A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa,
survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity …

Chemical hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass (LB) produces a number of inhibitors in
addition to sugars. These inhibitors include lignin-derived phenolics, carbohydrate-derived …

Ecological and evolutionary processes simultaneously regulate microbial diversity, but the
evolutionary processes and their driving forces remain largely unexplored. Here we …

Most riboswitches are metabolite-binding RNA structures located in bacterial messenger
RNAs where they control gene expression. We have discovered a riboswitch class in many …

The geosphere and the microbial biosphere have co-evolved for~ 3.8 Ga, with many lines of
evidence suggesting a hydrothermal habitat for life's origin. However, the extent that …

Here we embark in a deep metagenomic survey that revealed the taxonomic and potential
metabolic pathways aspects of mangrove sediment microbiology. The extraction of DNA …

The Rehai and Ruidian geothermal fields, located in Tengchong County, Yunnan Province,
China, host a variety of geochemically distinct hot springs. In this study, we report a …

Thermophiles and hyperthermophiles are present in various regions of the Earth, including
volcanic environments, hot springs, mud pots, fumaroles, geysers, coastal thermal springs …

Geothermal springs house unicellular red algae in the class Cyanidiophyceae that dominate
the microbial biomass at these sites. Little is known about host-virus interactions in these …

The Yellowstone geothermal complex contains over 10,000 diverse geothermal features that
host numerous phylogenetically deeply rooted and poorly understood archaea, bacteria …