2008
Jiang, H., Dong, H., Yu, B., Ye, Q., Ji, S., Liu, Y., Shen, J., and Zhang C.L. 2008. Dominance of putative marine benthic archaea in sediments from an inland lake: Qinghai Lake, northwestern China. Environ. Microbiol.doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01661.x. PDF
Pearson A., Pi Y., Zhao W., Li W., Li Y., Inskeep W., Bonch-Osmolavskaya L., Romanek C., Li S., and Zhang C.L. 2008. Factors controlling the distribution of archaeal tetraethers in terrestrial hot springs. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74: 3523–3532. PDF
Smith J. L., Campbell B. J., Hanson T. E., Zhang C. L., and Cary S. C. 2008. Nautilia profundicola sp. nov., a thermophilic, sulfur-reducing epsilonproteobacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Intl’ J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 58, 1598–1602. PDF
Zhang C.L., Ye Q., Huang Z., Li W., Chen J., Song Z., Hedlund B. P., Zhao W., Gao L., Bagwell C., Inskeep B., Wiegel J., Romanek C.S. 2008 Global occurrence and biogeographic patterning of putative archaeal amoA genes from terrestrial hot springs. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74: 6417–6426. PDF
Zhao W., Zhang C.L., Romanek C., Wiegel J. 2008. Description of Caldalkalibacillus uzonensis sp. nov. and emended description of the genus Caldalkalibacillus. Int’l. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 58: 1106–1108. PDF
2007
Boyd E. S., Jackson R. A., Encarnacion G., Zahn J. A., Beard T., Leavitt W.D., Pi Y., Zhang C. L., Pearson A., D’Imperio S., McDermott T. R., and Geesey G. G. 2007. Isolation, characterization, and ecology of sulfur-respiring Crenarchaea inhabiting acid-sulfate-chloride geothermal springs in Yellowstone National Park. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.73: 6669-6677. PDF
Huang Z., Wiegel J., Zhou J., Hedlund B., Zhang C.L. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of uncultivated Crenarchaeota in hot springs of moderately elevated temperatures. Geomicrobiol. J. 24: 535-542. PDF
Jiang H., Dong H., Yu B., Li Y., Ji S., Liu X., and Zhang C.L. 2007. Microbial response to salinity change in Lake Chaka, a hypersaline lake on the Tibetan Plateau. Environ. Microbiol. 9: 2603-2621. PDF
Li Y.-L., Peacock A., White D.C., Geyer R., Zhang C.L. 2007. Spatial patterns of bacterial signature lipid biomarkers in marine sediments of the Gulf of Mexico. Chem. Geol. 238: 168-179. PDF
Zhang C.L., Huang Z., Li Y.-L., Romanek C. S., Mills G., Wiegel J., Culp R., Noakes J., and White D. C. 2007. Lipid biomarkers and carbon-isotope signatures of bacteria in Nevada hot springs. Geomicrobiol. J. 24: 519-534. PDF
2006
Li Y.-L., Vali H., Yang J., Phelps T. J., and Zhang C. L. 2006. Reduction of iron oxides enhanced by a sulfate-reducing bacterium and biogenic H2S. Geomicrobiol. J. 23: 103-117. PDF
Williams T.J., Zhang C.L., Scott J.H., and Bazylinski D.A. 2006. Evidence for autotrophy via the reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle in the marine magnetotactic coccus strain MC-1. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 1322-1329. PDF
Yan T., Ye Q., Zhou J., and Zhang C.L. 2006. New functional genes for methanotrophs in gas-hydrate and hydrocarbon-seep environments in the Gulf of Mexico. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 57: 251-259. PDF
Zhang C.L., Pearson A., Li Y.-L., Mills G., Wiegel J. 2006. A thermophilic temperature optimum for crenarchaeol and its implication for archaeal evolution. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 4419-4422. PDF
Zhao W., Wiegel J., Zhang C.L., Romanek C.S., Mills G., King G. 2006. Thermalkaliphus uzonensis gen. nov. sp. nov, a new aerobic thermophilic carbon-monoxide-tolerant bacterium isolated from a hot spring in Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka. Extremophiles. 10: 337-345. PDF
2005
Pancost R.D., Zhang C.L., Tavacoli J., Talbot H.M., Farrimond P., Schouten S., Damste J.S.S., Sassen R. 2005. Lipid biomarkers preserved in hydrate-associated authigenic carbonate rocks of the Gulf of Mexico. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 227: 48-66. PDF
Tuo J., Chen J., Yao S., Li Y.-L., Ji J., and Zhang C.L. 2005. Qinghai Lake: A natural laboratory for geomicrobiological research. Geosci. J. China Univ. 2: 187-193. PDF (in Chinese)
Wang Y., Huang Z., and Zhang C.L. 2005. Knowing the unknown: Statistical approaches towards understanding microbial diversity. Geosci. J. China Univ. 2: 224-233. PDF
Zhang C.L., Huang Z., Cantu J., Pancost R. D, Brigmon, R. L., Lyons T. W., and Sassen R. 2005. Lipid Biomarkers and Carbon-Isotope Signatures of a Microbial (Beggiatoa) Mat Associated with Gas Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71: 2106-2112. PDF
