Global diversity and inferred ecophysiology of microorganisms with the potential for dissimilatory sulfate/sulfite reduction

M Diao, S Dyksma, E Koeksoy, DK Ngugi… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sulfate/sulfite-reducing microorganisms (SRM) are ubiquitous in nature, driving the global
sulfur cycle. A hallmark of SRM is the dissimilatory sulfite reductase encoded by the genes …

TYGS and LPSN: a database tandem for fast and reliable genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes

JP Meier-Kolthoff, JS Carbasse… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Microbial systematics is heavily influenced by genome-based methods and challenged by
an ever increasing number of taxon names and associated sequences in public data …

Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes

A Oren, GM Garrity - International Journal of Systematic …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
After the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) had voted to include
the rank of phylum in the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes …

GTDB: an ongoing census of bacterial and archaeal diversity through a phylogenetically consistent, rank normalized and complete genome-based taxonomy

DH Parks, M Chuvochina, C Rinke… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb. ecogenomic. org) provides a
phylogenetically consistent and rank normalized genome-based taxonomy for prokaryotic …

Microbial taxonomy run amok

RA Sanford, KG Lloyd, KT Konstantinidis… - Trends in Microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
DNA sequencing has led to an explosion in discovery of microbial phylogenetic novelty,
especially that represented by uncultivated taxa, to which the traditional system of …

Globally distributed Myxococcota with photosynthesis gene clusters illuminate the origin and evolution of a potentially chimeric lifestyle

L Li, D Huang, Y Hu, NM Rudling, DP Canniffe… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Photosynthesis is a fundamental biogeochemical process, thought to be restricted to a few
bacterial and eukaryotic phyla. However, understanding the origin and evolution of …

PET microplastics affect human gut microbiota communities during simulated gastrointestinal digestion, first evidence of plausible polymer biodegradation during …

A Tamargo, N Molinero, JJ Reinosa… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Microplastics (MPs) are a widely recognized global problem due to their prevalence in
natural environments and the food chain. However, the impact of microplastics on human …

Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups

MV Langwig, V De Anda, N Dombrowski… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Deltaproteobacteria, now proposed to be the phyla Desulfobacterota, Myxococcota, and
SAR324, are ubiquitous in marine environments and play essential roles in global carbon …

Active predation, phylogenetic diversity, and global prevalence of myxobacteria in wastewater treatment plants

L Zhang, X Huang, J Zhou, F Ju - The ISME journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The operation of modern wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is driven by activated sludge
microbiota, a complex assemblage of trophically interacting microorganisms. Microbial …

MiST 4.0: a new release of the microbial signal transduction database, now with a metagenomic component

VM Gumerov, LE Ulrich, IB Zhulin - Nucleic Acids Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Signal transduction systems in bacteria and archaea link environmental stimuli to specific
adaptive cellular responses. They control gene expression, motility, biofilm formation …