-Binding Protein in the Blood of the Vestimentiferan Tube-Worm, Riftia Pachyptila, is the Extracellular Haemoglobin

  Alissa J. Arp;James J. Childress;Russell D. Vetter

  221
  Citations

• Short-term temperature variability in the Rose Garden hydrothermal vent field: an unstable deep-sea environment

  Kenneth S. Johnson;James J. Childress;Carl L. Beehler

  216
  Citations

• In situ measurements of chemical distributions in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent field.

  Kenneth S. Johnson;Carl L. Beehler;Carole M. Sakamoto-Arnold;James J. Childress

  212
  Citations

• Metabolic Scaling: A New Perspective Based on Scaling of Glycolytic Enzyme Activities

  James J. Childress;George N. Somero

  209
  Citations

• Metabolic and blood characteristics of the hydrothermal vent tube-worm Riftia pachyptila

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

  208
  Citations