Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

This study estimates the origin of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) using eukaryotic fossils and Bayesian dating, finding they emerged between 2.1 and 1.9 billion years ago.

This paper develops an optimized method for sampling and analyzing the wood microbiome, demonstrating its effectiveness for detecting methane-cycling microbes in various tree species.

The paper identifies a new bacterial phylum, Candidatus Nitrosediminicolota, which oxidizes nitrite and resolves the abundance imbalance between ammonia-oxidizing archaea and canonical nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in marine sediments.

The paper challenges the assumption that reduced functional variability in microbial communities indicates selection, showing that apparent functional selection can be artifacts of statistical averaging and functional bias.

This study investigates the seasonal dynamics of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in a freshwater lake, revealing their role in organic matter recycling and ecological dynamics.

The paper compares the abundance and diversity of archaeal amoA genes in oxygen minimum zones of the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, finding higher abundance in the Arabian Sea and greater diversity in the Bay of Bengal.

The paper quantifies how microscale pore structures and interstitial flows affect nutrient supply and microbial function in microenvironments using experiments and simulations.

The paper isolates and characterizes aerobic bacteria from Arabian Sea sediments, showing their ability to degrade complex organic matter under low oxygen conditions and maintain populations in oligotrophic environments.

The paper improves 16S rRNA gene primers to better detect Patescibacteria in wastewater treatment plants, revealing their global diversity and potential ecological roles.

The paper examines microbial community assembly in an Andean wetland, finding that both abiotic factors and biotic interactions shape prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities, with strong correlations between photosynthetic eukaryotes and prokaryotes.

This study characterizes the microbial metagenome of calcareous stromatolites in San Felipe Creek, revealing functional adaptations to extreme desert conditions and potential impacts on mineral dynamics.

This study reports 33 new metagenome-assembled genomes of DPANN archaea from marine oxygen deficient zones, revealing their abundance, distribution, and potential roles in biogeochemical cycles.

This study characterizes the cell surface structures and symbiotic interactions of the DPANN archaeon Nanobdella aerobiophila using electron microscopy, transcriptomics, and genomics.

This study analyzes microbial diversity and metabolic functions in two salt lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using metagenomics, revealing differences in microbial composition and salinity adaptation strategies.

This study uses genome resolved metatranscriptomics to reveal dominant nitrogen metabolisms in a warm, seasonally anoxic tropical lake, identifying key microbial taxa and functional pathways involved in nitrogen cycling.

This study shows microbial community diversity responses to disturbance frequency vary by substrate, with cellulose supporting a unimodal relationship and glucose a monotonically increasing one.

The paper investigates how bacterial communities respond to the degradation of ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi organic matter, finding similar patterns to those observed with jellyfish blooms.

The paper analyzes the genomic and functional characteristics of SAR86 marine bacteria using a newly isolated strain and environmental genomes, revealing their metabolic capabilities and ecological distribution.

The paper measures microbial eukaryote abundances and predation rates at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, showing higher grazing rates under in situ pressure and their role in deep-sea carbon cycling.

The paper shows that Prochlorococcus develops a dark-tolerant phenotype when co-cultured with Alteromonas, involving metabolic coupling and shifts in gene expression.

This study examines how carbon substrate complexity affects competition and growth dynamics between two marine heterotrophic microbes, showing that complex substrates promote coexistence and efficient organic matter remineralization.

This study links microbial communities in millimetre-sized soil aggregates to their physico-chemical properties, showing distinct communities and environmental relationships.

The paper investigates how corrinoid structure affects soil microbial community composition and stability through experimental and genomic analysis.

This study isolates and characterizes a novel Nanobdellota archaeon and its host, revealing an attachment organelle that mediates their ectosymbiotic interaction.

This study shows that microbial communities are more vulnerable to invasion during transient dynamics, with invaders having greater impact before communities stabilize.

This study investigates the ecological relevance of flagellar motility in soil bacteria by analyzing genomic and metagenomic data across multiple soil environments.

The paper studies how a geothermal spring community responds to diurnal stressors, revealing structured biotic interactions across domains of life.

This study quantifies carbon transfer in a microbial alga-bacterium interaction, finding limited carbon flow and bacterial vitamin B12 synthesis despite algal lysis.

This study shows urea is a major nitrogen source for deep-sea microbes and supports nitrification, fueling chemoautotrophy in the dark ocean.

This study investigates the evolutionary history of sulfur oxidation by analyzing SAR324 and related bacterial phyla, finding that they are linked to the origins of the reverse dsr pathway.