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Composition and origin of lipid biomarkers in the surface sediments from the southern Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench

(2018) Hong-Xiang Guan et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

A nearly uniform distributional pattern of heterotrophic bacteria in the Mariana Trench interior

(2018) Jiwei Tian et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Provenances, distribution, and accumulation of organic matter in the southern Mariana Trench rim and slope: Implication for carbon cycle and burial in hadal trenches

(2017) Min Luo et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Simulations predict microbial responses in the environment? This environment disagrees retrospectively

(2017) Tom O. Delmont et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simulation ofDeepwater Horizonoil plume reveals substrate specialization within a complex community of hydrocarbon degraders

(2017) Ping Hu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An algal photoenzyme converts fatty acids to hydrocarbons

(2017) Damien Sorigué et al.   SCIENCE

Potential Environmental Factors Affecting Oil-Degrading Bacterial Populations in Deep and Surface Waters of the Northern Gulf of Mexico

(2017) Jiqing Liu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Community structure and diversity of scavenging amphipods from bathyal to hadal depths in three South Pacific Trenches

(2016) Nichola C. Lacey et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Distribution and Niche Separation of Planktonic Microbial Communities in the Water Columns from the Surface to the Hadal Waters of the Japan Trench under the Eutrophic Ocean

(2016) Takuro Nunoura et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A comprehensive method for amplicon-based and metagenomic characterization of viruses, bacteria, and eukaryotes in freshwater samples

(2016) Miguel I. Uyaguari-Diaz et al.   Microbiome

Single Cells within the Puerto Rico Trench Suggest Hadal Adaptation of Microbial Lineages

(2015) Rosa León-Zayas et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Contribution of cyanobacterial alkane production to the ocean hydrocarbon cycle

(2015) David J. Lea-Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hadal biosphere: Insight into the microbial ecosystem in the deepest ocean on Earth

(2015) Takuro Nunoura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MetaBAT, an efficient tool for accurately reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities

(2015) Dongwan D. Kang et al.   PeerJ

Ecophysiological diversity of a novel member of the genus Alteromonas, and description of Alteromonas mediterranea sp. nov.

(2014) Elena P. Ivanova et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The long-chain alkane metabolism network of Alcanivorax dieselolei

(2014) Wanpeng Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Intragenomic Heterogeneity of 16S rRNA Genes Causes Overestimation of Prokaryotic Diversity

(2013) Dong-Lei Sun et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Novel hydrocarbon monooxygenase genes in the metatranscriptome of a natural deep-sea hydrocarbon plume

(2013) Meng Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Transcriptional response of bathypelagic marine bacterioplankton to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

(2013) Adam R Rivers et al.   ISME Journal

Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria enriched by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill identified by cultivation and DNA-SIP

(2013) Tony Gutierrez et al.   ISME Journal

So, How DeepIsthe Mariana Trench?

(2013) James V. Gardner et al.   MARINE GEODESY

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST)

(2013) Ross Overbeek et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

PhyloPhlAn is a new method for improved phylogenetic and taxonomic placement of microbes

(2013) Nicola Segata et al.   Nature Communications

IDBA-UD: a de novo assembler for single-cell and metagenomic sequencing data with highly uneven depth

(2012) Y. Peng et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Metagenome, metatranscriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal microbial response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill

(2012) Olivia U Mason et al.   ISME Journal

SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler

(2012) Ruibang Luo et al.   GigaScience

Multiple alkane hydroxylase systems in a marine alkane degrader, Alcanivorax dieselolei B-5

(2011) Chenli Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Natural gas and temperature structured a microbial community response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

(2011) M. C. Redmond et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oleibacter marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a bacterium that degrades petroleum aliphatic hydrocarbons in a tropical marine environment

(2010) M. Teramoto et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Ab initio gene identification in metagenomic sequences

(2010) Wenhan Zhu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Deep-Sea Oil Plume Enriches Indigenous Oil-Degrading Bacteria

(2010) Terry C. Hazen et al.   SCIENCE

Propane Respiration Jump-Starts Microbial Response to a Deep Oil Spill

(2010) David L. Valentine et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes

(2010) A. Schirmer et al.   SCIENCE

Compositional differences in particle-associated and free-living microbial assemblages from an extreme deep-ocean environment

(2010) Emiley A. Eloe et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Hydrogen-isotopic variability in lipids from Santa Barbara Basin sediments

(2009) Chao Li et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Large D/H variations in bacterial lipids reflect central metabolic pathways

(2009) X. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earthquake evidence for along-arc extension in the Mariana Islands

(2008) David S. Heeszel et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Biogeography of the ubiquitous marine bacteriumAlteromonas macleodiidetermined by multilocus sequence analysis

(2008) ELENA IVARS-MARTÍNEZ et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY