PUBLICATIONS

1. Abiola C, Gwak JH, Lee UJ, Adigun AO, Rhee SK. Genomic profiling of soil nitrifying microorganisms enriched on floating membrane filter. J. Microbiol. 2025;63(4):e2502002.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.71150/jm.2502002

2. Joo-Han Gwak, Adebisi Olabisi, Ui-Ju Lee, Christiana Abiola, Seongjun Lee, Hackwon Do, Yun Ji Choi, Jay-Jung Lee, Man-Young Jung, Nico Jehmlich, Martin von Bergen, Michael Wagner, Samuel Imisi Awala, Zhe-Xue Quan, Sung-Keun Rhee. Hypoosmolarity inhibits archaeal ammonia oxidation. bioRxiv 2025.07.07.663500; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.07.663500

1. Abiola, C., Gwak, J. H., Lee, U. J., Awala, S. I., Jung, M. Y., Park, W., & Rhee, S. K. (2024). Growth of soil ammonia-oxidizing archaea on air-exposed solid surface. ISME Communications 4(1), ycae129. DOI:10.1093/ismeco/ycae129

2. Ui-Ju Lee, Joo-Han Gwak, Seungyeon Choi, Man-Young Jung, Tae Kwon Lee, Hojin Ryu, Samuel Imisi Awala, Wolfgang Wanek, Michael Wagner, Zhe-Xue Quan, Sung-Keun Rhee. Ca. Nitrosocosmicus” members are the dominant archaea associated with pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) and ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Mey.) plants’ rhizospheres. bioRxiv 2024.01.08.574571; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.08.574571

3. Gwak JH, Rhee SK, Park JW. Bacteria involved in the sulfur cycle in tarballs collected from the Alabama Gulf Coast. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2024 Jan 9;371:fnae003. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnae003. PMID: 38228401. 

4. Zhang RY, Wang YR, Liu RL, Rhee SK, Zhao GP, Quan ZX. Metagenomic characterization of a novel non-ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota from hadal sediment. Microbiome. 2024 Jan 8;12(1):7. doi: 10.1186/s40168-023-01728-2. PMID: 38191433; PMCID: PMC10773090.

5. Awala, S.I., Gwak, JH., Kim, Y. et al. Nitrous oxide respiration in acidophilic methanotrophs. Nat Commun 15, 4226 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48161-z 

1. Kaown D, Koh DC, Mayer B, Mahlknecht J, Ju Y, Rhee SK, Kim JH, Park DK, Park I, Lee HL, Yoon YY, Lee KK. Estimation of nutrient sources and fate in groundwater near a large weir-regulated river using multiple isotopes and microbial signatures. J Hazard Mater. 2023 Mar 15;446:130703. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130703. Epub 2022 Dec 29. PMID: 36587594

2. Prakash O, Dodsworth JA, Dong X, Ferry JG, L'Haridon S, Imachi H, Kamagata Y, Rhee SK, Sagar I, Shcherbakova V, Wagner D, Whitman WB. Proposed minimal standards for description of methanogenic archaea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2023 Apr;73(4). doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005500. PMID: 37097839.

3. Jiang R, Qin WJ, Zhang RY, Zhang K, Huang X, Li Y, Zhou CH, Zhu T, Zhang Y, Zou B, Nie M, Rhee SK, Quan ZX. Salinity changes the nitrification activity and community composition of comammox Nitrospira in intertidal sediments of Yangtze River estuary. mSystems. 2023 Jun 29;8(3):e0102622. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01026-22. Epub 2023 Jun 12. PMID: 37306481; PMCID: PMC10308925.

4. Awala SI, Gwak JH, Kim Y, Seo C, Strazzulli A, Kim SG, Rhee SK. Methylacidiphilum caldifontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic methane-oxidizing bacterium from an acidic geothermal environment, and descriptions of the family Methylacidiphilaceae fam. nov. and order Methylacidiphilales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2023 Oct;73(10). doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006085. PMID: 37791995.

5. Awala SI, Kim Y, Gwak JH, Seo C, Lee S, Kang M, Rhee SK. Methylococcus mesophilus sp. nov., the first non-thermotolerant methanotroph of the genus Methylococcus, from a rice field. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2023 Oct;73(10). doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006077. PMID: 37824181.

