1. *denotes undergraduate authors
   

2021

Goffredi, S.K., C. Motooka, D.A. Fike, L.C. Gusmão, E. Tilic,  G.W. Rouse, and E. Rodríguez (2021).       

      Mixotrophic chemosynthesis in a deep-sea anemone from hydrothermal vents in the Pescadero

      Basin, Gulf of California. BMC Biol 19, 8 (2021). doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00921-1. 

Brzechffa, C. and S.K. Goffredi (2021). Contrasting Influences on Bacterial Symbiont Specificity by Co-

      Occurring Deep-Sea Mussels and Tubeworms. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 13(2):

      104-111. Brzechffa_Goffredi_2020.pdf.

2020

Goffredi, S.K., E. Tilic, S.W. Mullin, K.S. Dawson, A. Keller, R.W. Lee, F. Wu, L.A. Levin, G.W. Rouse, E.E. Cordes, V.J. Orphan (2020). Methanotrophic bacterial symbionts fuel dense populations of deep-sea feather duster worms (Sabellida, Annelida) and extend the spatial influence of methane seepage. Science Advances 6:14, eaay8562

2019

Appy, R.G., S. Goffredi, B. Pernet and C. Latino. (2019). Experimental transmission of Rhinebothrium urobatidium (Cestoda: Rhinebothriidea) from the round stingray (Urobatis halleri: Myliobatiformes) to first and second intermediate hosts. Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 118 (3) 1-19. doi.org/10.3160/0038-3872-118.3.139

2018

Michel‡, A.J., Ward‡, L.E., Goffredi, S.K., Dawson, K.S., Baldassarre, D.T., Brenner, A., Gotanda, K.M., McCormack, J.E., Mullin, S., O'Neill, A., Tender, G., Uy, A.C., Yu, K., Orphan, V.J., and Chavez, J.A.  (2018). The Gut of the Finch: Uniqueness of the gut microbiome of the Galápagos vampire finch.  Microbiome 6:167. ‡co-1st authors. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0555-8.

Blankenchip, C.L.*, Michels, D.E.*, Braker, E.N., and S.K. Goffredi (2018) Diet breadth and exploitation of exotic plants shift the core microbiome of Cephaloleia, a group of tropical herbivorous beetles. Peer J. 6:e4793 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4793.

Otero-Bravo, A., S.K. Goffredi, Z. Sabree, (2018) Cladogenesis and Genomic Streamlining in Extracellular Endosymbionts of Tropical Stinkbugs. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(2): 680–693. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy033.

Rouse, G, S.K. Goffredi, S.J. Johnson, R.C. Vrijenhoek. (2018.) An inordinate fondness for Osedax (Siboglinidae: Annelida): Fourteen new species of bone worms from California. Zootaxa. 4377 (4): 451–489.

2017

Goffredi, S.K. (2017) Deep-Sea Hospitality: An enigmatic worm and it’s symbionts. The Biochemist December issue (invited, not peer reviewed). Goffredi_2017_TheBiochemist.pdf

Goffredi, S.K., S. Johnson, V. Tunnicliffe, D. Caress, D. Clague, E. Escobar, L. Lundsten, J.B. Paduan, G. Rouse, D.L. Salcedo, L.A. Soto, R. Spelz-Madero, R. Zierenberg, R. Vrijenhoek (2017) Hydrothermal vent fields discovered in the Gulf of California reveal the role of habitat in augmenting regional diversity. Proc Royal Society B. 284: 20170817. Goffredi_2017_PRSB.pdf

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Aronson, H.S.*, A.J. Zellmer, Goffredi, S.K. (2017). The specific and exclusive microbiome of the deep-sea bone-eating snail, Rubyspira osteovora. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 93(3): fiw250. Aronson_Goffredi_2017_FEMS.pdf

Pasulka, A.L., S.K. Goffredi, P.L. Tavormina, K.S. Dawson, L.A. Levin, G.W. Rouse, Victoria J. Orphan. (2017). Colonial tube-dwelling ciliates influence methane cycling and microbial diversity within methane seep ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science - Aquatic Microbiology. 3:276. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00276.

2016

Klann, J.*, A. McHenry*, C. Montelongo*, Goffredi, S.K, (2016). Decomposition of plant-sourced carbon compounds by heterotrophic Betaproteobacteria isolated from the tank of a tropical Costa Rican bromeliad. MicrobiologyOpen. doi:10.1002/mbo3.344. Klann_et_al-2016-MicrobiologyOpen.pdf

2015

Goffredi, S.K., G. Jang*, M. Haroom. (2015) Transcriptomics in the tropics: Total RNA-based profiling of Costa Rican bromeliad-associated communities. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 13: 18-23. Goffredi_2015_CSBJ.pdf

Rahman, N.A., D.H. Parks, D.L. Willner, A.L. Engelbrektson, S.K. Goffredi, F. Warnecke, R.H. Scheffrahn and P. Hugenholtz. (2015). A molecular survey of Australian and North American termite genera indicates that co-evolution is the primary force shaping termite gut microbiomes. Microbiome. 3:5 doi:10.1186/s40168-015-0067-8

