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Single-cell genomics of a bloom-forming phytoplankton species reveals population genetic structure across continents ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Raphael Gollnisch, Dag Ahrén, Karin Rengefors
The study of microbial diversity over time and space is fundamental to the understanding of their ecology and evolution. The underlying processes driving these patterns are not fully resolved but can be studied using population genetic approaches. Here we investigated the population genetic structure of Gonyostomum semen, a bloom-forming phytoplankton species, across two continents. The species appears
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In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Doaa Higazy, Anh Duc Pham, J G Coen van Hasselt, Niels Høiby, Lars Jelsbak, Claus Moser, Oana Ciofu
The evolution of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in biofilms has been repeatedly studied by experimental evolution in vitro, but rarely in vivo. The complex microenvironment at the infection site imposes selective pressures on the bacterial biofilms, potentially influencing the development of AMR. We report here the development of AMR in an in vivo mouse model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm lung
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Niche differentiation in microbial communities with stable genomic traits over time in engineered systems ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jinjin Yu, Justin Y Y Lee, Siang Nee Tang, Patrick K H Lee
Microbial communities in full-scale engineered systems undergo dynamic compositional changes. However, mechanisms governing assembly of such microbes and succession of their functioning and genomic traits under various environmental conditions are unclear. In this study, we used the activated sludge (AS) and anaerobic treatment systems of four full-scale industrial wastewater treatment plants as models
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Enigmatic persistence of aerobic methanotrophs in oxygen-limiting freshwater habitats ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Paula C J Reis, Jackson M Tsuji, Cerrise Weiblen, Sherry L Schiff, Matthew Scott, Lisa Y Stein, Josh D Neufeld
Methanotrophic bacteria mitigate emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane (CH4) from a variety of anthropogenic and natural sources, including freshwater lakes, which are large sources of CH4 on a global scale. Despite a dependence on dioxygen (O2) for CH4 oxidation, abundant populations of putatively aerobic methanotrophs have been detected within microoxic and anoxic waters and sediments of
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Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteriocin A37 kills natural competitors with a unique mechanism of action ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jan-Samuel Puls, Benjamin Winnerling, Jeffrey John Power, Annika Marie Krüger, Dominik Brajtenbach, Matthew Johnson, Kevser Bilici, Laura Camus, Thomas Fließwasser, Tanja Schneider, Hans-Georg Sahl, Debnath Ghosal, Ulrich Kubitscheck, Simon Heilbronner, Fabian Grein
Many bacteria produce antimicrobial compounds such as lantibiotics to gain advantage in the competitive natural environments of microbiomes. Epilancins constitute an until now underexplored family of lantibiotics with an unknown ecological role and unresolved mode of action. We discovered production of an epilancin in the nasal isolate Staphylococcus epidermidis A37. Using bioinformatic tools, we found
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SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Xuehua Liu, Zhicheng Zuo, Xiujun Xie, Shan Gao, Songcui Wu, Wenhui Gu, Guangce Wang
Diatom bloom is characterized by a rapid increase of population density. Perception of population density and physiological responses can significantly influence their survival strategies, subsequently impacting bloom fate. The population density itself can serve as a signal, which is perceived through chemical signals or chlorophyll fluorescence signals triggered by high cell density, and their intracellular
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Phylogenomic position of eupelagonemids, abundant and diverse deep-ocean heterotrophs ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Gordon Lax, Noriko Okamoto, Patrick J Keeling
Eupelagonemids, formerly known as Deep Sea Pelagic Diplonemids I (DSPD I), are among the most abundant and diverse heterotrophic protists in the deep ocean, but little else is known about their ecology, evolution, or biology in general. Originally recognized solely as a large clade of environmental ribosomal subunit RNA gene sequences (SSU rRNA), branching with a smaller sister group DSPD II, they
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Cell-to-cell heterogeneity drives host-virus coexistence in a bloom-forming alga ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Nir Joffe, Constanze Kuhlisch, Guy Schleyer, Nadia Samira Ahlers, Adva Shemi, Assaf Vardi
Algal blooms drive global biogeochemical cycles of key nutrients and serve as hotspots for biological interactions in the ocean. The massive blooms of the cosmopolitan coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi are often infected by the lytic E. huxleyi virus (EhV), which is a major mortality agent triggering bloom demise. This multi-annual “boom and bust” pattern of E. huxleyi blooms suggests that coexistence
