Selected Publications:

House, C.H. and S.L. Miller, 1996.  Hydrolysis of dihydrouridine and related compounds., 1996.  Biochemistry, 35:  p. 315-320.

Fitz-Gibbon, S.T. and House, C.H., 1999. Whole Genome-based Phylogenetic Analysis of Free-Living Microorganisms. Nucleic Acids Research, 27: 4218-4222.  (featured prominently in a Science perspectives article about Genomics and the Geosciences - Banfield and Marshall, 2000)

House, C. H., Schopf, J.W., McKeegan, K.D., Coath, C. D., Harrison, T. M., and Stetter, K. O., 2000.  Carbon isotopic composition of individual Precambrian microfossils.  Geology, 28:  707-710.  (Feartured in the Editors' Choice section of Science - Vol. 289)

Orphan, V.J., House, C.H., Hinrichs, K.U., McKeegan, K.D., and DeLong, E.F., 2001.  Coupled isotopic and phylogenetic characterization of single cells: direct evidence for a methane-consuming archaeal/bacterial consortium.  Science, 293: 484-487.  (Paper featured in the News Focus section of Science - Vol. 293 in an article by Carl Zimmer.  Also, featured as the ISI Essential Science Indicators Geosciences Hot New Paper for the Month of November 2002).

Orphan, V.J., House, C.H., Hinrichs, K.U., McKeegan, K.D., and DeLong, E.F., 2002.  Multiple archaeal groups mediate methane oxidation in anoxic cold seep sediments.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99:  7663-7668. 

House, C.H. and Fitz-Gibbon, S.T., 2002.  Using homolog groups to create a whole-genomic tree of free-living organisms:  an update. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 53: 539-547.

House, C.H., Schopf, J.W., and Stetter, K.O., 2003.  Carbon isotopic fractionation by Archeans and other thermophilic Prokaryotes. Organic Geochemistry, 34: 345-356.

House, C.H., Cragg, B., and Teske, A., Drilling Contamination Tests on ODP Leg 201 Using Chemical and Particulate Tracers. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, in press.

House, C.H., Runnegar, B., and Fitz-Gibbon, S.T.,  Geobiological analysis using whole genome-based tree building applied to the Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. Giobiology, in press.

Orphan, V. J., Ussler III, W., Naehr, T., House,  C.H., Hinrichs, K. U. and Paull,  C. K.  Geological, Geochemical, and Microbiological Heterogeneity of the Seafloor Around Methane Vents in the Eel River Basin, offshore California.  Chemical Geology, submitted.