Metagenomic comparisons reveal a highly diverse and unique viral community in a seasonally fluctuating hypersaline microbial mat

AM Cisneros-Martínez, LE Eguiarte… - Microbial …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
In spring 2016, a shallow hypersaline pond (50× 25 m) was found in the Cuatro Cienegas
Basin (CCB). This pond, known as Archaean Domes (AD) because of its elastic microbial …

Disentangling a metabolic cross-feeding in a halophilic archaea-bacteria consortium

NO Medina-Chávez, A Torres-Cerda… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microbial syntrophy, a cooperative metabolic interaction among prokaryotes, serves a critical
role in shaping communities, due to the auxotrophic nature of many microorganisms …

Extraordinary concentrations of local endemism associated with arid-land springs

RJ Fensham, WF Ponder, V Souza… - … in Environmental Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: While the biodiversity value of springs is recognised, it has not been
systematically compiled. The aim of the current study is to highlight the extraordinary …

Uncovering novel bacterial and archaeal diversity: genomic insights from metagenome-assembled genomes in Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila

UE Rodríguez-Cruz, HG Castelán-Sánchez… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
A comprehensive study was conducted in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin (CCB) in Coahuila,
Mexico, which is known for its diversity of microorganisms and unique physicochemical …

Comparative evaluation of bioinformatic tools for virus-host prediction and their application to a highly diverse community in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, Mexico

AM Cisneros-Martínez, UE Rodriguez-Cruz… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Due to the enormous diversity of non-culturable viruses, new viruses must be characterized
using culture-independent techniques. The associated host is an important phenotypic …

Alkali-Resistant Filamentous Fungi of the Coastal Zone of the Dauria Saline Lakes

ML Georgieva, SA Bondarenko, NN Markelova… - … Problems of Ecology, 2023 - Springer
The study of alkali-resistant fungi has been carried out for the first time on the coast of saline
lakes in the south of the Trans-Baikal region on the territory of the Daursky Biosphere …

MicNet toolbox: Visualizing and unraveling a microbial network

N Favila, D Madrigal-Trejo, D Legorreta… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Applications of network theory to microbial ecology are an emerging and promising
approach to understanding both global and local patterns in the structure and interplay of …

Metagenomic insight into taxonomic composition, environmental filtering and functional redundancy for shaping worldwide modern non-lithifying microbial mats

MV Jasso, M García-Ulloa, I Zapata-Peñasco… - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Modern microbial mats are relictual communities mostly found in extreme environments
worldwide. Despite their significance as representatives of the ancestral Earth and their …

Unveiling local radiation events through metagenome assembled genomes of archaea and bacteria in hypersaline microbial mats from the Archean Domes Site …

UEE Rodríguez Cruz Sr, HG Castelán-Sánchez Sr… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
A comprehensive study was conducted in the Cuatro Cienegas Basin (CCB) in Coahuila,
Mexico, known for its remarkable microbiological diversity and unique physicochemical …

Metagenomic insight into taxonomic composition, environmental filtering, and functional redundancy for shaping worldwide modern microbial mats

M Viladomat, M García-Ulloa, I Zapata-Peñasco… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Although microbial mats are considered relictual communities that are nowadays mostly
constrained in their distribution by predation and phosphorus availability, they are still found …