Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

Cellular metabolism is widely understood as an integrated network of redox reactions, energy conservation, and biosynthetic pathways. Here we show that across diverse prokaryotic lineages, loss of red...

The phylum Minisyncoccota (formerly known as “Candidatus Patescibacteria”/candidate phyla radiation [CPR] and designated under SeqCode as Patescibacte …

Candidatus Saccharimonadia is ubiquitously found in activated sludge processes, but its ecophysiological characteristics remain poorly understood. Metagenome analysis of Ca. Saccharimonadia in size-f....

The climate crisis is one of the most imminent threats to humanity and all life on our planet. Methane is not only the second most potent greenhouse gas (GHG) and is responsible for approximately 31% of GHG-induced global warming since the start of the industrial revolution (1) but is also the most rapid increasing GHG in the atmosphere (2). The latter is likely caused by increased microbiological production of methane from, e.g., wetlands (2). This fact stresses the importance of methanotrophic microbes that can degrade methane with and without oxygen (3, 4) and thereby fulfill a crucial role in our global climate.

Methane is a significant contributor to climate change (27 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide), and the largest biological sink is methane-oxidizing bacteria: methanotrophs. Alt...

by Christoph — Based on their knowledge of the morphology of P. syntrophicum MK-D1 from electron micro­scopy and their knowledge of its physiology from growth assays and genome analysis, Imachi, Nobu...

Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the<em> <a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">International Journal of Systemati...

Eukaryotes are theorized to have originated from an archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota (formerly 'Asgard' archaea)1,2. The first cultured representatives revealed valuable insight3,4 but are distantly ...

Eukaryotes are theorized to have originated from an archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota (formerly 'Asgard' archaea)1,2. The first cultured representatives revealed valuable insight3,4 but are distantly ...

Plant microbiomes are pivotal for host development, influencing growth, health, fitness, and evolution, and have emerged as promising resources for sustainable agriculture. However, leveraging these microbiomes to improve crop yield and resilience is…

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Succinate production by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron supported the growth of Phascolarctobacterium faecium and concomitant propionate production via the succinate pathway. We analyzed the transcripti....

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is one of the most important butyrate-producing bacteria in the human gut. Previous studies have suggested the presence of several phylogenetic groups, with differences at...

Small, obligately anaerobic strains 13CB8CT, 13CB11CT, 13CB18CT and 13GAM1GT were isolated from a faecal sample in a patient with Parkinson’s disease with a history of duodenal resection. After conduc...

In the domain Bacteria, one of the largest, most diverse and environmentally ubiquitous phylogenetic groups, Candidatus Patescibacteria (also known as candidate phyla radiation/CPR), remains poorly ch...

In the domain Bacteria, one of the largest, most diverse and environmentally ubiquitous phylogenetic groups, Candidatus Patescibacteria (also known as candidate phyla radiation/CPR), remains poorly ch...