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Methylotrophic methanogenesis in the Archaeoglobi revealed by cultivation of Ca. Methanoglobus hypatiae from a Yellowstone hot spring ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Mackenzie M Lynes, Zackary J Jay, Anthony J Kohtz, Roland Hatzenpichler
Over the past decade, environmental metagenomics and PCR-based marker gene surveys have revealed that several lineages beyond just a few well-established groups within the Euryarchaeota superphylum harbor the genetic potential for methanogenesis. One of these groups are the Archaeoglobi, a class of thermophilic euryarchaeotes that have long been considered to live non-methanogenic lifestyles. Here
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Bacterial adenine cross-feeding stems from a purine salvage bottleneck ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Ying-Chih Chuang, Nicholas W Haas, Robert Pepin, Megan G Behringer, Yasuhiro Oda, Breah LaSarre, Caroline S Harwood, James B McKinlay
Diverse ecosystems host microbial relationships that are stabilized by nutrient cross-feeding. Cross-feeding can involve metabolites that should hold value for the producer. Externalization of such communally valuable metabolites is often unexpected and difficult to predict. Previously, we discovered purine externalization by Rhodopseudomonas palustris by its ability to rescue an Escherichia coli purine
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High niche specificity and host genetic diversity of groundwater viruses ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Emilie Gios, Olivia E Mosley, Michael Hoggard, Kim M Handley
Viruses are key members of microbial communities that exert control over host abundance and metabolism, thereby influencing ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycles. Aquifers are known to host taxonomically diverse microbial life, yet little is known about viruses infecting groundwater microbial communities. Here, we analyzed 16 metagenomes from a broad range of groundwater physicochemistries
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Nitrous oxide inhibition of methanogenesis represents an underappreciated greenhouse gas emission feedback ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Yongchao Yin, Fadime Kara-Murdoch, Robert W Murdoch, Jun Yan, Gao Chen, Yongchao Xie, Yanchen Sun, Frank E Löffler
Methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are major greenhouse gases predominantly generated by microbial activities in anoxic environments. N2O inhibition of methanogenesis has been reported but comprehensive efforts to obtain kinetic information are lacking. Using the model methanogen Methanosarcina barkeri strain Fusaro and digester sludge-derived methanogenic enrichment cultures, we conducted growth
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Impact of airborne algicidal bacteria on marine phytoplankton blooms ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Naama Lang-Yona, J Michel Flores, Tal Sharon Nir-Zadock, Inbal Nussbaum, Ilan Koren, Assaf Vardi
Ocean microbes are involved in global processes such as nutrient and carbon cycling. Recent studies indicated diverse modes of algal-bacterial interactions, including mutualism and pathogenicity, which have a substantial impact on ecology and oceanic carbon sequestration, and hence on climate. However, the airborne dispersal and pathogenicity of bacteria in the marine ecosystem remained elusive. Here
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Coordinated transcriptional response to environmental stress by a Synechococcus virus ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Branko Rihtman, Alberto Torcello-Requena, Alevtina Mikhaylina, Richard J Puxty, Martha R J Clokie, Andrew D Millard, David J Scanlan
Viruses are a major control on populations of microbes. Often, their virulence is examined in controlled laboratory conditions. Yet, in nature, environmental conditions lead to changes in host physiology and fitness that may impart both costs and benefits on viral success. Phosphorus (P) is a major abiotic control on the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus. Some viruses infecting Synechococcus have
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Gut microbiota facilitate adaptation of invasive moths to new host plants ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Shouke Zhang, Feng Song, Jie Wang, Xiayu Li, Yuxin Zhang, Wenwu Zhou, Letian Xu
Gut microbiota are important in the adaptation of phytophagous insects to their plant hosts. However, the interaction between gut microbiomes and pioneering populations of invasive insects during their adaptation to new hosts, particularly in the initial phases of invasion, has been less studied. We studied the contribution of the gut microbiome to host adaptation in the globally recognized invasive
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Pollutant profile complexity governs wastewater removal of recalcitrant pharmaceuticals ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Marcel Suleiman, Natalie Le Lay, Francesca Demaria, Boris A Kolvenbach, Mariana S Cretoiu, Owen L Petchey, Alexandre Jousset, Philippe F-X Corvini