6. Gwak JH, Awala SI, Kim SJ, Lee SH, Yang EJ, Park J, Jung J, Rhee SK. Transcriptomic Insights into Archaeal Nitrification in the Amundsen Sea Polynya, Antarctica. J Microbiol. 2023 Nov;61(11):967-980. doi: 10.1007/s12275-023-00090-0. Epub 2023 Dec 7. PMID: 38062325.

1. Jung MY, Sedlacek CJ, Kits KD, Mueller AJ, Rhee SK, Hink L, Nicol GW, Bayer B, Lehtovirta-Morley L, Wright C, de la Torre JR, Herbold CW, Pjevac P, Daims H, Wagner M. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea possess a wide range of cellular ammonia affinities. ISME J. 2022 Jan;16(1):272-283. doi: 10.1038/s41396-021-01064-z. Epub 2021 Jul 27. PMID: 34316016; PMCID: PMC8692354.

2. Gwak JH, Awala SI, Nguyen NL, Yu WJ, Yang HY, von Bergen M, Jehmlich N, Kits KD, Loy A, Dunfield PF, Dahl C, Hyun JH, Rhee SK. Sulfur and methane oxidation by a single microorganism. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2022 Aug 9;119(32):e2114799119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2114799119. Epub 2022 Aug 1. PMID: 35914169; PMCID: PMC9371685.

1. Kim JG, Gazi KS, Awala SI, Jung MY, Rhee SK. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea in biological interactions. J Microbiol. 2021 Mar;59(3):298-310. doi: 10.1007/s12275-021-1005-z. Epub 2021 Feb 23. PMID: 33624267.

2. Kim JG, Gazi KS, Krupovic M, Rhee SK, Ictv Report Consortium. ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Thaspiviridae 2021. J Gen Virol. 2021 Jul;102(7):001631. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001631. PMID: 34328827; PMCID: PMC8491892.

3. Krupovic M, Turner D, Morozova V, Dyall-Smith M, Oksanen HM, Edwards R, Dutilh BE, Lehman SM, Reyes A, Baquero DP, Sullivan MB, Uchiyama J, Nakavuma J, Barylski J, Young MJ, Du S, Alfenas-Zerbini P, Kushkina A, Kropinski AM, Kurtböke I, Brister JR, Lood C, Sarkar BL, Yigang T, Liu Y, Huang L, Wittmann J, Chanishvili N, van Zyl LJ, Rumnieks J, Mochizuki T, Jalasvuori M, Aziz RK, Łobocka M, Stedman KM, Shkoporov AN, Gillis A, Peng X, Enault F, Knezevic P, Lavigne R, Rhee SK, Cvirkaite-Krupovic V, Moraru C, Moreno Switt AI, Poranen MM, Millard A, Prangishvili D, Adriaenssens EM. Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021. Arch Virol. 2021 Nov;166(11):3239-3244. doi: 10.1007/s00705-021-05205-9. PMID: 34417873; PMCID: PMC8497307.

4. Awala SI, Gwak JH, Kim YM, Kim SJ, Strazzulli A, Dunfield PF, Yoon H, Kim GJ, Rhee SK. Verrucomicrobial methanotrophs grow on diverse C3 compounds and use a homolog of particulate methane monooxygenase to oxidize acetone. ISME J. 2021 Dec;15(12):3636-3647. doi: 10.1038/s41396-021-01037-2. Epub 2021 Jun 22. PMID: 34158629; PMCID: PMC8630023.

1. Gwak, J. H.; Jung, M. Y.; Hong, H.; Kim, J. G.; Quan, Z. X.; Reinfelder, J. R.; Spasov, E.; Neufeld, J. D.; Wagner, M.; Rhee, S. K. Archaeal nitrification is constrained by copper complexation with organic matter in municipal wastewater treatment plants. ISME J. 2020, 14, 335

2. Ran Jiang, Jian-Gong Wang, Ting Zhu, Bin Zou, Dan-Qi Wang, Sung-Keun Rhee, Dong An, Zhi-Yuan Ji, Zhe-Xue Quan. Use of Newly Designed Primers for Quantification of Complete Ammonia-Oxidizing (Comammox) Bacterial Clades and Strict Nitrite Oxidizers in the Genus Nitrospira. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2020 Oct 1;86(20):e01775-20 

3. Gi-Yong Jung, Sung-Keun Rhee, Young-Soo Han and So-Jeong Kim. Genomic and Physiological Properties of a Facultative Methane-Oxidizing Bacterial Strain of Methylocystis sp. from a Wetland. ​Microorganisms. 2020 Nov 2;8(11):1719. 

