Publications

Asterisk * indicates work produced in the Bosak lab, carrot ^ indicates graduate students and postdocs from the lab, u indicates undergraduates.

*^Mariotti, G., Pruss, S. B., Summons, R. E., ^Newman, S., Klepac-Ceraj, V., and Bosak, T., Where is the ooid factory?, submitted. 

*^Newman, S.A., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Mariotti, G., Pruss, S.B., Watson, N., and Bosak, T., 2017, Experimental fossilization of mat-forming cyanobacteria in coarse-grained siliciclastic sediments, Geobiology, 1–15, doi: 10.1111/gbi.12229.

*^Moore, K.R., Bosak, T., Macdonald, F.A., Lahr, D.J.G., ^Newman, S., Settens, C., and Pruss, S.B., 2017, Biologically agglutinated eukaryotic microfossil from Cryogenian cap carbonates, Geobiology, 1–17, doi: 10.1111/gbi.12225.

*^O’Reilly, S., Mariotti, G., Winter, A., ^Newman, S., ^Matys, E., McDermott, F., Pruss, S., Bosak, T., Summons, R., Klepac-Ceraj, V. (2016) Molecular biosignatures reveal common benthic microbial sources of organic matter in ooids and grapestones from Pigeon Cay, the Bahamas. Geobiology, 15(1), 112–130 , doi: 10.1111/gbi.12196.

*^Newman, S.A., Mariotti, G., Pruss, S., Bosak, T. (2016) Insights into cyanobacterial fossilization in Ediacaran siliciclastic environments. Geology, 44(7), 579-582, doi: 10 .1130 /G37791 .1.

*^Mariotti, G., Pruss, S.B., Ai, X., Perron, J.T., Bosak, T. (2016) Microbial Origin of Early Animal Trace Fossils? Journal of Sedimentary Research 86, 287–293, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2016.19

McNeil, D., Shulze, H. G., ^Matys, E. D., and Bosak, T. (2016) Raman spectroscopic analysis of carbonaceous matter and silica in the test walls of recent and fossil agglutinated foraminifera, AAPG Bulletin, 99(6), 1081-1097, doi: 10.1306/12191414093.

Lahr, D.J.G., Bosak, T., Lara, E., Mitchell, E.A.D. (2015) The Phanerozoic diversification of silica-cycling testate amoebae and its possible links to changes in terrestrial ecosystems. PeerJ, 3, DOI 10.7717/peerj.1234

*^Cohen, P.A., Macdonald, F.A., Pruss, S.B., ^Matys, E.D., and Bosak, T.  (2015) Fossils of putative marine algae from the Cryogenian glacial interlude of Mongolia, Palaios, 30, 238-247, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2014.069 FOSSILS.

Ono, S., Sim, M. S., and Bosak, T. (2014) Predictive isotope model connects microbes in culture and nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., doi: 10.1073/pnas.1420670111.

*^Mariotti, G., Pruss, S. B., Perron, T. and Bosak, T. (2014) Microbial shaping of sedimentary wrinkle structures, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2229.

*^Mariotti, G., Perron, T. and Bosak, T. (2014) Elongation of stromatolites through feedbacks between flow, sediment motion and microbial growth on sand bars, EPSL, 397, 93-100.

*^Liang, B., Wu, T.D., Guerquin-Kern, J.L., Vali, H., Sun, H.-J., ^Sim, M. S., Wang, C.-H., Bosak, T. (2014) Cyanophycin mediates the accumulation and storage of carbon in non-heterocystous filamentous cyanobacteria from coniform mats, PloS One, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.008814.

^Meredith, L.K., uRao, D., Bosak, T., Hansell, C.M., Ono, S., Prinn, R.G. (2013) Consumption of atmospheric H2 during the life cycle of soil-dwelling Actinobacteria, Environmental Microbiology Reports.

*^Petroff, A.P.P., Rothman, D.H., Beukes, N., and T. Bosak (2013) Biofilm growth and fossil form, Physical Review X, 3, 041012.

*Bosak, T., ^Mariotti, G., Perron, J.T., Macdonald, F.A., Pruss, S.B. Microbial sedimentology of stromatolites in the Neoproterozoic cap carbonates (2013) Ecosystems Paleobiology and Geobiology, Paleontological Special Papers, 19, The Paleontological Society, 51-75.