Organic pollutants are an increasing threat for wildlife and humans. Managing their removal is however complicated by the difficulties in predicting degradation rates. In this work we demonstrate that the complexity of the pollutant profile, the set of co-existing contaminants, is a major driver of biodegradation in wastewater. We built representative assemblages out of one to five common pharmaceuticals
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Isolation of a widespread giant virus implicated in cryptophyte bloom collapse ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Helena Henriques Vieira, Paul-Adrian Bulzu, Vojtěch Kasalicky, Markus Haber, Petr Znachor, Kasia Piwosz, Rohit Ghai
Photosynthetic cryptophytes are ubiquitous protists that are major participants in the freshwater phytoplankton bloom at the onset of spring. Mortality due to change in environmental conditions and grazing have been recognized as key factors contributing to bloom collapse. In contrast, the role of viral outbreaks as factors terminating phytoplankton blooms remains unknown from freshwaters. Here, we
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Entomopathogenic pseudomonads can share an insect host with entomopathogenic nematodes and their mutualistic bacteria ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Maria Zwyssig, Anna Spescha, Tabea Patt, Adrian Belosevic, Ricardo A R Machado, Alice Regaiolo, Christoph Keel, Monika Maurhofer
A promising strategy to overcome limitations in biological control of insect pests is the combined application of entomopathogenic pseudomonads (EPPs) and nematodes (EPNs) associated with mutualistic bacteria (NABs). Yet, little is known about interspecies interactions such as competition, coexistence, or even cooperation between these entomopathogens when they infect the same insect host. We investigated
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Stronger compensatory thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration with higher substrate availability ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Lingrui Qu, Chao Wang, Stefano Manzoni, Marina Dacal, Fernando T Maestre, Edith Bai
Ongoing global warming is expected to augment soil respiration by increasing microbial activity, driving self-reinforcing feedback to climate change. However, the compensatory thermal adaptation of soil microorganisms and substrate depletion may weaken the effects of rising temperature on soil respiration. To test this hypothesis, we collected soils along a large-scale forest transect in eastern China
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Transglobal spread of an ecologically relevant sea urchin parasite ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Isabella T Ritchie, Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas, Ashley Altera, Kaileigh Cornfield, Ceri Evans, James S Evans, Maria Hopson-Fernandes, Christina A Kellogg, Elayne Looker, Oliver Taylor, Ian Hewson, Mya Breitbart
Mass mortality of the dominant coral reef herbivore Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean in the early 1980s led to a persistent phase shift from coral- to algal-dominated reefs. In 2022, a scuticociliate most closely related to Philaster apodigitiformis caused further mass mortality of D. antillarum across the Caribbean, leading to >95% mortality at affected sites. Mortality was also reported in the
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Surface-active antibiotic production as a multifunctional adaptation for postfire microorganisms ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Mira D Liu, Yongle Du, Sara K Koupaei, Nicole R Kim, Monika S Fischer, Wenjun Zhang, Matthew F Traxler
Wildfires affect soils in multiple ways, leading to numerous challenges for colonizing microorganisms. While it is thought that fire-adapted microorganisms lie at the forefront of postfire ecosystem recovery, the specific strategies that these organisms use to thrive in burned soils remain largely unknown. Through bioactivity screening of bacterial isolates from burned soils, we discovered that several
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Commensal protist Tritrichomonas musculus exhibits a dynamic life cycle that induces extensive remodeling of the gut microbiota ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ana Popovic, Eric Yixiao Cao, Joanna Han, Nirvana Nursimulu, Eliza V C Alves-Ferreira, Kyle Burrows, Andrea Kennard, Noor Alsmadi, Michael E Grigg, Arthur Mortha, John Parkinson
Commensal protists and gut bacterial communities exhibit complex relationships, mediated at least in part through host immunity. To improve our understanding of this tripartite interplay, we investigated community and functional dynamics between the murine protist Tritrichomonas musculus (Tmu) and intestinal bacteria in healthy and B cell-deficient mice. We identified dramatic, protist-driven remodeling
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Selection of photosynthetic traits by turbulent mixing governs formation of cyanobacterial blooms in shallow eutrophic lakes ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Huaming Wu, Xingqiang Wu, Lorenzo Rovelli, Andreas Lorke
Prediction of the complex cyanobacteria-environment interactions is vital for understanding harmful bloom formation. Most previous studies on these interactions considered specific properties of cyanobacterial cells as representative for the entire population (e.g., growth rate, mortality, and photosynthetic capacity (Pmax)), and assumed that they remained spatiotemporally unchanged. Although, at the