4. Awala SI, Bellosillo LA, Gwak JH, Nguyen NL, Kim SJ, Lee BH, Rhee SK . ​Methylococcus geothermalis sp. nov., a methanotroph isolated from a geothermal field in the Republic of Korea​. ​Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2020 Oct;70(10):5520-5530.

1. Kim JG, Kim SJ, Cvirkaite-Krupovic V, Yu WJ, Gwak JH, LopezPerez M, Rodriguez-Valera F, Krupovic M, Cho JC, Rhee SK (2019) Spindle-shaped​ viruses infect marine ammonia-oxidizing thaumarchaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 116:15645–15650 

2. Kim, S.-J., Kim, J.-G., Lee, S.-H., Park, S.-J., Gwak, J.-H., Jung, M.-Y., Chung, W.-H., Yang, E.-J., Park, J., Jung, J., Hahn, Y., Cho, J.-C., Madsen, E.-L., Francisco, R.-H., Hyun, J.-H., Rhee, S.-K (2019); Genomic and metatranscriptomic analyses of carbon remineralization in an Antarctic polynya. Microbiome 7:29. doi: 10.1186/s40168-019-0643-4

3. Song GC, Im H, Jung J, Lee S, Jung MY, Rhee SK, Ryu CM (2019) Plant growth-promoting archaea trigger induced systemic resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana against Pectobacterium carotovorum and Pseudomonas syringae. Environ Microbiol 21:940–948 

4. ​Kim J-G, Gwak J-H, Jung M-Y, An SU, Hyun JH, Kang S, Rhee SK (2019) Distinct temporal dynamics of planktonic archaeal and bacterial assemblages in the bays of the Yellow Sea. PLOS ONE 14:e0221408. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221408 

5. Gi-Yong Jung, In-Hyun Nam, Yong-Soo Han​, Joo Sung Ahn​, Sung-Keun Rhee​, So-Jeong Kim. Sphingorhabdus pulchriflava sp. nov., isolated from a river. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2644-2650 

6. Jung, M. Y.; Gwak, J. H.; Rohe, L.; Giesemann, A.; Kim, J. G.; Well, R.; Madsen, E. L.; Herbold, C. W.; Wagner, M.; Rhee, S. K. Indications for enzymatic denitrification to N2O at low pH in an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon. ISME J. 2019,13, (10), 2633-2638

7. Wang B, Qin W, Ren Y, Zhou X, Jung M-Y, Han P, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Li M, Zheng Y, Lu L, Yan X, Ji J, Liu Y, Liu L, Heiner C, Hall R, Martens-Habbena W, Herbold CW, Rhee S-K, Bartlett DH, Huang L, Ingalls AE, Wagner M, Stahl DA, Jia Z. 2019. Expansion of Thaumarchaeota habitat range is correlated with horizontal transfer of ATPase operons. ISME J 13:3067–3079. doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0493-x.

1. Man-Young Jung, So-Jeong Kim, Jong-Geol Kim, Heeji Hong, Joo-Han Gwak, Soo-Je Park, Yang-Hoon Kim, Sung-Keun Rhee (2018); Comparative genomic analysis of Geosporobacter ferrireducens and its versatility of anaerobic energy metabolism, J Microbiol. 56: 365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-018-7451-6

2. Woon-Jong​ Yu, Jae-Won​ Lee​, Ngoc-Loi ​Nguyen, Sung-Keun Rhee, ​​Soo-Je​​ Park ​(2018); The characteristics and comparative analysis of methanotrophs reveal genomic insights into Methylomicrobium sp. enriched from marine sediments, Systematic and Applied Microbiology, ISSN 0723-2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2018.05.004

3. Seol-Hee Kim, Jong-Geol Kim​, Man-Young Jung, So-Jeong Kim, Joo-Han Gwak, Woon-Jong Yu, Seong Woon Roh​, Yang-Hoon Kim, Sung-Keun Rhee (2018); Ketobacter alkanivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an n-alkane-degrading bacterium isolated from seawater, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002823

4. ​Man-Young Jung, Md. Arafat Islam, Joo-Han Gwak​ , Jong-Geol Kim​ , Sung-Keun Rhee​ (2018) Nitrosarchaeum koreense gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic and mesophilic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon member of the phylum Thaumarchaeota isolated from agricultural soil, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology doi:​ 10.1099/ijsem.0.002926​​

