Prokaryotic life has dominated most of the evolutionary history of our planet, evolving to
occupy virtually all available environmental niches. Extremophiles, especially those thriving …

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

Despite accounting for a significant portion of the Earth's prokaryotic biomass, controls on
the abundance and biodiversity of microorganisms residing in the continental subsurface …

An enormous diversity of previously unknown bacteria and archaea has been discovered
recently, yet their functional capacities and distributions in the terrestrial subsurface remain …

Growth of oral bacteria in situ requires adhesion to a surface because the constant flow of
host secretions thwarts the ability of planktonic cells to grow before they are swallowed …

As society strives to transition towards more sustainable development pathways, it is
important to properly conceptualize the link between biodiversity (ie genes, traits, species …

Genomes are an integral component of the biological information about an organism; thus,
the more complete the genome, the more informative it is. Historically, bacterial and …

A committee of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) has reviewed and
updated the description of Special Regions on Mars as places where terrestrial organisms …

Over the previous two decades, a diverse array of geochemical negative emissions
technologies (NETs) have been proposed, which use alkaline minerals for removing and …

The search for traces of life is one of the principal objectives of Mars exploration. Central to
this objective is the concept of habitability, the set of conditions that allows the appearance …