Shedding light on microbial dark matter: a TM6 bacterium as natural endosymbiont of a free-living amoeba

Babela massiliensis, a representative of a widespread bacterial phylum with unusual adaptations to parasitism in amoebae

(2015) Isabelle Pagnier et al.   Biology Direct

A R ickettsiales symbiont of amoebae with ancient features

(2015) Frederik Schulz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Quantitative proteomic analysis reveals a simple strategy of global resource allocation in bacteria

(2015) S. Hui et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

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

(2015) Christopher T. Brown et al.   NATURE

Diverse uncultivated ultra-small bacterial cells in groundwater

(2015) Birgit Luef et al.   Nature Communications

First Evidence of Amoebae–Mycobacteria Association in Drinking Water Network

(2014) Vincent Delafont et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Encystment of Vermamoeba (Hartmannella) vermiformis: Effects of environmental conditions and cell concentration

(2014) Emilie Fouque et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Life in an unusual intracellular niche: a bacterial symbiont infecting the nucleus of amoebae

(2014) Frederik Schulz et al.   ISME Journal

Morphological Study of the Encystment and Excystment ofVermamoeba vermiformisRevealed Original Traits

(2014) Emilie Fouque et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Amoebal Endosymbiont Neochlamydia Genome Sequence Illuminates the Bacterial Role in the Defense of the Host Amoebae against Legionella pneumophila

(2014) Kasumi Ishida et al.   PLoS One

Cultivation of a human-associated TM7 phylotype reveals a reduced genome and epibiotic parasitic lifestyle

(2014) Xuesong He et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter

(2013) Christian Rinke et al.   NATURE

Candidate phylum TM6 genome recovered from a hospital sink biofilm provides genomic insights into this uncultivated phylum

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

“Candidatus Sonnebornia yantaiensis”, a member of candidate division OD1, as intracellular bacteria of the ciliated protist Paramecium bursaria (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea)

(2013) Jun Gong et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiome of free-living amoebae isolated from drinking water

(2013) Vincent Delafont et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Small Genomes and Sparse Metabolisms of Sediment-Associated Bacteria from Four Candidate Phyla

(2013) R. S. Kantor et al.   mBio

Cellular, Biochemical, and Molecular Changes during Encystment of Free-Living Amoebae

(2012) Emilie Fouque et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Are Uncultivated Bacteria Really Uncultivable?

(2012) Indun Dewi Puspita et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Proteomic aspects of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae infection in Acanthamoeba spp.

(2010) David Leitsch et al.   ISME Journal

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Diversity of Bacterial Endosymbionts of Environmental Acanthamoeba Isolates

(2008) S. Schmitz-Esser et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biodiversity of amoebae and amoebae-resisting bacteria in a drinking water treatment plant

(2008) Vincent Thomas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY