Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings

A Jousset, C Bienhold, A Chatzinotas… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Rare species are increasingly recognized as crucial, yet vulnerable components of Earth's
ecosystems. This is also true for microbial communities, which are typically composed of a …

Industrial biotechnology based on enzymes from extreme environments

NM Mesbah - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Biocatalysis is crucial for a green, sustainable, biobased economy, and this has driven major
advances in biotechnology and biocatalysis over the past 2 decades. There are numerous …

Extreme environments offer an unprecedented opportunity to understand microbial eukaryotic ecology, evolution, and genome biology

HB Rappaport, AM Oliverio - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Research in extreme environments has substantially expanded our understanding of the
ecology and evolution of life on Earth, but a major group of organisms has been largely …

A network approach to elucidate and prioritize microbial dark matter in microbial communities

T Zamkovaya, JS Foster, V de Crécy-Lagard… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Microbes compose most of the biomass on the planet, yet the majority of taxa remain
uncharacterized. These unknown microbes, often referred to as “microbial dark matter,” …

[HTML][HTML] The bright side of microbial dark matter: lessons learned from the uncultivated majority

L Solden, K Lloyd, K Wrighton - Current opinion in microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Recent discoveries from metagenomics and single cell genomics.•Metabolic
features of the uncultivated majority.•Success stories of cultivating microbial dark …

Prokaryotic hydrocarbon degraders

RC Prince, TJ Amande, TJ McGenity - Taxonomy, genomics and …, 2019 - Springer
Hydrocarbons have been part of the biosphere for millions of years, and a diverse group of
prokaryotes has evolved to use them as a source of carbon and energy. To date, the vast …

Microbial diversity in extreme marine habitats and their biomolecules

A Poli, I Finore, I Romano, A Gioiello, L Lama… - Microorganisms, 2017 - mdpi.com
Extreme marine environments have been the subject of many studies and scientific
publications. For many years, these environmental niches, which are characterized by high …

[HTML][HTML] Culturomics of the plant prokaryotic microbiome and the dawn of plant-based culture media–a review

MS Sarhan, MA Hamza, HH Youssef, S Patz… - Journal of Advanced …, 2019 - Elsevier
Improving cultivability of a wider range of bacterial and archaeal community members, living
natively in natural environments and within plants, is a prerequisite to better understanding …

Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v. 6: data updates and feature enhancements

S Mukherjee, D Stamatis, J Bertsch… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Genomes Online Database (GOLD)(https://gold. jgi. doe. gov) is a manually
curated data management system that catalogs sequencing projects with associated …

Genomic inference of the metabolism and evolution of the archaeal phylum Aigarchaeota

ZS Hua, YN Qu, Q Zhu, EM Zhou, YL Qi, YR Yin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Microbes of the phylum Aigarchaeota are widely distributed in geothermal environments, but
their physiological and ecological roles are poorly understood. Here we analyze six …