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Microdiversification in genome-streamlined ubiquitous freshwater Actinobacteria by Neuenschwander, Stefan M, Ghai, Rohit, Pernthaler, Jakob, Salcher, Michaela M

“…Actinobacteria of the acI lineage are the most abundant microbes in freshwater systems, but there are so far no pure living cultures of these organisms,…”
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Evolution in action: habitat transition from sediment to the pelagial leads to genome streamlining in Methylophilaceae by Salcher, Michaela M., Schaefle, Daniel, Kaspar, Melissa, Neuenschwander, Stefan M., Ghai, Rohit

“…The most abundant aquatic microbes are small in cell and genome size. Genome-streamlining theory predicts gene loss caused by evolutionary selection driven by…”
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Key roles for freshwater Actinobacteria revealed by deep metagenomic sequencing by Ghai, Rohit, Mizuno, Carolina Megumi, Picazo, Antonio, Camacho, Antonio, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco

“…Freshwater ecosystems are critical but fragile environments directly affecting society and its welfare. However, our understanding of genuinely freshwater…”
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Expanding the marine virosphere using metagenomics by Mizuno, Carolina Megumi, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco, Kimes, Nikole E, Ghai, Rohit

“…Viruses infecting prokaryotic cells (phages) are the most abundant entities of the biosphere and contain a largely uncharted wealth of genomic diversity. They…”
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The enigmatic SAR202 cluster up close: shedding light on a globally distributed dark ocean lineage involved in sulfur cycling by Mehrshad, Maliheh, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco, Amoozegar, Mohammad Ali, López-García, Purificación, Ghai, Rohit

“…The dark ocean microbiota represents the unknown majority in the global ocean waters. The SAR202 cluster belonging to the phylum Chloroflexi was the first…”
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Metagenomics uncovers a new group of low GC and ultra-small marine Actinobacteria by Ghai, Rohit, Mizuno, Carolina Megumi, Picazo, Antonio, Camacho, Antonio, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco

“…We describe a deep-branching lineage of marine Actinobacteria with very low GC content (33%) and the smallest free living cells described yet (cell volume ca…”
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Expanded Diversity and Metabolic Versatility of Marine Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria Revealed by Cultivation- and Genomics-Based Approaches by Park, Soo-Je, Andrei, Adrian-Ştefan, Bulzu, Paul-Adrian, Kavagutti, Vinicius S, Ghai, Rohit, Mosier, Annika C

“…Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) are ubiquitous and abundant microorganisms that play key roles in global nitrogen and carbon biogeochemical cycling. Despite…”
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Niche-directed evolution modulates genome architecture in freshwater Planctomycetes by Andrei, Adrian-Ştefan, Salcher, Michaela M., Mehrshad, Maliheh, Rychtecký, Pavel, Znachor, Petr, Ghai, Rohit

“…Freshwater environments teem with microbes that do not have counterparts in culture collections or genetic data available in genomic repositories. Currently,…”
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Microbiome of the deep Lake Baikal, a unique oxic bathypelagic habitat by Cabello-Yeves, Pedro J., Zemskaya, Tamara I., Zakharenko, Alexandra S., Sakirko, Mariya V., Ivanov, Vyacheslav G., Ghai, Rohit, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco

“…Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. Its depth provides the only bathypelagic (> 1000 m deep) freshwater habitat on Earth and its oxic,…”
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A metagenomics roadmap to the uncultured genome diversity in hypersaline soda lake sediments by Vavourakis, Charlotte D, Andrei, Adrian-Stefan, Mehrshad, Maliheh, Ghai, Rohit, Sorokin, Dimitry Y, Muyzer, Gerard

“…Hypersaline soda lakes are characterized by extreme high soluble carbonate alkalinity. Despite the high pH and salt content, highly diverse microbial…”
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Metagenomes and metatranscriptomes shed new light on the microbial-mediated sulfur cycle in a Siberian soda lake by Vavourakis, Charlotte D, Mehrshad, Maliheh, Balkema, Cherel, van Hall, Rutger, Andrei, Adrian-Ştefan, Ghai, Rohit, Sorokin, Dimitry Y, Muyzer, Gerard

“…The planetary sulfur cycle is a complex web of chemical reactions that can be microbial-mediated or can occur spontaneously in the environment, depending on…”
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Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche by Bulzu, Paul-Adrian, Andrei, Adrian-Ştefan, Salcher, Michaela M., Mehrshad, Maliheh, Inoue, Keiichi, Kandori, Hideki, Beja, Oded, Ghai, Rohit, Banciu, Horia L.

