Linking metagenomics to aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycles

HP Grossart, R Massana, KD McMahon… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial communities are essential components of aquatic ecosystems through their
contribution to food web dynamics and biogeochemical processes. Aquatic microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic network analysis reveals microbial community interactions in anammox granules

CE Lawson, S Wu, AS Bhattacharjee… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Microbial communities mediating anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) represent one
of the most energy-efficient environmental biotechnologies for nitrogen removal from …

[HTML][HTML] Using metabolic networks to resolve ecological properties of microbiomes

EEL Muller, K Faust, S Widder, M Herold… - Current Opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
The systematic collection, integration and modelling of high-throughput molecular data
(multi-omics) allows the detailed characterisation of microbiomes in situ. Through metabolic …

High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities

S Louca, SMS Jacques, APF Pires, JS Leal… - Nature ecology & …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the processes that are driving variation of natural microbial communities
across space or time is a major challenge for ecologists. Environmental conditions strongly …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse Marinimicrobia bacteria may mediate coupled biogeochemical cycles along eco-thermodynamic gradients

AK Hawley, MK Nobu, JJ Wright, WE Durno… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Microbial communities drive biogeochemical cycles through networks of metabolite
exchange that are structured along energetic gradients. As energy yields become limiting …

An enzymatic pathway in the human gut microbiome that converts A to universal O type blood

P Rahfeld, L Sim, H Moon, I Constantinescu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Access to efficient enzymes that can convert A and B type red blood cells to 'universal'donor
O would greatly increase the supply of blood for transfusions. Here we report the functional …

Integrating biogeochemistry with multiomic sequence information in a model oxygen minimum zone

S Louca, AK Hawley, S Katsev… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Microorganisms are the most abundant lifeform on Earth, mediating global fluxes of matter
and energy. Over the past decade, high-throughput molecular techniques generating …

Metatranscriptomic and thermodynamic insights into medium-chain fatty acid production using an anaerobic microbiome

MJ Scarborough, CE Lawson, JJ Hamilton… - …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biomanufacturing from renewable feedstocks can offset fossil fuel-based chemical
production. One potential biomanufacturing strategy is production of medium-chain fatty …

Metaphenomic responses of a native prairie soil microbiome to moisture perturbations

T Roy Chowdhury, JY Lee, EM Bottos, CJ Brislawn… - Msystems, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Climate change is causing shifts in precipitation patterns in the central grasslands of the
United States, with largely unknown consequences on the collective physiological …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse Bacteria Utilize Alginate Within the Microbiome of the Giant Kelp Macrocystis pyrifera

JD Lin, MA Lemay, LW Parfrey - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria are integral to marine carbon cycling. They transfer organic carbon to higher trophic
levels and remineralise it into inorganic forms. Kelp forests are among the most productive …