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2011 Publications

(2011). Shipboard Scientific Party: Deep Hot Biosphere. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Expedition Report.

Bailey, J.V., Salman, V., Rouse, G.W., Schulz-Vogt, H.N., Levin, L.A. & Orphan, V.J.  (2011).  A dimorphic life cycle in methane seep dwelling ecotypes of the largest known bacteria.  ISME, 5: 1926-1935.

Beal, E., Claire, M.W. & House, C.H.  (2011).  The anaerobic oxidation of methane at low sulfate concentrations and the redox state of Earth’s atmosphere through time. Geobiology, 9: 131-139.

Biddle, J.A., White, J.R., Teske, A.P. & House, C.H.  (2011).  Metagenomics of the subsurface Brazos-Trinity Basin (IODP Site 1320): comparison with other sedment and pyrosequenced metagenomes.  The ISME Journal, doi:10.1038/ismej.2010.199.

Callahan, M.P., Smith, K.E., Cleaves, H.J.,., Ruzicka, J., Stern, J.C., Glavin, D.P., House, C.H. & Dworkin, J.P.  (2011).  Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1106493108v1-13998.

Cohen, P.A., Schopf, J.W., Butterfield, N.J., Kudryavtsev, A.B. & MacDonald, F.A.  (2011).  Phosphate biomineralization in Mid-Neoproterozoic protists.  Geology, 39: 539-542.

Cui Y. Kump L. R., Ridgwell A. J., Charles A. J., Junium C. K., Diefendorf A. F, Freeman K. H., Urban N. M. and Harding I. C. (2011) Slow release of fossil carbon during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Nature Geosciences 4, 481-485.

Dauphas, N. and J. F. Kasting, Low pCO2 in the pore water, not in the Archean air (Comment on Rosing et al., 2010), Nature 474, E2-E3 (2011).

Diefendorf A. F., Freeman K. H., Wing S. L. and H. V. Graham (2011)  Production of n-alkyl lipids in living plants and implications for the geologic past.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 7472-7485.

Domagal-Goldman, S. D., V.S. Meadows, M.W. Claire, J.F. Kasting, Using biogenic sulfur gases as remotely detectable biosignatures on anoxic planets, Astrobiology, 11, 1-23 (2011).

Dragomir D., Kane S. R., Pilyavsky G., Mahadevan S., Ciardi D. R., Gazak J. Z., Gelino D. M., Payne A., Rabus M., Ramirez S. V., von Braun K., Wright J. T., Wyatt P. (2011) TERMS Photometry of Known Transiting Exoplanets. The Astronomical Journal 142, 115.

Edson, A., S. Lee, P. Bannon, J. F. Kasting, and D. Pollard, Atmospheric circulations of terrestrial planets orbiting low mass stars, Icarus, 212, 1-13 (2011).

Edwards, C.J.E., Suchard, M.A., Lemey, P., Welch, J.J., Barnes, I., Fulton, T.L., Barnett, R., O’Connell, T.C., Coxon, P., Monaghan, N., Valdiosera, C., Lorenzen, E.D., Willerslev, E., Baryshnikov, G.F., Rambaut, A., Thomas, M.G., Bradley, D.G. & Shapiro, B.  (2011).  Ancient hybridization and a recent Irish origin for the modern polar bear matriline.  Current Biology, 21: 1-8.

Fairén, A. G., A. F. Davila, L. Gago-Duport, J. D. Haqq-Misra, C. Gil, C P. McKay and J. F. Kasting, Cold glacial oceans would have inhibited phyllosilicate sedimentation on early Mars, Nature Geosciences 4, 667-670 (2011).

Fleming, S.W., Maxted, P.F.L., Hebb, L., Stassun, K.G., Ge, J., Cargile, P.A., Ghezzi, L., De Lee, N.M., Wisniewski, J., Gary, B., Porto de Mello, G.F., Ferreira, L., Zhao, B., Anderson, D.R., Wan, X., Hellier, C., Guo, P., West, R.G., Mahadevan, S., Pollacco, D., Lee, B., Collier Cameron, A., van Eyken, J.C., Skillen, I., Crepp, J.R., Cuong Nguyen, D., Kane, S.R., Paegert, M., Nicolaci da Costa, L., Maia, M.A.G. & Santiago, B.X.  (2011).  Eclipsing Binary Science via the Merging of Transit and Doppler Exoplanet Survey Data—A Case Study with the MARVELS Pilot Project and SuperWASP.  The Astronomical Journal, 142: 50.

