Energetic Basis of Microbial Growth and Persistence in Desert Ecosystems

Molecular hydrogen, a neglected key driver of soil biogeochemical processes

(2019) Sarah Piché-Choquette et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Uncovering the Uncultivated Majority in Antarctic Soils: Toward a Synergistic Approach

(2019) Sam Lambrechts et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-Analog Environment

(2019) Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bioinformatics Analysis of Metabolism Pathways of Archaeal Energy Reserves

(2019) Liang Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Two Chloroflexi classes independently evolved the ability to persist on atmospheric hydrogen and carbon monoxide

(2019) Zahra F. Islam et al.   ISME Journal

Spore forming Actinobacterial diversity of Cholistan Desert Pakistan: Polyphasic taxonomy, antimicrobial potential and chemical profiling

(2019) Adeela Fatima et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Seasonal and spatial variability in total and active bacterial communities from desert soil

(2019) C. Baubin et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Habitat-dependent composition of bacterial and fungal communities in biological soil crusts from Oman

(2019) Raeid M. M. Abed et al.   Scientific Reports

Atmospheric carbon monoxide oxidation is a widespread mechanism supporting microbial survival

(2019) Paul R. F. Cordero et al.   ISME Journal

Bacteroidetes use thousands of enzyme combinations to break down glycans

(2019) Pascal Lapébie et al.   Nature Communications

Actinobacteria and Cyanobacteria Diversity in Terrestrial Antarctic Microenvironments Evaluated by Culture-Dependent and Independent Methods

(2019) Adriana Rego et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The impact of fog on soil moisture dynamics in the Namib Desert

(2018) Bonan Li et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Cyanobacterial Diversity in the Soils of Russian Dry Steppes and Semideserts

(2018) A. D. Temraleeva   MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity of key genes for carbon and nitrogen fixation in soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

(2018) Guillaume Tahon et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

(2018) Dirk Schulze-Makuch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Linking soil biology and chemistry in biological soil crust using isolate exometabolomics

(2018) Tami L. Swenson et al.   Nature Communications

Life in Dry Soils: Effects of Drought on Soil Microbial Communities and Processes

(2018) Joshua P. Schimel   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Evidence of microbial rhodopsins in Antarctic Dry Valley edaphic systems

(2017) Leandro D. Guerrero et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil

(2017) Mukan Ji et al.   NATURE

Xerotolerant bacteria: surviving through a dry spell

(2017) Pedro H. Lebre et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Isolation and characterization of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs from exposed soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

(2017) Guillaume Tahon et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Root Water Uptake and Ideotypes of the Root System: Whole-Plant Controls Matter

(2017) Francois Tardieu et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Volcanic Soils as Sources of Novel CO-Oxidizing Paraburkholderia and Burkholderia: Paraburkholderia hiiakae sp. nov., Paraburkholderia metrosideri sp. nov., Paraburkholderia paradisi sp. nov., Paraburkholderia peleae sp. nov., and Burkholderia alpina sp. nov. a Member of the Burkholderia cepacia Complex

(2017) Carolyn F. Weber et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Significant Impacts of Increasing Aridity on the Arid Soil Microbiome

(2017) Julia W. Neilson et al.   mSystems

Microbial community response to hydration-desiccation cycles in desert soil

(2017) Adam Šťovíček et al.   Scientific Reports

Bacterial community dissimilarity between the surface and subsurface soils equals horizontal differences over several kilometers in the western Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Haiyan Chu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Isolation and characterization of Acidobacterium ailaaui sp. nov., a novel member of Acidobacteria subdivision 1, from a geothermally heated Hawaiian microbial mat

(2016)   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

A tale of two methane monooxygenases

(2016) Matthew O. Ross et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology

(2016) Jarone Pinhassi et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Niche Filtering of Bacteria in Soil and Rock Habitats of the Colorado Plateau Desert, Utah, USA

(2016) Kevin C. Lee et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Diversity of Phototrophic Genes Suggests Multiple Bacteria May Be Able to Exploit Sunlight in Exposed Soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

(2016) Guillaume Tahon et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Geological connectivity drives microbial community structure and connectivity in polar, terrestrial ecosystems

(2015) Belinda C. Ferrari et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Simulated soil crust conditions in a chamber system provide new insights on cyanobacterial acclimation to desiccation

(2015) Hagai Raanan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial Diversity in Soil, Sand Dune and Rock Substrates of the Thar Monsoon Desert, India

(2015) Subramanya Rao et al.   INDIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic and metagenomic surveys of hydrogenase distribution indicate H2 is a widely utilised energy source for microbial growth and survival

(2015) Chris Greening et al.   ISME Journal

Analysis of cbbL, nifH, and pufLM in Soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, Antarctica, Reveals a Large Diversity of Autotrophic and Phototrophic Bacteria

(2015) Guillaume Tahon et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Persistence of the dominant soil phylumAcidobacteriaby trace gas scavenging

(2015) Chris Greening et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carbon monoxide as a metabolic energy source for extremely halophilic microbes: Implications for microbial activity in Mars regolith

(2015) Gary M. King   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil–methane sink increases with soil age in forefields of Alpine glaciers

(2015) Eleonora Chiri et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria

(2015) Richard Baran et al.   Nature Communications

Evidence for photochemical production of reactive oxygen species in desert soils

(2015) Christos D. Georgiou et al.   Nature Communications

Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change

(2015) Jianping Huang et al.   Nature Climate Change

Isolation of a significant fraction of non-phototroph diversity from a desert Biological Soil Crust

(2015) Ulisses Nunes da Rocha et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Namib Desert dune/interdune transects exhibit habitat-specific edaphic bacterial communities

(2015) Sandra Ronca et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Breathing air to save energy - new insights into the ecophysiological role of high-affinity [NiFe]-hydrogenase in Streptomyces avermitilis

(2015) Quentin Liot et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Air-Adapted Methanosarcina acetivorans Shows High Methane Production and Develops Resistance against Oxygen Stress

(2015) Ricardo Jasso-Chávez et al.   PLoS One

Description of Thermogemmatispora carboxidivorans sp. nov., a carbon-monoxide-oxidizing member of the class Ktedonobacteria isolated from a geothermally heated biofilm, and analysis of carbon monoxide oxidation by members of the class Ktedonobacteria

(2014) C. E. King et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Spatial distribution of microbial communities associated with dune landform in the Gurbantunggut Desert, China

(2014) Ruyin Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Functional type 2 photosynthetic reaction centers found in the rare bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes

(2014) Y. Zeng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A soil actinobacterium scavenges atmospheric H2 using two membrane-associated, oxygen-dependent [NiFe] hydrogenases

(2014) C. Greening et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complete genome sequence of the Radiation-Resistant bacterium Rubrobacter radiotolerans RSPS-4

(2014) C. Egas et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

The ecological dichotomy of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in the hyper-arid soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys

(2014) Catarina M. Magalhães et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Metagenomic evidence for metabolism of trace atmospheric gases by high-elevation desert Actinobacteria

(2014) Ryan C. Lynch et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Growth and death of bacteria and fungi underlie rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses from seasonally dried soil

(2013) Steven J. Blazewicz et al.   ECOLOGY

Elucidating the microbial resuscitation cascade in biological soil crusts following a simulated rain event

(2013) Roey Angel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Does dissolved organic carbon regulate biological methane oxidation in semiarid soils?

(2013) Benjamin W. Sullivan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust

(2013) Lara Rajeev et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial Diversity of Surface Sand Samples from the Gobi and Taklamaken Deserts

(2013) Shu An et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Microbial life under extreme energy limitation

(2013) Tori M. Hoehler et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

High Bacterial Diversity of Biological Soil Crusts in Water Tracks over Permafrost in the High Arctic Polar Desert

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   PLoS One

Response of osmolytes in soil to drying and rewetting

(2013) Charles R. Warren   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Consumption of atmospheric hydrogen during the life cycle of soil-dwelling actinobacteria

(2013) Laura K. Meredith et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Methanogens at the top of the world: occurrence and potential activity of methanogens in newly deglaciated soils in high-altitude cold deserts in the Western Himalayas

(2013) Katrin Aschenbach et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Colonization patterns of soil microbial communities in the Atacama Desert

(2013) Alexander Crits-Christoph et al.   Microbiome

Proteomic Analysis of Survival of Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 during Carbon Starvation

(2012) Marianna A. Patrauchan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Inorganic polyphosphates in extremophiles and their possible functions

(2012) Alvaro Orell et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Growing season in situ uptake of atmospheric methane by desert soils in a semiarid region of northern China

(2012) Long-Yu Hou et al.   GEODERMA

Hydration dynamics promote bacterial coexistence on rough surfaces

(2012) Gang Wang et al.   ISME Journal

Global abundance of microbial rhodopsins

(2012) Omri M Finkel et al.   ISME Journal

Influence of geogenic factors on microbial communities in metallogenic Australian soils

(2012) Frank Reith et al.   ISME Journal

Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

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

Function and Regulation of Vibrio campbellii Proteorhodopsin: Acquired Phototrophy in a Classical Organoheterotroph

(2012) Zheng Wang et al.   PLoS One

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

(2012) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom

(2012) H. Teeling et al.   SCIENCE

Static osmolyte concentrations in microbial biomass during seasonal drought in a California grassland

(2012) Claudia M. Boot et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial community response to varying magnitudes of desiccation in soil: A test of the osmolyte accumulation hypothesis

(2012) Madhavi L. Kakumanu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Desiccation as a Long-Term Survival Mechanism for the Archaeon Methanosarcina barkeri

(2011) Kimberly L. Anderson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Data Mining and Soil Survey for the Novel Group 5 [NiFe]-Hydrogenase To Explore the Diversity and Ecological Importance of Presumptive High-Affinity H2-Oxidizing Bacteria

(2011) Philippe Constant et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Greenhouse gas fluxes from Atacama Desert soils: a test of biogeochemical potential at the Earth’s arid extreme

(2011) Steven J. Hall et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

The Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey: the ecology of Dry Valley edaphic microbial communities

(2011) Charles K Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Proteomic insights into the lifestyle of an environmentally relevant marine bacterium

(2011) Joseph Alexander Christie-Oleza et al.   ISME Journal

Methanogenic archaea are globally ubiquitous in aerated soils and become active under wet anoxic conditions

(2011) Roey Angel et al.   ISME Journal

Oxidative Stress Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans

(2011) D. Slade et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy

(2011) Jay T. Lennon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Activation of Methanogenesis in Arid Biological Soil Crusts Despite the Presence of Oxygen

(2011) Roey Angel et al.   PLoS One

Energy Starved Candidatus Pelagibacter Ubique Substitutes Light-Mediated ATP Production for Endogenous Carbon Respiration

(2011) Laura Steindler et al.   PLoS One

Desert Farming Benefits from Microbial Potential in Arid Soils and Promotes Diversity and Plant Health

(2011) Martina Köberl et al.   PLoS One

The Cyst-Dividing Bacterium Ramlibacter tataouinensis TTB310 Genome Reveals a Well-Stocked Toolbox for Adaptation to a Desert Environment

(2011) Gilles De Luca et al.   PLoS One

Microbial biosynthesis of wax esters during desiccation: Adaptation for colonization of the earliest terrestrial environments?

(2010) David B. Finkelstein et al.   GEOLOGY

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

(2010) S. Craig Cary et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Small-Molecule Antioxidant Proteome-Shields in Deinococcus radiodurans

(2010) Michael J. Daly et al.   PLoS One

A new environment for aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria: biological soil crusts

(2010) Julius T. Csotonyi et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Proteorhodopsin Phototrophy Promotes Survival of Marine Bacteria during Starvation

(2010) Laura Gómez-Consarnau et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

In situmeasurement of methane fluxes and analysis of transcribed particulate methane monooxygenase in desert soils

(2009) Roey Angel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Streptomycetes contributing to atmospheric molecular hydrogen soil uptake are widespread and encode a putative high-affinity [NiFe]-hydrogenase

(2009) Philippe Constant et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

In situ measures of methanotroph activity in upland soils: A reaction-diffusion model and field observation of water stress

(2009) Joseph C. von Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Influence of dew on biomass and photosystem II activity of cyanobacterial crusts in the Hopq Desert, northwest China

(2009) Benqiang Rao et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Isolation of Streptomyces sp. PCB7, the first microorganism demonstrating high-affinity uptake of tropospheric H2

(2008) Philippe Constant et al.   ISME Journal

Characterization of the water soluble soil organic pool following the rewetting of dry soil in a drought-prone tallgrass prairie

(2008) Mark A. Williams et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY