Nature Microbiology


Publications
26

Nitrogen fixation in a chemoautotrophic lucinid symbiosis

Citation
König et al. (2016). Nature Microbiology 2 (1)
Names
Ca. Thiodiazotropha fergusoni “Thiodiazotropha endolucinida”
Abstract
AbstractThe shallow water bivalve Codakia orbicularis lives in symbiotic association with a sulfur-oxidizing bacterium in its gills. The endosymbiont fixes CO2 and thus generates organic carbon compounds, which support the host's growth. To investigate the uncultured symbiont's metabolism and symbiont–host interactions in detail we conducted a proteogenomic analysis of purified bacteria. Unexpectedly, our results reveal a hitherto completely unrecognized feature of the C. orbicularis symbiont's

A new view of the tree of life

Citation
Hug et al. (2016). Nature Microbiology 1 (5)
Names
“Rokuibacteriota” “Abawacaibacteriota” “Wirthibacterota”
Abstract
AbstractThe tree of life is one of the most important organizing principles in biology1. Gene surveys suggest the existence of an enormous number of branches2, but even an approximation of the full scale of the tree has remained elusive. Recent depictions of the tree of life have focused either on the nature of deep evolutionary relationships3–5 or on the known, well-classified diversity of life with an emphasis on eukaryotes6. These approaches overlook the dramatic change in our understanding o

Genomic inference of the metabolism of cosmopolitan subsurface Archaea, Hadesarchaea

Citation
Baker et al. (2016). Nature Microbiology 1 (3)
Names
Hadarchaeum yellowstonense Ts
Abstract
AbstractThe subsurface biosphere is largely unexplored and contains a broad diversity of uncultured microbes1. Despite being one of the few prokaryotic lineages that is cosmopolitan in both the terrestrial and marine subsurface2–4, the physiological and ecological roles of SAGMEG (South-African Gold Mine Miscellaneous Euryarchaeal Group) Archaea are unknown. Here, we report the metabolic capabilities of this enigmatic group as inferred from genomic reconstructions. Four high-quality (63–90% comp