“…Recent advances in phylogenomic analyses and increased genomic sampling of uncultured prokaryotic lineages have brought compelling evidence in support of the…”
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Phage-centric ecological interactions in aquatic ecosystems revealed through ultra-deep metagenomics by Kavagutti, Vinicius S, Andrei, Adrian-Ştefan, Mehrshad, Maliheh, Salcher, Michaela M, Ghai, Rohit

“…The persistent inertia in the ability to culture environmentally abundant microbes from aquatic ecosystems represents an obstacle in disentangling the complex…”
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Reconstruction of Diverse Verrucomicrobial Genomes from Metagenome Datasets of Freshwater Reservoirs by Cabello-Yeves, Pedro J, Ghai, Rohit, Mehrshad, Maliheh, Picazo, Antonio, Camacho, Antonio, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco

“…The phylum contains freshwater representatives which remain poorly studied at the genomic, taxonomic, and ecological levels. In this work we present eighteen…”
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Cryptic and ubiquitous aplastidic cryptophytes are key freshwater flagellated bacterivores by Šimek, Karel, Mukherjee, Indranil, Szöke-Nagy, Tiberiu, Haber, Markus, Salcher, Michaela M., Ghai, Rohit

“…Morphology-based microscopic approaches are insufficient for a taxonomic classification of bacterivorous heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF) in aquatic…”
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Metagenomic recovery of phage genomes of uncultured freshwater actinobacteria by Ghai, Rohit, Mehrshad, Maliheh, Mizuno, Carolina Megumi, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco

“…Low-GC Actinobacteria are among the most abundant and widespread microbes in freshwaters and have largely resisted all cultivation efforts. Consequently, their…”
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Genomes of Abundant and Widespread Viruses from the Deep Ocean by Mizuno, Carolina Megumi, Ghai, Rohit, Saghaï, Aurélien, López-García, Purificación, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco

“…The deep sea is a massive, largely oligotrophic ecosystem, stretched over nearly 65% of the planet's surface. Deep-sea planktonic communities are almost…”
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Hidden in plain sight-highly abundant and diverse planktonic freshwater Chloroflexi by Mehrshad, Maliheh, Salcher, Michaela M, Okazaki, Yusuke, Nakano, Shin-Ichi, Šimek, Karel, Andrei, Adrian-Stefan, Ghai, Rohit

“…Representatives of the phylum Chloroflexi, though reportedly highly abundant in the extensive deep water habitats of both marine (SAR202 up to 30% of total…”
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Isolation of phages infecting the abundant freshwater Actinobacteriota order ‘Ca. Nanopelagicales’ by Kavagutti, Vinicius S., Chiriac, Maria-Cecilia, Ghai, Rohit, Salcher, Michaela M., Haber, Markus

“…Low-GC Actinobacteriota of the order ‘ Ca . Nanopelagicales’ (also known as acI or hgcI clade) are abundant in freshwaters around the globe. Extensive…”
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New Abundant Microbial Groups in Aquatic Hypersaline Environments by Ghai, Rohit, Pašić, Lejla, Fernández, Ana Beatriz, Martin-Cuadrado, Ana-Belen, Mizuno, Carolina Megumi, McMahon, Katherine D., Papke, R. Thane, Stepanauskas, Ramunas, Rodriguez-Brito, Beltran, Rohwer, Forest, Sánchez-Porro, Cristina, Ventosa, Antonio, Rodríguez-Valera, Francisco

“…We describe the microbiota of two hypersaline saltern ponds, one of intermediate salinity (19%) and a NaCl saturated crystallizer pond (37%) using…”
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