Physiology and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea

DA Stahl, JR De La Torre - Annual review of microbiology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The discovery of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), now generally recognized to exert
primary control over ammonia oxidation in terrestrial, marine, and geothermal habitats …

Metagenomics: genomic analysis of microbial communities

CS Riesenfeld, PD Schloss, J Handelsman - Annu. Rev. Genet., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Uncultured microorganisms comprise the majority of the planet's biological
diversity. Microorganisms represent two of the three domains of life and contain vast …

Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil

ST Bates, D Berg-Lyons, JG Caporaso… - The ISME …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Archaea, primarily Crenarchaeota, are common in soil; however, the structure of soil
archaeal communities and the factors regulating their diversity and abundance remain …

Ubiquity and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in water columns and sediments of the ocean

CA Francis, KJ Roberts, JM Beman… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Nitrification, the microbial oxidation of ammonia to nitrite and nitrate, occurs in a wide variety
of environments and plays a central role in the global nitrogen cycle. Catalyzed by the …

Methanogenic archaea are globally ubiquitous in aerated soils and become active under wet anoxic conditions

R Angel, P Claus, R Conrad - The ISME journal, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The prototypical representatives of the Euryarchaeota—the methanogens—are oxygen
sensitive and are thought to occur only in highly reduced, anoxic environments. However …

Occurrence and distribution of tetraether membrane lipids in soils: Implications for the use of the TEX86 proxy and the BIT index

JWH Weijers, S Schouten, OC Spaargaren… - Organic …, 2006 - Elsevier
A diverse collection of globally distributed soil samples was analyzed for its glycerol dialkyl
glycerol tetraether (GDGT) membrane lipid content. Branched GDGTs, derived from …

Nitrososphaera viennensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic and mesophilic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from soil and a member of the archaeal phylum …

M Stieglmeier, A Klingl, RJE Alves… - … of Systematic and …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
A mesophilic, neutrophilic and aerobic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon, strain EN76T, was
isolated from garden soil in Vienna (Austria). Cells were irregular cocci with a diameter of …

Microbial communities and their interactions in soil and rhizosphere ecosystems

AD Kent, EW Triplett - Annual Reviews in Microbiology, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Since the first estimate of prokaryotic abundance in soil was published,
researchers have attempted to assess the abundance and distribution of species and relate …

Molecular microbial diversity in soils from eastern Amazonia: evidence for unusual microorganisms and microbial population shifts associated with deforestation

J Borneman, EW Triplett - Applied and environmental microbiology, 1997 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although the Amazon Basin is well known for its diversity of flora and fauna, this report
represents the first description of the microbial diversity in Amazonian soils involving a …

Genomic studies of uncultivated archaea

C Schleper, G Jurgens, M Jonuscheit - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005 - nature.com
Archaea represent a considerable fraction of the prokaryotic world in marine and terrestrial
ecosystems, indicating that organisms from this domain might have a large impact on global …