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Title: A new view of the tree of life

Abstract

The tree of life is one of the most important organizing principles in biology. Gene surveys suggest the existence of an enormous number of branches, but even an approximation of the full scale of the tree has remained elusive. Recent depictions of the tree of life have focused either on the nature of deep evolutionary relationships or on the known, well-classified diversity of life with an emphasis on eukaryotes. These approaches overlook the dramatic change in our understanding of life's diversity resulting from genomic sampling of previously unexamined environments. New methods to generate genome sequences illuminate the identity of organisms and their metabolic capacities, placing them in community and ecosystem contexts. Here, we use new genomic data from over 1,000 uncultivated and little known organisms, together with published sequences, to infer a dramatically expanded version of the tree of life, with Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya included. The depiction is both a global overview and a snapshot of the diversity within each major lineage. The results reveal the dominance of bacterial diversification and underline the importance of organisms lacking isolated representatives, with substantial evolution concentrated in a major radiation of such organisms. This tree highlights major lineages currently underrepresented in biogeochemicalmore » models and identifies radiations that are probably important for future evolutionary analyses.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3];  [3];  [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [3]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
  2. Univ. of Texas-Austin, Port Aransas, TX (United States). Dept. of Marine Science
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  4. Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai (Japan)
  5. Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  6. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  7. Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1579922
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; SC10010566
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Microbiology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 1; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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Hug, Laura A., Baker, Brett J., Anantharaman, Karthik, Brown, Christopher T., Probst, Alexander J., Castelle, Cindy J., Butterfield, Cristina N., Hernsdorf, Alex W., Amano, Yuki, Ise, Kotaro, Suzuki, Yohey, Dudek, Natasha, Relman, David A., Finstad, Kari M., Amundson, Ronald, Thomas, Brian C., and Banfield, Jillian F. A new view of the tree of life. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.48.
Hug, Laura A., Baker, Brett J., Anantharaman, Karthik, Brown, Christopher T., Probst, Alexander J., Castelle, Cindy J., Butterfield, Cristina N., Hernsdorf, Alex W., Amano, Yuki, Ise, Kotaro, Suzuki, Yohey, Dudek, Natasha, Relman, David A., Finstad, Kari M., Amundson, Ronald, Thomas, Brian C., & Banfield, Jillian F. A new view of the tree of life. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.48
Hug, Laura A., Baker, Brett J., Anantharaman, Karthik, Brown, Christopher T., Probst, Alexander J., Castelle, Cindy J., Butterfield, Cristina N., Hernsdorf, Alex W., Amano, Yuki, Ise, Kotaro, Suzuki, Yohey, Dudek, Natasha, Relman, David A., Finstad, Kari M., Amundson, Ronald, Thomas, Brian C., and Banfield, Jillian F. Mon . "A new view of the tree of life". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.48. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1579922.
@article{osti_1579922,
title = {A new view of the tree of life},
author = {Hug, Laura A. and Baker, Brett J. and Anantharaman, Karthik and Brown, Christopher T. and Probst, Alexander J. and Castelle, Cindy J. and Butterfield, Cristina N. and Hernsdorf, Alex W. and Amano, Yuki and Ise, Kotaro and Suzuki, Yohey and Dudek, Natasha and Relman, David A. and Finstad, Kari M. and Amundson, Ronald and Thomas, Brian C. and Banfield, Jillian F.},
abstractNote = {The tree of life is one of the most important organizing principles in biology. Gene surveys suggest the existence of an enormous number of branches, but even an approximation of the full scale of the tree has remained elusive. Recent depictions of the tree of life have focused either on the nature of deep evolutionary relationships or on the known, well-classified diversity of life with an emphasis on eukaryotes. These approaches overlook the dramatic change in our understanding of life's diversity resulting from genomic sampling of previously unexamined environments. New methods to generate genome sequences illuminate the identity of organisms and their metabolic capacities, placing them in community and ecosystem contexts. Here, we use new genomic data from over 1,000 uncultivated and little known organisms, together with published sequences, to infer a dramatically expanded version of the tree of life, with Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya included. The depiction is both a global overview and a snapshot of the diversity within each major lineage. The results reveal the dominance of bacterial diversification and underline the importance of organisms lacking isolated representatives, with substantial evolution concentrated in a major radiation of such organisms. This tree highlights major lineages currently underrepresented in biogeochemical models and identifies radiations that are probably important for future evolutionary analyses.},
doi = {10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.48},
journal = {Nature Microbiology},
number = 5,
volume = 1,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 11 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Apr 11 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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Comparative genomics of molybdenum utilization in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
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Genomic insights into potential interdependencies in microbial hydrocarbon and nutrient cycling in hydrothermal sediments
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Genome-centric resolution of novel microbial lineages in an excavated Centrosaurus dinosaur fossil bone from the Late Cretaceous of North America
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Uncovering the Uncultivated Majority in Antarctic Soils: Toward a Synergistic Approach
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A New Genome-to-Genome Comparison Approach for Large-Scale Revisiting of Current Microbial Taxonomy
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Exploring the evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under bacteria environment: An experimental phylogenetics approach
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Microaerobic conditions caused the overwhelming dominance of Acinetobacter spp. and the marginalization of Rhodococcus spp. in diesel fuel/crude oil mixture-amended enrichment cultures
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Functional Metagenomics as a Tool for Identification of New Antibiotic Resistance Genes from Natural Environments
