Highly diverse Asgard archaea participate in organic matter degradation in coastal sediments
M. Cai, Y. Liu, X. Yin, Z. Zhou, M. W. Friedrich, T. Richter-Heitmann, R. Nimzyk, A. Kulkarni, X. Wang, W. Li, J. Pan, Y. Yang, J.-D. Gu, M. Li
This study identifies a new Asgard archaeal phylum, Gerdarchaeota, and shows their role in organic matter degradation in coastal sediments through genomic and transcriptomic analysis.
bioRxiv · Nov 29, 2019Microbiology