List of works - Anne Willems

A doubling of microphytobenthos biomass coincides with a tenfold increase in denitrifier and total bacterial abundances in intertidal sediments of a temperate estuary

scientific article

A novel plasmid pEA68 of Erwinia amylovora and the description of a new family of plasmids.

scientific article

Abditibacterium utsteinense sp. nov., the first cultivated member of candidate phylum FBP, isolated from ice-free Antarctic soil samples.

scientific article

Acetobacter senegalensis sp. nov., a thermotolerant acetic acid bacterium isolated in Senegal (sub-Saharan Africa) from mango fruit (Mangifera indica L.).

scientific article

Analysis of cbbL, nifH, and pufLM in Soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, Antarctica, Reveals a Large Diversity of Autotrophic and Phototrophic Bacteria

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Average nucleotide identity of genome sequences supports the description of Rhizobium lentis sp. nov., Rhizobium bangladeshense sp. nov. and Rhizobium binae sp. nov. from lentil (Lens culinaris) nodules

scientific article

Bacterial and eukaryotic biodiversity patterns in terrestrial and aquatic habitats in the Sør Rondane Mountains, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

scientific article

Bacterial community composition in relation to bedrock type and macrobiota in soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

scientific article published on 10 July 2016

Bacterial diversity assessment in Antarctic terrestrial and aquatic microbial mats: a comparison between bidirectional pyrosequencing and cultivation

scientific article

Bosea vaviloviae sp. nov., a new species of slow-growing rhizobia isolated from nodules of the relict species Vavilovia formosa (Stev.) Fed.

scientific article

Bradyrhizobium betae sp. nov., isolated from roots of Beta vulgaris affected by tumour-like deformations.

scientific article

Bradyrhizobium brasilense sp. nov., a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from Brazilian tropical soils

scientific article

Bradyrhizobium campsiandrae sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterial strain isolated from a native leguminous tree from the Amazon adapted to flooded conditions

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Bradyrhizobium ingae sp. nov., isolated from effective nodules of Inga laurina grown in Cerrado soil.

scientific article

Bradyrhizobium manausense sp. nov., isolated from effective nodules of Vigna unguiculata grown in Brazilian Amazonian rainforest soils.

scientific article

Bradyrhizobium neotropicale sp. nov., isolated from effective nodules of Centrolobium paraense

scientific article

Carnobacterium iners sp. nov., a psychrophilic, lactic acid-producing bacterium from the littoral zone of an Antarctic pond

scientific article

Chelatococcus thermostellatus sp. nov., a new thermophile for bioplastic synthesis: comparative phylogenetic and physiological study

scientific article published in December 2016

Culturable bacterial diversity at the Princess Elisabeth Station (Utsteinen, Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica) harbours many new taxa

scientific article

Culturable diversity of heterotrophic bacteria in Forlidas Pond (Pensacola Mountains) and Lundström Lake (Shackleton Range), Antarctica

scientific article

Description and functional testing of four species of the novel phototrophic genus Chioneia gen. nov., isolated from different East Antarctic environments

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

Dissimilatory nitrogen reduction in intertidal sediments of a temperate estuary: small scale heterogeneity and novel nitrate-to-ammonium reducers

scientific article

Diverse novel mesorhizobia nodulate New Zealand native Sophora species

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

Diversity and Temporal Dynamics of the Epiphytic Bacterial Communities Associated with the Canopy-Forming Seaweed Cystoseira compressa (Esper) Gerloff and Nizamuddin

scientific article

Diversity of Phototrophic Genes Suggests Multiple Bacteria May Be Able to Exploit Sunlight in Exposed Soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Diversity of key genes for carbon and nitrogen fixation in soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

scientific article published in 2018

Do seasons impact the root microbiome of wild Poa annua populations?

scientific article published in September 2024

Efficient Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria Isolated from Soybean Nodules in the Semi-arid Region of Northeast Brazil are Classified as Bradyrhizobium brasilense (Symbiovar Sojae)

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Extra-slow-growing Tardiphaga strains isolated from nodules of Vavilovia formosa (Stev.) Fed.

scientific article

Flemish soils contain rhizobia partners for Northwestern Europe‐adapted soybean cultivars

scientific article published on 25 February 2022

Functional stability despite high taxonomic turnover characterizes the Ulva microbiome across a 2,000 km salinity gradient