5. Ngoc-Loi Nguyen, Woon-Jong Yu, Joo-Han Gwak, So-Jeong Kim, Soo-Je Park, Craig W. Herbold, Jong-Geol Kim, Man-Young Jung and Sung-Keun Rhee (2018), Genomic Insights Into the Acid Adaptation of Novel Methanotrophs Enriched From Acidic Forest Soils, ​Front. Microbiol, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01982 

6. Lee J, Shim D, Moon S, Kim H, Bae W, Kim K, Kim YH, Rhee SK, Hong CP, Hong SY, Lee YJ, Sung J, Ryu H.​Genome-wide transcriptomic analysis of BR-deficient Micro-Tom reveals correlations between drought stress tolerance and brassinosteroid signaling in tomato. (2018). Plant Physiol Biochem. 2018 Jun;127:553-560. doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.04.031. Epub 2018 Apr 27.

7. Xia F, Wang JG, Zhu T, Zou B, Rhee SK, Quan ZX. Ubiquity and Diversity of Complete Ammonia Oxidizers (Comammox). (2018) Appl Environ Microbiol. 2018 Nov 30;84(24). pii: e01390-18. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01390-18. Print 2018 Dec 15. 

8. Song GC, Im H, Jung J, Lee S, Jung MY, Rhee SK, Ryu CM. Plant growth-promoting archaea trigger induced systemic resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana against Pectobacterium carotovorum and Pseudomonas syringae.Environ Microbiol. 2018 Nov 20. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14486. [Epub ahead of print] 

9. Kim SJ, Park SJ, Kim JG, Jung MY, Gwak JH, Rhee SK. Draft Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Izimaplasma sp." Strain ZiA1, Obtained from a Toluene-Degrading and Iron-Reducing Enrichment Culture.Microbiol Resour Announc. 2018 Aug 30;7(8). pii: e00861-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00861-18. eCollection 2018 Aug

1. Ok-Ja Si​, Hye-Young Yang, Chung Yeon Hwang​, So-Jeong Kim​, Sun-Bin Choi​, Jong-Geol Kim​, Man-Young Jung​, Song-Gun Kim​, Seong Woon Roh​, Sung-Keun (2016), Kiloniella antarctica sp. nov., isolated from a polynya of Amundsen Sea in Western Antarctic Sea, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 67: 2397-2402

2. Ngoc-Loi Nguyen,Woon-Jong Yu, Hye-Young Yang, Jong-Geol Kim, Man-Young Jung, Soo-Je Park, Seong-Woon Roh, Sung-Keun Rhee (2017) A novel methanotroph in the genus Methylomonas that contains a distinct clade of soluble methane monooxygenase, Journal of Microbiology, 55: 775

3. Jian-Gong Wang, Fei Xia, Jemaneh Zeleke, Bin Zou, Sung-Keun Rhee, Zhe-Xue Quan (2017); An improved protocol with a highly degenerate primer targeting copper-containing membrane-bound monooxygenase genes for community analysis of methane- and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Vol 93: 3

4. ​Craig W. Herbold, Laura E. Lehtovirta‐Morley, Man‐Young Jung, Nico Jehmlich, Bela Hausmann, Ping Han, Alexander Loy, Michael Pester, Luis A. Sayavedra‐Soto, Sung‐Keun Rhee, James I. Prosser, Graeme W. Nicol, Michael Wagner, Cécile Gubry‐Rangin (2017); Ammonia‐oxidising archaea living at low pH: Insights from comparative genomics, Environmental Microbiology 19(12), 4939–4952

5. Sundas Rani, Hyeon-Woo Koh, Sung-Keun Rhee, Hirotsugu Fujitani, Soo-Je Park (2017) Detection and Diversity of the Nitrite Oxidoreductase Alpha Subunit (nxrA) Gene of Nitrospina in Marine Sediments; Microbial ecology 73 1 111-122

1. Ui-Gi Min, So-Jeong Kim, Heeji Hong, Song-Gun Kim, Joo-Han Gwak, Man-Young Jung, Jong-Geol Kim, Jeong-Geol Na, Sung-Keun Rhee (2016), Calculibacillus koreensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic Fe(III)-reducing bacterium isolated from sediment of mine tailings, Journal of Microbiology, 54,413.

