Cell Biology


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A bacterial pioneer produces cellulase complexes that persist through community succession

Citation
Kolinko et al. (2017). Nature Microbiology 3 (1)
Names
“Reconciliibacillus” “Reconciliibacillus cellulosivorans”
Abstract
AbstractCultivation of microbial consortia provides low-complexity communities that can serve as tractable models to understand community dynamics. Time-resolved metagenomics demonstrated that an aerobic cellulolytic consortium cultivated from compost exhibited community dynamics consistent with the definition of an endogenous heterotrophic succession. The genome of the proposed pioneer population, ‘Candidatus Reconcilibacillus cellulovorans’, possessed a gene cluster containing multidomain glyc

Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

Citation
Parks et al. (2017). Nature Microbiology 2 (11)
Names
Binatus soli Ts Binatus
Abstract
AbstractChallenges in cultivating microorganisms have limited the phylogenetic diversity of currently available microbial genomes. This is being addressed by advances in sequencing throughput and computational techniques that allow for the cultivation-independent recovery of genomes from metagenomes. Here, we report the reconstruction of 7,903 bacterial and archaeal genomes from >1,500 public metagenomes. All genomes are estimated to be ≥50% complete and nearly half are ≥90% complete with ≤5%