A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa,
survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity …

We present two standards developed by the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) for
reporting bacterial and archaeal genome sequences. Both are extensions of the Minimum …

Long-read sequencing technologies have substantially improved the assemblies of many
isolate bacterial genomes as compared to fragmented short-read assemblies. However …

Challenges in cultivating microorganisms have limited the phylogenetic diversity of currently
available microbial genomes. This is being addressed by advances in sequencing …

Metagenomics is a new approach to study microorganisms obtained from a specific
environment by functional gene screening or sequencing analysis. Metagenomics studies …

Cells of most bacterial species are around 2 micrometers in length, with some of the largest
specimens reaching 750 micrometers. Using fluorescence, x-ray, and electron microscopy in …

Productivity of ruminant livestock depends on the rumen microbiota, which ferment
indigestible plant polysaccharides into nutrients used for growth. Understanding the …

Many microbes in nature reside in dense, metabolically interdependent communities. We
investigated the nature and extent of microbe-virus interactions in relation to microbial …

Abstract The Integrated Microbial Genomes with Microbiome Samples (IMG/M: https://img.
jgi. doe. gov/m/) system contains annotated DNA and RNA sequence data of (i) archaeal …

H2 metabolism is proposed to be the most ancient and diverse mechanism of energy-
conservation. The metalloenzymes mediating this metabolism, hydrogenases, are encoded …