The Ecology of Acidobacteria: Moving beyond Genes and Genomes

AM Kielak, CC Barreto, GA Kowalchuk… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The phylum Acidobacteria is one of the most widespread and abundant on the planet, yet
remarkably our knowledge of the role of these diverse organisms in the functioning of …

Genomic insights into the Acidobacteria reveal strategies for their success in terrestrial environments

SA Eichorst, D Trojan, S Roux… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Members of the phylum Acidobacteria are abundant and ubiquitous across soils. We
performed a large‐scale comparative genome analysis spanning subdivisions 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 …

Acidobacteria form a coherent but highly diverse group within the bacterial domain: evidence from environmental genomics

A Quaiser, T Ochsenreiter, C Lanz… - Molecular …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Acidobacteria have been established as a novel phylum of Bacteria that is consistently
detected in many different habitats around the globe by 16S rDNA‐based molecular …

Recent understanding of soil acidobacteria and their ecological significance: a critical review

S Kalam, A Basu, I Ahmad, RZ Sayyed… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Acidobacteria represents an underrepresented soil bacterial phylum whose members are
pervasive and copiously distributed across nearly all ecosystems. Acidobacterial sequences …

Three Genomes from the Phylum Acidobacteria Provide Insight into the Lifestyles of These Microorganisms in Soils

NL Ward, JF Challacombe, PH Janssen… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
The complete genomes of three strains from the phylum Acidobacteria were compared.
Phylogenetic analysis placed them as a unique phylum. They share genomic traits with …

Acidobacteria

SN Dedysh, JSS Damsté - eLS, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Acidobacteria are one of the globally distributed and highly diverse phyla of the domain
Bacteria. These microorganisms inhabit a wide variety of terrestrial and aquatic habitats and …

Phylogenetic diversity of Acidobacteria in a former agricultural soil

A Kielak, AS Pijl, JA Van Veen… - The ISME journal, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Although Acidobacteria represent the most abundant bacterial phylum in many soils,
knowledge of acidobacterial diversity is still rather incomplete. We, therefore, examined the …

Comparative genomic and physiological analysis provides insights into the role of Acidobacteria in organic carbon utilization in Arctic tundra soils

SR Rawat, MK Männistö, Y Bromberg… - FEMS microbiology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Acidobacteria are among the most abundant bacterial phyla found in terrestrial ecosystems,
but relatively little is known about their diversity, distribution and most critically, their function …

A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses

RT Jones, MS Robeson, CL Lauber… - The ISME …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Acidobacteria are ubiquitous and abundant members of soil bacterial communities.
However, an ecological understanding of this important phylum has remained elusive …

Linking ecology and systematics of acidobacteria: Distinct habitat preferences of the Acidobacteriia and Blastocatellia in tundra soils

AA Ivanova, AD Zhelezova, TI Chernov, SN Dedysh - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The Acidobacteria is one of the major bacterial phyla in soils and peatlands. The currently
explored diversity within this phylum is assigned to 15 class-level units, five of which contain …