1)         Nebelsick M. 1990. Antygomonas incomitata gen. et sp.n. (Cyclorhagida, Kinorhyncha) and its phylogenetic relationships. Zoologica Scripta 19/2: 143-152.

2)         Ott J.A., Novak R., Schiemer F., Henschel U., Nebelsick M., Polz M. 1991. Tackling the sulfide gradient: a novel strategy involving marine nematodes and chemoautotrophic ectosymbionts. P.S.Z.N.I. Marine Ecology 12/3: 261-279.

3)         Nebelsick M., Blumer M., Novak R., Ott J. 1992. A new glandular sensory organ in Catanema sp. (Nematoda, Stilbonematinae). Zoomorphology 112: 17-26.

4)         Nebelsick M. 1992. Sensory spots of Echinoderes capitatus (Zelinka, 1928)(Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm): 73/3: 185-195.

5)         Nebelsick M. 1992. Ultrastructural investigations of three taxonomic characters in the trunk region of Echinoderes capitatus (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida). Zoologica Scripta.21/4: 335-345.

6)         Polz M.F., Felbeck H., Novak R., Nebelsick M., Ott J.A. 1992. Chemoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing symbiotic bacteria in marine nematodes: morphological and biochemical characterization. Microbial Ecology 24: 313-329.

7)         Nebelsick M. 1993. Nervous system, introvert, and mouth cone of Echinoderes capitatus and phylogenetic relationships of Kinorhyncha. Zoomorphology 113: 211-232.

8)         Bauer-Nebelsick M. 1995. Zelinkaderes klepali sp. n., a new cyclorhagid kinorhynch from shallow water sands of the Red Sea. Ann. Naturh. Mus. Wien 97B:57-74.

9)         Bauer-Nebelsick M., Blumer M., Urbancik W., J. A. Ott. 1995. The glandular sensory organ of Desmodoridae (Nematoda) - an ultrastructural and phylogenetic analysis. Invertebrate Biology 114/3: 211-219.

10)       Ott J. A., Bauer-Nebelsick M., Novotny V. 1995. The genus Laxus Cobb, 1894 (Stilbonematinae, Nematoda): Description of two new species with ectosymbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 108(3): 508-527.

11)       Bauer-Nebelsick M., C. F. Bardele, J. A. Ott. 1996. Redescription of Zoothamnium niveum (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1831) Ehrenberg, 1838 (Oligohymenophora, Peritrichida), a ciliate with ectosymbiotic, chemoautotrophic bacteria. Europ. J. Protistol. 32:18-30.

12)       Bauer-Nebelsick M., C. F. Bardele, J. A. Ott. 1996. Electron microscopic studies on Zoothamnium niveum (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1831) Ehrenberg, 1838 (Oligohymenophora, Peritrichida), a ciliate with ectosymbiotic, chemoautotrophic bacteria. Europ. J. Protistol. 32:202-215.

13)       Urbancik W., Bauer-Nebelsick M., J. A. Ott. 1996. The ultrastructure of the cuticle of Nematoda. I. The body cuticle within the Stilbonematinae (Adenophorea, Desmodoridae). Zoomorphology 116: 51-64.

14)       Bauer-Nebelsick M. 1996. Antygomonas oreas sp. n, a new deep sea kinorhynch from the Pacific Ocean. Ann. Naturh. Mus. Wien 98B: 5-22.

15)       Scott K.M.,Bright M., Fisher C.R. 1998. The burden of independence: Inorganic carbon utilization strategies of the sulfur chemoautotrophic hydrothermal vent isolate Thiomicrospira crunogena and the symbionts of hydrothermal vent and cold seep vestimentiferans. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 39/3: 379-381.

16)       Ott J. A., Bright M., Schiemer R. 1998. The ecology of a novel symbiosis between a marine peritrich ciliate and chemoautotrophic bacteria. PSZN: Marine Ecology 19: 229-243.

17)       Scott K.M., Bright M., Macko S.A., Fisher C.R. 1999. Carbon dioxide use by chemoautotrophic endosymbionts of hydrothermal vent vestimentiferans: affinities for carbon dioxide, absence of carboxysomes, and delta 13C values.  Marine Biology 135: 25-34.

18)       Hentschel U., Berger E.C., Bright M., Felbeck H., Ott J.A. 1999. Metabolism of nitrogen and sulfur in ectosymbiotic bacteria of marine nematodes (Nematoda, Stilbonematinae). MEPS 183: 149-158.

19)       Bright M., Keckeis H., Fisher C.R. 2000. An autoradiographic examination of carbon fixation, transfer, and utilization in the Riftia pachyptila symbiosis. Marine Biology136: 621-632.

20)       Polz M.F., Ott J. A., Bright M., Cavanaugh C.M. 2000. When bacteria hitch a ride. Ectosymbiotic associations between sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and eukaryotes represent a spectacular adaptation to environmental gradients. AMS 66/9: 531-539.

