The molecular basis for life in extreme environments

N Ando, B Barquera, DH Bartlett, E Boyd… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Sampling and genomic efforts over the past decade have revealed an enormous quantity
and diversity of life in Earth's extreme environments. This new knowledge of life on Earth …

Water and soil contaminated by arsenic: the use of microorganisms and plants in bioremediation

PN Bertin, S Crognale, F Plewniak… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Owing to their roles in the arsenic (As) biogeochemical cycle, microorganisms and plants
offer significant potential for developing innovative biotechnological applications able to …

Hydrogen and dark oxygen drive microbial productivity in diverse groundwater ecosystems

SE Ruff, P Humez, IH de Angelis, M Diao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Around 50% of humankind relies on groundwater as a source of drinking water. Here we
investigate the age, geochemistry, and microbiology of 138 groundwater samples from 95 …

Conservation and Evolution of the Sporulation Gene Set in Diverse Members of the Firmicutes

MY Galperin, N Yutin, YI Wolf… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The current classification of the phylum Firmicutes (new name, Bacillota) features eight
distinct classes, six of which include known spore-forming bacteria. In Bacillus subtilis …

In situ remediation of Cr (VI) contaminated groundwater by ZVI-PRB and the corresponding indigenous microbial community responses: a field-scale study

Q Wang, X Song, C Wei, P Jin, X Chen, Z Tang… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance of a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) for the in situ remediation of
hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)] contaminated groundwater, and the resulted responses in the …

Microbial life in the deep subsurface aquifer illuminated by metagenomics

VV Kadnikov, AV Mardanov, AV Beletsky… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
To get insights into microbial diversity and biogeochemical processes in the terrestrial deep
subsurface aquifer, we sequenced the metagenome of artesian water collected at a 2.8 km …

Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa

A Oren, GM Garrity, CT Parker, M Chuvochina… - 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
We here present annotated lists of names of Candidatus taxa of prokaryotes with ranks
between subspecies and class, proposed between the mid-1990s, when the provisional …

Diversification of methanogens into hyperalkaline serpentinizing environments through adaptations to minimize oxidant limitation

EM Fones, DR Colman, EA Kraus… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) and single amplified genomes (SAGs) affiliated
with two distinct Methanobacterium lineages were recovered from subsurface fracture …

Unique H2-utilizing lithotrophy in serpentinite-hosted systems

MK Nobu, R Nakai, S Tamazawa, H Mori… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Serpentinization of ultramafic rocks provides molecular hydrogen (H2) that can support
lithotrophic metabolism of microorganisms, but also poses extremely challenging conditions …

Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage

ED Becraft, MCY Lau Vetter, OKI Bezuidt… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Sulfate-reducing bacteria Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator (CDA) were
originally discovered in deep fracture fluids accessed via South African gold mines and have …