Michal Koblížek

This study reveals that ancestral Rhizobiaceae bacteria evolved photosynthesis in association with algae and plants, later losing it in some lineages that became plant symbionts or pathogens.

The paper identifies a novel contractile injection system in thermophilic bacteria from hot spring mats using cryoET and metagenomics.

The paper reports light energy transfer from hydroxylated carotenoids to heimdallarchaeial rhodopsins in marine archaea, showing light-harvesting capabilities in archaea similar to bacterial rhodopsins.

This study examines seasonal changes in aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria, showing higher phototrophic activity in particle-attached fractions compared to free-living ones.

The paper identifies a conserved high gene strand bias region in Gemmatimonadota chromosomes, suggests its evolutionary origin through horizontal gene transfer, and links it to reduced replication-transcription conflicts.