2. Jong-Geol Kim, Soo-Je Park, Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté, Stefan Schouten, W Irene C Rijpstra, Man-Young Jung, So-Jeong Kim, Joo-Han Gwak, Heeji Hong, Ok-Ja Si, SangHoon Lee, Eugene L Madsen, Sung-Keun Rhee​ (2016) Hydrogen peroxide detoxification is a key mechanism for growth of ammonia-oxidizing archaea​, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jul 2016, 113 (28) 7888-7893; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1605501113 

3. Man‐Young Jung, Jong‐Geol Kim, Jaap S. Sinninghe, Damsté W. Irene, C. Rijpstra Eugene, L. Madsen, So‐Jeong Kim, Heeji Hong, Ok‐Ja Si, Melina Kerou, Christa Schleper ,Sung‐Keun Rhee (2016), A hydrophobic ammonia‐oxidizing archaeon of the Nitrosocosmicus clade isolated from coal tar‐contaminated sediment, Environmental Microbiology Reports 8(6), 983–992

4. Sundas Rani​, Hyeon-Woo Koh​, Hongik Kim​, Sung-Keun Rhee​, Soo-Je Park (2016) Marinobacter salinus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a tidal flat environment, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 67: 205-211

5. Heyon-Woo Koh​, Sundas Rani​, So-Jeong Kim​​, Eunyoung Moon​, Seung Won Nam​, Sung-Keun Rhee​, Soo-Je Park (2016), Halomonas aestuarii sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a tidal flat, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 67: 4298-4303

1. Heeji Hong, So-Jeong Kim, Ui-Gi Min, Yong-Jae Lee, Song-Gun Kim, Seong Woon Roh, Jong-Geol Kim, Jeong-Geol Na, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2015), Anaerosolibacter carboniphilus sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic iron-reducing bacterium isolated from a coal-contaminated soil, International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 65, 1480-1485.

2. Heeji Hong, So-Jeong Kim, Ui-Gi Min, Yong-Jae Lee, Song-Gun Kim, Man-Young Jung, Yong-Seok Seo, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2015), Geosporobacter ferrireducens sp. nov., an anaerobic iron-reducing bacterium isolated from an oil-contaminated site, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 107, 971-77.

3. Joo-Han Gwak, So-Jeong Kim, Man-Young Jung, Jong-Geol Kim, Seong Woon Roh, Kyung June Yim, Yong-Jae Lee, Song-Gun Kim, Soo-Je Park, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2015), Draconibacterium filum sp. nov., a new species of the genus of Draconibacterium from sediment of the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 107, 1049-56.

4. Ok-Ja Si, So-Jeong Kim, Man-Young Jung, Seon-Bin Choi, Jong-Geol Kim, Song-Gun Kim, Seong Woon Roh, SangHoon Lee, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2015), Leeuwenhoekiella polynyae sp. nov., isolated from a polynya of Amundsen Sea in western Antarctica, International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 65, 1694-1699.

5. Seon-Bin Choi, Jong-Geol Kim, Man-Young Jung, So-Jeong Kim, Ui-Gi Min, Ok-Ja Si, Soo-Je Park, Chung Yeon Hwang, Jisoo Park, SangHoon Lee, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2015), Cultivation and biochemical characterization of heterotrophic bacteria associated with phytoplankton bloom in the Amundsen Sea polynya, Antarctica, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, Vol 123, 2016, 126-134.

6. Olga I. Nedashkovskaya​, Andrey D. Kukhlevskiy, Natalia V. Zhukova​, So-Jeong Kim​, Sung-Keun Rhee​, Valery V. Mikhailov (2015), Winogradskyella litoriviva sp. nov., isolated from coastal seawater, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 65: 3652-3657.

7. Hyeon-Woo Koh​,  Heeji Hong​,  Ui-Gi Min​,  Myung-Suk Kang​,  Song-Gun Kim​,  Jeong-Geol Na​,  Sung-Keun Rhee​, Soo-Je Park (2015)​, Rhodanobacter aciditrophus sp. nov., an acidophilic bacterium isolated from mine wastewater, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 65: 4574-4579, doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.000614

14. In-Tae Cha, Kyung June Yim, Hye Seon Song, Hae-Won Lee, Dong-Wook Hyun, Kil-Nam Kim, Jong-Soon Choi, Daekyung Kim, Sung-Jae Lee, and Myung-Ji Seo, (2014), Halolamina rubra sp. nov., a haloarchaeon isolated from non-purified solar salt, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 105, 907-14.

