Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

The paper analyzes metagenomes and proteomes from geothermal brines to show that archaea and bacteria have highly acidic proteomes and metabolic flexibility in extreme salinity conditions.

The paper examines microbial metabolic capabilities and spatial distribution along a redox gradient to show that background metabolic differences and spatial partitioning prevent ecological equivalence among microbes.

This study examines how different microalgal host species influence the composition and function of their associated microbiomes over time.

This study uses metabarcoding and machine learning to analyze seasonal changes in microbial communities in a temperate lake, identifying key environmental drivers like temperature and oxygen.

This study shows that substrate complexity influences species interactions and coexistence in a synthetic microbial community of leaf litter degraders.

The paper investigates how community stability affects the predictability of microeukaryote community coalescence outcomes through controlled mixing experiments.

This study reveals that multicellular magnetotactic bacterial consortia are not clonal and exhibit metabolic differentiation, challenging previous assumptions about their biology.

The paper characterizes microbial communities in coastal northern Gulf of Mexico waters using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, identifying habitat preferences and brackish-water specialists.

This study examines how salinity and temperature changes affect microbial DOC degradation and community composition in urban river sediments using a mesocosm experiment, finding increased degradation during recovery phases.

This study examines how temperature and salinity affect microbial self-recycling of necromass in urban river sediments using mesocosm experiments.

This study investigates how spatial structure and heterogeneity affect the persistence of closed microbial ecosystems, finding that substrate particle size and necromass distribution significantly influence system stability.

This study investigates how different molecular classes of dissolved organic matter (DOM) are utilized by heterotrophic marine bacteria in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, revealing diverse utilization patterns among bacterial clades.

This study shows that aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria benefit from photoheterotrophy under both carbon-rich and carbon-poor conditions, with seasonal variations in their advantage.

This study shows that the reverse dissimilatory sulfite reductase (rDsr) pathway can independently oxidize thiosulfate under low oxygen conditions, supporting its ecological role in marine sediments.

The paper presents a culture-based approach to recover rare marine sediment bacteria from the Gulf of Mexico and Antarctica, identifying new taxa and biotechnologically relevant isolates.

The paper uses genome-resolved metagenomics to analyze microbial communities in hot spring habitats, revealing core and habitat-specific microbial diversity and functional adaptations.

The paper examines seasonal interactions between facultative antagonistic bacteria and diatoms in a coastal ecosystem, finding overlapping co-occurrences and correlations with temperature and toxic diatoms.

The paper investigates phenotypic variability among Trichodesmium strains in heterogeneous microenvironments using metagenomics and metatranscriptomics.

The paper examines community transitions in the Elbe River estuary, finding two distinct communities for plants and soil bacteria but not for aquatic microbes.

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.

The paper characterizes microdiversity in marine ammonia-oxidizing archaeal populations using long-read metagenomic sequencing and identifies flexible genomic islands with functional roles.

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 evaluates DNA and RNA extraction protocols from Guaymas Basin sediments, showing that temperature and hydrothermal influence significantly impact nucleic acid recovery and microbial community analysis.

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 notion of sparse microbial colonization in soil by showing higher microbial densities and simulating their distribution in soil pore space.

This study examines how the microbiome of giant kelp changes with age and depth, finding increased richness and depth-specific community types in mature blades.

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 analyzes bacterial community structure and diversity in Yangzong Lake overlying water using high-throughput sequencing, finding variations in physicochemical factors and dominant taxa across sampling sites.

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.