Marine Biological Laboratory
Institute of Biology
University of Copenhagen
Strandpromenaden 5,
3000 Helsingør, Denmark

Phone       +45 353 21987
Fax           +45 353 21951

Email          rthar@bi.ku.dk

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Publications

Muyzer G, Yildrim E, van Dongen U, Kühl M, Thar R (2005) Identification of "Candidatur Thioturbo danicus", a microaerophilic bacterium that builds conspicuous veils on sulfidic sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71:8929-8933. [PDF]

Thar R and Kühl M (2005) Complex pattern formation of marine gradient bacteria explained by a simple computer model. FEMS Microbiology Letters 246:75-79. [PDF]

Thar R and Fenchel T (2005) Survey of motile microaerophilic bacterial morphotypes in the oxygen-gradient above a marine sulfidic sediment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71:3682-3691. [PDF]

Smirnov A, and Thar R (2004) Vertical Distribution of Gymnamoebae (Rhizopoda, Lobosea) in the Top Layer of Brackish-Water Sediments. Protist 155: 437-446. [PDF]

Thar R, and Kühl M (2004) Propagation of electromagnetic waves in mitochondria? Journal of Theoretical Biology 230: 261-270. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Fenchel T, Thar R (2004) "Candidatus Ovobacter propellens", a large conspicuous prokaryote with an unusual motility behaviour. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 48: 231-238. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Smirnov A, and Thar R (2003) Spatial distribution of gymnamoebae (Rhizopoda, Lobosea) in brackish water sediment at a scale of centimeter and millimeters. Protist 154: 359-369. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Thar R, and Kühl M (2003) Bacteria are not too small for spatial sensing of chemical gradients: An experimental evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100: 5748-5753. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Ferris MJ, Magnuson TS, Fagg JA, Thar R, Kühl M, Sheehan KB, and Henson JM (2003) Microbially mediated sulphide production in a thermal, acidic algal mat community in Yellowstone National Park. Environmental Microbiology 5: 954-960. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Thar R and Kühl M (2002) Conspicuous veils formed by vibrioid bacteria on sulfidic marine sediment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68: 6310-6320. [ABSTRACT][PDF]

Thar R (2002) Motility of Microorganisms in Oxygen-Sulfide Gradients. Ph.D. thesis, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, pp. 85.

Sass AM, Eschemann A, Kühl M, Thar R, Sass H, and Cypionka H (2002) Growth and chemosensory behavior of sulfate-reducing bacteria in oxygen-sulfide gradients. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 40: 47-54. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Thar R , and Fenchel T (2001) True chemotaxis in oxygen gradients of the sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thiovulum majus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 3299-3303. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Thar R, and Kühl M (2001) On the motility of Marichromatium gracile in response to light, oxygen and sulfide. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 5410-5419. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Thar R, Kühl M and Holst G (2001) A fiber-optic fluorometer for microscale mapping of photosynthetic pigments in microbial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 2823-2828. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Thar R, Blackburn N, and Kühl M (2000) A new system for three-dimensional tracking of motile microorganisms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66: 2238-2242. [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

Epping EHG, Khalili A, and Thar R (1999) Photosynthesis and the dynamics of oxygen consumption in a microbial mat as calculated from transient oxygen microprofiles. Limnology and Oceanography 44(8): 1936-1948.