Matthew B. Stott

This paper describes two new Venenivibrio species isolated from New Zealand hot springs and emends the genus description based on genomic and phenotypic differences.

This paper describes the isolation and characterization of a new thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium from New Zealand, proposing a novel genus and species.

The paper isolates thermophilic plastic-degrading bacteria from New Zealand hot springs and identifies two PHB-degrading strains capable of metabolizing plastic under thermophilic conditions.

The paper sequenced and compared 129 bacterial isolates from epiphytic and endophytic compartments of Arabidopsis thaliana in New Zealand, identifying functional genomic differences between the two groups.

The paper uses metagenomics to compare microbial communities in coastal and inland hypersaline lakes, finding higher connectivity and allopatric speciation in coastal systems.

The paper examines microbial communities in Antarctic geothermal soils, finding that high dispersal rates lead to dominance of habitat specialists over generalists.

This study systematically examines biodiversity across geothermal ecosystems on Mt. Erebus, finding taxonomically novel prokaryotes and fungi, and highlighting physicochemical differences between Exposed and Subglacial sites.

The paper evaluates metagenome and amplicon analysis tools by meta-analyzing benchmarking studies to identify accurate sequence-to-taxonomy mapping software.