Microbial oxidation of atmospheric trace gases

C Greening, R Grinter - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The atmosphere has recently been recognized as a major source of energy sustaining life.
Diverse aerobic bacteria oxidize the three most abundant reduced trace gases in the …

Hydrogen is a major lifeline for aerobic bacteria

C Greening, ZF Islam, SK Bay - Trends in Microbiology, 2022 - cell.com
Molecular hydrogen (H 2) is available in trace amounts in most ecosystems through
atmospheric, biological, geochemical, and anthropogenic sources. Aerobic bacteria use this …

Chemosynthetic and photosynthetic bacteria contribute differentially to primary production across a steep desert aridity gradient

SK Bay, DW Waite, X Dong, O Gillor… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Desert soils harbour diverse communities of aerobic bacteria despite lacking substantial
organic carbon inputs from vegetation. A major question is therefore how these communities …

Distribution of mixotrophy and desiccation survival mechanisms across microbial genomes in an arid biological soil crust community

DV Meier, S Imminger, O Gillor, D Woebken - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Desert surface soils devoid of plant cover are populated by a variety of microorganisms,
many with yet unresolved physiologies and lifestyles. Nevertheless, a common feature vital …

The Evolution of Ecological Diversity in Acidobacteria

J Sikorski, V Baumgartner, K Birkhofer… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Acidobacteria occur in a large variety of ecosystems worldwide and are particularly
abundant and highly diverse in soils. In spite of their diversity, only few species have been …

Termite gas emissions select for hydrogenotrophic microbial communities in termite mounds

E Chiri, PA Nauer, R Lappan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Organoheterotrophs are the dominant bacteria in most soils worldwide. While many of these
bacteria can subsist on atmospheric hydrogen (H2), levels of this gas are generally …

Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals how soil bacterial communities respond to elevated H2 availability

Y Xu, Y Teng, X Dong, X Wang, C Zhang, W Ren… - Soil Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Molecular hydrogen (H 2) is a major energy source supporting bacterial growth and
persistence in soil ecosystems. While recent studies have uncovered mediators of …

A rapid and efficient strategy to identify and recover biosynthetic gene clusters from soil metagenomes

T Negri, S Mantri, A Angelov, S Peter, G Muth… - Applied Microbiology …, 2022 - Springer
Culture-independent metagenomic approaches offer a promising solution to the discovery of
therapeutically relevant compounds such as antibiotics by enabling access to the hidden …

Unveiling unique microbial nitrogen cycling and nitrification driver in coastal Antarctica

P Han, X Tang, H Koch, X Dong, L Hou, D Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Largely removed from anthropogenic delivery of nitrogen (N), Antarctica has notably low
levels of nitrogen. Though our understanding of biological sources of ammonia have been …

Aerobic hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria in soil: from cells to ecosystems

X Fan, X Zhang, G Zhao, X Zhang, L Dong… - … in Environmental Science …, 2022 - Springer
Aerobic hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria (HOB) is a group of active, abundant, and diverse
microorganisms with representatives in nearly all phyla, distributed in soil exposed to …