Stott, Matthew B.


Publications
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Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes

Citation
Eme et al. (2023). Nature 618 (7967)
Names
“Asgardarchaeota”
Abstract
AbstractIn the ongoing debates about eukaryogenesis—the series of evolutionary events leading to the emergence of the eukaryotic cell from prokaryotic ancestors—members of the Asgard archaea play a key part as the closest archaeal relatives of eukaryotes1. However, the nature and phylogenetic identity of the last common ancestor of Asgard archaea and eukaryotes remain unresolved2–4. Here we analyse distinct phylogenetic marker datasets of an expanded genomic sampling of Asgard archaea and evalua

An essential role for tungsten in the ecology and evolution of a previously uncultivated lineage of anaerobic, thermophilic Archaea

Citation
Buessecker et al. (2022). Nature Communications 13 (1)
Names
Wolframiiraptor gerlachensis Ts Wolframiiraptor Wolframiiraptoraceae Benthortus lauensis Ts Geocrenenecus dongiae Ts Geocrenenecus arthurdayi Geocrenenecus huangii Terraquivivens ruidianensis Terraquivivens tengchongensis Terraquivivens yellowstonensis Benthortus Geocrenenecus Terraquivivens Terraquivivens tikiterensis Ts Wolframiiraptor sinensis Wolframiiraptor allenii
Abstract
AbstractTrace metals have been an important ingredient for life throughout Earth’s history. Here, we describe the genome-guided cultivation of a member of the elusive archaeal lineage Caldarchaeales (syn. Aigarchaeota), Wolframiiraptor gerlachensis, and its growth dependence on tungsten. A metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) of W. gerlachensis encodes putative tungsten membrane transport systems, as well as pathways for anaerobic oxidation of sugars probably mediated by tungsten-dependent ferredox

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