Cyanobacteria are the globally dominant photoautotrophic lineage. Their success is
dependent on a set of adaptations collectively termed the CO2-concentrating mechanism …

Abstract Systems analysis of metabolic and growth functions in microbial organisms is
rapidly develo** and maturing. Such studies are enabled by reconstruction, at the …

Gene families are growing rapidly, but standard methods for inferring phylogenies do not
scale to alignments with over 10,000 sequences. We present FastTree, a method for …

Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems, stress-responsive genetic elements ubiquitous in microbial
genomes, are unusually abundant in the major human pathogen Mycobacterium …

The natural history of Precambrian life is still unknown because of the rarity of microbial
fossils and biomarkers,. However, the composition of modern-day genomes may bear …

As random shotgun metagenomic projects proliferate and become the dominant source of
publicly available sequence data, procedures for the best practices in their execution and …

DNA from low-biodiversity fracture water collected at 2.8-kilometer depth in a South African
gold mine was sequenced and assembled into a single, complete genome. This bacterium …

The ability of a bacterial cell to monitor and adaptively respond to its environment is crucial
for survival. After one‐and two‐component systems, extracytoplasmic function (ECF) σ …

ABSTRACT Since 2003, MicrobesOnline (http://www. microbesonline. org) has been
providing a community resource for comparative and functional genome analysis. The portal …

Prochlorococcus is a marine cyanobacterium that numerically dominates the mid-latitude
oceans and is the smallest known oxygenic phototroph. Numerous isolates from diverse …