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Coral mucus as a reservoir of bacteriophages targeting Vibrio pathogens ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Esther Rubio-Portillo, Sophia Robertson, Josefa Antón
The increasing trend in sea surface temperature promotes the spread of Vibrio species, which are known to cause diseases in a wide range of marine organisms. Among these pathogens, Vibrio mediterranei has emerged as a significant threat, leading to bleaching in the coral species Oculina patagonica. Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria, thereby regulating microbial communities
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Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Elias Broman, Markus Olsson, Adele Maciute, Daniel Donald, Christoph Humborg, Alf Norkko, Tom Jilbert, Stefano Bonaglia, Francisco J A Nascimento
Coastal ecosystems dominate oceanic methane (CH4) emissions. However, there is limited knowledge about how biotic interactions between infauna and aerobic methanotrophs (i.e. CH4 oxidizing bacteria) drive the spatial–temporal dynamics of these emissions. Here, we investigated the role of meio- and macrofauna in mediating CH4 sediment–water fluxes and aerobic methanotrophic activity that can oxidize
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Interspecific interactions facilitate keystone species in a multispecies biofilm that promotes plant growth ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Nan Yang, Henriette L Røder, Wisnu Adi Wicaksono, Birgit Wassermann, Jakob Russel, Xuanji Li, Joseph Nesme, Gabriele Berg, Søren J Sørensen, Mette Burmølle
Microorganisms colonizing plant roots co-exist in complex, spatially structured multispecies biofilm communities. However, little is known about microbial interactions and the underlying spatial organization within biofilm communities established on plant roots. Here, a well-established four-species biofilm model (Stenotrophomonas rhizophila, Paenibacillus amylolyticus, Microbacterium oxydans and Xanthomonas
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Dynamics of carbon substrate competition among heterotrophic microorganisms. ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Samuel M McNichol, Fernando Sanchez-Quete, Stephanie K Loeb, Andreas Teske, Sunita R Shah Walter, Nagissa Mahmoudi
Growing evidence suggests that interactions among heterotrophic microorganisms influence the efficiency and rate of organic matter turnover. These interactions are dynamic and shaped by the composition and availability of resources in their surrounding environment. Heterotrophic microorganisms inhabiting marine environments often encounter fluctuations in the quality and quantity of carbon inputs,
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VapC10 toxin of the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti targets tRNASer and controls intracellular lifestyle ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Camille Syska, Aurélie Kiers, Corinne Rancurel, Marc Bailly-Bechet, Justine Lipuma, Geneviève Alloing, Isabelle Garcia, Laurence Dupont
The soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti can establish a nitrogen fixing symbiosis with the model legume Medicago truncatula. The rhizobia induce the formation of a specialized root organ called nodule, where they differentiate into bacteroids and reduce atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia. Little is known on the mechanisms involved in nodule senescence onset and in bacteroid survival inside the infected
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Microorganisms oxidize glucose through distinct pathways in permeable and cohesive sediments ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Tess F Hutchinson, Adam J Kessler, Wei Wen Wong, Puspitaningsih Hall, Pok Man Leung, Thanavit Jirapanjawat, Chris Greening, Ronnie N Glud, Perran L M Cook
In marine sediments, microbial degradation of organic matter under anoxic conditions is generally thought to proceed through fermentation to volatile fatty acids (VFA), which are then oxidized to CO2 coupled to the reduction of terminal electron acceptors (e.g. nitrate, iron, manganese and sulfate). It has been suggested that, in environments with a highly variable oxygen regime, fermentation mediated
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Protozoan predation enhances stress resistance and antibiotic tolerance in Burkholderia cenocepacia by triggering the SOS response ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Álvaro Morón, Alaa E Tarhouchi, Iván Belinchón, Juan M Valenzuela, Patricia de Francisco, Ana Martín-González, Francisco Amaro
Bacterivorous protists are thought to serve as training grounds for bacterial pathogens by subjecting them to the same hostile conditions that they will encounter in the human host. Bacteria that survive intracellular digestion exhibit enhanced virulence and stress resistance after successful passage through protozoa but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Here we show that the opportunistic pathogen
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The constructive black queen hypothesis: new functions can evolve under conditions favouring gene loss ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Nobuto Takeuchi, Matthew S Fullmer, Danielle J Maddock, Anthony M Poole
