Daan R. Speth

The paper identifies a novel Saccharimonadia genus associated with a polyphosphate-accumulating bacterium in wastewater treatment plants and explores their ecological and metabolic interactions.

Microflora Danica compiles 10,686 shotgun metagenomes and 449 rRNA datasets to create an atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes, revealing hidden homogeneity and novel nitrifiers.

This study shows sponge-associated ammonia-oxidizing archaea use branched-chain amino acids as a carbon and nitrogen source, revealing a mixotrophic lifestyle and a new nutritional interaction in sponge holobionts.

This study identifies convergent evolution and horizontal gene transfer as key drivers in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea using comparative metagenomics of Candidatus Methanovorans.

This study identifies high richness and novel taxa of sulfoquinovose-degrading bacteria in cow rumen using yihQ-targeted amplicon sequencing and metagenomics.

The paper investigates denitrifying protist endosymbionts in wastewater treatment plants, finding their presence in 20-50% of facilities and highlighting temporal fluctuations and incomplete denitrification pathways.

The paper identifies four new respiratory endosymbiont genomes, revealing their global distribution and ability to perform both aerobic and anaerobic respiration.

The paper shows cyanobacteria in microbial mats switch from oxygenic to arsenite-driven anoxygenic photosynthesis under high light, revealing a cryptic arsenic redox cycle that may have influenced early Earth oxygenation.

The paper characterizes the microbial community of Auka vents, revealing high diversity, novel metabolic traits, and evidence of long-distance species transfer and thermophilic evolution.

ASM-Clust classifies protein families using alignment score matrices to assess annotation transfer validity, showing improved classification accuracy over existing methods.