Publications

Heitger, M., Amano, C., Reinthaler, T., Papadatou, M., Pokorny, L., Alvarez‐Salgado, X. A., & Herndl, G. J. (2026). Major contribution of particle‐associated microbes to deep‐sea organic carbon degradation. Limnology and Oceanography, 71(1), e70310. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70310

Bibi, R., Ribas-Ribas, M., Jaeger, L., Lehners, C., Gassen, L., Cortés-Espinoza, E. F., Wollschläger, J., Thölen, C., Waska, H., Zöbelein, J., Brinkhoff, T., Athale, I., Röttgers, R., Novak, M., Engel, A., Barthelmeß, T., Karnatz, J., Reinthaler, T., Spriahailo, D., Friedrichs, G., Schäfer, F. A., & Wurl, O. (2025). Biogeochemical dynamics of the sea-surface microlayer in a multidisciplinary mesocosm study. Biogeosciences, 22(23), 7563–7589. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-7563-2025

Adenaya, A., Spriahailo, D., Berger, M., Noster, J., Milke, F., Schulz, C., Reinthaler, T., Poehlein, A., Wurl, O., Ribas-Ribas, M., Hamprecht, A., & Brinkhoff, T. (2024). Occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the sea surface microlayer of coastal waters in the southern North Sea. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 287, 117259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.117259

Amano, C., Willhelm, U., Koch, T., Reinthaler, T., Hansman, R., Sintes, E., Herndl, G., González, J., & Baltar, F. (2024). Anaplerotic processes are key contributors to dark carbon fixation in the ocean. https://www.researchsquare.com/. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4996540/v1

Zhao, Z., Amano, C., Reinthaler, T., Baltar, F., Orellana, M. V., & Herndl, G. J. (2024). Metaproteomic analysis decodes trophic interactions of microorganisms in the dark ocean. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50867-z

Zhao, Z., Amano, C., Reinthaler, T., Orellana, M. V., & Herndl, G. J. (2024). Substrate uptake patterns shape niche separation in marine prokaryotic microbiome. Science Advances, 10(20), eadn5143. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn5143

Baltar, F., Martínez-Pérez, C., Amano, C., Vial, M., Robaina-Estévez, S., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., Zhao, Z., Logares, R., Morales, S. E., & González, J. M. (2023). A ubiquitous gammaproteobacterial clade dominates expression of sulfur oxidation genes across the mesopelagic ocean. Nature Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01374-2

Amano, C., Reinthaler, T., Sintes, E., Varela, M. M., Stefanschitz, J., Kaneko, S., Nakano, Y., Borchert, W., Herndl, G. J., & Utsumi, M. (2022). A device for assessing microbial activity under ambient hydrostatic pressure: The in situ microbial incubator (ISMI). Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, lom3.10528. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10528

Amano, C., Zhao, Z., Sintes, E., Reinthaler, T., Stefanschitz, J., Kisadur, M., Utsumi, M., & Herndl, G. J. (2022). Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01081-3

Braun, A., Spona-Friedl, M., Avramov, M., Elsner, M., Baltar, F., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., & Griebler, C. (2021). Reviews and syntheses: Heterotrophic fixation of inorganic carbon – significant but invisible flux in environmental carbon cycling. Biogeosciences, 18(12), 3689–3700. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3689-2021

Bayer, B., Pelikan, C., Bittner, M. J., Reinthaler, T., Könneke, M., Herndl, G. J., & Offre, P. (2019). Proteomic response of three marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea to hydrogen peroxide and their metabolic interactions with a heterotrophic alphaproteobacterium. mSystems, 4(4), 203–215. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00181-19

Bayer, B., Vojvoda, J., Reinthaler, T., Reyes, C., NamesforLife, LLC, Parker Jr, C. T., Pinto, M., Herndl, G. J., & Garrity, G. M. (2019). Nitrosopumilus adriaticus sp. nov. and Nitrosopumilus piranensis sp. nov., two ammonia-oxidizing archaea from the Adriatic Sea and members of the class Nitrososphaeria. International Journal of Systematics and Evolutionary Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003360

Berube, P. M., Biller, S. J., Hackl, T., Hogle, S. L., Satinsky, B. M., Becker, J. W., Braakman, R., Collins, S. B., Kelly, L., Berta-Thompson, J., Coe, A., Bergauer, K., Bouman, H. A., Browning, T. J., De Corte, D., Hassler, C., Hulata, Y., Jacquot, J. E., Maas, E. W., Reinthaler, T., Sintes, E., Yokokawa, T., Lindell, D., Stepanauskas, R., & Chisholm, S. W. (2018). Single cell genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and sympatric microbes from diverse marine environments. Scientific Data, 5, 180154–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.154