Duplication is a major route for emergence of new gene functions. However, emergence of new gene function via this route may be reduced in prokaryotes, as redundant genes are often rapidly purged. In lineages with compact, streamlined genomes, it thus appears challenging for novel function to emerge via duplication and divergence. A further pressure contributing to gene loss occurs under Black Queen
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Rice receptor kinase FLR7 regulates rhizosphere oxygen levels and enriches the dominant Anaeromyxobacter that improves submergence tolerance in rice ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Hong-Bin Liu, Hong-Xia Sun, Li-Qiong Du, Ling-Li Jiang, Lin-An Zhang, Yin-Yao Qi, Jun Cai, Feng Yu
Oxygen is one of the determinants of root microbiome formation. However, whether plants regulate rhizosphere oxygen levels to affect microbiota composition and the underlying molecular mechanisms remain elusive. The receptor-like kinase (RLK) family member FERONIA modulates the growth–defense tradeoff in Arabidopsis. Here, we established that rice FERONIA-like RLK 7 (FLR7) controls rhizosphere oxygen
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Pleomorphic viruses establish stable relationship with marine hyperthermophilic archaea ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Diana P Baquero, Eduardo A Bignon, Mart Krupovic
Non-lytic viruses with enveloped pleomorphic virions (family Pleolipoviridae) are ubiquitous in hypersaline environments across the globe and are associated with nearly all major lineages of halophilic archaea. However, their existence in other ecosystems remains largely unknown. Here, we show that evolutionarily related viruses also infect hyperthermophilic archaea thriving in deep-sea hydrothermal
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Climate acts as an environmental filter to plant pathogens ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Maria Caballol, Miguel Ángel Redondo, Núria Catalán, Tamara Corcobado, Thomas Jung, Benoît Marçais, Ivan Milenković, Miguel Nemesio-Gorriz, Jan Stenlid, Jonàs Oliva
Climate shapes the distribution of plant-associated microbes such as mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi. However, the role of climate in plant pathogen community assembly is less understood. Here, we explored the role of climate in the assembly of Phytophthora communities at >250 sites along a latitudinal gradient from Spain to northern Sweden and an altitudinal gradient from the Spanish Pyrenees to
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Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Patricia Sanches, Consuelo M. De Moraes, Mark C. Mescher
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Ginsenoside Rg3 enriches SCFA-producing commensal bacteria to confer protection against enteric viral infection via the cGAS-STING-type I IFN axis ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Gan Wang, Jingtianyi Liu, Yanan Zhang, Jinyan Xie, Shuxian Chen, Yuhua Shi, Fushan Shi, Shu Jeffrey Zhu
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Widespread and largely unknown prophage activity, diversity, and function in two genera of wheat phyllosphere bacteria ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Peter Erdmann Dougherty, Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen, Leise Riber, Helen Helgå Lading, Laura Milena Forero-Junco, Witold Kot, Jos M. Raaijmakers, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen
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Filamentous virus-like particles are present in coral dinoflagellates across genera and ocean basins ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Lauren I. Howe-Kerr, Anna M. Knochel, Matthew D. Meyer, Jordan A. Sims, Carly E. Karrick, Carsten G. B. Grupstra, Alex J. Veglia, Andrew R. Thurber, Rebecca L. Vega Thurber, Adrienne M. S. Correa
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Coordinated proteome change precedes cell lysis and death in a mat-forming cyanobacterium ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Jackie Zorz, Alexandre J. Paquette, Timber Gillis, Angela Kouris, Varada Khot, Cigdem Demirkaya, Hector De La Hoz Siegler, Marc Strous, Agasteswar Vadlamani
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Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomyces species ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Tagide deCarvalho, Elia Mascolo, Steven M. Caruso, Júlia López-Pérez, Kathleen Weston-Hafer, Christopher Shaffer, Ivan Erill
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Amino acid auxotrophies in human gut bacteria are linked to higher microbiome diversity and long-term stability ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Svenja Starke, Danielle M. M. Harris, Johannes Zimmermann, Sven Schuchardt, Mhmd Oumari, Derk Frank, Corinna Bang, Philip Rosenstiel, Stefan Schreiber, Norbert Frey, Andre Franke, Konrad Aden, Silvio Waschina
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Relationships between intrinsic population growth rate, carrying capacity and metabolism in microbial populations ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Dustin J. Marshall, Hayley E. Cameron, Michel Loreau
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Strain-level diversity of symbiont communities between individuals and populations of a bioluminescent fish ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 A. L. Gould, S. A. Donohoo, E. D. Román, E. E. Neff
