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Metabolic diversity within the globally abundant Marine Group II Euryarchaea offers insight into ecological patterns by Tully, Benjamin J.

“…Despite their discovery over 25 years ago, the Marine Group II Euryarchaea (MGII) remain a difficult group of organisms to study, lacking cultured isolates and…”
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The reconstruction of 2,631 draft metagenome-assembled genomes from the global oceans by Tully, Benjamin J., Graham, Elaina D., Heidelberg, John F.

“…Microorganisms play a crucial role in mediating global biogeochemical cycles in the marine environment. By reconstructing the genomes of environmental…”
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Marine Dadabacteria exhibit genome streamlining and phototrophy-driven niche partitioning by Graham, Elaina D., Tully, Benjamin J.

“…The remineralization of organic material via heterotrophy in the marine environment is performed by a diverse and varied group of microorganisms that can…”
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BinSanity: unsupervised clustering of environmental microbial assemblies using coverage and affinity propagation by Graham, Elaina D, Heidelberg, John F, Tully, Benjamin J

“…Metagenomics has become an integral part of defining microbial diversity in various environments. Many ecosystems have characteristically low biomass and few…”
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Potential Mechanisms for Microbial Energy Acquisition in Oxic Deep-Sea Sediments by Tully, Benjamin J, Heidelberg, John F

“…The South Pacific Gyre (SPG) possesses the lowest rates of sedimentation, surface chlorophyll concentration, and primary productivity in the global oceans. As…”
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Time-series transcriptomics from cold, oxic subseafloor crustal fluids reveals a motile, mixotrophic microbial community by Seyler, Lauren M., Trembath-Reichert, Elizabeth, Tully, Benjamin J., Huber, Julie A.

“…The oceanic crustal aquifer is one of the largest habitable volumes on Earth, and it harbors a reservoir of microbial life that influences global-scale…”
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Biases in genome reconstruction from metagenomic data by Nelson, William C, Tully, Benjamin J, Mobberley, Jennifer M

“…Advances in sequencing, assembly, and assortment of contigs into species-specific bins has enabled the reconstruction of genomes from metagenomic data (MAGs)…”
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Microbial Populations Are Shaped by Dispersal and Recombination in a Low Biomass Subseafloor Habitat by Anderson, Rika E., Graham, Elaina D., Huber, Julie A., Tully, Benjamin J.

“…The subseafloor is a vast habitat that supports microorganisms that have a global scale impact on geochemical cycles. Many of the endemic microbial communities…”
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Eukaryotic genomes from a global metagenomic data set illuminate trophic modes and biogeography of ocean plankton by Alexander, Harriet, Hu, Sarah K, Krinos, Arianna I, Pachiadaki, Maria, Tully, Benjamin J, Neely, Christopher J, Reiter, Taylor

“…Metagenomics is a powerful method for interpreting the ecological roles and physiological capabilities of mixed microbial communities. Yet, many tools for…”
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290 metagenome-assembled genomes from the Mediterranean Sea: a resource for marine microbiology by Tully, Benjamin J, Sachdeva, Rohan, Graham, Elaina D, Heidelberg, John F

“…The Expedition has provided large, publicly-accessible microbial metagenomic datasets from a circumnavigation of the globe. Utilizing several size fractions…”
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Metagenomic analysis of a complex marine planktonic thaumarchaeal community from the Gulf of Maine by Tully, Benjamin J., Nelson, William C., Heidelberg, John F.

“…Summary Thaumarchaea, which represent as much as 20% of prokaryotic biomass in the open ocean, have been linked to environmentally relevant biogeochemical…”
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A distinct and active bacterial community in cold oxygenated fluids circulating beneath the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic ridge by Meyer, Julie L., Jaekel, Ulrike, Tully, Benjamin J., Glazer, Brian T., Wheat, C. Geoffrey, Lin, Huei-Ting, Hsieh, Chih-Chiang, Cowen, James P., Hulme, Samuel M., Girguis, Peter R., Huber, Julie A.

“…The rock-hosted, oceanic crustal aquifer is one of the largest ecosystems on Earth, yet little is known about its indigenous microorganisms. Here we provide…”
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Increasing transposase abundance with ocean depth correlates with a particle-associated lifestyle by Zhong, Juntao, Osborn, Troy, Del Rosario Hernández, Thais, Kyrysyuk, Oleksandr, Tully, Benjamin J, Anderson, Rika E

“…Transposases are mobile genetic elements that move within and between genomes, promoting genomic plasticity in microorganisms. In marine microbial communities,…”
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A dynamic microbial community with high functional redundancy inhabits the cold, oxic subseafloor aquifer by Tully, Benjamin J, Wheat, C Geoff, Glazer, Brain T, Huber, Julie A

“…The rock-hosted subseafloor crustal aquifer harbors a reservoir of microbial life that may influence global marine biogeochemical cycles. Here we utilized…”
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Comparative genomics of planktonic Flavobacteriaceae from the Gulf of Maine using metagenomic data by Tully, Benjamin J, Sachdeva, Rohan, Heidelberg, Karla B, Heidelberg, John F

“…The Gulf of Maine is an important biological province of the Northwest Atlantic with high productivity year round. From an environmental Sanger-based…”
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Prospects for the study of evolution in the deep biosphere by Biddle, Jennifer F, Sylvan, Jason B, Brazelton, William J, Tully, Benjamin J, Edwards, Katrina J, Moyer, Craig L, Heidelberg, John F, Nelson, William C

“…Since the days of Darwin, scientists have used the framework of the theory of evolution to explore the interconnectedness of life on Earth and adaptation of…”
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MetaSanity: an integrated microbial genome evaluation and annotation pipeline by Neely, Christopher J, Graham, Elaina D, Tully, Benjamin J

“…Abstract Summary As the importance of microbiome research continues to become more prevalent and essential to understanding a wide variety of ecosystems (e.g…”
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Petrobactin, a siderophore produced by Alteromonas, mediates community iron acquisition in the global ocean by Manck, Lauren E., Park, Jiwoon, Tully, Benjamin J., Poire, Alfonso M., Bundy, Randelle M., Dupont, Christopher L., Barbeau, Katherine A.

“…It is now widely accepted that siderophores play a role in marine iron biogeochemical cycling. However, the mechanisms by which siderophores affect the…”
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De Novo Sequences of Haloquadratum walsbyi from Lake Tyrrell, Australia, Reveal a Variable Genomic Landscape by Heidelberg, Karla B., Allen, Eric E., Brocks, Jochen J., Andrade, Karen, Emerson, Joanne B., Tully, Benjamin J., Banfield, Jillian F.

“…Hypersaline systems near salt saturation levels represent an extreme environment, in which organisms grow and survive near the limits of life. One of the…”
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Microbial communities associated with ferromanganese nodules and the surrounding sediments by Tully, Benjamin J, Heidelberg, John F

“…The formation and maintenance of deep-sea ferromanganese/polymetallic nodules still remains a mystery 140 years after their discovery. The wealth of rare…”
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