21)       Hoschitz M, Bright M, Ott J.A. 2001. Ultrastructural reconstruction of the pharynx of Leptonemellea juliae (Nematoda, Adenophorea). Zoomorphology 121: 95-107

22)       Sorgo A., Gaill F., Lechaire J.-P., Arndt C., Bright M. 2002. Glycogen storage in the Riftia pachyptila trophosome: contribution of host and symbionts. MEPS 231: 115-120

23)       Bright M. Life strategies of thiotrophic ectosymbiosis. In: Bright M, Dworschak P., Stachowitsch M. 2002 (eds.) The Vienna School of Marine Biology. A Tribute to Jörg Ott. Facultas. Wien, pp.19-32

24)       Bright M., C. Arndt, H. Keckeis and H. Felbeck. 2003. A temperature-tolerant interstitial worm associated with epibiotic bacteria from the shallow water fumaroles of Deception Island, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research II 50: 1859-1871.

25)       Bright M., Sorgo A. 2003. Ultrastructural reinvestigation of the trophosome in adults of Riftia pachyptila (Siboglinidae, Annelida). Invertebrate Biology 122: 345-366.

26)       Nussbaumer A., Bright M., Ott J. A. 2004. A mannose-specific lectin adhesion mechanism in the ectosymbiosis of Stilbonematinae (Nematoda). Aquatic Microbial Ecology 34: 239-246.

27)        Ott J., Bright M. & Bulgheresi S. 2004. Symbioses between marine nematodes and sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophic bacteria. Symbiosis 36:103-126.

28)        Ott J., Bright M. & Bulgheresi S. 2004. Marine Microbial Thiotrophic Ectosymbioses. Oceanography Marine Biology Review 42: 95-118.

29)        Ott J., Bright M. 2004. Sessile ciliates with bacterial ectosymbionts form Twin Cays, Belize. Atoll Research Bulletin 516: 1-7.

30)       Pflugfelder B., Fisher C. R., Bright M. 2005. The color of the trophosome: elemental sulfur distribution in the endosymbionts of Rifia pachyptila Jones, 1981 (Vestimentifera, Siboglinidae). Marine Biology 146: 895-901. Pflugfelder et al. 2005 

31)       Vopel K., Thistle D., Ott J., Bright M., Rfy, H. 2005. Wave-induced H2S flux sustains a chemoautotrophic symbiosis. Limnology & Oceanography 50/1: 128-133.

32)       Bright M. & Giere O. 2005. Microbial symbioses in annelids. Symbiosis 38: 1-45.

33)       Salerno J.L., Macko S. A., Hallam, S.J., Bright M., Won Y.-J., McKiness Z., Van Dover C.L. 2005. Characterization of symbiont population in life-history stages of mussels from chemosynthetic environments. Biological Bullentin 208: 145-155.

34)        Marotta M., Melone G., Bright M., Ferraguti M. 2005. Spermatozoa and sperm aggregates in the vestimentiferans Riftia pachyptila and Lamellibrachia luymesi (Polychaeta: Siboglinidae: Vestimentifera) with some phylogenetic considerations. Biological Bulletin 209: 215-226.

35)        Rinke C., Schmitz-Esser S., Stoecker K., Nussbaumer A.D., Molnar D.A., Vanura K., Wagner M., Horn M., Ott J.A., Bright M. 2006. Molecular identification of the ectosymbiotic bacteria covering the giant marine ciliate Zoothamnium niveum. Applied Environmental Microbiology 72/3: 2014-2021.

36)       Nussbaumer A.D., Fisher C.R. & M. Bright. 2006. Horizontal endosymbiont transmission in hydrothermal vent tubeworms. Nature 441: 345-348.

37)       Katz S., Cavanaugh C.M., Bright M. 2006. A new symbiosis in molluscs: solenogastres-bacteria associations. MEPS 320: 89-99.

38)       Zekely J., Van Dover C. L., Bright M. 2006. Hydrothermal vent meiobenthos associated with mussel (Bathymodiolus spp.) aggregations from Mid-Atlantic Ridge and East Pacific Rise. Deep-Sea Research I 53: 1363-1378.

39)       Zekely J., Sørensen M., Bright M. 2006. Four new nematode species of family Monhysteridae De Man, 1876 from deep-sea hydrothermal vents from East Pacific Rise and Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Meiofauna Marina 15: 25-42.

40)       J. Fuchs, M. Bright, P. Funch, A. Wanninger. 2006. Immunocytochemistry of the neuromuscular systems of Loxosomella vivipara and L. parguerensis (Entoproctoa: Loxosomatidae). J. Morphology 267: 866-883.

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41)       S. Gollner, J. Zekely, C. L. Van Dover, B. Govenar, N. Le Bris & M. Bright. 2006. The benthic copepod community of tubeworm and mussel aggregations at the East Pacific Rise. Cah. Biol. Mar. 47: 397-402.

42)       J. Zekely, S. Gollner, C. L. Van Dover, B. Govenar, N. Le Bris & M. Bright. 2006. The nematode community and trophic structure of three macrofaunal aggregations at 9° & 11°N East Pacific Rise. Cah. Biol. Mar. 47: 477-482.

43)       S. Gollner, J. Zekely, B. Govenar, N. Le Bris, H. L. Nemeschkal, C. R. Fisher, M. Bright. in press. Study of tubeworm-associated permanent meiobenthic communities from two chemically different hydrothermal vent sites on the East Pacific Rise. MEPS

Books:

Bright M, Dworschak P., Stachowitsch M. 2002 (eds.) The Vienna School of Marine Biology. A Tribute to Jörg Ott. Facultas. Wien. Pp.200

Desbruyeres D, Segonzac M, Bright M. (2006) Fauna of Hydrothermal Vents. 2nd edition. Denisia, Landesmuseum Linz, Austria