Microbial assembly, interaction, functioning, activity and diversification: a review derived from community compositional data

J Liu, Z Meng, X Liu, XH Zhang - Marine Life Science & Technology, 2019 - Springer
Microorganisms play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem stability. The last two decades
have witnessed an upsurge in studies on marine microbial community composition using …

Functional microbiome strategies for the bioremediation of petroleum-hydrocarbon and heavy metal contaminated soils: a review

S Haque, N Srivastava, DB Pal, MF Alkhanani… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals are the two major soil contaminants that are
released into the environment in the forms of industrial effluents. These contaminants exert …

MGnify: the microbiome analysis resource in 2020

AL Mitchell, A Almeida, M Beracochea… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract MGnify (http://www. ebi. ac. uk/metagenomics) provides a free to use platform for the
assembly, analysis and archiving of microbiome data derived from sequencing microbial …

Microbiomes in the Challenger Deep slope and bottom-axis sediments

YL Zhou, P Mara, GJ Cui, VP Edgcomb… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Hadal trenches are the deepest and most remote regions of the ocean. The 11-kilometer
deep Challenger Deep is the least explored due to the technical challenges of sampling …

Automated analysis of genomic sequences facilitates high-throughput and comprehensive description of bacteria

TCA Hitch, T Riedel, A Oren, J Overmann… - ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The study of microbial communities is hampered by the large fraction of still unknown
bacteria. However, many of these species have been isolated, yet lack a validly published …

Bacteria are important dimethylsulfoniopropionate producers in marine aphotic and high-pressure environments

Y Zheng, J Wang, S Zhou, Y Zhang, J Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is an important marine osmolyte. Aphotic environments
are only recently being considered as potential contributors to global DMSP production …

Abiotic selection of microbial genome size in the global ocean

DK Ngugi, SG Acinas, P Sánchez, JM Gasol… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Strong purifying selection is considered a major evolutionary force behind small microbial
genomes in the resource-poor photic ocean. However, very little is currently known about …

Marine hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria breakdown poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET)

R Denaro, F Aulenta, F Crisafi, F Di Pippo… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pollution of aquatic ecosystems by plastic wastes poses severe environmental and health
problems and has prompted scientific investigations on the fate and factors contributing to …

Structure and function of the Arctic and Antarctic marine microbiota as revealed by metagenomics

S Cao, W Zhang, W Ding, M Wang, S Fan, B Yang… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The Arctic and Antarctic are the two most geographically distant
bioregions on earth. Recent sampling efforts and following metagenomics have shed light …

Microbial life on the surface of microplastics in natural waters

O Stabnikova, V Stabnikov, A Marinin, M Klavins… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Major water-polluting microplastics (for example, polyethylene, polypropylene and others)
have lower density than water. Therefore, they are concentrated in the neustonic layer near …