Microbial diversity and adaptive strategies in the Mars‐like Qaidam Basin, North Tibetan Plateau, China

Multiple energy sources and metabolic strategies sustain microbial diversity in Antarctic desert soils

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Comparitive Study of the Geomorphological Characteristics of Valley Networks between Mars and the Qaidam Basin

(2021) Lu Chen et al.   Remote Sensing

A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea

(2020) Donovan H. Parks et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Precise phylogenetic analysis of microbial isolates and genomes from metagenomes using PhyloPhlAn 3.0

(2020) Francesco Asnicar et al.   Nature Communications

Diverse Bacterial Communities From Qaidam Basin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: Insights Into Variations in Bacterial Diversity Across Different Regions

(2020) Wei Zhang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments

(2019) Ivica Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

(2019) Evan Bolyen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

MetaBAT 2: an adaptive binning algorithm for robust and efficient genome reconstruction from metagenome assemblies

(2019) Dongwan D. Kang et al.   PeerJ

Linking high GC content to the repair of double strand breaks in prokaryotic genomes

(2019) Jake L. Weissman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Dalangtan Saline Playa in a Hyperarid Region on Tibet Plateau-I: Evolution and Environments

(2018) Fanjing Kong et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Coevolution of Life and Environment on Mars: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Robotic Exploration of Biosignatures

(2018) Nathalie A. Cabrol   ASTROBIOLOGY

Potential for primary productivity in a globally-distributed bacterial phototroph

(2018) E. D. Graham et al.   ISME Journal

Expanded diversity of microbial groups that shape the dissimilatory sulfur cycle

(2018) Karthik Anantharaman et al.   ISME Journal

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

Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin

(2018) Nicholas A. Bokulich et al.   Microbiome

Current understanding of sulfur assimilation metabolism to biosynthesize l-cysteine and recent progress of its fermentative overproduction in microorganisms

(2018) Yusuke Kawano et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Dalangtan Playa (Qaidam Basin, NW China): Its microbial life and physicochemical characteristics and their astrobiological implications

(2018) Ting Huang et al.   PLoS One

MetaWRAP—a flexible pipeline for genome-resolved metagenomic data analysis

(2018) Gherman V. Uritskiy et al.   Microbiome

metaSPAdes: a new versatile metagenomic assembler

(2017) Sergey Nurk et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil

(2017) Mukan Ji et al.   NATURE

The western Qaidam Basin as a potential Martian environmental analogue: An overview

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Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

(2017) Donovan H. Parks et al.   Nature Microbiology

Significant Impacts of Increasing Aridity on the Arid Soil Microbiome

(2017) Julia W. Neilson et al.   mSystems

Deblur Rapidly Resolves Single-Nucleotide Community Sequence Patterns

(2017) Amnon Amir et al.   mSystems

Nearing the cold-arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica

(2016) Jacqueline Goordial et al.   ISME Journal

Fast and sensitive taxonomic classification for metagenomics with Kaiju

(2016) Peter Menzel et al.   Nature Communications

Cold Shock Proteins: A Minireview with Special Emphasis on Csp-family of Enteropathogenic Yersinia

(2016) Riikka Keto-Timonen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Actinobacteria from Arid and Desert Habitats: Diversity and Biological Activity

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Temporal dynamics of hot desert microbial communities reveal structural and functional responses to water input

(2016) Alacia Armstrong et al.   Scientific Reports

MaxBin 2.0: an automated binning algorithm to recover genomes from multiple metagenomic datasets

(2015) Yu-Wei Wu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

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

Improved Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene (V4 and V4-5) and Fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer Marker Gene Primers for Microbial Community Surveys

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Sulfate-bearing deposits at Dalangtan Playa and their implication for the formation and preservation of martian salts

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hypDas a Marker for [NiFe]-Hydrogenases in Microbial Communities of Surface Waters

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(2014) Wolfgang Lubitz et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Binning metagenomic contigs by coverage and composition

(2014) Johannes Alneberg et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

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

Colonization patterns of soil microbial communities in the Atacama Desert

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Life at the hyperarid margin: novel bacterial diversity in arid soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2012) Julia W. Neilson et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Enzymatic Characterization of AMP Phosphorylase and Ribose-1,5-Bisphosphate Isomerase Functioning in an Archaeal AMP Metabolic Pathway

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FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies

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Astrobiology through the Ages of Mars: The Study of Terrestrial Analogues to Understand the Habitability of Mars

(2010) Alberto G. Fairén et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Regulatory and DNA Repair Genes Contribute to the Desiccation Resistance of Sinorhizobium meliloti Rm1021

(2008) J. L. Humann et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY