Petri, R. & Imhoff, J.F.: The relationship of nitrate reducing bacteria on the basis of narH gene sequences and the congruent phylogeny of narH and 16S rDNA based on pure culture studies and analyses of environmental DNA. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 23, 47-57 (2000).

Petri, R., Podgorsek, L. & Imhoff, J.F.: Phylogeny and distribution of the soxB gene among thiosulfate-oxidizing bacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 197, 171-178 (2001).

Alexander, B., Andersen, J.H., Cox, R.P. & Imhoff, J.F.: Phylogeny of green sulfur bacteria on the basis of gene sequences of 16S rRNA and of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein. Arch. Microbiol. 178, 131-140 (2002).

Alexander, B. & Imhoff, J.F.: Communities of green sulfur bacteria in different marine and saline habitats analyzed by gene sequences of 16S rRNA and of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein. Int. Microbiol. 9, 259-266 (2006).

Meyer, B., Imhoff, J.F. & Kuever, J.: Molecular analysis of the distribution and phylogeny of the soxB gene among sulfur-oxidizing bacteria - evolution of the Sox sulfur-oxidizing enzyme system. Environ. Microbiol. 9, 2957-2977 (2007).

Junier, P., Kim, O-S, Witzel, K-P., Imhoff, J.F. & Hadas O.: Habitat-partitioning of denitrifying bacterial communities carrying nirS/nirK genes in the stratified water column of Lake Kinneret, Israel. Aquatic Microbial Ecol. 51, 129-140 (2008).

Yutin, N., Rosenberg, M., Rotem, D., Suzuki, M.T., Madigan, M.T., Süling, J., Imhoff, J.F., Béjà, O., Zohary, T., Eckert, W. & Yacobi, Y.Z.: Bch-Y-based degenerate primers target all types of anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria in a single PCR reaction. Appl. Environm. Microbiol. 75, 7556-7559 (2009).

Tank, M., Thiel, V. & Imhoff, J.F.: Phylogenetic relationship of phototrophic purple sulfur bacteria according to pufL and pufM genes. International Microbiology 12, 175-185 (2009).

Hügler, M., Gärtner, A. & Imhoff, J.F.: Functional genes as markers for sulfur cycling and CO2 fixation in microbial communities of hydrothermal vents of the Logatchev field. FEMS Microbiol. Ecology 73, 526-537 (2010).

Thiel, V., Tank, M., Neulinger, S.C., Gehrmann, L., Dorador, C. & Imhoff, J.F.: Unique communities of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in saline lakes of Salar de Atacama (Chile). Evidence for a new phylogenetic lineage of phototrophic Gammaproteobacteria from pufLM gene analyses. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 74, 510-522. (2010).

Junier, P., Molina, V., Dorador, C., Hadas, O., Kim, O.-S., Junier, T., Witzel, K.-P. & Imhoff, J.F.: Phylogenetic and functional markers to study ammonia-oxidising microorganisms (AOM) in the environment. Minireview Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 85, 425-440 (2010).

Hügler, M., Petersen, J.M., Dubilier, N., Imhoff, J.F. & Sievert, S.M.: Pathways of carbon and energy metabolism of the epibiotic community associated with the deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata. PloS One, 6, 1-11 (2011).

Tank, M., Blümel, M. & Imhoff, J.F.: Communities of purple sulfur bacteria in a Baltic Sea coastal lagoon analyzed by pufLM gene libraries and the impact of temperature and NaCl concentration in experimental enrichment cultures. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 78, 428-438 (2011).

Imhoff, J.F.: Functional gene studies of pure cultures are the basis of systematic studies of environmental communities of phototrophic bacteria and their species specific analyses. BISMiS Bulletin 2, 107-115 (2011).

Thiel, V., Hügler, M., Blümel, M., Baumann, H.I., Gärtner, A., Schmaljohann, R., Strauss, H., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Petersen, S., Cowart, D.A., Fisher, C.R. & Imhoff, J.F.: Widespread occurrence of two carbon fixation pathways in tubeworm endosymbionts: lessons from hydrothermal vent associated tubeworms from the Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology 3, (2012) doi 10.3389/microb.2012.00423.