The acquisition of cellular carbon from inorganic carbon is a prerequisite for life and marked
the transition from the inorganic to the organic world. Recent theories of the origins of life …

The taxonomy of spore‐forming Gram‐positive bacteria has a long and colorful history. In
1872, 35 years after Christian Ehrenberg provided the initial description of Vibrio subtilis …

The molecular machinery that controls chemotaxis in bacteria is substantially more complex
than any other signal transduction system in prokaryotes, and its origins and variability …

The contribution of horizontal gene transfer to evolution has been controversial since it was
suggested to be a force driving evolution in the microbial world. In this paper, I review the …

Bacterial Biogeochemistry, Third Edition focuses on bacterial metabolism and its relevance
to the environment, including the decomposition of soil, food chains, nitrogen fixation …

Mercuric mercury (Hg [II]) is a highly toxic and mobile element that is likely to have had a
pronounced and adverse effect on biology since Earth's oxygenation∼ 2.4 billion years ago …

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 …

ABSTRACT SAR11 is an ancient and diverse clade of heterotrophic bacteria that are
abundant throughout the world's oceans, where they play a major role in the ocean carbon …

Microbes of the phylum Aigarchaeota are widely distributed in geothermal environments, but
their physiological and ecological roles are poorly understood. Here we analyze six …

Reconstruction of the Tree of Life is a central goal in biology. Although numerous novel
phyla of bacteria and archaea have recently been discovered, inconsistent phylogenetic …