Genome sequence of Burkholderia mimosarum strain LMG 23256(T), a Mimosa pigra microsymbiont from Anso, Taiwan

scientific article

Genome sequence of Ensifer arboris strain LMG 14919(T); a microsymbiont of the legume Prosopis chilensis growing in Kosti, Sudan

scientific article

High diversity of Bradyrhizobium strains isolated from several legume species and land uses in Brazilian tropical ecosystems

scientific article

Highly divergent CRESS DNA and picorna-like viruses associated with bleached thalli of the green seaweed <i>Ulva</i>

scientific article published on 17 October 2023

Host specificity and coevolution of Flavobacteriaceae endosymbionts within the siphonous green seaweed Bryopsis

scientific article published on 14 March 2013

How endo- is endo-? Surface sterilization of delicate samples: a Bryopsis (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) case study

Influence of nitrate and nitrite concentration on N2 O production via dissimilatory nitrate/nitrite reduction to ammonium in Bacillus paralicheniformis LMG 6934.

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Interactions between benthic copepods, bacteria and diatoms promote nitrogen retention in intertidal marine sediments

scientific article

Leeuwenhoekiella aestuarii sp. nov., isolated from salt-water sediment and first insights in the genomes of Leeuwenhoekiella species

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Life without a cell membrane: challenging the specificity of bacterial endophytes within Bryopsis (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta).

scientific article

Limited feeding on bacteria by two intertidal benthic copepod species as revealed by trophic biomarkers.

scientific article published on 11 December 2012

Marinobacterium coralli sp. nov., isolated from mucus of coral (Mussismilia hispida).

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Marinomonas brasilensis sp. nov., isolated from the coral Mussismilia hispida, and reclassification of Marinomonas basaltis as a later heterotypic synonym of Marinomonas communis.

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Mesorhizobium australicum sp. nov. and Mesorhizobium opportunistum sp. nov., isolated from Biserrula pelecinus L. in Australia

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Mesorhizobium calcicola sp. nov., Mesorhizobium waitakense sp. nov., Mesorhizobium sophorae sp. nov., Mesorhizobium newzealandense sp. nov. and Mesorhizobium kowhaii sp. nov. isolated from Sophora root nodules in New Zealand.

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Mesorhizobium delmotii and Mesorhizobium prunaredense are two new species containing rhizobial strains within the symbiovar anthyllidis

scientific article

Mesorhizobium waimense sp. nov. isolated from Sophora longicarinata root nodules and Mesorhizobium cantuariense sp. nov. isolated from Sophora microphylla root nodules.

scientific article

Microvirga ossetica sp. nov., a species of rhizobia isolated from root nodules of the legume species Vicia alpestris Steven

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Molecular and phenotypic characterization of strains nodulating Anthyllis vulneraria in mine tailings, and proposal of Aminobacter anthyllidis sp. nov., the first definition of Aminobacter as legume-nodulating bacteria.

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Multilocus sequence analysis of root nodule isolates from Lotus arabicus (Senegal), Lotus creticus, Argyrolobium uniflorum and Medicago sativa (Tunisia) and description of Ensifer numidicus sp. nov. and Ensifer garamanticus sp. nov.

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Multilocus sequence analysis of the genus Bradyrhizobium

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Nitrogen assimilation in denitrifier Bacillus azotoformans LMG 9581T.

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Nodulation of Lupinus albus by Strains of Ochrobactrum lupini sp. nov.

scientific article published in June 2006

Nodulation of Lupinus albus by strains of Ochrobactrum lupini sp. nov.

scientific article

PERN: an EU-Russia initiative for rhizosphere microbial resources

scientific article published on July 2015

Pararhizobium polonicum sp. nov. isolated from tumors on stone fruit rootstocks.

scientific article

Permanent residents or temporary lodgers: characterizing intracellular bacterial communities in the siphonous green alga Bryopsis

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

Phenotypical and genotypical characteristics of root-nodulating bacteria isolated from annual Medicago spp. in Soummam Valley (Algeria).

scientific article

Photobacterium jeanii sp. nov., isolated from corals and zoanthids

scientific article

Phyllobacterium trifolii sp. nov., nodulating Trifolium and Lupinus in Spanish soils

scientific article

Polar lake microbiomes have distinct evolutionary histories

scientific article published on 17 November 2023

Pseudomonas cerasi sp. nov. (non Griffin, 1911) isolated from diseased tissue of cherry.

