Castelle, Cindy J.


Publications
6

Genomic resolution of a cold subsurface aquifer community provides metabolic insights for novel microbes adapted to high CO2 concentrations

Citation
Probst et al. (2017). Environmental Microbiology 19 (2)
Names
“Desantisiibacteriota”
Abstract
SummaryAs in many deep underground environments, the microbial communities in subsurface high‐CO2 ecosystems remain relatively unexplored. Recent investigations based on single‐gene assays revealed a remarkable variety of organisms from little studied phyla in Crystal Geyser (Utah, USA), a site where deeply sourced CO2‐saturated fluids are erupted at the surface. To provide genomic resolution of the metabolisms of these organisms, we used a novel metagenomic approach to recover 227 high‐quality

Unusual respiratory capacity and nitrogen metabolism in a Parcubacterium (OD1) of the Candidate Phyla Radiation

Citation
Castelle et al. (2017). Scientific Reports 7 (1)
Names
Ca. Parcunitrobacter nitroensis “Parcunitrobacterota”
Abstract
AbstractThe Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) is a large group of bacteria, the scale of which approaches that of all other bacteria. CPR organisms are inferred to depend on other community members for many basic cellular building blocks and all appear to be obligate anaerobes. To date, there has been no evidence for any significant respiratory capacity in an organism from this radiation. Here we report a curated draft genome for ‘Candidatus Parcunitrobacter nitroensis’ a member of the Parcubacter

Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system

Citation
Anantharaman et al. (2016). Nature Communications 7 (1)
Names
“Kerfeldiibacteriota” “Komeiliibacteriota” “Lindowiibacteriota” “Liptoniibacteriota” “Lloydiibacteriota” “Margulisiibacteriota” “Nealsoniibacteriota” “Niyogiibacteriota” “Portnoyibacteriota” “Raymondiibacteriota” “Ryaniibacteriota” “Schekmaniibacteriota” “Spechtiibacteriota” “Staskawicziibacteriota” “Sungiibacteriota” “Tagaibacteriota” “Tayloriibacteriota” “Terryibacteriota” “Vebleniibacteriota” “Yonathiibacteriota” “Zambryskiibacteriota” “Rifleibacteriota” “Ozemibacteria”
Abstract
AbstractThe subterranean world hosts up to one-fifth of all biomass, including microbial communities that drive transformations central to Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. However, little is known about how complex microbial communities in such environments are structured, and how inter-organism interactions shape ecosystem function. Here we apply terabase-scale cultivation-independent metagenomics to aquifer sediments and groundwater, and reconstruct 2,540 draft-quality, near-complete and complet

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