Recent Publications: James Childress

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Seibel, B.A., Chausson, F., Lallier, F., Zal, F. and Childress, J. J. 1999. Vampire blood: Respiratory physiology of the vampire squid (Cephalopoda: Vampyromorpha) in relation to the oxygen minimum layer. Experimental Biology Online. 4(1)
Shillito, B., J. Ravaux, F. Gaill, J. Delachambre, E. Thibaut, J. J. Childress. 1999. Preliminary data on carbon production at deep-sea vents. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 183: 275-279
Seibel, B. A. and J. J. Childress. 2000. Metabolism of benthic octopods (Cephalopoda) as a function of habitat depth and oxygen concentration. Deep-Sea Research 47(7): 1247-1260.
Seibel, B. A., E. V. Thuesen, and J. J. Childress. 2000. Light-limitation on predator-prey interactions: consequences for metabolism and locomotion of deep-sea cephalopods. Biological Bulletin 2000: 284-298.
Girguis, P. R., R. W. Lee, N. Desaulniers, J. J. Childress, M. Pospesel, H. Felbeck, and F. Zal. 2000. Fate of nitrate acuired by the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66: 2783-2790.
Zal, F., B. N. Green, P. Martineu, F.H. Lallier, A. Toulmond, S.N. Vinogradov and J.J. Childress 2000. Polypeptide chain composition diversity of hexagonal-bilayer haemoglobins within a single family of annelids, the Alvinellidae. European Journal of Biochemistry 267: 5227-5236.
Janssens, B. J., Childress, J. J., Baguet, F. and Rees, J.-F. 2000. Reduced enzymatic antioxidative defense in deep-sea fish. The Journal of Experimental Biology 203, 3717-3725.
Chevaldonne, P., C. R. Fisher, J. J. Childress, D. Desbruyeres, D. Jollivet, F. Zal, and A. Toulmond. 2000 Thermotolerance and the "Pompei worms". Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 208: 293-295.
Zal, F., E. Leize, D.R. Oros, S. Hourdez, A. Van Dorsselaer and J.J. Childress 2000. Haemoglobin structure and biochemical characteristics of the sulphide-binding component from the deep-sea clam Calyptogena magnifica. Cahier de Biologie Marine, 41: 413-424.
Goffredi, S., J. J. Childress. 2001. Activity and inhibitor sensitivity of ATPases in the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia Pachyptila. Marine Biology 138: 259-265.
Freytag, J., P. R. Girguis, D. C. Bergquist, J.P. Andras, J. J. Childress, and C. R. Fisher. 2001. A paradox resolved: Sulfide acquisition by roots of seep tubeworms sustains net chemoautotrophy. P. N. A. S. 98:13408-13413.
Girguis, P. R., J. J. Childress, J. K. Freytag and H. R. Stuber 2002. Effects of metabolite uptake on proton-equivalent elimination by two species of deep-sea vestimentiferan tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila and Lamellibrachia cf luymesi.: proton elimination is a necessary adaptation to sulfide-oxidizing chemoautotrophic symbionts. J. Exp. Biol. 205: 3055 - 3066.
Childress, J. J., C. R. Fisher, H. Felbeck, and P. Girguis. 2004. On the edge of a deep biosphere: Real animals in extreme environments. American Geophysical Union volume on the subsurface biosphere. In W. S. D. Wilcock, E. F. Delong, D. S. Kelley, J. A. Baross, and S. C. Cary editors, The Subseafloor Biosphere at Midocean Ridges. American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C. pp 41-49.
Felbeck, H, C. Arndt, U. Hentschel, and J. J. Childress 2004 Experimental application of vascular and coelomic catheterization to identify vascular transport mechanisms for inorganic carbon in the vent tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila. Deep-Sea Research I, 51: 401-411.
Seibel, B. A., S. K. Goffredi, E. V. Thuesen, J. J. Childress, and B. H. Robison. 2004 Ammonium content and buoyancy in midwater cephalopods. J.Exp. Mar. Biol Ecol. 313: 375-387.
Suarez, R. K., C-A. Darveau and J. J. Childress. 2004. Metabolic scaling: a many-splendoured thing. Comp. Biochem. Physiol., B. 139: 531-541.
Thuesen, E.V., K.D. McCullough & J.J. Childress. 2005 Metabolic enzyme activities in swimming muscle of medusae in relation to body size: Is the scaling of glycolytic activity related to environmental oxygen concentration? J. Mar. Biol. Assoc.U. K. 85: 603-611.
Hahlbeck, E., M. A. Pospesel, F. Zal, J. J. Childress, and H. Felbeck. 2005 Proposed nitrate binding by hemoglobin in Riftia pachyptila blood. Deep Sea Res Research I, 52: 1885-1895.
Childress, J.J., D. Figueroa, and M. Henry. 2006 Physiological Ecology of back-arc basin fauna: explorations of the known and unknown. In D. Christie, C. Fisher editors, Back-Arc Spreading Systems: Geological, Biological, Chemical and Physical Interactions. American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C. pp 235-241
Girguis, P. R. and J. J. Childress. 2006 Metabolite uptake, stoichiometry and chemoautotrophic function of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptia: responses to environmental variations in substrate concentrations and temperature. J. exp. Biol. 209: 3516-3528.