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Methanogenesis on Early Stages of Life: Ancient but Not Primordial
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1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life
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Stress and stability: applying the Anna Karenina principle to animal microbiomes
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Prokaryotic cytoskeletons: protein filaments organizing small cells
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An interspecies malate–pyruvate shuttle reconciles redox imbalance in an anaerobic microbial community
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Visualization and prediction of CRISPR incidence in microbial trait-space to identify drivers of antiviral immune strategy
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Discovery of a proteolytic flagellin family in diverse bacterial phyla that assembles enzymatically active flagella
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Hydrogen-based metabolism as an ancestral trait in lineages sibling to the Cyanobacteria
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Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism
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Two intracellular and cell type-specific bacterial symbionts in the placozoan Trichoplax H2
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Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis
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Metagenome-assembled genomes provide new insight into the microbial diversity of two thermal pools in Kamchatka, Russia
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Uncovering bacterial and functional diversity in macroinvertebrate mitochondrial-metagenomic datasets by differential centrifugation
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Whole-proteome tree of life suggests a deep burst of organism diversity
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Cultured microbes represent a substantial fraction of the human and mouse gut microbiota
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GToTree: a user-friendly workflow for phylogenomics
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The Fe(II)-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria : historical, ecological and genomic perspectives
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Archaeal cell surface biogenesis
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Microbial Dark Matter Investigations: How Microbial Studies Transform Biological Knowledge and Empirically Sketch a Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Accurate and complete genomes from metagenomes
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Towards a systematic understanding of differences between archaeal and bacterial diversity: Systematic understanding of differences
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Comparative Genomics of the Genus Lactobacillus Reveals Robust Phylogroups That Provide the Basis for Reclassification
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Unusual Metabolism and Hypervariation in the Genome of a Gracilibacterium (BD1-5) from an Oil-Degrading Community
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Reconstruction of the Genomes of Drug-Resistant Pathogens for Outbreak Investigation through Metagenomic Sequencing
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Metagenomes and metatranscriptomes shed new light on the microbial-mediated sulfur cycle in a Siberian soda lake
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Genetically encoded biosensors for lignocellulose valorization
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Insights into the ecology, evolution, and metabolism of the widespread Woesearchaeotal lineages
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The last universal common ancestor between ancient Earth chemistry and the onset of genetics
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Identification and Validation of Reference Genes for Transcript Normalization in Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) Defense Responses
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Diversity structure of culturable bacteria isolated from the Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Antarctica): A phylogenetic analysis perspective
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Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)
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Distinct Microbial Assemblage Structure and Archaeal Diversity in Sediments of Arctic Thermokarst Lakes Differing in Methane Sources
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Current Status and Potential Applications of Underexplored Prokaryotes
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A New Frontier for Palaeobiology: Earth's Vast Deep Biosphere
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Hidden Concepts in the History and Philosophy of Origins-of-Life Studies: a Workshop Report
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The growing tree of Archaea: new perspectives on their diversity, evolution and ecology
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Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes
journal, November 2017

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Mixing of meteoric and geothermal fluids supports hyperdiverse chemosynthetic hydrothermal communities
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Phylogenomics of 10,575 genomes reveals evolutionary proximity between domains Bacteria and Archaea
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Microbiota-directed fibre activates both targeted and secondary metabolic shifts in the distal gut
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Expanding anaerobic alkane metabolism in the domain of Archaea
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Evaluation of a concatenated protein phylogeny for classification of tailed double-stranded DNA viruses belonging to the order Caudovirales
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Biosynthetic capacity, metabolic variety and unusual biology in the CPR and DPANN radiations
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SWeeP: representing large biological sequences datasets in compact vectors
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Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats
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Methods, Tools and Current Perspectives in Proteogenomics
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Genomic diversity, lifestyles and evolutionary origins of DPANN archaea
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Complex Evolutionary History of Translation Elongation Factor 2 and Diphthamide Biosynthesis in Archaea and Parabasalids
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CAMITAX: Taxon labels for microbial genomes
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Evaluating Fast Maximum Likelihood-Based Phylogenetic Programs Using Empirical Phylogenomic Data Sets
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Phylogenetic analyses reveal an increase in the speciation rate of raphid pennate diatoms in the Cretaceous
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What is an archaeon and are the Archaea really unique?