*^Sim, M.S., ^Wang, D.T., Semkiw, E. S., Zane, G.M., Wall, J.D., Bosak, T. and S. Ono (2013) Fractionation of sulfur isotopes by Desulfovibrio vulgaris mutants lacking hydrogenases or type I tetraheme cytochrome c3, Frontiers in Microbiology, 4: doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00171.

*Bosak, T., Knoll, A. H., and ^A.P.P. Petroff (2013) The meaning of stromatolites, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 41, 21-44.

*uDalton, L., Bosak, T., Macdonald, F.A., Lahr, D.G., and S.B. Pruss (2013) Preservational and morphological variability of assemblages of agglutinated eukaryotes in cap carbonates of the Rasthof Formation, northern Namibia, Palaios, 28, 67–79.

*^Sim, M. S., ^Liang, B., ^Petroff, A. P., ^Evans, A., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Walter, M.R., Flannery, D.T., and T. Bosak (2012) Oxygen-dependent morphogenesis of modern clumped photosynthetic mats and implications for the Archean stromatolite record, Geosciences, http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/2/4/235

*^Sim, M.S., Bosak, T., and S. Ono (2012) Effects of iron and nitrogen limitation on sulfur isotope fractionation during microbial sulfate reduction, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78, 8368-8376.

*Bosak, T., ^Templer, S., Wu, T.-D., ^Liang, B., Guerquin Kern, J.-L., Mui, J., Vali, H., ^Evans, A., ^Sim M. S., Friedman, J., and V. Klepac-Ceraj. (2012) Cyanobacterial composition and activity in modern conical microbialites, Geobiology, 10, 384-401.

*Bosak, T., LahrD.J.G., Pruss, S. B., Macdonald, F.A., Gooday, A.J., Dalton, L., ^Matys, E.D.(2012) Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian (716-635 Ma) cap carbonates, Geology, 40, 47-50.

*^Petroff, A.P.P., Wu, T-D., ^Liang, B., Mui, J., Guerquin-Kern, J.-L., Vali, H., Rothman, D.H., and T. Bosak (2011) Reaction-diffusion model of nutrient uptake in a biofilm: theory and experiment, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 289, 90-95.

*Bosak, T., Lahr, D., Macdonald, F.A, ^Matys, E.D. (2011) Putative Cryogenian ciliate from Mongolia, Geology, 39, 1123-1126.

*^Sim, M.S., Bosak, T. 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., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 4244-4259.

*Bosak, T., Lahr, D., Pruss, S. B., Macdonald, F. A., uDalton, L. and ^Matys, E. (2011) Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates from Namibia and Mongolia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 308, 29-40.

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

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.

*^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, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 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.

Brocks, J.J., Bosak, T., and A. Pearson (2009) Oligoprenyl-curcumanes and other new aromatic isoprenoids from the 1.64 billion years old Barney Creek Formation, Organic Geochemistry 40, 795-801.

*Bosak, T., ^Liang, B., ^Sim, M.S., and ^A.P.P. Petroff (2009) Morphological record of oxygenic photosynthesis in conical stromatolites, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 106, 10939-10943.

Kontnik, R., Bosak, T., Butcher, R.A., Brocks, J.J., Losick, R., Clardy, J., and A. Pearson (2008) Sporulenes, heptaprenyl metabolites from Bacillus subtilis spores, Organic Letters, 10, 3551-3554.

Bosak, T., Losick, R. and A. Pearson (2008) A polycyclic terpenoid that alleviates oxidative stress, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 105, 6725-6729.

Maloof, A. C., Kopp, R.E., Grotzinger, J.P., Fike, D.A., Bosak, T., Vali, H., Poussart, P. M., Weiss, B.P. and J.L. Kirschvink (2007) Sedimentary iron cycling and the origin and preservation of magnetization in platformal carbonate muds, Andros Island, Bahamas, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 259, 581-598.

Bosak, T., uGreene, 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 (2005) Microbial kinetic controls on calcite morphology in supersaturated solutions, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75, 190-199.

Bosak, T., Souza-Egipsy, V., and D.K. Newman (2004) An abiotic model for peloid formation, Geobiology, 2, 189-198.

Bosak, T., Souza-Egipsy, V., Corsetti, F.A., and D.K. Newman (2004) Micron-size porosity as a biosignature in carbonate crusts, Geology, 32, 781-784.

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

Bosak, T. and A.P. Ingersoll (2002) Shear instabilities as a probe of Jupiter’s atmosphere, Icarus, 158, 401-409.