Biller, S. J., Berube, P. M., Dooley, K., Williams, M., Satinsky, B. M., Hackl, T., Hogle, S. L., Coe, A., Bergauer, K., Bouman, H. A., Browning, T. J., De Corte, D., Hassler, C., Hulston, D., Jacquot, J. E., Maas, E. W., Reinthaler, T., Sintes, E., Yokokawa, T., & Chisholm, S. W. (2018). Marine microbial metagenomes sampled across space and time. Scientific Data, 5, 180176–180177. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.176

Winter, C., Köstner, N., Kruspe, C.-P., Urban, D., Muck, S., Reinthaler, T., & Herndl, G. J. (2018). Mixing alters the lytic activity of viruses in the dark ocean. Ecology, 99(3), 700–713. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2135

Lønborg, C., Cuevas, L. A., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., Gasol, J. M., Morán, X. A. G., Bates, N. R., & Álvarez Salgado, X. A. (2017). Corrigendum: Depth dependent relationships between temperature and ocean heterotrophic prokaryotic production. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00091

Baltar, F., Lundin, D., Palovaara, J., Lekunberri, I., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., & Pinhassi, J. (2016). Prokaryotic responses to ammonium and organic carbon reveal alternative CO2 fixation pathways and importance of alkaline phosphatase in the mesopelagic north atlantic. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 788–19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01670

Frank, A. H., Garcia, J. A. L., Herndl, G. J., & Reinthaler, T. (2016). Connectivity between surface and deep waters determines prokaryotic diversity in the North Atlantic Deep Water. Environmental Microbiology, 18(6), 2052–2063. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13237

Frank, A. H., Pontiller, B., Herndl, G. J., & Reinthaler, T. (2016). Erythromycin and GC7 fail as domain-specific inhibitors for bacterial and archaeal activity in the open ocean. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 77(2), 99–110. https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01792

Lønborg, C., Cuevas, L. A., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., Gasol, J. M., Morán, X. A. G., Bates, N. R., & Álvarez Salgado, X. A. (2016). Depth dependent relationships between temperature and ocean heterotrophic prokaryotic production. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3(131), 177–179. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00090

Baltar, F., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., & Pinhassi, J. (2013). Major effect of hydrogen peroxide on bacterioplankton metabolism in the northeast atlantic. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e61051. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061051

Herndl, G. J., & Reinthaler, T. (2013). Microbial control of the dark end of the biological pump. Nature Geoscience, 6(9), 718–724. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1921

Reinthaler, T., Álvarez Salgado, X. A., Álvarez, M., van Aken, H. M., & Herndl, G. J. (2013). Impact of water mass mixing on the biogeochemistry and microbiology of the Northeast Atlantic Deep Water. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 27(4), 1151–1162. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GB004634

De Corte, D., Sintes, E., Yokokawa, T., Reinthaler, T., & Herndl, G. J. (2012). Links between viruses and prokaryotes throughout the water column along a North Atlantic latitudinal transect. The ISME Journal, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2011.214

Swan, B. K., Martinez-Garcia, M., Preston, C. M., Sczyrba, A., Woyke, T., Lamy, D., Reinthaler, T., Poulton, N. J., Masland, E. D. P., Gomez, M. L., Sieracki, M. E., DeLong, E. F., Herndl, G. J., & Stepanauskas, R. (2011). Potential for Chemolithoautotrophy Among Ubiquitous Bacteria Lineages in the Dark Ocean. Science, 333(6047), 1296–1300. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1203690

Varela, M. M., van Aken, H. M., Sintes, E., Reinthaler, T., & Herndl, G. J. (2011). Contribution of Crenarchaeota and Bacteria to autotrophy in the North Atlantic interior. Environmental Microbiology, 13(6), 1524–1533. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02457.x

Baltar, F., Aristegui, J., Sintes, E., Gasol, J. M., Reinthaler, T., & Herndl, G. J. (2010). Significance of non-sinking particulate organic carbon and dark CO2 fixation to heterotrophic carbon demand in the mesopelagic northeast Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters, 37(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL043105

Burd, A. B., Hansell, D. A., Steinberg, D. K., Anderson, T. R., Arístegui, J., Baltar, F., Beaupré, S. R., Buesseler, K. O., DeHairs, F., Jackson, G. A., Kadko, D. C., Koppelmann, R., Lampitt, R. S., Nagata, T., Reinthaler, T., Robinson, C., Robison, B. H., Tamburini, C., & Tanaka, T. (2010). Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical indicators of meso- and bathypelagic biological activity: What the @$♯! is wrong with present calculations of carbon budgets? Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 57(16), 1557–1571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.02.022

Nagata, T., Tamburini, C., Aristegui, J., Baltar, F., Bochdansky, A. B., Fonda-Umani, S., Fukuda, H., Gogou, A., Hansell, D. A., Hansman, R. L., Herndl, G. J., Panagiotopoulos, C., Reinthaler, T., Sohrin, R., Verdugo, P., Yamada, N., Yamashita, Y., Yokokawa, T., & Bartlett, D. H. (2010). Emerging concepts on microbial processes in the bathypelagic ocean – ecology, biogeochemistry, and genomics. Deep-Sea Research Part II, 57(16), 1519–1536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.02.019