2014

Bistolas, K.I.S.*, R. Sakamoto*. J.A.M. Fernandes, Goffredi, S.K, (2014). Symbiont polyphyly, co-evolution, and necessity in pentatomid stinkbugs from Costa Rica. Frontiers in Microbology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00349. Bistolas_Goffredi_2014.pdf

Larson, H.K., Goffredi, S.K., Parra, E.L., Vargas, O., Pinto, A., McGlynn, T.P. (2014). Distribution and dietary regulation of an associated facultative Rhizobiales-related bacterium in the omnivorous Giant Tropical Ant, Paraponera clavata. Naturwissenschaften. 101(5): 397-406. Larson 2014 Nawi Paraponera microbe ecology.pdf

Goffredi, S.K, W.J. Jones, A. Gregory*, N. Morella*, R. Sakamoto*. (2014). Ontogenetic variation in epibiont community structure in the deep-sea yeti crab, Kiwa hirsuta: Convergence among crustaceans. Molecular Ecology. 23:1457-1472. Goffredi_2014_MEC.pdf

Goffredi, S.K, H. Yi, Q. Zhang, J. Klann*, I. Struve*, R.C. Virjenhoek, C. Brown. (2014). Genomic versatility and functional variation between two dominant heterotrophic symbionts of deep-sea Osedax worms. The ISME Journal. 8: 908-924. Goffredi_ISMEJ_2013.pdf

2012

Goffredi S.K., N. Morella*, M. Pulcrano*. (2012). Affiliations between bacteria and marine fish leeches (Piscicolidae), with emphasis on a new deep-sea species from Monterey Canyon, CA. Environmental Microbiology. 14:2429-2444. Goffredi_EM_2012.pdf

Levin, Lisa A., Victoria J. Orphan, Greg W. Rouse, Anthony E. Rathburn, William Ussler III, Geoffrey S. Cook, Shana K. Goffredi, et al. (2012). A hydrothermal seep on the Costa Rica margin: middle ground in a continuum of reducing ecosystems. Proc. R. Soc. B. 279: 2580-2588.

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2011

Goffredi S.K., G. Jang, W. T. Woodside and W. Ussler III..(2011). Bromeliad catchments as habitats for methanogenesis in tropical rainforest canopies. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2:256. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00256. Goffredi_2011_Frontiers.pdf

Martin, A.M. G. M. Martin, R. Butler, and S.K. Goffredi. (2011). Synthesis of keyhole limpet hemocyanin by the rhogocytes of Megathura crenulata. Invertebrate Biology. 130: 302-312.

Rouse, G. W., S. K. Goffredi, S. B. Johnson, and R. C. Vrijenhoek (2011) Not whale-fall specialists, Osedax worms also consume fishbones. Biol. Lett. 7:736-739.

Goffredi S.K., A. H. Kantor, W. T. Woodside (2011). Aquatic microbial habitats within a neotropical rainforest: bromeliads and pH-associated trends in bacterial diversity. Microbial Ecology. 61:529-542. Goffredi_2011_ME.pdf. 

Martin, A.M. and S.K. Goffredi. (2011). “Pliocardia” krylovata, a new species of vesicomyid clam from cold seeps along the Costa Rica Margin. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 92:1127-1137.

2010

Goffredi S.K. (2010). Indigenous ectosymbiotic bacteria associated with diverse hydrothermal vent invertebrates. Environ. Microbiol. Reports. 2:479-488. [Goffredi_2010_EMR copy.pdf]

Goffredi S.K., V. J. Orphan. (2010). Bacterial community shifts in taxa and diversity in response to localized organic loading in the deep sea. Environ. Microbiol. 12: 344-363. [Goffredi_Orphan_2010 copy.pdf]

2000-2009

Rouse, G. W., N. G. Wilson, S. K. Goffredi, S. B. Johnson, T. Smart, C. Widmer, C. M. Young and R. C. Vrijenhoek (2009) Spawning and development in Osedax boneworms. Marine Biology 156: 395-405.

Goffredi S.K., W. J. Jones, H. Erhlich, A. Springer, R. C. Vrijenhoek. (2008). Epibiotic bacteria associated with the recently discovered Yeti crab, Kiwa hirsuta. Environ. Microbiol. 10: 2623-2634.

Pernthaler, A., A. E. Dekas, C. Titus Brown, S. K. Goffredi, T. Embaye, and V. J. Orphan (2008). Diverse syntrophic partnerships from deep-sea methane vents revealed by direct cell capture and metagenomics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105: 7052-7057.

Goffredi S.K., R. Wilpiszeski, R. W. Lee, V. J. Orphan. (2008). Temporal evolution of methane cycling and phylogenetic diversity of archaea in sediments from a deep-sea whale fall in Monterey Canyon (CA). Inter. Soc. Microbial Ecol. Journal. 2: 204-220. [Goffredi_ismej_2008 copy.pdf]

Ciche T. and Goffredi S.K. (2007). General Methods to Investigate Microbial Symbioses.

