Multiple energy sources and metabolic strategies sustain microbial diversity in Antarctic desert soils

Trace gas oxidizers are widespread and active members of soil microbial communities

(2021) Sean K. Bay et al.   Nature Microbiology

Pre-Cambrian roots of novel Antarctic cryptoendolithic bacterial lineages

(2021) Davide Albanese et al.   Microbiome

The thermoacidophilic methanotroph Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV oxidizes subatmospheric H2 with a high-affinity, membrane-associated [NiFe] hydrogenase

(2020) Rob A. Schmitz et al.   ISME Journal

Energetic Basis of Microbial Growth and Persistence in Desert Ecosystems

(2020) Pok Man Leung et al.   mSystems

The rise of diversity in metabolic platforms across the Candidate Phyla Radiation

(2020) Alexander L. Jaffe et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

A widely distributed hydrogenase oxidises atmospheric H2 during bacterial growth

(2020) Zahra F. Islam et al.   ISME Journal

Antarctica’s wilderness fails to capture continent’s biodiversity

(2020) Rachel I. Leihy et al.   NATURE

Chlamydiae in the Environment

(2020) Astrid Collingro et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Soil Microbiomes With the Genetic Capacity for Atmospheric Chemosynthesis Are Widespread Across the Poles and Are Associated With Moisture, Carbon, and Nitrogen Limitation

(2020) Angelique E. Ray et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria

(2020) Alison E. Murray et al.   Nature Microbiology

Ancestral Absence of Electron Transport Chains in Patescibacteria and DPANN

(2020) Jacob P. Beam et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Uncovering the Uncultivated Majority in Antarctic Soils: Toward a Synergistic Approach

(2019) Sam Lambrechts et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Two Chloroflexi classes independently evolved the ability to persist on atmospheric hydrogen and carbon monoxide

(2019) Zahra F. Islam et al.   ISME Journal

Temperature and soil moisture control microbial community composition in an arctic–alpine ecosystem along elevational and micro-topographic gradients

(2019) K. Frindte et al.   ISME Journal

Widespread soil bacterium that oxidizes atmospheric methane

(2019) Alexander T. Tveit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Uncovering the Metabolic Strategies of the Dormant Microbial Majority: towards Integrative Approaches

(2019) Chris Greening et al.   mSystems

Atmospheric carbon monoxide oxidation is a widespread mechanism supporting microbial survival

(2019) Paul R. F. Cordero et al.   ISME Journal

Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

(2019) Ricardo Cavicchioli et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Unexpected host dependency of Antarctic Nanohaloarchaeota

(2019) Joshua N. Hamm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Responses of tundra soil microbial communities to half a decade of experimental warming at two critical depths

(2019) Eric R. Johnston et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chromulinavorax destructans, a pathogen of microzooplankton that provides a window into the enigmatic candidate phylum Dependentiae

(2019) Christoph M. Deeg et al.   PLoS Pathogens

MetaBAT 2: an adaptive binning algorithm for robust and efficient genome reconstruction from metagenome assemblies

(2019) Dongwan D. Kang et al.   PeerJ

Two uptake hydrogenases differentially interact with the aerobic respiratory chain during mycobacterial growth and persistence

(2019) Paul R. F. Cordero et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Microbial diversity and mineral composition of weathered serpentine rock of the Khalilovsky massif

(2019) Irina V. Khilyas et al.   PLoS One

Major New Microbial Groups Expand Diversity and Alter our Understanding of the Tree of Life

(2018) Cindy J. Castelle et al.   CELL

Diversity of key genes for carbon and nitrogen fixation in soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

(2018) Guillaume Tahon et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

(2018) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SCIENCE

Abditibacterium utsteinense sp. nov., the first cultivated member of candidate phylum FBP, isolated from ice-free Antarctic soil samples

(2018) Guillaume Tahon et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

A reservoir of ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes in remote pristine Antarctic soils

(2018) Marc W. Van Goethem et al.   Microbiome

Recovery of genomes from metagenomes via a dereplication, aggregation and scoring strategy