Reinthaler, T., van Aken, H. M., & Herndl, G. J. (2010). Major contribution of autotrophy to microbial carbon cycling in the deep North Atlantic’s interior. Deep-Sea Research Part II, 57(16), 1572–1580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.02.023

Gasol, J. M., Pinhassi, J., Alonso-Sáez, L., Ducklow, H., Herndl, G. J., Koblízek, M., Labrenz, M., Luo, Y., Morán, X., Reinthaler, T., & Simon, M. (2008). Towards a better understanding of microbial carbon flux in the sea*. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 53, 21–38. https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01230

Herndl, G. J., Agogué, H., Baltar, F., Reinthaler, T., Sintes, E., & Varela, M. M. (2008). Regulation of aquatic microbial processes: the ‘microbial loop’ of the sunlit surface waters and the dark ocean dissected. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 53, 59–68. https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01225

Reinthaler, T., Sintes, E., & Herndl, G. J. (2008). Dissolved organic matter and bacterial production and respiration in the sea-surface microlayer of the open Atlantic and the western Mediterranean Sea. Limnology and Oceanography, 53(1), 122–136. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2008.53.1.0122

Wängberg, S.-Å., Andreasson, K. I. M., Gustavson, K., Reinthaler, T., & Henriksen, P. (2008). UV-B effects on microplankton communities in Kongsfjord, Svalbard – A mesocosm experiment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 365(2), 156–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2008.08.010

Wilhartitz, I., Mach, R. L., Teira, E., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., & Farnleitner, A. H. (2007). Prokaryotic community analysis with CARD-FISH in comparison with FISH in ultra-oligotrophic ground- and drinking water. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 103(4), 871–881. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2007.03319.x

Joux, F., Agogué, H., Obernosterer, I., Dupuy, C., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., & Lebaron, P. (2006). Microbial community structure in the sea surface microlayer at two contrasting coastal sites in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 42(1), 91–104.

Reinthaler, T., Bakker, K., Manuels, R., van Ooijen, J., & Herndl, G. J. (2006). Fully automated spectrophotometric approach to determine oxygen concentrations in seawater via continuous-flow analysis. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 4, 358–366. https://doi.org/10.4319/lom.2006.4.358

Reinthaler, T., van Aken, H. M., Veth, C., Aristegui, J., Robinson, C., Williams, P., Lebaron, P., & Herndl, G. J. (2006). Prokaryotic respiration and production in the meso- and bathypelagic realm of the eastern and western North Atlantic basin. Limnology and Oceanography, 51(3), 1262–1273.

Wängberg, S.-Å., Andreasson, K. I. M., Garde, K., Gustavson, K., Henriksen, P., & Reinthaler, T. (2006). Inhibition of primary production by UV-B radiation in an arctic bay – model calculations. Aquatic Sciences, 68(2), 117–128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-006-0819-4

Herndl, G. J., Reinthaler, T., Teira, E., van Aken, H. M., Veth, C., Pernthaler, A., & Pernthaler, J. (2005). Contribution of archaea to total prokaryotic production in the deep atlantic ocean. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71(5), 2303–2309. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.71.5.2303-2309.2005

Obernosterer, I., Catala, P., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., & Lebaron, P. (2005). Enhanced heterotrophic activity in the surface microlayer of the Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 39, 293–302. https://doi.org/10.3354/ame039293

Reinthaler, T. (2005). Prokaryotic respiration and production in the open ocean. In House.

Reinthaler, T., & Herndl, G. J. (2005). Seasonal dynamics of bacterial growth efficiencies in relation to phytoplankton in the southern North Sea. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 39, 7–16. https://doi.org/10.3354/ame039007

Reinthaler, T., Winter, C., & Herndl, G. J. (2005). Relationship between bacterioplankton richness, respiration, and production in the southern north sea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71(5), 2260–2266. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.71.5.2260-2266.2005

Agogué, H., Casamayor, E. O., Joux, F., Obernosterer, I., Dupuy, C., Lantoine, F., Catala, P., Weinbauer, M. G., Reinthaler, T., Herndl, G. J., & Lebaron, P. (2004). Comparison of samplers for the biological characterization of the sea surface microlayer. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 2, 213–225. https://doi.org/10.4319/lom.2004.2.213

Teira, E., Reinthaler, T., Pernthaler, A., Pernthaler, J., & Herndl, G. J. (2004). Combining catalyzed reporter deposition-fluorescence in situ hybridization and microautoradiography to detect substrate utilization by bacteria and archaea in the deep ocean. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70(7), 4411–4414. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.70.7.4411-4414.2004