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Open AccessAuthor Correction: A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-00898-4.
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessA genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes
The reconstruction of bacterial and archaeal genomes from shotgun metagenomes has enabled insights into the ecology and evolution of environmental and host-associated microbiomes. Here we applied this approach...
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Open AccessVirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses
Viruses are a significant player in many biosphere and human ecosystems, but most signals remain “hidden” in metagenomic/metatranscriptomic sequence datasets due to the lack of universal gene markers, database...
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Open AccessFunctional and genetic markers of niche partitioning among enigmatic members of the human oral microbiome
Microbial residents of the human oral cavity have long been a major focus of microbiology due to their influence on host health and intriguing patterns of site specificity amidst the lack of dispersal limitati...
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Open AccessRole of diversity-generating retroelements for regulatory pathway tuning in cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria maintain extensive repertoires of regulatory genes that are vital for adaptation to environmental stress. Some cyanobacterial genomes have been noted to encode diversity-generating retroelements ...
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Open AccessInfluence of the polar light cycle on seasonal dynamics of an Antarctic lake microbial community
Cold environments dominate the Earth’s biosphere and microbial activity drives ecosystem processes thereby contributing greatly to global biogeochemical cycles. Polar environments differ to all other cold envi...
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Open AccessTerabase-scale metagenome coassembly with MetaHipMer
Metagenome sequence datasets can contain terabytes of reads, too many to be coassembled together on a single shared-memory computer; consequently, they have only been assembled sample by sample (multiassembly) an...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Cryptic inoviruses revealed as pervasive in bacteria and archaea across Earth’s biomes
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessGiant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics
Our current knowledge about nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) is largely derived from viral isolates that are co-cultivated with protists and algae. Here we reconstructed 2,074 NCLDV genomes from sa...
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Open AccessDiversity, evolution, and classification of virophages uncovered through global metagenomics
Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that replicate along with giant viruses and co-infect eukaryotic cells. Due to the paucity of virophage reference genomes, a collective understandi...
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Open AccessCryptic inoviruses revealed as pervasive in bacteria and archaea across Earth’s biomes
Bacteriophages from the Inoviridae family (inoviruses) are characterized by their unique morphology, genome content and infection cycle. One of the most striking features of inoviruses is their ability to establi...
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Open AccessMetagenomes and metatranscriptomes from boreal potential and actual acid sulfate soil materials
Natural sulfide rich deposits are common in coastal areas worldwide, including along the Baltic Sea coast. When artificial drainage exposes these deposits to atmospheric oxygen, iron sulfide minerals in the so...
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Open AccessMicrobiomes of Velloziaceae from phosphorus-impoverished soils of the campos rupestres, a biodiversity hotspot
The rocky, seasonally-dry and nutrient-impoverished soils of the Brazilian campos rupestres impose severe growth-limiting conditions on plants. Species of a dominant plant family, Velloziaceae, are highly special...
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Open AccessMicrobial metagenomes and metatranscriptomes during a coastal phytoplankton bloom
Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic time-series data covering a 52-day period in the fall of 2016 provide an inventory of bacterial and archaeal community genes, transcripts, and taxonomy during an intense dino...
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Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks
Microbiomes from every environment contain a myriad of uncultivated archaeal and bacterial viruses, but studying these viruses is hampered by the lack of a universal, scalable taxonomic framework. We present v...
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Open AccessNumerous cultivated and uncultivated viruses encode ribosomal proteins
Viruses modulate ecosystems by directly altering host metabolisms through auxiliary metabolic genes. However, viral genomes are not known to encode the core components of translation machinery, such as ribosom...
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Viruses control dominant bacteria colonizing the terrestrial deep biosphere after hydraulic fracturing
The deep terrestrial biosphere harbours a substantial fraction of Earth’s biomass and remains understudied compared with other ecosystems. Deep biosphere life primarily consists of bacteria and archaea, yet kn...
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Open AccessMinimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG)
This paper presents standards and best practices for reporting genome sequences of uncultivated viruses.
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Open AccessInterspecies cross-feeding orchestrates carbon degradation in the rumen ecosystem
Because of their agricultural value, there is a great body of research dedicated to understanding the microorganisms responsible for rumen carbon degradation. However, we lack a holistic view of the microbial ...
