Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils

C Santos-Medellín, SJ Blazewicz, J Pett-Ridge… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
As central members of soil trophic networks, viruses have the potential to drive substantial
microbial mortality and nutrient turnover. Pinpointing viral contributions to terrestrial …

A subset of viruses thrives following microbial resuscitation during rewetting of a seasonally dry California grassland soil

AM Nicolas, ET Sieradzki, J Pett-Ridge… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Viruses are abundant, ubiquitous members of soil communities that kill microbial cells, but
how they respond to perturbation of soil ecosystems is essentially unknown. Here, we …

Propagation of viral genomes by replicating ammonia-oxidising archaea during soil nitrification

S Lee, ET Sieradzki, GW Nicol, C Hazard - The ISME Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia-oxidising archaea (AOA) are a ubiquitous component of microbial communities
and dominate the first stage of nitrification in some soils. While we are beginning to …

Soil microbial community response to corrinoids is shaped by a natural reservoir of vitamin B12

ZF Hallberg, AM Nicolas, ZI Alvarez-Aponte… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Soil microbial communities perform critical ecosystem services through the collective
metabolic activities of numerous individual organisms. Most microbes use corrinoids, a …

Codon bias, nucleotide selection, and genome size predict in situ bacterial growth rate and transcription in rewetted soil

PF Chuckran, K Estera-Molina, AM Nicolas… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
In soils, the first rain after a prolonged dry period represents a major pulse event impacting
soil microbial community function, yet we lack a full understanding of the genomic traits …

A standardized quantitative analysis strategy for stable isotope probing metagenomics

D Vyshenska, P Sampara, K Singh, A Tomatsu… - Msystems, 2023 - journals.asm.org
Stable isotope probing (SIP) facilitates culture-independent identification of active microbial
populations within complex ecosystems through isotopic enrichment of nucleic acids. Many …

Viral but not bacterial community succession is characterized by extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils

C Santos-Medellín, SJ Blazewicz, J Pett-Ridge… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
As central members of soil trophic networks, viruses have the potential to drive substantial
microbial mortality and nutrient turnover. Pinpointing viral contributions to terrestrial …

Isotope-enrichment reveals active viruses follow microbial host dynamics during rewetting of a California grassland soil

AM Nicolas, ET Sieradzki, J Pett-Ridge, JF Banfield… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Soil viruses are highly abundant and ubiquitous, yet their impact on soil microbiome
structure and function remains essentially unknown. We quantified how viruses and their …

Vitamin B 12 variants structure soil microbial communities despite soil's vast reservoir of B 12.

ZF Hallberg, AM Nicolas, ZI Alvarez-Aponte… - Biorxiv: the Preprint …, 2024 - europepmc.org
Soil microbial communities perform critical ecosystem services through the collective
metabolic activities of numerous individual organisms. Most microbes use corrinoids, a …

Corrinoids as model nutrients to probe microbial interactions in a soil ecosystem

ME Taga - 2024 - osti.gov
Soil not only represents the physical surface of the earth, but is also a habitat for thousands
of species of microorganisms. Numerous species of bacteria and other microbes collectively …