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NJAES Faculty Expertise Database
| Richard Lutz |
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Professor Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Marine Sci 204 Director, Institute of Marine and Coastal Studies 71 Dudley Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Phone: 848-932-3380 Fax: 732-932-6557 Email: rlutz@imcs.rutgers.edu |
| Expertise Summary |
| Marine ecology and paleoecology; shellfish ecology and biology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. The main focus of my current and anticipated research is on the studies of mollusk components in the area of hydrothermal vents, culture of bivalvemollusks, shell structure of molluscan shells, molluscan shell mineralogy, paleoecology of marine mollusks,shellfish aquaculture(mariculture). |
| Research Projects |
| Selected Publications |
| Thermovibrio ammonificans sp. nov., a thermophilic, chemolithotrophic, nitrate ammonifying bacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents | |
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Journal:
International J. Sys. Evol. Microbiology Authors: Vetriani, C., Speck, M.D., Ellor, S.V., Lutz, R.A., and Starovoytov,V. Volume: 54 Pages: 175-181 Date Published: 2004 | |