Daniel S. Jones

The paper investigates the virome of a deep karst aquifer, finding diverse, novel viruses with stable communities and lysogenic interactions over five years.

The paper shows that ammonia volatilization and trapping in sulfidic caves provides a key nitrogen source for microbial biofilms and their associated ecosystems, leading to extreme nitrogen isotope depletion.

The paper characterizes microbial communities on acidic gypsum deposits in a sulfuric acid cave, finding differences in community structure between freshly formed and older deposits based on environmental conditions.

The paper analyzes microbial communities in historic mine waste to assess their composition, activity, and geochemical associations, finding that they are dominated by inorganic nitrogen- and carbon-oxidizing taxa and contain rare iron and sulfur-cycling organisms.

This study isolates and characterizes Sulfuriferula strains from sulfide mineral weathering environments, revealing their diverse sulfur and iron cycling capabilities and genomic metabolic diversity.

The paper characterizes viral communities in four cave pools, finding higher viral abundance than prokaryotes, novel viral sequences, and distinct viral communities in developed vs. undeveloped areas.

The paper identifies a Gammaproteobacterium, wb1-P19, as a methanotroph involved in carbon cycling in caves, challenging previous assumptions about its metabolic capabilities.

The paper introduces an improved hgcAB primer set and direct sequencing to better capture the diversity of mercury-methylating microbes in nature.