McDonald, Ian R.


Publications
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Nutritional niches of endemic, facultatively anaerobic heterotrophs from an isolated Antarctic terrestrial hydrothermal refugium elucidated through metagenomics

Citation
Herbold et al. (2024).
Names
“Australarchaeum erebusense”
Abstract
Abstract Background Tramway Ridge, a geothermal Antarctic Specially Protected Area (1) (elevation 3340 m) located near the summit of Mount Erebus, is home to a unique community composed of cosmopolitan surface-associated micro-organisms and abundant, poorly understood subsurface-associated microorganisms (2–5). Here, we use shotgun metagenomics to compare the functional capabilities of this community to those found elsewhere on Earth and to infer endemism and metabolic capabilities of a

Chthonomonas calidirosea gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, pigmented, thermophilic micro-organism of a novel bacterial class, Chthonomonadetes classis nov., of the newly described phylum Armatimonadetes originally designated candidate division OP10

Citation
Lee et al. (2011). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 61 (10)
Names
Chthonomonadia
Abstract
An aerobic, saccharolytic, obligately thermophilic, motile, non-spore-forming bacterium, strain T49T, was isolated from geothermally heated soil at Hell’s Gate, Tikitere, New Zealand. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, T49T is the first representative of a new class in the newly described phylum Armatimonadetes, formerly known as candidate division OP10. Cells of strain T49T stained Gram-negative and were catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Cells possessed a highly corrugated