Wolfgang Ludwig

Research interests

Publications

• 25 years of serving the community with ribosomal RNA gene reference databases and tools

  Journal of Biotechnology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2017.06.1198

• Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro3330

• HyMeX: A 10-Year Multidisciplinary Program on the Mediterranean Water Cycle

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2013 · 10.1175/bams-d-12-00242.1

• The SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt1209

• Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications

  Nature Biotechnology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1823

• ARB: A Software Environment for Sequence Data

  Journal · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118010518.ch46

• Update of the All-Species Living Tree Project based on 16S and 23S rRNA sequence analyses

  Systematic and Applied Microbiology · 2010 · 10.1016/j.syapm.2010.08.001

• River discharges of water and nutrients to the Mediterranean and Black Sea: Major drivers for ecosystem changes during past and future decades?

  Progress In Oceanography · 2009 · 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.02.001

• The All-Species Living Tree project: A 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic tree of all sequenced type strains

  Systematic and Applied Microbiology · 2008 · 10.1016/j.syapm.2008.07.001

• SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2007 · 10.1093/nar/gkm864

• ARB: a software environment for sequence data

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2004 · 10.1093/nar/gkh293

• Worldwide distribution of continental rock lithology: Implications for the atmospheric/soil CO2 uptake by continental weathering and alkalinity river transport to the oceans

  Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 2003 · 10.1029/2002gb001891

• Complete genome sequence of the marine planctomycete Pirellula sp. strain 1

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2003 · 10.1073/pnas.1431443100

• Bacterial phylogeny based on comparative sequence analysis (review)

  Electrophoresis · 1998 · 10.1002/elps.1150190416

• Dehalobacter restrictus gen. nov. and sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration

  Archives of Microbiology · 1998 · 10.1007/s002030050577

• Phylogenetic analysis and in situ identification of bacteria in activated sludge

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 1997 · 10.1128/aem.63.7.2884-2896.1997

• Predicting the oceanic input of organic carbon by continental erosion

  Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 1996 · 10.1029/95gb02925

• Sequence heterogeneities of genes encoding 16S rRNAs in Paenibacillus polymyxa detected by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis

  Journal of Bacteriology · 1996 · 10.1128/jb.178.19.5636-5643.1996

• Application of a suite of 16S rRNA-specific oligonucleotide probes designed to investigate bacteria of the phylum cytophaga-flavobacter-bacteroides in the natural environment

  Microbiology · 1996 · 10.1099/13500872-142-5-1097

• A new obligately chemolithoautotrophic, nitrite-oxidizing bacterium,Nitrospira moscoviensis sp. nov. and its phylogenetic relationship

  Archives of Microbiology · 1995 · 10.1007/bf02568729

• Phylogenetic identification and in situ detection of individual microbial cells without cultivation.

  Microbiological Reviews · 1995 · 10.1128/mmbr.59.1.143-169.1995

• Phylogenetic identification and in situ detection of individual microbial cells without cultivation

  Microbiological Reviews · 1995 · 10.1128/mr.59.1.143-169.1995

• In situ probing of Gram-positive bacteria with high DNA G + C content using 23S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotides

  Microbiology · 1994 · 10.1099/00221287-140-10-2849

• Bacterial phylogeny based on 16S and 23S rRNA sequence analysis

  FEMS Microbiology Reviews · 1994 · 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1994.tb00132.x

• Phylogenetic Oligodeoxynucleotide Probes for the Major Subclasses of Proteobacteria: Problems and Solutions

  Systematic and Applied Microbiology · 1992 · 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80121-9

Current projects

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