ORCID Profile
0000-0003-0531-3009
Current Organisation
The University of Auckland
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Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Date: 27-06-2013
Abstract: Marinobacter santoriniensis NKSG1 T originates from metalliferous marine sediment. It can respire and redox cycle arsenic species and perform mixotrophic, nitrate-dependent Fe(II) oxidation. The genome sequence, reported here, will help further elucidate the genetic mechanisms underlying these and other potential biogeochemically relevant functions, such as arsenic and mercury resistance and hydrocarbon degradation.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-04-2020
DOI: 10.1111/GBI.12395
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 20-07-2021
Abstract: Termites are textbook ex les of the “extended phenotype” given their ability to construct complex mounds and regulate environments. Here, we show that termites also control microbial composition and biogeochemical cycling in their mounds through their emissions of hydrogen. These emissions drive remarkable enrichments of mound bacteria that use hydrogen to drive aerobic respiration and sometimes carbon fixation (i.e., lithoautotrophs). Such mound communities efficiently consume all termite-produced hydrogen and even mediate atmospheric uptake, while termite-produced methane escapes to the atmosphere. This provides further evidence that hydrogen is a major substrate for aerobic bacteria and that the terrestrial hydrogen sink is highly responsive to elevated emissions.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-2016
DOI: 10.1093/NAR/GKW1030
Abstract: Viruses represent the most abundant life forms on the planet. Recent experimental and computational improvements have led to a dramatic increase in the number of viral genome sequences identified primarily from metagenomic s les. As a result of the expanding catalog of metagenomic viral sequences, there exists a need for a comprehensive computational platform integrating all these sequences with associated metadata and analytical tools. Here we present IMG/VR (r/), the largest publicly available database of 3908 isolate reference DNA viruses with 264 413 computationally identified viral contigs from & ecologically erse metagenomic s les. Approximately half of the viral contigs are grouped into genetically distinct quasi-species clusters. Microbial hosts are predicted for 20 000 viral sequences, revealing nine microbial phyla previously unreported to be infected by viruses. Viral sequences can be queried using a variety of associated metadata, including habitat type and geographic location of the s les, or taxonomic classification according to hallmark viral genes. IMG/VR has a user-friendly interface that allows users to interrogate all integrated data and interact by comparing with external sequences, thus serving as an essential resource in the viral genomics community.
Location: United States of America
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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