Microbial diversity in extreme environments

WS Shu, LN Huang - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa,
survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity …

Living at the extremes: extremophiles and the limits of life in a planetary context

N Merino, HS Aronson, DP Bojanova… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Prokaryotic life has dominated most of the evolutionary history of our planet, evolving to
occupy virtually all available environmental niches. Extremophiles, especially those thriving …

Temperature and microbial interactions drive the deterministic assembly processes in sediments of hot springs

Q He, S Wang, W Hou, K Feng, F Li, W Hai… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Terrestrial geothermal ecosystems, as a representative of extreme environments, exhibit a
variety of geochemical gradients, and their microbes are thought to be under high stress …

Microbial biogeography of 925 geothermal springs in New Zealand

JF Power, CR Carere, CK Lee, GLJ Wakerley… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Geothermal springs are model ecosystems to investigate microbial biogeography as they
represent discrete, relatively homogenous habitats, are distributed across multiple …

Obtaining genomes from uncultivated environmental microorganisms using FACS–based single-cell genomics

C Rinke, J Lee, N Nath, D Goudeau, B Thompson… - Nature protocols, 2014 - nature.com
Single-cell genomics is a powerful tool for exploring the genetic makeup of environmental
microorganisms, the vast majority of which are difficult, if not impossible, to cultivate with …

Selective pressures of heavy metals on microbial community determine microbial functional roles during composting: sensitive, resistant and actor

X Chen, Y Zhao, X Zhao, J Wu, L Zhu, X Zhang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heavy metals (HM) pollution exerts an effect on microbial community composition and
structure during composting, the way how microbial community responses to HM pressure is …

Response of sediment and water microbial communities to submerged vegetations restoration in a shallow eutrophic lake

C Chao, L Wang, Y Li, Z Yan, H Liu, D Yu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Submerged macrophytes are the main primary producers in shallow lakes and play an
important role in structuring communities. Aquatic microbes are also an important …

Diversity of thermophiles in a Malaysian hot spring determined using 16S rRNA and shotgun metagenome sequencing

CS Chan, KG Chan, YL Tay, YH Chua… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The Sungai Klah (SK) hot spring is the second hottest geothermal spring in Malaysia. This
hot spring is a shallow, 150-m-long, fast-flowing stream, with temperatures varying from 50 …

Is post-polyploidization diploidization the key to the evolutionary success of angiosperms?

S Dodsworth, MW Chase… - Botanical Journal of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Advances in recent years have revolutionized our understanding of both the context and
occurrence of polyploidy in plants. Molecular phylogenetics has vastly improved our …

Control of temperature on microbial community structure in hot springs of the Tibetan Plateau

S Wang, W Hou, H Dong, H Jiang, L Huang, G Wu… - PLoS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Tibetan Plateau in Northwest China hosts a number of hot springs that represent a
biodiversity hotspot for thermophiles, yet their diversity and relationship to environmental …