(2018) Christian M. K. Sieber et al.   Nature Microbiology

Choosing the future of Antarctica

(2018) S. R. Rintoul et al.   NATURE

Evidence of microbial rhodopsins in Antarctic Dry Valley edaphic systems

(2017) Leandro D. Guerrero et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

metaSPAdes: a new versatile metagenomic assembler

(2017) Sergey Nurk et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

dRep: a tool for fast and accurate genomic comparisons that enables improved genome recovery from metagenomes through de-replication

(2017) Matthew R Olm et al.   ISME Journal

Energy from thin air

(2017) Don A. Cowan et al.   NATURE

Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil

(2017) Mukan Ji et al.   NATURE

Climate change drives expansion of Antarctic ice-free habitat

(2017) Jasmine R. Lee et al.   NATURE

Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

(2017) Robert M Bowers et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Isolation and characterization of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs from exposed soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

(2017) Guillaume Tahon et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial Diversity of Browning Peninsula, Eastern Antarctica Revealed Using Molecular and Cultivation Methods

(2017) Sarita Pudasaini et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Environmental drivers of viral community composition in Antarctic soils identified by viromics

(2017) Evelien M. Adriaenssens et al.   Microbiome

Genetic diversity among populations of Antarctic springtails (Collembola) within the Mackay Glacier ecotone

(2016) Clare R. Beet et al.   GENOME

Isolation and characterization of Acidobacterium ailaaui sp. nov., a novel member of Acidobacteria subdivision 1, from a geothermally heated Hawaiian microbial mat

(2016)   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

MEGAHIT v1.0: A fast and scalable metagenome assembler driven by advanced methodologies and community practices

(2016) Dinghua Li et al.   METHODS

Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology

(2016) Jarone Pinhassi et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Structure of an Actinobacterial-Type [NiFe]-Hydrogenase Reveals Insight into O 2 -Tolerant H 2 Oxidation

(2016) Caspar Schäfer et al.   STRUCTURE

Diversity of Phototrophic Genes Suggests Multiple Bacteria May Be Able to Exploit Sunlight in Exposed Soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

(2016) Guillaume Tahon et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

HydDB: A web tool for hydrogenase classification and analysis

(2016) Dan Søndergaard et al.   Scientific Reports

A new group of eubacterial light-driven retinal-binding proton pumps with an unusual cytoplasmic proton donor

(2015) Andrew Harris et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

MaxBin 2.0: an automated binning algorithm to recover genomes from multiple metagenomic datasets

(2015) Yu-Wei Wu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes

(2015) Donovan H. Parks et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Analysis of cbbL, nifH, and pufLM in Soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, Antarctica, Reveals a Large Diversity of Autotrophic and Phototrophic Bacteria

(2015) Guillaume Tahon et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Comparative Genomics of Candidate Phylum TM6 Suggests That Parasitism Is Widespread and Ancestral in This Lineage

(2015) Yun Kit Yeoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

(2015) Christopher T. Brown et al.   NATURE

The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity

(2015) Steven L. Chown et al.   NATURE

Persistence of the dominant soil phylumAcidobacteriaby trace gas scavenging

(2015) Chris Greening et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ankyrin-mediated self-protection during cell invasion by the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

(2015) Carey Lambert et al.   Nature Communications

Carbon-Fixation Rates and Associated Microbial Communities Residing in Arid and Ephemerally Wet Antarctic Dry Valley Soils

(2015) Thomas D. Niederberger et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Power limits for microbial life

(2015) Douglas E. LaRowe et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Breathing air to save energy - new insights into the ecophysiological role of high-affinity [NiFe]-hydrogenase in Streptomyces avermitilis

(2015) Quentin Liot et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity

(2014) Peter Convey et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Polar research: Six priorities for Antarctic science