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Metagenomic analysis with strain-level resolution reveals fine-scale variation in the human pregnancy microbiome
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Diversity of Archaea Domain in Cuatro Cienegas Basin: Archaean Domes
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Phylogeny and genomics of SAUL, an enigmatic bacterial lineage frequently associated with marine sponges: Phylogeny and genomics of SAUL
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Evidences of aromatic degradation dominantly via the phenylacetic acid pathway in marine benthic Thermoprofundales
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A diverse uncultivated microbial community is responsible for organic matter degradation in the Black Sea sulphidic zone
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What's in a name? The case of cyanobacteria
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The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry
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Widespread Antibiotic, Biocide, and Metal Resistance in Microbial Communities Inhabiting a Municipal Waste Environment and Anthropogenically Impacted River
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Sequence and cultivation study of Muribaculaceae reveals novel species, host preference, and functional potential of this yet undescribed family
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Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity
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The fitness landscape of the African Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 strain D23580 reveals unique properties of the pBT1 plasmid
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Secretory Products of the Human GI Tract Microbiome and Their Potential Impact on Alzheimer's Disease (AD): Detection of Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in AD Hippocampus
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Bacteroides fragilis Lipopolysaccharide and Inflammatory Signaling in Alzheimer’s Disease
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Evolutionary Biology Needs Wild Microbiomes
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Intermediate-Salinity Systems at High Altitudes in the Peruvian Andes Unveil a High Diversity and Abundance of Bacteria and Viruses
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Microbial Diversity and Community Assembly across Environmental Gradients in Acid Mine Drainage
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Microbial communities across a hillslope‐riparian transect shaped by proximity to the stream, groundwater table, and weathered bedrock
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Everything is not everywhere: a tale on the biogeography of cyanobacteria
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Measurement of bacterial replication rates in microbial communities
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Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system
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Best practices for analysing microbiomes
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Unusual respiratory capacity and nitrogen metabolism in a Parcubacterium (OD1) of the Candidate Phyla Radiation
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Simultaneous Bayesian inference of phylogeny and molecular coevolution
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Bipartite Network Analysis of Gene Sharings in the Microbial World
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Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.6: data updates and feature enhancements
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Metabolic relationships of uncultured bacteria associated with the microalgae Gambierdiscus
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Methane oxidation and methylotroph population dynamics in groundwater mesocosms
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Tree of motility – A proposed history of motility systems in the tree of life
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Genomic Comparison of Campylobacter spp. and Their Potential for Zoonotic Transmission between Birds, Primates, and Livestock
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Comparative genomics of cocci-shaped Sporosarcina strains with diverse spatial isolation
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Hybridization capture reveals microbial diversity missed using current profiling methods
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Visualization-assisted binning of metagenome assemblies reveals potential new pathogenic profiles in idiopathic travelers’ diarrhea
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A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity
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Capability for arsenic mobilization in groundwater is distributed across broad phylogenetic lineages
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Structure, Evolution, and Functions of Bacterial Type III Toxin-Antitoxin Systems.
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Ecogenomics and Taxonomy of Cyanobacteria Phylum
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Rokubacteria: Genomic Giants among the Uncultured Bacterial Phyla
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Isolation, Characterization, and Antibacterial Activity of Hard-to-Culture Actinobacteria from Cave Moonmilk Deposits
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Ultradeep Microbial Communities at 4.4 km within Crystalline Bedrock: Implications for Habitability in a Planetary Context
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Cladistical Analysis of the Jovian and Saturnian Satellite Systems
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Metabolic network percolation quantifies biosynthetic capabilities across the human oral microbiome
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Comparative Genomics of Nitrogen Cycling Pathways in Bacteria and Archaea
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Sizing up the bacterial cell cycle
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The deep, hot biosphere: Twenty-five years of retrospection
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Numerous uncharacterized and highly divergent microbes which colonize humans are revealed by circulating cell-free DNA
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Large-scale replicated field study of maize rhizosphere identifies heritable microbes
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The fourth wave of biocatalysis is approaching
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Crystal structure of a Thermus aquaticus diversity-generating retroelement variable protein
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On the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and Cyanobacteria
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Potential Mechanisms for Microbial Energy Acquisition in Oxic Deep-Sea Sediments
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Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation Enters the Second Round
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Sizing Up the Uncultured Microbial Majority
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Saccharibacteria (TM7) in the Human Oral Microbiome
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