scientific article

Pseudorhodoferax soli gen. nov., sp. nov. and Pseudorhodoferax caeni sp. nov., two members of the class Betaproteobacteria belonging to the family Comamonadaceae

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Reclassification of Agrobacterium ferrugineum LMG 128 as Hoeflea marina gen. nov., sp. nov.

scientific article

Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations

scientific article

Rhizobia from Lanzarote, the Canary Islands, that nodulate Phaseolus vulgaris have characteristics in common with Sinorhizobium meliloti isolates from mainland Spain

scientific article published on 13 February 2009

Rhizobium cellulosilyticum sp. nov., isolated from sawdust of Populus alba

scientific article

Rhizobium nepotum sp. nov. isolated from tumors on different plant species.

scientific article

Salinity and host drive Ulva ‐associated bacterial communities across the Atlantic–Baltic Sea gradient

scientific article published in 2022

Spirosoma utsteinense sp. nov. isolated from Antarctic ice-free soils from the Utsteinen region, East Antarctica

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Stable low molecular weight RNA profiling showed variations within Sinorhizobium meliloti and Sinorhizobium medicae nodulating different legumes from the alfalfa cross-inoculation group

scientific article published on 9 April 2008

Stenotrophomonas sp. SRS1 promotes growth of Arabidopsis and tomato plants under salt stress conditions

scientific article published on 03 February 2022

Stepping stones towards a new prokaryotic taxonomy

scientific article

Strains nodulating Lupinus albus on different continents belong to several new chromosomal and symbiotic lineages within Bradyrhizobium

scientific article

Tardiphaga robiniae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus in the family Bradyrhizobiaceae isolated from Robinia pseudoacacia in Flanders (Belgium).

scientific article

The Link between Microbial Diversity and Nitrogen Cycling in Marine Sediments Is Modulated by Macrofaunal Bioturbation

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

The biodiversity of beneficial microbe-host mutualism: the case of rhizobia.

scientific article

The gyrB gene is a useful phylogenetic marker for exploring the diversity of Flavobacterium strains isolated from terrestrial and aquatic habitats in Antarctica

scientific article

The limnology and biology of the Dufek Massif, Transantarctic Mountains 82° South

article published in 2010

Uncovering Genomic Features and Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Endophytic Bacteria from Roots of the Medicinal Plant Alkanna tinctoria Tausch as a Strategy To Identify Novel Biocontrol Bacteria

scientific article published on 17 August 2023

Unravelling the Bacterial Community Composition of <i>Valerianella locusta</i>, A Cold-Tolerant Plant

scientific article published in 2023

Vibrio communis sp. nov., isolated from the marine animals Mussismilia hispida, Phyllogorgia dilatata, Palythoa caribaeorum, Palythoa variabilis and Litopenaeus vannamei

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What we can learn from sushi: a review on seaweed-bacterial associations

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Who is in there? Exploration of endophytic bacteria within the siphonous green seaweed Bryopsis (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta).

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List of works by Anne Willems

A doubling of microphytobenthos biomass coincides with a tenfold increase in denitrifier and total bacterial abundances in intertidal sediments of a temperate estuary

A novel plasmid pEA68 of Erwinia amylovora and the description of a new family of plasmids.

Abditibacterium utsteinense sp. nov., the first cultivated member of candidate phylum FBP, isolated from ice-free Antarctic soil samples.

Acetobacter senegalensis sp. nov., a thermotolerant acetic acid bacterium isolated in Senegal (sub-Saharan Africa) from mango fruit (Mangifera indica L.).

Analysis of cbbL, nifH, and pufLM in Soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, Antarctica, Reveals a Large Diversity of Autotrophic and Phototrophic Bacteria

Average nucleotide identity of genome sequences supports the description of Rhizobium lentis sp. nov., Rhizobium bangladeshense sp. nov. and Rhizobium binae sp. nov. from lentil (Lens culinaris) nodules

Bacterial and eukaryotic biodiversity patterns in terrestrial and aquatic habitats in the Sør Rondane Mountains, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

Bacterial community composition in relation to bedrock type and macrobiota in soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

Bacterial diversity assessment in Antarctic terrestrial and aquatic microbial mats: a comparison between bidirectional pyrosequencing and cultivation

Bosea vaviloviae sp. nov., a new species of slow-growing rhizobia isolated from nodules of the relict species Vavilovia formosa (Stev.) Fed.