(2014) Mahlon C. Kennicutt et al.   NATURE

Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

(2014) Benjamin Buchfink et al.   NATURE METHODS

Binning metagenomic contigs by coverage and composition

(2014) Johannes Alneberg et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Growth and Survival of Mycobacterium smegmatis Is Enhanced by Co-Metabolism of Atmospheric H2

(2014) Chris Greening et al.   PLoS One

A soil actinobacterium scavenges atmospheric H2 using two membrane-associated, oxygen-dependent [NiFe] hydrogenases

(2014) C. Greening et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The ecological dichotomy of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in the hyper-arid soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys

(2014) Catarina M. Magalhães et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Novel, Oxygen-Insensitive Group 5 [NiFe]-Hydrogenase in Ralstonia eutropha

(2013) Caspar Schäfer et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Normalcy of Dormancy: Common Themes in Microbial Quiescence

(2013) Emily S.C. Rittershaus et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

RubisCO-based CO2fixation and C1metabolism in the actinobacteriumPseudonocardia dioxanivorans CB1190

(2013) Ariel Grostern et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial community variations in an alfalfa-rice rotation system revealed by 16S rRNA gene 454-pyrosequencing

(2013) Ana R. Lopes et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Integrating metagenomic and amplicon databases to resolve the phylogenetic and ecological diversity of the Chlamydiae

(2013) Ilias Lagkouvardos et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial life under extreme energy limitation

(2013) Tori M. Hoehler et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The high elevation Dry Valleys in Antarctica as analog sites for subsurface ice on Mars

(2013) J.L. Heldmann et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

The Variability of the 16S rRNA Gene in Bacterial Genomes and Its Consequences for Bacterial Community Analyses

(2013) Tomáš Větrovský et al.   PLoS One

Functional ecology of an Antarctic Dry Valley

(2013) Y. Chan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conservation biogeography of the Antarctic

(2012) Aleks Terauds et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

By their genes ye shall know them: genomic signatures of predatory bacteria

(2012) Zohar Pasternak et al.   ISME Journal

Global abundance of microbial rhodopsins

(2012) Omri M Finkel et al.   ISME Journal

Genome Data Mining and Soil Survey for the Novel Group 5 [NiFe]-Hydrogenase To Explore the Diversity and Ecological Importance of Presumptive High-Affinity H2-Oxidizing Bacteria

(2011) Philippe Constant et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey: the ecology of Dry Valley edaphic microbial communities

(2011) Charles K Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy

(2011) Jay T. Lennon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Energy Starved Candidatus Pelagibacter Ubique Substitutes Light-Mediated ATP Production for Endogenous Carbon Respiration

(2011) Laura Steindler et al.   PLoS One

Culturable bacterial diversity at the Princess Elisabeth Station (Utsteinen, Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica) harbours many new taxa

(2011) Karolien Peeters et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification

(2010) Doug Hyatt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

(2010) S. Craig Cary et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Dormancy contributes to the maintenance of microbial diversity

(2010) S. E. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Proteorhodopsin Phototrophy Promotes Survival of Marine Bacteria during Starvation

(2010) Laura Gómez-Consarnau et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Streptomycetes contributing to atmospheric molecular hydrogen soil uptake are widespread and encode a putative high-affinity [NiFe]-hydrogenase

(2009) Philippe Constant et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Snow in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2009) Andrew G. Fountain et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Highly specialized microbial diversity in hyper-arid polar desert

(2009) S. B. Pointing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The tropospheric cycle of H2: a critical review

(2009) D. H. Ehhalt et al.   TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY

Isolation of Streptomyces sp. PCB7, the first microorganism demonstrating high-affinity uptake of tropospheric H2

(2008) Philippe Constant et al.   ISME Journal

Atmospheric CO and Hydrogen Uptake and CO Oxidizer Phylogeny for Miyake-jima, Japan Volcanic Deposits

(2008) Gary M. King et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Presence of duplicate genes encoding a phylogenetically new subgroup of form I ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in Mycobacterium sp. strain JC1 DSM 3803

(2008) Sae Woong Park et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY