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Hao Chen, Minxiao Wang, Huan Zhang, Hao Wang, Li Zhou, Zhaoshan Zhong, Lei Cao, Chao Lian, Yan Sun, Chaolun Li
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(2021)
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Yanan Sun, Jin Sun, Yi Yang, Yi Lan, Jack Chi-Ho Ip, Wai Chuen Wong, Yick Hang Kwan, Yanjie Zhang, Zhuang Han, Jian-Wen Qiu, Pei-Yuan Qian
Summary: Vestimentiferan tubeworms are gutless, habitat-forming animals in deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems that depend on endosymbiotic bacteria for nutrition. The genome of Paraescarpia echinospica has been remodeled to support symbiosis and includes mechanisms for nutrient transfer, immune response, and stress resistance. The study provides insights into the tubeworms' unique adaptations for survival in deep-sea environments and the formation of chitinous tubes.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Yan-Bin Wang, Ce Li, Jin-Yang Yan, Tian-Yu Wang, Ya-Lin Yao, Fei-Rong Ren, Jun-Bo Luan
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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
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Microbiology
Marco Fusi, David K. Ngugi, Ramona Marasco, Jenny Marie Booth, Massimiliano Cardinale, Luciano Sacchi, Emanuela Clementi, Xinyuan Yang, Elisa Garuglieri, Stilianos Fodelianakis, Gregoire Michoud, Daniele Daffonchio
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Soil Science
Adam Frew
Summary: Aboveground herbivory from a generalist insect herbivore can suppress the AM symbiosis by reducing root growth and carbon allocation belowground, which results in decreased arbuscular colonisation and phosphorus uptake in host plants.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Genetics & Heredity
Taiga Uchida, Yuki Yoshioka, Yu Yoshida, Manabu Fujie, Ayuta Yamaki, Akira Sasaki, Koji Inoue, Chuya Shinzato
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Biodiversity Conservation
Andrew J. Felton, Gregory R. Goldsmith
Summary: The timing and magnitude of grassland responses to drought within a growing season remain unresolved. This study used remote sensing data and weather data to investigate the impacts of drought on grasslands in the western US Great Plains biome. The results showed that grassland carbon uptake was reduced during drought, with larger reductions in the warmer and more southern regions. Increased summer vapor pressure deficit was strongly linked to reductions in vegetation greenness during drought.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Microbiology
Justin Maire, Linda L. Blackall, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen
Summary: Corals are crucial primary producers in coral reef ecosystems, and their symbiotic relationships with intracellular bacteria play a vital role in their survival, although this area of study is still lacking. Characterizing, identifying, and functionally characterizing intracellular bacterial symbionts associated with corals could provide valuable insights for microbiome research.
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Environmental Sciences
Jennifer D. Watts, Susan M. Natali, Christina Minions, Dave Risk, Kyle Arndt, Donatella Zona, Eugenie S. Euskirchen, Adrian Rocha, Oliver Sonnentag, Manuel Helbig, Aram Kalhori, Walt Oechel, Hiroki Ikawa, Masahito Ueyama, Rikie Suzuki, Hideki Kobayashi, Gerardo Celis, Edward A. G. Schuur, Elyn Humphreys, Yongwon Kim, Bang-Yong Lee, Scott Goetz, Nima Madani, Luke D. Schiferl, Roisin Commane, John S. Kimball, Zhihua Liu, Margaret S. Torn, Stefano Potter, Jonathan A. Wang, M. Torre Jorgenson, Jingfeng Xiao, Xing Li, Colin Edgar
Summary: Research indicates that soil respiration in the Arctic-boreal region is most significant during the summer, with considerable emissions even during the winter despite frozen surface conditions. Model estimates suggest that the region experienced an annual loss of approximately 591 Tg CO2 from soil respiration during the 2016-2017 period, with summer months contributing 58%, winter months contributing 15%, and shoulder months contributing 27%.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
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Genetics & Heredity
Corinna Breusing, Nathan Hagen Klobusnik, Michelle A. Hauer, Roxanne A. Beinart
Summary: Chemosynthetic animal-microbe symbioses are crucial for sustaining hydrothermal vent communities in the global deep sea. This study presents the first genome sequence for the symbiont of Alviniconcha adamantis, shedding light on its relationship with other symbiotic bacteria and potential differences.
G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS
(2022)
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Microbiology
Shen Jean Lim, Brenton Davis, Danielle Gill, John Swetenburg, Laurie C. Anderson, Annette Summers Engel, Barbara J. Campbell
Summary: Lucinid bivalves harbor environmentally acquired, chemosynthetic, gammaproteobacterial gill endosymbionts. Our analysis of the microbiome content of Stewartia floridana collected from Florida revealed a monospecific gammaproteobacterial endosymbiont and a low-abundance Spirochaeta-like species, indicating possible facultative association with scavenging and nutrient cycling roles. The expressed genes of the symbionts and host suggest species-species communications and the need for further study of interactions in the lucinid hosts, their microbiomes, and the environment.
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Nicholas S. Marzolf, Gaston E. Small, Diana Oviedo-Vargas, Carissa N. Ganong, John H. Duff, Alonso Ramirez, Catherine M. Pringle, David P. Genereux, Marcelo Ardon
Summary: This paper explores the role of tropical headwater streams in the global carbon cycle, particularly in terms of carbon dioxide evasion to the atmosphere. The study finds that tropical headwater streams are significant contributors of CO2 to the atmosphere, with inputs from both in-stream and terrestrial sources.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Corinna Breusing, Maximilian Genetti, Shelbi L. Russell, Russell B. Corbett-Detig, Roxanne A. Beinart
Summary: Symbiont specificity plays a crucial role in nutritional symbiosis between invertebrate animals and chemosynthetic bacteria at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. It affects habitat distribution, genetic structuring, and ecological adaptation of host populations.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Nicholas C. Parazoo, Kevin W. Bowman, Bianca C. Baier, Junjie Liu, Meemong Lee, Le Kuai, Yoichi Shiga, Ian Baker, Mary E. Whelan, Sha Feng, Maarten Krol, Colm Sweeney, Benjamin R. Runkle, Elahe Tajfar, Kenneth J. Davis
Summary: The ACT-America Earth Venture mission conducted airborne campaigns to study greenhouse gas transport and fluxes in the eastern United States, revealing seasonal and spatial patterns of biospheric carbon uptake. Co-variation of CO2, CO, and COS in different regions was examined, and comparisons were made with simulated results to understand the biogeochemical processes controlling these tracers.
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Yuen K. Ip, Mel Boo, Jeslyn S. T. Poo, Wai P. Wong, Shit F. Chew
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FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
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Fisheries
Tetsuro Ikuta, Makoto Sugimura, Suguru Nemoto, Yui Aoki, Akihiro Tame, Masahiro Yamamoto, Masaki Saito, Yoshiki Shimokawa, Tetsuya Miwa, Yukiko Nagai, Takao Yoshida, Katsunori Fujikura, Takashi Toyofuku
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Oceanography
Christophe Fontanier, Briony Mamo, Samuel Toucanne, Germain Bayon, Sabine Schmidt, Bruno Deflandre, Bernard Dennielou, Gwenael Jouet, Eline Garnier, Saburo Sakai, Ruth Martinez Lamas, Pauline Duros, Takashi Toyofuku, Aurelien Sale, Deborah Belleney, Sabrina Bichon, Audrey Boissier, Sandrine Cheron, Mathilde Pitel, Angelique Roubi, Mickael Rovere, Antoine Gremare, Stephanie Dupre, Stephan J. Jorry
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Environmental Sciences
Laurie M. Charrieau, Helena L. Filipsson, Yukiko Nagai, Sachiko Kawada, Karl Ljung, Emma Kritzberg, Takashi Toyofuku
MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2018)
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Weipeng Zhang, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, Wei Ding, Yi Lan, Ren-Mao Tian, Jin Sun, Chong Chen, Lin Cai, Yongxin Li, Kazumasa Oguri, Takashi Toyofuku, Hiroshi Kitazato, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Douglas Bartlett, Pei-Yuan Qian
APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2019)
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Genetics & Heredity
Robert Cardoso de Freitas, Helena Isabel Ferreira Marques, Marcus Adonai Castro da Silva, Angelica Cavalett, Estacio Jussie Odisi, Bianca Linhares da Silva, Jessica Engel Montemor, Takashi Toyofuku, Chiaki Kato, Katsunori Fujikura, Hiroshi Kitazato, Andre Oliveira de Souza Lima
Review
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Hodaka Kawahata, Kazuhiko Fujita, Akira Iguchi, Mayuri Inoue, Shinya Iwasaki, Azumi Kuroyanagi, Ayumi Maeda, Takuya Manaka, Kazuyoshi Moriya, Haruka Takagi, Takashi Toyofuku, Toshihiro Yoshimura, Atsushi Suzuki
PROGRESS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE
(2019)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jun Kawano, Takashi Toyofuku, Kaede Nishimura, Akiyuki Ueda, Yukiko Nagai, Sachiko Kawada, Henry Teng, Takaya Nagai
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
(2019)
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Geochemistry & Geophysics
Ayumi Maeda, Toshihiro Yoshimura, Daisuke Araoka, Atsushi Suzuki, Yusuke Tamenori, Kazuhiko Fujita, Takashi Toyofuku, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Hodaka Kawahata
GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS
(2019)
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Environmental Sciences
F. Frontalini, M. T. Losada, T. Toyofuku, J. Tyszka, J. Golen, L. de Nooijer, B. Canonico, E. Cesarini, Y. Nagai, U. Bickmeyer, T. Ikuta, R. Tsubaki, C. Besteiro Rodriguez, E. Al Enezi, S. Papa, R. Coccioni, J. Bijma, J. M. Bernhard
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(2019)
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Biology
Chong Chen, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, Yukiko Nagai, Takashi Toyofuku, Ting Xu, Jin Sun, Jian-Wen Qiu, Takenori Sasaki
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Marine & Freshwater Biology
Akihisa Kitamura, Yuka Yamamoto, Kazuyoshi Yamada, Atsushi Kubo, Takashi Toyofuku, Yuki Nakagawa
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(2019)
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Environmental Sciences
Yukiko Nagai, Katsuyuki Uematsu, Ryoji Wani, Takashi Toyofuku
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2018)
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(2019)