Phylum Gemmatimonadota and its role in the environment

I Mujakić, K Piwosz, M Koblížek - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bacteria are an important part of every ecosystem that they inhabit on Earth. Environmental
microbiologists usually focus on a few dominant bacterial groups, neglecting less abundant …

Past, present and future of the boundaries of the Pseudomonas genus: proposal of Stutzerimonas gen. nov

J Lalucat, M Gomila, M Mulet, A Zaruma… - Systematic and applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pseudomonas is one the best studied bacterial genera, and it is the genus with the highest
number of species among the gram-negative bacteria. Pseudomonas spp. are widely …

A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database

C Rinke, M Chuvochina, AJ Mussig, PA Chaumeil… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The accrual of genomic data from both cultured and uncultured microorganisms provides
new opportunities to develop systematic taxonomies based on evolutionary relationships …

Non-syntrophic methanogenic hydrocarbon degradation by an archaeal species

Z Zhou, C Zhang, P Liu, L Fu, R Laso-Pérez, L Yang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The methanogenic degradation of oil hydrocarbons can proceed through syntrophic
partnerships of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria and methanogenic archaea,–. However …

Characteristics of methane emissions from alpine thermokarst lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

G Yang, Z Zheng, BW Abbott, D Olefeldt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding methane (CH4) emission from thermokarst lakes is crucial for predicting the
impacts of abrupt thaw on the permafrost carbon-climate feedback. However, observational …

Plant microbiomes harbor potential to promote nutrient turnover in impoverished substrates of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot

AP Camargo, RSC de Souza, J Jose… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The substrates of the Brazilian campos rupestre s, a grassland ecosystem, have extremely
low concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen, imposing restrictions to plant growth …

The LUCA and its complex virome

M Krupovic, VV Dolja, EV Koonin - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
The last universal cellular ancestor (LUCA) is the most recent population of organisms from
which all cellular life on Earth descends. The reconstruction of the genome and phenotype …

Genomic characterization of three novel Desulfobacterota classes expand the metabolic and phylogenetic diversity of the phylum

CL Murphy, J Biggerstaff, A Eichhorn… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We report on the genomic characterization of three novel classes in the phylum
Desulfobacterota. One class (proposed name Candidatus 'Anaeroferrophillalia') was …

Awakening a latent carbon fixation cycle in Escherichia coli

A Satanowski, B Dronsella, E Noor, B Vögeli… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Carbon fixation is one of the most important biochemical processes. Most natural carbon
fixation pathways are thought to have emerged from enzymes that originally performed other …

Global diversity and inferred ecophysiology of microorganisms with the potential for dissimilatory sulfate/sulfite reduction

M Diao, S Dyksma, E Koeksoy, DK Ngugi… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sulfate/sulfite-reducing microorganisms (SRM) are ubiquitous in nature, driving the global
sulfur cycle. A hallmark of SRM is the dissimilatory sulfite reductase encoded by the genes …