An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis

O Strunecký, AP Ivanova, J Mareš - Journal of Phycology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacterial taxonomy is facing a period of rapid changes thanks to the ease of 16S
rRNA gene sequencing and established workflows for description of new taxa. Since the last …

Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

RM Bowers, NC Kyrpides, R Stepanauskas… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We present two standards developed by the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) for
reporting bacterial and archaeal genome sequences. Both are extensions of the Minimum …

COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens

MY Galperin, YI Wolf, KS Makarova… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Clusters of Orthologous Genes (COG) database, also referred to as the
Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins, was created in 1997 and went through several …

A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome

A Almeida, S Nayfach, M Boland, F Strozzi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Comprehensive, high-quality reference genomes are required for functional characterization
and taxonomic assignment of the human gut microbiota. We present the Unified Human …

Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major …

DW Waite, M Chuvochina, C Pelikan… - … of Systematic and …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
The class Deltaproteobacteria comprises an ecologically and metabolically diverse group of
bacteria best known for dissimilatory sulphate reduction and predatory behaviour. Although …

New insights from uncultivated genomes of the global human gut microbiome

S Nayfach, ZJ Shi, R Seshadri, KS Pollard… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The genome sequences of many species of the human gut microbiome remain unknown,
largely owing to challenges in cultivating microorganisms under laboratory conditions. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history

P Sánchez-Baracaldo, G Bianchini, JD Wilson… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes to have evolved oxygenic photosynthesis,
transforming the biology and chemistry of our planet. Genomic and evolutionary studies …

Recovery of genomes from metagenomes via a dereplication, aggregation and scoring strategy

CMK Sieber, AJ Probst, A Sharrar, BC Thomas… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Microbial communities are critical to ecosystem function. A key objective of metagenomic
studies is to analyse organism-specific metabolic pathways and reconstruct community …

Major new microbial groups expand diversity and alter our understanding of the tree of life

CJ Castelle, JF Banfield - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The recent recovery of genomes for organisms from phyla with no isolated representative
(candidate phyla) via cultivation-independent genomics enabled delineation of major new …

The nasal and gut microbiome in Parkinson's disease and idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

A Heintz‐Buschart, U Pandey, T Wicke… - Movement …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Increasing evidence connects the gut microbiota and the onset and/or
phenotype of Parkinson's disease (PD). Differences in the abundances of specific bacterial …