An evolving view of methane metabolism in the Archaea

PN Evans, JA Boyd, AO Leu, BJ Woodcroft… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Methane is a key compound in the global carbon cycle that influences both nutrient cycling
and the Earth's climate. A limited number of microorganisms control the flux of biologically …

Bioinformatic approaches for studying the microbiome of fermented food

LH Walsh, M Coakley, AM Walsh… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
High-throughput DNA sequencing-based approaches continue to revolutionise our
understanding of microbial ecosystems, including those associated with fermented foods …

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

M Ortiz, PM Leung, G Shelley… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Numerous diverse microorganisms reside in the cold desert soils of continental Antarctica,
though we lack a holistic understanding of the metabolic processes that sustain them. Here …

Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost

BJ Woodcroft, CM Singleton, JA Boyd, PN Evans… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
As global temperatures rise, large amounts of carbon sequestered in permafrost are
becoming available for microbial degradation. Accurate prediction of carbon gas emissions …

Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae

AO Leu, C Cai, SJ McIlroy, G Southam… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is a major biological process that reduces global
methane emission to the atmosphere. Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) mediate …

Chemotaxis shapes the microscale organization of the ocean's microbiome

JB Raina, BS Lambert, DH Parks, C Rinke, N Siboni… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The capacity of planktonic marine microorganisms to actively seek out and exploit
microscale chemical hotspots has been widely theorized to affect ocean-basin scale …

Phylogenetically and catabolically diverse diazotrophs reside in deep-sea cold seep sediments

X Dong, C Zhang, Y Peng, HX Zhang, LD Shi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbially mediated nitrogen cycling in carbon-dominated cold seep environments remains
poorly understood. So far anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME-2) and their sulfate …

A genomic view of the reef-building coral Porites lutea and its microbial symbionts

SJ Robbins, CM Singleton, CX Chan, LF Messer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Corals and the reef ecosystems that they support are in global decline due to increasing
anthropogenic pressures such as climate change. However, effective reef conservation …

Microplastics drive microbial assembly, their interactions, and metagenomic functions in two soils with distinct pH and heavy metal availability

J Meng, W Li, C Diao, Z Li, J Zhao, G Haider… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) have emerged as widely existing global environmental concerns in
terrestrial ecosystems. However, the mechanisms that how MPs are affecting soil microbes …

Plant microbiomes harbor potential to promote nutrient turnover in impoverished substrates of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot

AP Camargo, RSC de Souza, J Jose… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The substrates of the Brazilian campos rupestre s, a grassland ecosystem, have extremely
low concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen, imposing restrictions to plant growth …