Freeman K. H., Mueller K. E., Diefendorf, A. F., Wing, S. L. and P. L. Koch  (2011) Clarifying the influence of water availability and plant types on carbon isotope discrimination by C3 plants.  Letter, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science 108, E59-E60.

Gill, B., Lyons, T., Young, S., Kump, L., Knoll, A. & Saltzman, M.R.  (2011).  Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean.  Nature, 469: 80-83.

Gonzalez, B.C., Iliffe, T.M., Macalady, J.L., Schaperdoth, I. & Kakuk, B. (2011).   Microbial hotspots in anchialine blue holes: initial discoveries from the Bahamas.  Hydrobiologia, 677: 149-156.

Güdel, M. and J. F. Kasting, The young Sun and its influence on planetary atmospheres, in Origin of Life: an Astrobiology Perspective, M. Gargaud, P. Lopez-Garcia, H. Martin, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 167-182 (2011).

Haqq-Misra, J., Kasting, J.F. & Lee, S.  (2011).  Availability of O2 and H2O2 on the pre-photosynthetic Earth.  Astrobiology, 11: 293-302.

Hedges, S.  (2011).  On the use of high-level taxonomic names.  Zootaxa, 2867: 67-68.

House, C.H., Beal, E.J. & Orphan, V.J.  (2011).  The Apparent Involvement of ANMEs in Mineral Dependent Methane Oxidation, as an Analog for Possible Martian Methanotrophy.  Life, 1: 19-33.

Howard A. W., Johnson J. A., Marcy G. W., Fischer D. A., Wright J. T., Henry G. W., Isaacson H., Valenti J. A., Anderson J., Piskunov N. E. (2011) The NASA-UC Eta-Earth Program. II. A Planet Orbiting HD 156668 with a Minimum Mass of Four Earth Masses. The Astrophysical Journal 726, 73.

Howard, A.W., Johnson, J.A., Marcy, G.W., Fischer, D.A., Wright, J.T., Henry, G.W., Isaacson, H., Valenti, J.A., Anderson, J. & Piskunov, N.E.  (2011).  The NASA-UC Eta-Earth Program. III. A Super-Earth Orbiting HD 97658 and a Neptune-mass Planet Orbiting Gl 785.  The Astrophysical Journal, 730: 10.

Johnson, J.A., Clanton, C., Howard, A.W., Bowler, B.P., Henry, G.W., Marcy, G.W., Crepp, J.R., Endl, M., Cochran, W.D., MacQueen, P.J., Wright, J.T. & Isaacson, H.  (2011).  Retired A Stars and Their Companions: Eighteen New Jovian Planets [Online].

Junium, C.K., B.J., Keely, K.H., Arthur, M.A., Freeman (2011) Chlorins in mid-Cretaceous black shales of the Demerara Rise: the oldest known occurrence. Organic Geochemistry 42, 856-859.

Kane, S., Gelino, D., Dragomir, D., Howard, A., Knutson, H., Krick, J., Laughlin, G., Mahadevan, S., von Braun, K. & Wright, J.  (2011).  Detecting the Signature of Eccentric Exoplanets During Periastron Passage.

Kane, S.R., Dragomir, D., Ciardi, D.R., Lee, J-W., Lo Curto, G., Lovis, C., Naef, D., Mahadevan, S., Pilyavsky, G., Udry, S., Wang, X. & Wright, J.  (2011).  Stellar Variability of the Exoplanet Hosting Star HD 63454.  The Astrophysical Journal, 737: 58.

Kane, S.R., Henry, G.W., Dragomir, D., Fischer, D.A., Howard, A.W., Wang, X. & Wright, J.T.  (2011).  Revised Orbit and Transit Exclusion for HD 114762b.  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 735: L41.

Kane, S.R., Howard, A.W., Pilyavsky, G., Mahadevan, S., Henry, G.W., von Braun, K., Ciardi, D.R., Dragomir, D., Fischer, D.A., Jensen, E., Laughlin, G., Ramirez, S.V. & Wright, J.T.  (2011).  Improved Orbital Parameters and Transit Monitoring for HD 156846b.  The Astrophysical Journal, 733: 28.

Kasting, J. F., Habitable planets: What are we learning from Kepler and ground-based searches? Astrobiology 11, 363-366 (2011).

Konhauser, K.O., Lalonde, S.V., Planavsky, N.J., Pecoits, E., Lyons, T.W., Mojzsis, S.J., Rouxel, O.J., Barley Carlos Rosìere, M.E., Fralick, P.W., Kump, L.R. & Bekker, A.  (2011).  Aerobic pyrite oxidation and acid-rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event.  Nature, 478: 369-373.

Kumar, S. & Hedges, S.B.  (2011).  TimeTree2: species divergence times on the iPhone.  Bioinformatics. 27: 2023-2024.

Lee, B.L., Ge, J., Fleming, S.W., Stassun, K.G., Gaudi, B.S., Barnes, R., Mahadevan, S., Eastman, J.D., Wright, J., Siverd, R.J., Gary, B., Ghezzi, L., Laws, C., Wisniewski, J.P., Porto de Mello, G.F., Ogando, R.L.C., Maia, M.A.G., Nicolaci da Costa, L., Sivarani, T., Pepper, J., Cuong Nguyen, D., Hebb, L., De Lee, N., Wang, J., Wan, X., Zhao, B., Chang, L., Groot, J., Varosi, F., Hearty, F., Hanna, K., van Eyken, J.C., Kane, S.R., Agol, E., Bizyaev, D., Bochanski, J.J., Brewington, H., Chen, Z., Costello, E., Dou, L., Eisenstein, D.J., Fletcher, A., Ford, E.B., Guo, P., Holtzman, J.A., Jiang, P., French Leger, R., Liu, J., Long, D.C., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Malik, M., Oravetz, D., Pan, K., Rohan, P., Schneider, D.P., Shelden, A., Snedden, S.A., Simmons, A., Weaver, B.A., Weinberg, D.H. & Xie, J-W.  (2011).  MARVELS-1b: A Short-period, Brown Dwarf Desert Candidate from the SDSS-III Marvels Planet Search.  The Astrophysical Journal, 728: 32.

Lippold, S., Knapp, M., Kuznetsova, T., Leonard, J.A., Benecke, N., Ludwig, A., Rasmussen, M., Weinstock, J., Willerslev, E., Shapiro, B. & Hofreiter, M.  (2011).  Discovery of lost diversity of paternal horse lineages using ancient DNA.  Nature Comm, 2(450).

Loveland-Curtze, J., Miteva, V. & Brenchley, J.  (2011).  Evaluation of a novel fluorimetric DNA-DNA hybridization method.  Can. J. Microbiol, 57: 250-257.

Luo, G., Wang, Y., Algeo, T.J., Kump, L.R., Bai, X., Yang, H., Yao, L. & Xie, S.  (2011b).  Enhanced nitrogen fixation in the immediate aftermath of the latest Permian marine mass extinction.  Geology, 39: 647-650.

Luo, G., Wang, Y., Yang, H., Algeo, T.J., Kump, L.R., Huang, J. & Xie, S.  (2011a).  Stepwise and large-magnitude negative shift in δ13Ccarb preceded the main marine mass extinction of the Permian–Triassic crisis interval.  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 299: 70-82.

Margesin, R. & Miteva, V.  (2011).  Diversity and ecology of psychrophilic microorganisms.  Res. Microbiol, 162: 346-361.

McCauley, R.L., Jones, D.S., Schaperdoth, I. & Macalady, J.L.  (2011).  Lago Infinito (Frasassi Caves, Italy) Microbial Community as an Analog for pre-Phototrophic Earth.  Astrobiology, 11(4): 367-389.

McInerney F. A., Helliker B. R. and K. H. Freeman (2011).  Hydrogen isotope ratios of leaf wax n-alkanes in grasses are insensitive to transpiration.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 75, 541-554.

Meyer, K., Freeman, K.H., Macalady, J.L., Fulton, J., Schaperdoth, I. & Kump, L.  (2011).  Carotenoid biomarkers as an imperfect reflection of the anaerobic phototrophic community in meromictic Fayetteville Green Lake.  Geobiology, 9: 321-329.

Miteva, V. (2011).  Microorganisms associated with glaciers.  In: V. P. Singh, U.K.H.a.P.S. (Eds.).  Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers.  Springer.

Muirhead, P.S., Edelstein, J., Erskine, D.J., Wright, J.T., Muterspaugh, M.W., Covey, K.R., Wishnow, E.H., Hamren, K., Andelson, P., Kimber, D., Mercer, T., Halverson, S.P., Vanderburg, A., Mondo, D., Czeszumska, A. & Lloyd, J.P.  (2011).  Precise Stellar Radial Velocities of an M Dwarf with a Michelson Interferometer and a Medium-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectrograph.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 123: 709-724.

