A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa,
survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity …

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 …

The reconstruction of bacterial and archaeal genomes from shotgun metagenomes has
enabled insights into the ecology and evolution of environmental and host-associated …

Carbon fixation by chemoautotrophic microbes such as homoacetogens had a major impact
on the transition from the inorganic to the organic world. Recent reports have shown the …

Abstract Background The highly diverse Cand. Patescibacteria are predicted to have
minimal biosynthetic and metabolic pathways, which hinders understanding of how their …

In alkaline soda lakes, concentrated dissolved carbonates establish productive phototrophic
microbial mats. Here we show how microbial phototrophs and autotrophs contribute to this …

Gemmatimonadota is a diverse bacterial phylum commonly found in environments such as
soils, rhizospheres, fresh waters, and sediments. So far, the phylum contains just six cultured …

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. Its depth provides the only bathypelagic (>
1000 m deep) freshwater habitat on Earth and its oxic, ultra‐oligotrophic features make it a …

Common culturing techniques and priorities bias our discovery towards specific traits that
may not be representative of microbial diversity in nature. So far, these biases have not been …

Abstract Background Candidatus Nanohaloarchaeota, an archaeal phylum within the
DPANN superphylum, is characterized by limited metabolic capabilities and limited …