Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

S Louca, MF Polz, F Mazel, MBN Albright… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Microbial communities often exhibit incredible taxonomic diversity, raising questions
regarding the mechanisms enabling species coexistence and the role of this diversity in …

Trophic interactions and the drivers of microbial community assembly

M Gralka, R Szabo, R Stocker, OX Cordero - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Despite numerous surveys of gene and species content in heterotrophic microbial
communities, such as those found in animal guts, oceans, or soils, it is still unclear whether …

Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major …

DW Waite, M Chuvochina, C Pelikan… - … of Systematic and …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
The class Deltaproteobacteria comprises an ecologically and metabolically diverse group of
bacteria best known for dissimilatory sulphate reduction and predatory behaviour. Although …

Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

DH Parks, C Rinke, M Chuvochina, PA Chaumeil… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Challenges in cultivating microorganisms have limited the phylogenetic diversity of currently
available microbial genomes. This is being addressed by advances in sequencing …

Genomic and functional analyses of fungal and bacterial consortia that enable lignocellulose breakdown in goat gut microbiomes

X Peng, SE Wilken, TS Lankiewicz, SP Gilmore… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The herbivore digestive tract is home to a complex community of anaerobic microbes that
work together to break down lignocellulose. These microbiota are an untapped resource of …

Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota

I Vanwonterghem, PN Evans, DH Parks… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Methanogenesis is the primary biogenic source of methane in the atmosphere and a key
contributor to climate change. The long-standing dogma that methanogenesis originated …

High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities

S Louca, SMS Jacques, APF Pires, JS Leal… - Nature ecology & …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the processes that are driving variation of natural microbial communities
across space or time is a major challenge for ecologists. Environmental conditions strongly …

Temperature mediated the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes and reoccurrence of microbial community during treating aniline wastewater

H Chen, Z Chen, X Chu, Y Deng, S Qing, C Sun… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Seasonal temperature changes significantly affect microbial community diversity,
composition, and performance in wastewater treatment plants. However, the community …

Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses revealed uncultured bacteroidales populations as the dominant proteolytic amino acid degraders in anaerobic …

R Mei, MK Nobu, T Narihiro, WT Liu - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Current understanding of amino acid (AA) degraders in anaerobic digesters is mainly based
on cultured species, whereas microorganisms that play important roles in a complex …

Metagenomic binning reveals the functional roles of core abundant microorganisms in twelve full-scale biogas plants

S Campanaro, L Treu, PG Kougias, G Luo, I Angelidaki - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to elucidate the microbial ecology in twelve mesophilic and
thermophilic full-scale biogas plants using a genome-centric metagenomic approach. In this …