13. In-Tae Cha, Kyung June Yim, Hye Seon Song, Hae-Won Lee, Dong-Wook Hyun, Kil-Nam Kim, Myung-Ji Seo, Daekyung Kim, Jong-Soon Choi, and Sung-Jae Lee, (2014), Halobellus rufus sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from non-purified solar salt, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 105, 925-32.

12. Man-Young Jung, Soo-Je Park, So-Jeong Kim, Jong-Geol Kim, Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté, Che Ok Jeon, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2014), A mesophilic, autotrophic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon of Thaumarchaeal Group I. 1a cultivated from a deep oligotrophic soil horizon, Applied and environmental microbiology, 80, 3645-55.

11. Man-Young Jung, Reinhard Well, Deullae Min, Anette Giesemann, Soo-Je Park, Jong-Geol Kim, So-Jeong Kim, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2014), Isotopic signatures of N2O Produced by Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea from soils, The ISME journal, 8, 1115-25.

10. Jong-Geol Kim, Soo-Je Park, Zhe-Xue Quan, Man-Young Jung, In-Tae Cha, So-Jeong Kim, Kyoung-Ho Kim, Eun-Jin Yang, Young-Nam Kim, and Sang-Hoon Lee, (2014), Unveiling Abundance and Distribution of Planktonic Bacteria and Archaea in a Polynya in Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, Environmental microbiology, 16, 1566-78.

9. So-Jeong Kim, Soo-Je Park, Man-Young Jung, Jong-Geol Kim, Eugene L Madsen, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2014), An Uncultivated Nitrate-Reducing Member of the Genus Herminiimonas Degrades Toluene, Applied and environmental microbiology, 80, 3233-43.

8. So-Jeong Kim, Soo-Je Park, Man-Young Jung, Jong-Geol Kim, Ui-Gi Min, Hee-Ji Hong, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2014), Draft genome sequence of an aromatic compound-degrading bacterium, Desulfobacula sp. Ts, belonging to the Deltaproteobacteria, FEMS microbiology letters, 360, 9-12.

7. So-Jeong Kim, Soo-Je Park, In-Tae Cha, Deullae Min, Jin-Seog Kim, Won-Hyung Chung, Jong-Chan Chae, Che Ok Jeon, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2014), Metabolic versatility of toluene-degrading, iron-reducing bacteria in tidal flat sediment, characterized by stable isotope probing-based metagenomic analysis, Environmental microbiology, 16, 189-204.

6. Olga I Nedashkovskaya, Larissa A Balabanova, Natalia V Zhukova, So-Jeong Kim, Irina Y Bakunina, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2014), Flavobacterium Ahnfeltiae sp. nov., a new marine polysaccharide-degrading bacterium isolated from a Pacific red alga, Archives of microbiology, 196, 745-52.

5. Soo-Je Park, Rohit Ghai, AB Martın-Cuadrado, F Rodrıguez-Valera, Won-Hyong Chung, K Kwon, Jung-Hyun Lee, Eugene L Madsen, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2014), Genomes of two new Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea enriched from deep marine sediments, PloS one, 9, e96449

4. Soo-Je Park, Jinu Kim, Jong-Soo Lee, Sung-Keun Rhee, and Hongik Kim, (2014), Characterization of the fecal microbiome in different swine groups by high-throughput sequencing, Anaerobe, 28, 157-62

3. Hye Seon Song, In-Tae Cha, Kyung June Yim, Hae-Won Lee, Dong-Wook Hyun, Sung-Jae Lee, Sung-Keun Rhee, Kil-Nam Kim, Daekyung Kim, and Jong-Soon Choi, (2014), Halapricum salinum gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from non-purified solar salt, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 105, 979-86.

2. Kyung June Yim, In-Tae Cha, Hae-Won Lee, Hye Seon Song, Kil-Nam Kim, Sung-Jae Lee, Young-Do Nam, Dong-Wook Hyun, Jin-Woo Bae, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2014), Halorubrum halophilum sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a salt-fermented seafood, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 105, 603-12.

1. Kyung June Yim, In-Tae Cha, Tae Woong Whon, Hae-Won Lee, Hye Seon Song, Kil-Nam Kim, Young-Do Nam, Sung-Jae Lee, Jin-Woo Bae, and Sung-Keun Rhee, (2014), Halococcus sediminicola sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a marine sediment, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 105, 73-79.