Petri, R. & Imhoff, J.F.: Genetic analysis of sea-ice bacterial communities of the Western Baltic Sea using an improved double gradient method. Polar Biology 24, 252-257 (2001).

Junge, K., Imhoff, J.F., Staley, J.T. & Deming, J.W.: Phylogenetic diversity of numerically important Arctic sea ice bacteria cultured at subzero temperature. Microbial Ecol. 43, 315-328 (2002).

Imhoff, J.F., Sahling, H., Süling, J. & Kath, T.: 16S rDNA based phylogeny of sulfur-oxidizing endosymbionts in marine bivalves from cold-seep habitats. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 249, 39-51 (2003).

Imhoff, J.F. & Stöhr, R.: Sponge-associated bacteria: General overview and special aspects of the diversity of bacteria associated with Halichondria panicea. In: Marine Molecular Biotechnology, Vol. 1 Sponges (Porifera), WEG Müller (Ed.), Springer New York, pp. 35-57 (2003).

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. Arch. Hydrobiol. 167, 335-350 (2006).

Perner, M., Kuever, J., Seifert, R., Pape, T., Koschinsky, A., Schmidt, K., Strauss, H. & Imhoff, J.F.. The influence of ultramafic rocks on microbial communities at the Logatchev Hydrothermal field, located 15°N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 61, 97-109 (2007).

Thiel, V., Neulinger, S.C., Staufenberger, T., Schmaljohann, R. & Imhoff, J.F.: Spatial distribution of sponge-associated bacteria in the Mediterranean sponge Tethya aurantium. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 59, 47-63 (2007).

Thiel, V., Leininger, S., Schmaljohann, R., Brümmer, F., & Imhoff, J.F.: Sponge-specific bacterial associations in the Mediterranean sponge Chondrilla nucula (Demospongiae, Tetractinomorpha). Microbial Ecol. 54, 101-111 (2007).

Staufenberger, T., Wiese, J., Thiel, V. & Imhoff, J.F.: Phylogenetic analysis of bacteria associated with Laminaria saccharina. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 64, 65-77 (2008).
Muscholl-Silberhorn, A., Thiel V. & Imhoff J.F.: Abundance and bioactivity of cultured sponge-associated bacteria from the Mediterranean Sea. Microbial Ecol. 55, 94-106 (2008).

Dorador, C., Vila, I., Witzel, K.-P. & Imhoff, J.F.. Cyanobacterial diversity in Salar de Huasco, a high altitude saline wetland in Northern Chile, are highly similar to Antarctic cyanobacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 64, 419-432 (2008).

Wiese, J., Thiel, V., Nagel, K., Staufenberger, T. & Imhoff, J.F.: Diversity of antibiotic-active bacteria associated with the brown alga Laminaria saccharina from the Baltic Sea. Marine Biotechnology 11, 287-301 (2009).

Dorador, C., Meneses, D., Urtuvia, V., Demergasso, C., Vila, I., Witzel, K.-P. & Imhoff, J.F.: Diversity of Bacteroidetes in high altitude saline evaporitic basins in northern Chile. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosciences 114, 35-44 (2009).

Lachnit, T., Blümel, M., Imhoff, J.F. & Wahl, M.: Specific epibacterial communities on macroalgae: phylogeny matters more than habitat. Aquatic Biology 5, 181-186 (2009).

Neulinger, S.C., Stöhr, R., Thiel, V., Schmaljohann, R. & Imhoff, J.F.: New phylogenetic lineages of the Spirochaetes phylum associated with Clathrina species (Porifera). J. Microbiol. 48, 411-418 (2010).

Schneemann, I., Nagel, K., Kajahn, I., Labes, A., Wiese, J., Imhoff, J.F.: Comprehenisve investigation of marine actinobacteria associated with the sponge Halichondria panicea. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76, 3702-3714 (2010).

Dorador, C., Vila, I., Remosellez, F., Witzel, K.-P. & Imhoff, J.F.: Unique clusters of Archaea in Salar des Huasco, an athalassohaline evaporitic basin of the Chilean Altiplano. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 73, 291-302 (2010).

Goecke, F., Labes, A., Wiese, J. & Imhoff, J.F.: Phylogenetic analysis and antibiotic activity of bacteria isolated from the surface of two co-occurring macroalgae from the Baltic Sea. Eur. J. Phycol. 48, 47-60 (2013)