Publications

1. Stromatolite morphogenesis
Bosak, T., Templer, S. P., Wu, T.-D., Liang, B., Guerquin-Kern, J.-L., Mui, J., Vali, H., Evans, A., Sim, M.S., Friedman, J., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Cyanobacterial activity and composition in modern conical stromatolites, submitted.

Petroff, A.P.P., Wu, T.-D., Liang, B., Mui, J., Guerquin-Kern, J.-L.,Vali, H., Rothman, D.H., Bosak, T., Reaction-diffusion model of nutrient uptake in a biofilm: theory and experiment, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 289, 90-95.

Bosak, T., Knoll, A. H., and Petroff, A. P. P., Toward a theory of Precambrian stromatolites, in prep for Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Petroff, A. P. P., Rothman, D. H., Beukes, N., Bosak, T., Biofilm growth and fossil form, PNAS, in revision.

Bosak, T. Microbial contribution to the precipitation of calcium carbonate minerals, 2011, Encyclopedia of Geobiology, H.W. Fritz, J. Reitner, A. Kappler, V. Thiel, K. Konhauser, P. Reid, X. Zhang (editors), Springer Verlag, Germany.

Petroff, A. P., Sim, M. S., Maslov, A., Krupenin, M, Rothman, D. H., and T. Bosak (2010) Biophysical basis for the geometry of conical stromatolites, PNAS, 107, 9956-9961.

Bosak, T., Bush, J., Flynn, M., Liang, B., Ono, S., Petroff, A. P., and M. S. Sim (2010) Formation and stability of oxygen-rich bubbles that shape photosynthetic mats, Geobiology, 8, 45-55.

Bosak, T., Liang, B., Sim, M. S., and A. P. Petroff (2009) Morphological record of oxygenic photosynthesis in conical stromatolites, PNAS, 106, 10939-10943.

Bosak, T., Greene, S., and D.K. Newman (2007) A likely role for anoxygenic photosynthetic microbes in the formation of ancient stromatolites, Geobiology, 5, 119-126.

Bosak, T. and D. K. Newman (2003) Microbial nucleation of calcium carbonate in the Precambrian, Geology, 31, 577-580.

2. Life between the Snowballs
Bosak, T., Lahr D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., Macdonald, F. A., Gooday, A. J., Dalton, L., Matys, E. D., Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian cap carbonates, Geology, in press.

Bosak, T., Lahr, D., Macdonald, F. A, Matys, E. (2011) Putative Cryogenian ciliates from Mongolia, Geology, in press.

Bosak, T., Lahr, D., Pruss, S. B., Macdonald, F. A., Dalton, L. and Matys, E., 2011, Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates from Namibia and Mongolia, EPSL, 308, 29-40, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.030.

Pruss, S. B., Bosak, T., Macdonald, F. A., McLane, M., P. F. Hoffman (2010) Microbial facies in a Sturtian cap carbonate, the Rasthof Formation, Otavi Group, northern Namibia, Precambrian Research, 181, 187-198.

3. Isotopic characteristics of microbial cycling of sulfur
Sim, M. S., T. Bosak, and S. Ono (2011) Large sulfur isotope fractionation does not require disproportionation, Science, 333, 74-77.

Sim, M. S., Donovan, K. A., Ono, S., Templer, S. P., and T. Bosak (2011) Effect of electron donors on the fractionation of sulfur isotopes by a marine Desulfovibrio sp., GCA, 75, 4244-4259, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.05.021