Publications of Karl-Paul Witzel

Dorador, C.; Busekow, A.; Vila, I.; Imhoff, J. F.; Witzel, K.-P.: Molecular analysis of enrichment cultures of ammonia oxidizers from the Salar de Huasco, a high altitude saline wetland in northern Chile. Extremophiles 12 (3), pp. 405 - 414 (2008)

Junier, P.; Kim, O.-S.; Molina, V.; Limburg, P.; Junier, T.; Imhoff, J. F.; Witzel, K.-P.: Comparative in silico analysis of PCR primers suited for diagnostics and cloning of ammonia monooxygenase genes from ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 64 (1), pp. 141 - 152 (2008)

Beier, S.; Witzel, K.-P.; Marxsen, J.: Bacterial community composition in central European running waters examined by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis and sequence analysis of 16S rRNA genes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74 (1), pp. 188 - 199 (2008)

Dhiaf, A.; Bakhrouf, A.; Witzel, K.-P.: Resuscitation of eleven-year VBNC Citrobacter. Journal of Water and Health 6 (4), pp. 565 - 568 (2008)

Dhiaf, A.; Junier, P.; Bakhrouf, A.; Witzel, K.-P.: Resuscitation of ten-year VBNC Klebsiella oxytoca. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 49 (1), pp. 17 - 22 (2008)

Beier, S.; Witzel, K.-P.; Marxsen, J.: Bacterial Community Composition in Central European Running Waters Examined by Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Sequence Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74 (1), pp. 188 - 199 (2007)

Junier, P.; Witzel, K.-P.; Hadas, O.: Genetic diversity of cyanobacterial communities in Lake Kinneret (Israel) using 16S rRNA gene, psbA and ntcA sequence analyses. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 49 (3), pp. 233 - 241 (2007)

Dorador, C.; Castillo, G.; Witzel, K. P.; Vila, I.: Bacterial diversity in the sediments of a temperate artificial lake, Rapel reservoir. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 80 (2), pp. 213 - 224 (2007)

Molina, V.; Ulloa, O.; Farías, L.; Urrutia, H.; Ramírez, S.; Junier, P.; Witzel, K.-P.: Ammonia-oxidizing β-Proteobacteria from the oxygen minimum zone off northern Chile. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73 (11), pp. 3547 - 3555 (2007)

Kim, O.-S.; Junier, P.; Imhoff, J. F.; Witzel, K.-P.: Comparative analysis of ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in two lakes in North Germany and the Baltic Sea. "Natural selection is ecology in action". Dedicated to Professor Dr. Winfried Lampert on the occasion of his 65th birthday, pp. 335 - 350 (2006)

Marxsen, J.; Witzel, K.-P.: Nachweis von Chitinase-Genen in Fließgewässern - ein Beispiel für die Analyse von Genen polymerabbauender Enzyme. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) - Tagungsbericht 2004 (Potsdam), pp. 578 - 582 (2005)

Wolf, A.; Zheng, T. L.; Witzel, K.-P.; Jost, G.: Impact of initial phage/host ratio and nutrient addition on coexistence in a phage-host system. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 35 (2), pp. 131 - 139 (2004)

Witzel, K.-P.; Zakharov, I. A.; Goryacheva, I. I.; Adis, J.; Golovatch, S. I.: Two parthenogenetic millipede species/lines of the genus Poratia Cook & Cook, 1894 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae) found free from Wolbachia bacteria. African Invertebrates 44 (1), pp. 331 - 338 (2003)

Wolf, A.; Wiese, J.; Jost, G.; Witzel, K.-P.: Wide geographic distribution of bacteriophages that lyse the same indigenous freshwater isolate (Sphingomonas sp strain B18). Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69 (4), pp. 2395 - 2398 (2003)

Bothe, H.; Jost, G.; Schloter, M.; Ward, B. B.; Witzel, K.-P.: Molecular analysis of ammonia oxidation and denitrification in natural environments. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 24 (5), pp. 673 - 690 (2000)

Braker, G.; Fesefeldt, A.; Witzel, K.-P.: Development of PCR primer systems for amplification of nitrite reductase genes (nirK and nirS) to detect denitrifying bacteria in environmental samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64 (10), pp. 3769 - 3775 (1998)

Rotthauwe, J.-H.; Witzel, K.-P.; Liesack, W.: The ammonia monooxygenase structural gene amoA as a functional marker: molecular fine-scale analysis of natural ammonia-oxidizing populations. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63 (12), pp. 4704 - 4712 (1997)

Ward, B. B.; Voytek, M. A.; Witzel, K.-P.: Phylogenetic diversity of natural populations of ammonia oxidizers investigated by specific PCR amplication. Microbial Ecology 33 (2), pp. 87 - 96 (1997)

Demuth, J.; Neve, H.; Witzel, K.-P.: Direct electron microscopy study on the morphological diversity of bacteriophage populations in Lake Plußsee. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59 (10), pp. 3378 - 3384 (1993)

Marxsen, J.; Witzel, K.-P.: Measurement of exoenzymatic activity in streambed sediments using methylumbelliferyl-substrates. Archiv für Hydrobiologie/Ergebniss der Limnologie 34, pp. 21 - 28 (1990)