In: Reddy, C. A. (ed)  Methods for General and Molecular Microbiology,3rd ed. ASM Press. Washington, D.C. pp 394-420.

Goffredi S.K., Johnson S. and Vrijenhoek R.C. (2007). Genetic and functional diversity of microbial symbionts associated with new species of Osedax polychaete worms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73: 2314-2323. [Goffredi_AEM_2007 copy.pdf]

Osborn K.J., Rouse G.W., Goffredi S.K., and Robison B.H. (2007). Description and relationships of Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, an unusual pelagic polychaete (Annelida, Chaetopteridae) Biological Bulletin 212:40-54.

Goffredi S.K., Jones W.J., Scholin C.A., Marin R., and Vrijenhoek R.C. (2006). Molecular detection of marine invertebrate larvae. Marine Biotechnology. 1: 1-12. [Goffredi_MBT_2006 copy.pdf]

Goffredi S.K., Orphan V.J., Rouse G.W., Jahnke L., Embaye T., Turk K., Lee R. and Vrijenhoek R.C. (2005). Evolutionary innovation: A bone-eating marine symbiosis. Environmental Microbiology.7: 1369-1378. [Goffredi_EM_2005 copy.pdf]

Seibel, B.A., S.K. Goffredi, J.J. Childress, E.V. Thuesen, R. Sherlock, and B.H. Robison. (2004). Ammonium content and buoyancy in midwater cephalopods.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 313:375-387.

Rouse G.W.*, Goffredi S.K.* and Vrijenhoek R.C. (2004). Osedax: bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. Science. 305:668-671. (*co-1st authors). [Rouse_Goffredi_Science copy.pdf]

Goffredi S.K., Hurtado L.A., Paull C., and Vrijenhoek R.C. (2004). Unusual benthic fauna associated with a whale fall in Monterey Canyon, CA. Deep Sea Research I. 51:1295-1306.

Goffredi S.K., Warén A., Orphan V., Van Dover, C.L. and Vrijenhoek R.C. (2004). Novel forms of structural integration between microbes and a vent gastropod from the Indian Ocean. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:3082-3090. [Goffredi_Scaly_AEM04 copy.pdf]

Goffredi S.K., Barry J.P., and Buck K.R. (2004). Vesicomyid symbioses from Monterey Bay (Central California) cold seeps.  Symbiosis 36:1-27.

Warén A., Bengtson S., Goffredi S.K. and Van Dover, C.L. (2003). A hydrothermal-vent gastropod with iron sulfide biomineralized dermal sclerites. Science 302: 1007. [Waren et al. 2003 copy.pdf]

Goffredi S.K., Hurtado L.A., Hallam S., and Vrijenhoek R.C. (2003). Evolutionary relationships of deep-sea vent and cold seep clams (Mollusca: Vesicomyidae) of the ‘pacifica/lepta’ species complex.  Marine Biology 142:311-320.

Drazen J.C., Goffredi S.K., Schlining B. and D.S. Stakes. (2003). Aggregations of egg brooding deep-sea fish and cephalopods on the Gorda Escarpment: a reproductive hotspot? Biological Bulletin 205:1-7.

Orphan V.O., Goffredi S.K., Boles, J.R. and Delong E. (2003). Geochemical influence on diversity and microbial processes in high temperature petroleum reservoirs.  Geomicrobiology Journal 20:1-17.

Goffredi S.K. and Barry J.P. (2002). Species-specific variation in sulfide physiology between closely related Vesicomyid clams. Marine Ecology Progress Series 225:227-238.

Goffredi S.K., and Childress J.J. (2001). Activity and inhibitor sensitivity of ATPases in the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Marine Biology 138:259-265.

Pasteris J., Freeman J. Goffredi S., and Buck K.  (2001). Raman spectroscopic and laser scanning confocal microscopic analysis of sulfur in living sulfur-precipitating marine bacteria. Chemical Geology 180:3-18.

pre-2000

Goffredi S.K., Childress J.J., Girguis P.R., and Desaulniers N.T. (1999). The physiological functioning of carbonic anhydrase in the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila.  Biological Bulletin 196:257-264.

Goffredi S.K., Childress J.J., Lallier F.H., and Desaulniers N.T. (1999). The ionic composition of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila: Evidence for the elimination of SO42- and H+ and for a Cl-/HCO3- shift. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 72:296-306.

Goffredi S.K., Childress J.J., Desaulniers N.T., and Lallier F.H.  (1997).  Sulfide acquisition by the vent worm Riftia pachyptila appears to be via uptake of HS-, rather than H2S.  Journal of Experimental Biology 200:2609–2616.

Goffredi S.K., Childress J.J., Desaulniers N.T., Lee R.W., Lallier F.H., and Hammond D. (1997). Inorganic carbon acquisition by the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila depends upon high external PCO2 and upon proton elimination by the worm. Journal of Experimental Biology 200:883–896.