Norris J. M., Wright J. T., Wade R. A., Mahadevan S., Gettel S. (2011) Non-detection of the Putative Substellar Companion to HD 149382. The Astrophysical Journal 743, 88.

Pilyavsky G., Mahadevan S., Kane S. R., Howard A. W., Ciardi D. R., de Pree C., Dragomir D., Fischer D., Henry G. W., Jensen E. L. N., Laughlin G., Marlowe H., Rabus M., von Braun K., Wright J. T., Wang X. X. (2011) A Search for the Transit of HD 168443b: Improved Orbital Parameters and Photometry. The Astrophysical Journal 743, 162.

Redman, S.L., Lawler, J.E., Nave, G., Ramsey, L.W. & Mahadevan, S.  (2011).  The Infrared Spectrum of Uranium Hollow Cathode Lamps from 850 nm to 4000 nm: Wavenumbers and Line Identifications from Fourier Transform Spectra.  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 195: 24.

Rhodes, M.E., Spear, J.R., Oren, A. & House, C.H.  (2011).  Differences in lateral gene transfer in hypersaline versus thermal environments.  BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11:199doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-199.

Roberson, A.L., Roadt, J., Halevy, I. & Kasting, J.F.  (2011).  Greenhouse warming by nitrous oxide and methane in the Proterozoic Eon.  Geobiology, 9(313-320).

Saltzman, M., Young, S., Kump, L., Gill, B., Lyons, T. & Runnegar, B.  (2011).  A pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian and implications for plankton and animal biodiversification.  Proc. Nat’l Acad. Sci., 108.

Sansjofre, P., Ader, M., Trindade, R.I.F., Elie, M., Lyons, J., Cartigny, P., Nogueira, A.C.R. (2011).  A carbon isotope challenge to the snowball Earth.  Nature, 478: 93-97.

Schopf, J.W.  (2011).  Pioneers of astrobiology: J.William Schopf.  Astrobiology, 11: 1-6.

Schopf, J.W.  (2011).  The paleobiologic record of photosynthesis.  Photosynthesis Research, 107: 87-101.

Schopf, J.W. & Kudryavtsev, A.B.  (2011).  Biogenicity of Apex Chert Microstructures.  Nature Geoscience, 4: 346-347.

Schopf, J.W. & Kudryavtsev, A.B.  (2011).  Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman (and fluorescence) spectroscopic imagery of permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic fossils.  In: M. Laflamme, S.D.a.J.S. (Eds.).  Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems.  Amsterdam: Springer.

Shapiro, B., Ho, S.Y.W., Drummond, A.J., Suchard, M.A., Pybus, O. & Rambaut, A.  (2011).  A Bayesian phylogenetic method to estimate unknown sequence ages.  Mol. Biol. Evol., 28: 879-887.

Tian, F., J. F. Kasting, and K. Zahnle, Revisiting HCN formation in Earth’s early atmosphere, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 308, 417-423 (2011).

Turich C. H. and K. H. Freeman (2011) Archaea lipids record paleosalinity in hypersaline conditions. Organic Geochemistry 42, 1147-1157.

Workman, C., Dalen, L., Vartanyan, S., Shapiro, B., Kosintev, P., Sher, A., Gotherstrom, A. & Barnes, I.  (2011).  Population-level genotyping of coat colour polymorphism in woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius).  Quat. Sci. Rev., 30: 2304-2308.

Wright, J.T., Fakhouri, O., Marcy, G.W., Han, E., Feng, Y., Johnson, J.A., Howard, A.W., Fischer, D.A., Valenti, J.A., Anderson, J. & Piskunov, N.  (2011).  The Exoplanet Orbit Database.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 123: 412-422.

Wright, J.T., Veras, D., Ford, E.B., Johnson, J.A., Marcy, G.W., Howard, A.W., Isaacson, H., Fischer, D.A., Spronck, J., Anderson, J. & Valenti, J.  (2011).  The California Planet Survey. III. A Possible 2:1 Resonance in the Exoplanetary Triple System HD 37124.  The Astrophysical Journal, 730: 93.

Zugger, M. E., J. F. Kasting, D. M. Williams, T. J. Kane, C. R. Philbrick, (2011). Erratum: "Light scattering from exoplanet oceans and atmospheres" (2010, ApJ, 723, 1168-1179), Astrophysical Journal  739:55.

Zugger, M. E., J. F. Kasting, D. M. Williams, T. J. Kane, C. R. Philbrick, (2011). Searching for water Earths in the near infrared, Astrophysical Journal 739:12.
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