Bradyrhizobium betae sp. nov., isolated from roots of Beta vulgaris affected by tumour-like deformations.

Bradyrhizobium brasilense sp. nov., a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from Brazilian tropical soils

Bradyrhizobium campsiandrae sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterial strain isolated from a native leguminous tree from the Amazon adapted to flooded conditions

Bradyrhizobium ingae sp. nov., isolated from effective nodules of Inga laurina grown in Cerrado soil.

Bradyrhizobium manausense sp. nov., isolated from effective nodules of Vigna unguiculata grown in Brazilian Amazonian rainforest soils.

Bradyrhizobium neotropicale sp. nov., isolated from effective nodules of Centrolobium paraense

Carnobacterium iners sp. nov., a psychrophilic, lactic acid-producing bacterium from the littoral zone of an Antarctic pond

Chelatococcus thermostellatus sp. nov., a new thermophile for bioplastic synthesis: comparative phylogenetic and physiological study

Culturable bacterial diversity at the Princess Elisabeth Station (Utsteinen, Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica) harbours many new taxa

Culturable diversity of heterotrophic bacteria in Forlidas Pond (Pensacola Mountains) and Lundström Lake (Shackleton Range), Antarctica

Description and functional testing of four species of the novel phototrophic genus Chioneia gen. nov., isolated from different East Antarctic environments

Dissimilatory nitrogen reduction in intertidal sediments of a temperate estuary: small scale heterogeneity and novel nitrate-to-ammonium reducers

Diverse novel mesorhizobia nodulate New Zealand native Sophora species

Diversity and Temporal Dynamics of the Epiphytic Bacterial Communities Associated with the Canopy-Forming Seaweed Cystoseira compressa (Esper) Gerloff and Nizamuddin

Diversity of Phototrophic Genes Suggests Multiple Bacteria May Be Able to Exploit Sunlight in Exposed Soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

Diversity of key genes for carbon and nitrogen fixation in soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

Do seasons impact the root microbiome of wild Poa annua populations?

Efficient Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria Isolated from Soybean Nodules in the Semi-arid Region of Northeast Brazil are Classified as Bradyrhizobium brasilense (Symbiovar Sojae)

Extra-slow-growing Tardiphaga strains isolated from nodules of Vavilovia formosa (Stev.) Fed.

Flemish soils contain rhizobia partners for Northwestern Europe‐adapted soybean cultivars

Functional stability despite high taxonomic turnover characterizes the Ulva microbiome across a 2,000 km salinity gradient

Genome sequence of Burkholderia mimosarum strain LMG 23256(T), a Mimosa pigra microsymbiont from Anso, Taiwan

Genome sequence of Ensifer arboris strain LMG 14919(T); a microsymbiont of the legume Prosopis chilensis growing in Kosti, Sudan

High diversity of Bradyrhizobium strains isolated from several legume species and land uses in Brazilian tropical ecosystems

Highly divergent CRESS DNA and picorna-like viruses associated with bleached thalli of the green seaweed <i>Ulva</i>

Host specificity and coevolution of Flavobacteriaceae endosymbionts within the siphonous green seaweed Bryopsis

How endo- is endo-? Surface sterilization of delicate samples: a Bryopsis (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) case study

Influence of nitrate and nitrite concentration on N2 O production via dissimilatory nitrate/nitrite reduction to ammonium in Bacillus paralicheniformis LMG 6934.

Interactions between benthic copepods, bacteria and diatoms promote nitrogen retention in intertidal marine sediments

Leeuwenhoekiella aestuarii sp. nov., isolated from salt-water sediment and first insights in the genomes of Leeuwenhoekiella species

Life without a cell membrane: challenging the specificity of bacterial endophytes within Bryopsis (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta).

Limited feeding on bacteria by two intertidal benthic copepod species as revealed by trophic biomarkers.

Marinobacterium coralli sp. nov., isolated from mucus of coral (Mussismilia hispida).

Marinomonas brasilensis sp. nov., isolated from the coral Mussismilia hispida, and reclassification of Marinomonas basaltis as a later heterotypic synonym of Marinomonas communis.

