Large-scale phylogenomics of aquatic bacteria reveal molecular mechanisms for adaptation to salinity

KT Jurdzinski, M Mehrshad, LF Delgado, Z Deng… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The crossing of environmental barriers poses major adaptive challenges. Rareness of
freshwater-marine transitions separates the bacterial communities, but how these are …

Habitat transition in the evolution of bacteria and archaea

AL Jaffe, CJ Castelle, JF Banfield - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Related groups of microbes are widely distributed across Earth's habitats, implying
numerous dispersal and adaptation events over evolutionary time. However, relatively little …

Phylogenetic divergence and adaptation of Nitrososphaeria across lake depths and freshwater ecosystems

M Ren, J Wang - The ISME Journal, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Thaumarchaeota (now the class Nitrososphaeria in the phylum Thermoproteota in GTDB
taxonomy) are abundant across marine and soil habitats; however, their genomic diversity …

Closed genomes uncover a saltwater species of Candidatus Electronema and shed new light on the boundary between marine and freshwater cable bacteria

M Sereika, F Petriglieri, TBN Jensen… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cable bacteria of the Desulfobulbaceae family are centimeter-long filamentous bacteria,
which are capable of conducting long-distance electron transfer. Currently, all cable bacteria …

Rare microbial taxa emerge when communities collide: freshwater and marine microbiome responses to experimental mixing

JD Rocca, M Simonin, ES Bernhardt, AD Washburne… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Whole microbial communities regularly merge with one another, often in tandem with their
environments, in a process called community coalescence. Such events impose substantial …

Ecophysiology and genomics of the brackish water adapted SAR11 subclade IIIa

VC Lanclos, AN Rasmussen, CY Kojima… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Order Pelagibacterales (SAR11) is the most abundant group of heterotrophic
bacterioplankton in global oceans and comprises multiple subclades with unique …

Microbiome of the deep Lake Baikal, a unique oxic bathypelagic habitat

PJ Cabello‐Yeves, TI Zemskaya… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. Its depth provides the only bathypelagic (>
1000 m deep) freshwater habitat on Earth and its oxic, ultra‐oligotrophic features make it a …

Global patterns and rates of habitat transitions across the eukaryotic tree of life

M Jamy, C Biwer, D Vaulot, A Obiol, H Jing… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The successful colonization of new habitats has played a fundamental role during the
evolution of life. Salinity is one of the strongest barriers for organisms to cross, which has …

Marine-freshwater prokaryotic transitions require extensive changes in the predicted proteome

PJ Cabello-Yeves, F Rodriguez-Valera - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background The adaptation of a marine prokaryote to live in freshwater environments or vice
versa is generally believed to be an unusual and evolutionary demanding process …

Bacterial community variations with salinity in the saltwater-intruded estuarine aquifer

X Zhang, L Qi, W Li, BX Hu, Z Dai - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Bacterial community has been significantly enrolled in the biogeochemical cycling of the
coastal subsurface ecosystem. The bacterial community variations with salinity have been …