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A new view of the tree of life
- L. Hug, B. Baker, +14 authors J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature Microbiology
- 11 April 2016
The 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… Expand
Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria
- C. Brown, L. Hug, +7 authors J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 9 July 2015
A prominent feature of the bacterial domain is a radiation of major lineages that are defined as candidate phyla because they lack isolated representatives. Bacteria from these phyla occur in diverse… Expand
Genomic Expansion of Domain Archaea Highlights Roles for Organisms from New Phyla in Anaerobic Carbon Cycling
- Cindy J. Castelle, K. Wrighton, +10 authors J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- Current Biology
- 16 March 2015
BACKGROUND
Archaea represent a significant fraction of Earth's biodiversity, yet they remain much less well understood than Bacteria. Gene surveys, a few metagenomic studies, and some single-cell… Expand
Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system
- K. Anantharaman, C. Brown, +11 authors J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature communications
- 24 October 2016
The 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… Expand
Biosynthetic capacity, metabolic variety and unusual biology in the CPR and DPANN radiations
- Cindy J. Castelle, C. Brown, K. Anantharaman, Alexander J. Probst, R. Huang, J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature Reviews Microbiology
- 1 October 2018
Candidate phyla radiation (CPR) bacteria and DPANN (an acronym of the names of the first included phyla) archaea are massive radiations of organisms that are widely distributed across Earth’s… Expand
Measurement of bacterial replication rates in microbial communities
- C. Brown, M. Olm, B. Thomas, J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature Biotechnology
- 1 December 2016
Culture-independent microbiome studies have increased our understanding of the complexity and metabolic potential of microbial communities. However, to understand the contribution of individual… Expand
dRep: a tool for fast and accurate genomic comparisons that enables improved genome recovery from metagenomes through de-replication
- M. Olm, C. Brown, B. Brooks, J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- The ISME Journal
- 25 July 2017
The number of microbial genomes sequenced each year is expanding rapidly, in part due to genome-resolved metagenomic studies that routinely recover hundreds of draft-quality genomes. Rapid algorithms… Expand
Critical biogeochemical functions in the subsurface are associated with bacteria from new phyla and little studied lineages.
- L. Hug, B. Thomas, +7 authors J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- Environmental microbiology
- 2016
Nitrogen, sulfur and carbon fluxes in the terrestrial subsurface are determined by the intersecting activities of microbial community members, yet the organisms responsible are largely unknown.… Expand
Genomic resolution of a cold subsurface aquifer community provides metabolic insights for novel microbes adapted to high CO2 concentrations
- Alexander J. Probst, Cindy J. Castelle, +8 authors J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- Environmental microbiology
- 1 February 2017
As 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… Expand
Comparison of environmental and isolate Sulfobacillus genomes reveals diverse carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and hydrogen metabolisms
- N. Justice, A. Norman, C. Brown, A. Singh, B. Thomas, J. Banfield
- Biology, Medicine
- BMC Genomics
- 15 December 2014
BackgroundBacteria of the genus Sulfobacillus are found worldwide as members of microbial communities that accelerate sulfide mineral dissolution in acid mine drainage environments (AMD), acid-rock… Expand