Mesorhizobium australicum sp. nov. and Mesorhizobium opportunistum sp. nov., isolated from Biserrula pelecinus L. in Australia

Mesorhizobium calcicola sp. nov., Mesorhizobium waitakense sp. nov., Mesorhizobium sophorae sp. nov., Mesorhizobium newzealandense sp. nov. and Mesorhizobium kowhaii sp. nov. isolated from Sophora root nodules in New Zealand.

Mesorhizobium delmotii and Mesorhizobium prunaredense are two new species containing rhizobial strains within the symbiovar anthyllidis

Mesorhizobium waimense sp. nov. isolated from Sophora longicarinata root nodules and Mesorhizobium cantuariense sp. nov. isolated from Sophora microphylla root nodules.

Microvirga ossetica sp. nov., a species of rhizobia isolated from root nodules of the legume species Vicia alpestris Steven

Molecular and phenotypic characterization of strains nodulating Anthyllis vulneraria in mine tailings, and proposal of Aminobacter anthyllidis sp. nov., the first definition of Aminobacter as legume-nodulating bacteria.

Multilocus sequence analysis of root nodule isolates from Lotus arabicus (Senegal), Lotus creticus, Argyrolobium uniflorum and Medicago sativa (Tunisia) and description of Ensifer numidicus sp. nov. and Ensifer garamanticus sp. nov.

Multilocus sequence analysis of the genus Bradyrhizobium

Nitrogen assimilation in denitrifier Bacillus azotoformans LMG 9581T.

Nodulation of Lupinus albus by Strains of Ochrobactrum lupini sp. nov.

Nodulation of Lupinus albus by strains of Ochrobactrum lupini sp. nov.

PERN: an EU-Russia initiative for rhizosphere microbial resources

Pararhizobium polonicum sp. nov. isolated from tumors on stone fruit rootstocks.

Permanent residents or temporary lodgers: characterizing intracellular bacterial communities in the siphonous green alga Bryopsis

Phenotypical and genotypical characteristics of root-nodulating bacteria isolated from annual Medicago spp. in Soummam Valley (Algeria).

Photobacterium jeanii sp. nov., isolated from corals and zoanthids

Phyllobacterium trifolii sp. nov., nodulating Trifolium and Lupinus in Spanish soils

Polar lake microbiomes have distinct evolutionary histories

Pseudomonas cerasi sp. nov. (non Griffin, 1911) isolated from diseased tissue of cherry.

Pseudorhodoferax soli gen. nov., sp. nov. and Pseudorhodoferax caeni sp. nov., two members of the class Betaproteobacteria belonging to the family Comamonadaceae

Reclassification of Agrobacterium ferrugineum LMG 128 as Hoeflea marina gen. nov., sp. nov.

Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations

Rhizobia from Lanzarote, the Canary Islands, that nodulate Phaseolus vulgaris have characteristics in common with Sinorhizobium meliloti isolates from mainland Spain

Rhizobium cellulosilyticum sp. nov., isolated from sawdust of Populus alba

Rhizobium nepotum sp. nov. isolated from tumors on different plant species.

Salinity and host drive Ulva ‐associated bacterial communities across the Atlantic–Baltic Sea gradient

Spirosoma utsteinense sp. nov. isolated from Antarctic ice-free soils from the Utsteinen region, East Antarctica

Stable low molecular weight RNA profiling showed variations within Sinorhizobium meliloti and Sinorhizobium medicae nodulating different legumes from the alfalfa cross-inoculation group

Stenotrophomonas sp. SRS1 promotes growth of Arabidopsis and tomato plants under salt stress conditions

Stepping stones towards a new prokaryotic taxonomy

Strains nodulating Lupinus albus on different continents belong to several new chromosomal and symbiotic lineages within Bradyrhizobium

Tardiphaga robiniae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus in the family Bradyrhizobiaceae isolated from Robinia pseudoacacia in Flanders (Belgium).

The Link between Microbial Diversity and Nitrogen Cycling in Marine Sediments Is Modulated by Macrofaunal Bioturbation

The biodiversity of beneficial microbe-host mutualism: the case of rhizobia.

The gyrB gene is a useful phylogenetic marker for exploring the diversity of Flavobacterium strains isolated from terrestrial and aquatic habitats in Antarctica