Comprehensive insights on environmental adaptation strategies in Antarctic bacteria and biotechnological applications of cold adapted molecules

KP Ramasamy, L Mahawar, R Rajasabapathy… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Climate change and the induced environmental disturbances is one of the major threats that
have a strong impact on bacterial communities in the Antarctic environment. To cope with …

High-quality metagenome assembly from long accurate reads with metaMDBG

G Benoit, S Raguideau, R James, AM Phillippy… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We introduce metaMDBG, a metagenomics assembler for PacBio HiFi reads. MetaMDBG
combines a de Bruijn graph assembly in a minimizer space with an iterative assembly over …

Peeling off the layers from microbial dark matter (MDM): recent advances, future challenges, and opportunities

S Iqbal, F Begum, I Ullah, N Jalal… - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Microbes represent the most common organisms on Earth; however, less than 2% of
microbial species in the environment can undergo cultivation for study under laboratory …

Candidatus List. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus phyla

A Oren, M Göker - 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Based on the guidelines given in Appendix 11 of the International Code of Nomenclature of
Prokaryotes (ICNP)[1, 2], a list in the form of a codified record of organisms of the status …

Novel endolithic bacteria of phylum Chloroflexota reveal a myriad of potential survival strategies in the Antarctic desert

TJ Williams, MA Allen, AE Ray, N Benaud… - Applied and …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The ice-free McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are dominated by nutrient-poor
mineral soil and rocky outcrops. The principal habitat for microorganisms is within rocks …

A metagenomic view of novel microbial and metabolic diversity found within the deep terrestrial biosphere at DeMMO: A microbial observatory in South Dakota, USA

L Momper, CP Casar, MR Osburn - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The deep terrestrial subsurface is a large and diverse microbial habitat and vast repository
of biomass. However, in relation to its size and physical heterogeneity we have limited …

The dynamic history of prokaryotic phyla: discovery, diversity and division

MJ Pallen - International Journal of Systematic and …, 2024 - microbiologyresearch.org
Here, I review the dynamic history of prokaryotic phyla. Following leads set by Darwin,
Haeckel and Woese, the concept of phylum has evolved from a group sharing common …

Discovery of a novel bacterial class with the capacity to drive sulfur cycling and microbiome structure in a paleo-ocean analog

A Vigneron, WF Vincent, C Lovejoy - ISME communications, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Uncultivated microbial taxa represent a large fraction of global microbial diversity and likely
drive numerous biogeochemical transformations in natural ecosystems. Geographically …

Population structure of an Antarctic aquatic cyanobacterium

P Panwar, TJ Williams, MA Allen, R Cavicchioli - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Ace Lake is a marine-derived, stratified lake in the Vestfold Hills of East
Antarctica with an upper oxic and lower anoxic zone. Cyanobacteria are known to reside …