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Predation-resistant Pseudomonas bacteria engage in symbiont-like behavior with the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Margaret I. Steele, Jessica M. Peiser, P. M. Shreenidhi, Joan E. Strassmann, David C. Queller
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Diverse electron carriers drive syntrophic interactions in an enriched anaerobic acetate-oxidizing consortium ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Elizabeth A. McDaniel, Matthew Scarborough, Daniel Girma Mulat, Xuan Lin, Pranav S. Sampara, Heather M. Olson, Robert P. Young, Elizabeth K. Eder, Isaac K. Attah, Lye Meng Markillie, David W. Hoyt, Mary S. Lipton, Steven J. Hallam, Ryan M. Ziels
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Microbial drivers of DMSO reduction and DMS-dependent methanogenesis in saltmarsh sediments ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Dennis Alexander Tebbe, Charlotte Gruender, Leon Dlugosch, Kertu Lõhmus, Sönke Rolfes, Martin Könneke, Yin Chen, Bert Engelen, Hendrik Schäfer
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Phylogenetic and ecophysiological novelty of subsurface mercury methylators in mangrove sediments ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Songfeng Liu, Ruiwen Hu, Nenglong Peng, Zhengyuan Zhou, Ruihan Chen, Zhili He, Cheng Wang
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Identification and cultivation of anaerobic bacterial scavengers of dead cells ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Yuga Hirakata, Ran Mei, Kana Morinaga, Taiki Katayama, Hideyuki Tamaki, Xian-ying Meng, Takahiro Watari, Takashi Yamaguchi, Masashi Hatamoto, Masaru K. Nobu
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Genomic and transcriptomic insights into complex virus–prokaryote interactions in marine biofilms ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Kun Zhou, Tin Yan Wong, Lexin Long, Karthik Anantharaman, Weipeng Zhang, Wai Chuen Wong, Rui Zhang, Pei-Yuan Qian
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Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Alicia M. Purcell, Paul Dijkstra, Bruce A. Hungate, Kelly McMillen, Egbert Schwartz, Natasja van Gestel
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Mutualism reduces the severity of gene disruptions in predictable ways across microbial communities ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Jonathan N. V. Martinson, Jeremy M. Chacón, Brian A. Smith, Alex R. Villarreal, Ryan C. Hunter, William R. Harcombe
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Transitivity and intransitivity in soil bacterial networks ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Miguel Verdú, Julio M. Alcántara, Jose A. Navarro-Cano, Marta Goberna
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Progress and challenges in exploring aquatic microbial communities using non-targeted metabolomics ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Monica Thukral, Andrew E. Allen, Daniel Petras
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Microbial volatiles mediate bacterial evolutionary dynamics ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Muhammad Syamsu Rizaludin, Paolina Garbeva, Mark Zwart, Jie Hu
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Ongoing diversification of the global fish pathogen Piscirickettsia salmonis through genetic isolation and transposition bursts ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Isabel Schober, Boyke Bunk, Gabriela Carril, Heike M. Freese, Nicolás Ojeda, Thomas Riedel, Jan P. Meier-Kolthoff, Markus Göker, Cathrin Spröer, Patricio A. Flores-Herrera, Guillermo Nourdin-Galindo, Fernando Gómez, Constanza Cárdenas, Felipe Vásquez-Ponce, Alvaro Labra, Jaime Figueroa, Jorge Olivares-Pacheco, Ulrich Nübel, Johannes Sikorski, Sergio H. Marshall, Jörg Overmann
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Community composition and physiological plasticity control microbial carbon storage across natural and experimental soil fertility gradients ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Orpheus M. Butler, Stefano Manzoni, Charles R. Warren
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Nutrient supplementation by genome-eroded Burkholderia symbionts of scale insects ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Anna Michalik, Eugen Bauer, Teresa Szklarzewicz, Martin Kaltenpoth
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Soil bacterium manipulates antifungal weapons by sensing intracellular type IVA secretion system effectors of a competitor ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Bingxin Wang, Zeyu Zhang, Fugui Xu, Zixiang Yang, Zihan Li, Danyu Shen, Limin Wang, Huijun Wu, Tao Li, Qing Yan, Qi Wei, Xiaolong Shao, Guoliang Qian
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Land use conversion increases network complexity and stability of soil microbial communities in a temperate grassland ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Carolyn R. Cornell, Ya Zhang, Daliang Ning, Naijia Xiao, Pradeep Wagle, Xiangming Xiao, Jizhong Zhou
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Human milk oligosaccharides modify the strength of priority effects in the Bifidobacterium community assembly during infancy ISME J. (IF 11.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Martin F. Laursen, Henrik M. Roager