Expanding archaeal diversity and phylogeny: past, present, and future

G Tahon, P Geesink, TJG Ettema - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The discovery of the Archaea is a major scientific hallmark of the twentieth century. Since
then, important features of their cell biology, physiology, ecology, and diversity have been …

Evolution of microbial genomics: conceptual shifts over a quarter century

EV Koonin, KS Makarova, YI Wolf - Trends in microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
Prokaryote genomics started in earnest in 1995, with the complete sequences of two small
bacterial genomes, those of Haemophilus influenzae and Mycoplasma genitalium. During …

A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database

C Rinke, M Chuvochina, AJ Mussig, PA Chaumeil… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The accrual of genomic data from both cultured and uncultured microorganisms provides
new opportunities to develop systematic taxonomies based on evolutionary relationships …

A rooted phylogeny resolves early bacterial evolution

GA Coleman, AA Davín, TA Mahendrarajah… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Bacteria are the most diverse and abundant cellular organisms on Earth,
and in recent years environmental genomics has revealed the existence of an enormous …

ATP synthase evolution on a cross-braced dated tree of life

TA Mahendrarajah, ERR Moody, D Schrempf… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The timing of early cellular evolution, from the divergence of Archaea and Bacteria to the
origin of eukaryotes, is poorly constrained. The ATP synthase complex is thought to have …

Genome-centric metagenomics insights into functional divergence and horizontal gene transfer of denitrifying bacteria in anammox consortia

D Wang, Y Meng, F Meng - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Denitrifying bacteria with high abundances in anammox communities play crucial roles in
achieving stable anammox-based systems. Despite the relative constant composition of …

An estimate of the deepest branches of the tree of life from ancient vertically evolving genes

ERR Moody, TA Mahendrarajah, N Dombrowski… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Core gene phylogenies provide a window into early evolution, but different gene sets and
analytical methods have yielded substantially different views of the tree of life. Trees inferred …

Comparative genomic analysis reveals metabolic flexibility of Woesearchaeota

WC Huang, Y Liu, X Zhang, CJ Zhang, D Zou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The archaeal phylum Woesearchaeota, within the DPANN superphylum, includes
phylogenetically diverse microorganisms that inhabit various environments. Their biology is …

Functional differentiation determines the molecular basis of the symbiotic lifestyle of Ca. Nanohaloarchaeota

YG Xie, ZH Luo, BZ Fang, JY Jiao, QJ Xie, XR Cao… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Candidatus Nanohaloarchaeota, an archaeal phylum within the
DPANN superphylum, is characterized by limited metabolic capabilities and limited …

Parameter estimation and species tree rooting using ALE and GeneRax

TA Williams, AA Davín, B Morel… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ALE and GeneRax are tools for probabilistic gene tree–species tree reconciliation. Based on
a common underlying statistical model of how gene trees evolve along species trees, these …