Metagenomic analysis provides insights into functional capacity in a hyperarid desert soil niche community

Metagenomics of extreme environments

(2015) DA Cowan et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The influence of surface soil physicochemistry on the edaphic bacterial communities in contrasting terrain types of the Central Namib Desert

(2015) S. Gombeer et al.   Geobiology

Connecting biodiversity and potential functional role in modern euxinic environments by microbial metagenomics

(2015) Tomàs Llorens-Marès et al.   ISME Journal

Cyanobacteria drive community composition and functionality in rock-soil interface communities

(2015) Angel Valverde et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

metaxa2: improved identification and taxonomic classification of small and large subunit rRNA in metagenomic data

(2015) Johan Bengtsson-Palme et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Ammonia-oxidising bacteria not archaea dominate nitrification activity in semi-arid agricultural soil

(2015) Natasha C. Banning et al.   Scientific Reports

Metagenomic analysis of the viral community in Namib Desert hypoliths

(2014) Evelien M. Adriaenssens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Links between sulphur oxidation and sulphur-oxidising bacteria abundance and diversity in soil microcosms based onsoxBfunctional gene analysis

(2014) Maria Tourna et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Functional-Structural Analysis of Nitrogen-Cycle Bacteria in a Hypersaline Mat from the Omani Desert

(2014) Raeid M. M. Abed et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

MyTaxa: an advanced taxonomic classifier for genomic and metagenomic sequences

(2014) Chengwei Luo et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Bioinformatic Approaches Reveal Metagenomic Characterization of Soil Microbial Community

(2014) Zhuofei Xu et al.   PLoS One

Distribution and Origin of Oxygen-Dependent and Oxygen-Independent Forms of Mg-Protoporphyrin Monomethylester Cyclase among Phototrophic Proteobacteria

(2013) Ekaterina N. Boldareva-Nuianzina et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert

(2013) Francesca Stomeo et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   NATURE

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

Evidence for Niche Partitioning Revealed by the Distribution of Sulfur Oxidation Genes Collected from Areas of a Terrestrial Sulfidic Spring with Differing Geochemical Conditions

(2012) Brendan Headd et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Distribution and Properties of the Genes Encoding the Biosynthesis of the Bacterial Cofactor, Pyrroloquinoline Quinone

(2012) Yao-Qing Shen et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Evaluation method for the potential functionome harbored in the genome and metagenome

(2012) Hideto Takami et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Hypolithic microbial communities: between a rock and a hard place

(2012) Yuki Chan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Gobabeb – 50 years of Namib Desert research

(2012) J.R. Henschel et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Metagenomic microbial community profiling using unique clade-specific marker genes

(2012) Nicola Segata et al.   NATURE METHODS

Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence of species recruitment and development of hot desert hypolithic communities

(2012) Thulani P. Makhalanyane et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Bacterial anoxygenic photosynthesis on plant leaf surfaces

(2012) Nof Atamna-Ismaeel et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

A global census of nitrogenase diversity

(2011) John Christian Gaby et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

(2011) B. J. Haas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Anaerobic ammonia oxidation in a fertilized paddy soil

(2011) Guibing Zhu et al.   ISME Journal

Hypolithic communities: important nitrogen sources in Antarctic desert soils

(2011) D. A. Cowan et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Ancient origins determine global biogeography of hot and cold desert cyanobacteria

(2011) Justin Bahl et al.   Nature Communications

Cyanobacteria and chloroflexi-dominated hypolithic colonization of quartz at the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2010) Donnabella C. Lacap et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Hypolithic Microbial Community of Quartz Pavement in the High-Altitude Tundra of Central Tibet

(2010) Fiona K. Y. Wong et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

(2010) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

Ab initio gene identification in metagenomic sequences

(2010) Wenhan Zhu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Distribution and abiotic influences on hypolithic microbial communities in an Antarctic Dry Valley

(2010) Don A. Cowan et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Bacterial diversity and occurrence of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the Atacama Desert soil during a “desert bloom” event

(2010) Julieta Orlando et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Molecular detection of anammox bacteria in terrestrial ecosystems: distribution and diversity

(2009) Sylvia Humbert et al.   ISME Journal

Biogeography of soil archaea and bacteria along a steep precipitation gradient

(2009) Roey Angel et al.   ISME Journal

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

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Sources of edaphic cyanobacterial diversity in the Dry Valleys of Eastern Antarctica

(2008) Susanna A Wood et al.   ISME Journal

Phages across the biosphere: contrasts of viruses in soil and aquatic environments

(2008) Sharath Srinivasiah et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Coloring in the tree of life

(2008) Jason Raymond   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY