An introduction to the analysis of shotgun metagenomic data

TJ Sharpton - Frontiers in plant science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Environmental DNA sequencing has revealed the expansive biodiversity of microorganisms
and clarified the relationship between host-associated microbial communities and host …

Thermophiles in the genomic era: Biodiversity, science, and applications

MS Urbieta, ER Donati, KG Chan, S Shahar… - Biotechnology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermophiles and hyperthermophiles are present in various regions of the Earth, including
volcanic environments, hot springs, mud pots, fumaroles, geysers, coastal thermal springs …

Genomic inference of the metabolism and evolution of the archaeal phylum Aigarchaeota

ZS Hua, YN Qu, Q Zhu, EM Zhou, YL Qi, YR Yin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Microbes of the phylum Aigarchaeota are widely distributed in geothermal environments, but
their physiological and ecological roles are poorly understood. Here we analyze six …

Diversity of thermophiles in a Malaysian hot spring determined using 16S rRNA and shotgun metagenome sequencing

CS Chan, KG Chan, YL Tay, YH Chua… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The Sungai Klah (SK) hot spring is the second hottest geothermal spring in Malaysia. This
hot spring is a shallow, 150-m-long, fast-flowing stream, with temperatures varying from 50 …

Determining the reliability of measuring mercury cycling gene abundance with correlations with mercury and methylmercury concentrations

GA Christensen, CM Gionfriddo, AJ King… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Methylmercury (MeHg) is a bioaccumulative toxic contaminant in many ecosystems, but
factors governing its production are poorly understood. Recent work has shown that the …

Metagenomic analysis of hot springs in Central India reveals hydrocarbon degrading thermophiles and pathways essential for survival in extreme environments

R Saxena, DB Dhakan, P Mittal, P Waiker… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Extreme ecosystems such as hot springs are of great interest as a source of novel
extremophilic species, enzymes, metabolic functions for survival and biotechnological …

Seasonal variations in culturable archaea and their plant growth promoting attributes to predict their role in establishment of vegetation in Rann of Kutch

AN Yadav, S Gulati, D Sharma, RN Singh… - Biologia, 2019 - Springer
Archaea are unique microorganisms that are present in ecological niches of high
temperature, pH and high salinity. Archaea may be present freely or associated with plant …

MCycDB: a curated database for comprehensively profiling methane cycling processes of environmental microbiomes

L Qian, X Yu, J Zhou, H Gu, J Ding… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Methane is a critical greenhouse gas with significant impacts on environmental and global
change. However, CH4 cycling processes and coupling mechanisms with the …

New Insights into the Ecology and Physiology of Methanomassiliicoccales from Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments

M Cozannet, G Borrel, E Roussel, Y Moalic, M Allioux… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Members of the archaeal order Methanomassiliicoccales are methanogens mainly
associated with animal digestive tracts. However, environmental members remain poorly …

Psychrotrophic microbiomes: molecular diversity and beneficial role in plant growth promotion and soil health

AN Yadav, P Verma, SG Sachan, R Kaushik… - … for Green Revolution …, 2018 - Springer
Prospecting the cold habitats has led to the isolation of a great diversity of psychrotrophic
microbes belonging to different groups. The cold-adapted microbes have potential …