Extensive Gene Acquisition in the Extremely Psychrophilic Bacterial Species Psychroflexus torquis and the Link to Sea-Ice Ecosystem Specialism

An inter-order horizontal gene transfer event enables the catabolism of compatible solutes by Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H

(2013) R. Eric Collins et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Metagenomic insights into strategies of carbon conservation and unusual sulfur biogeochemistry in a hypersaline Antarctic lake

(2013) Sheree Yau et al.   ISME Journal

Light-stimulated growth of proteorhodopsin-bearing sea-ice psychrophile Psychroflexus torquis is salinity dependent

(2013) Shi Feng et al.   ISME Journal

Poles Apart: Arctic and Antarctic Octadecabacter strains Share High Genome Plasticity and a New Type of Xanthorhodopsin

(2013) John Vollmers et al.   PLoS One

Marine bacteria exhibit a bipolar distribution

(2013) W. J. Sul et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dark survival in a warming world

(2013) A. McMinn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New types of metacaspases in phytoplankton reveal diverse origins of cell death proteases

(2013) C J Choi et al.   Cell Death & Disease

Retention of ice-associated amphipods: possible consequences for an ice-free Arctic Ocean

(2012) J. Berge et al.   Biology Letters

Optimization to Low Temperature Activity in Psychrophilic Enzymes

(2012) Caroline Struvay et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Gliding Motility and Por Secretion System Genes Are Widespread among Members of the Phylum Bacteroidetes

(2012) Mark J. McBride et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

DoriC 5.0: an updated database of oriC regions in both bacterial and archaeal genomes

(2012) Feng Gao et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Universality of Thermodynamic Constants Governing Biological Growth Rates

(2012) Ross Corkrey et al.   PLoS One

Eicosapentaenoic acid plays a role in stabilizing dynamic membrane structure in the deep-sea piezophile Shewanella violacea: A study employing high-pressure time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy measurement

(2011) Keiko Usui et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Artemis: an integrated platform for visualization and analysis of high-throughput sequence-based experimental data

(2011) T. Carver et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Massive Genomic Decay in Serratia symbiotica, a Recently Evolved Symbiont of Aphids

(2011) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Microbial community structure of Arctic multiyear sea ice and surface seawater by 454 sequencing of the 16S RNA gene

(2011) Jeff S Bowman et al.   ISME Journal

From pseudogenes to proteins

(2011) Nicole Rusk   NATURE METHODS

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Arctic Marine Biodiversity: An Update of Species Richness and Examples of Biodiversity Change

(2011) Bodil Bluhm et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Exopolymer alteration of physical properties of sea ice and implications for ice habitability and biogeochemistry in a warmer Arctic

(2011) Christopher Krembs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Selective retention in saline ice of extracellular polysaccharides produced by the cold-adapted marine bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H

(2011) Marcela Ewert et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification

(2010) Doug Hyatt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in Antarctic sea ice

(2010) Louiza Norman et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Antifreeze proteins in polar sea ice diatoms: diversity and gene expression in the genus Fragilariopsis

(2010) Maddalena Bayer-Giraldi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity and distribution of microbial long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic genes in the marine environment

(2010) Christine N. Shulse et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Membrane eicosapentaenoic acid is involved in the hydrophobicity of bacterial cells and affects the entry of hydrophilic and hydrophobic compounds

(2010) Takanori Nishida et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Identifying the molecular basis of functions in the transcriptome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

(2010) T.J. Whitney et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH

Saccharides enhance iron bioavailability to Southern Ocean phytoplankton

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

History of sea ice in the Arctic

(2010) Leonid Polyak et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Calibrating the Cryogenian

(2010) F. A. Macdonald et al.   SCIENCE

The pan-Arctic biodiversity of marine pelagic and sea-ice unicellular eukaryotes: a first-attempt assessment

(2010) Michel Poulin et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Three Genomes from the Phylum Acidobacteria Provide Insight into the Lifestyles of These Microorganisms in Soils

(2009) N. L. Ward et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genomics of an extreme psychrophile, Psychromonas ingrahamii

(2009) Monica Riley et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Production of cryoprotectant extracellular polysaccharide substances (EPS) by the marine psychrophilic bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H under extreme conditionsThis article is one of a selection of papers in the Special Issue on Polar and Alpine Microbiology.

(2009) Joseph G. Marx et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

A protein secretion system linked to bacteroidete gliding motility and pathogenesis

(2009) K. Sato et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DNAPlotter: circular and linear interactive genome visualization

(2008) T. Carver et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

E-CAI: a novel server to estimate an expected value of Codon Adaptation Index (eCAI)

(2008) Pere Puigbò et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Genome analysis of the proteorhodopsin-containing marine bacterium Polaribacter sp. MED152 (Flavobacteria)

(2008) J. M. Gonzalez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA