Expanded Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Flexibility of Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms
Accurately assessing the production of bioaccumulative neurotoxic methylmercury by characterizing the phylogenetic diversity, metabolic functions, and activity of methylators in the environment is crucial for understanding constraints on the mercury cycle. Much of our understanding of methylmercury...
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crasmicro:10.1128/msystems.00299-20 2024-10-13T14:10:14+00:00 Expanded Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Flexibility of Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms McDaniel, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Benjamin D. Stevens, Sarah L. R. Tran, Patricia Q. Anantharaman, Karthik McMahon, Katherine D. Kent, Angela D. National Science Foundation DOC | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00299-20 https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mSystems.00299-20 en eng American Society for Microbiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.asm.org/non-commercial-tdm-license mSystems volume 5, issue 4 ISSN 2379-5077 journal-article 2020 crasmicro https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00299-20 2024-09-17T04:08:24Z Accurately assessing the production of bioaccumulative neurotoxic methylmercury by characterizing the phylogenetic diversity, metabolic functions, and activity of methylators in the environment is crucial for understanding constraints on the mercury cycle. Much of our understanding of methylmercury production is based on cultured anaerobic microorganisms within the Deltaproteobacteria , Firmicutes , and Euryarchaeota. Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have enabled large-scale cultivation-independent surveys of diverse and poorly characterized microorganisms from numerous ecosystems. We used genome-resolved metagenomics and metatranscriptomics to highlight the vast phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of putative mercury methylators and their depth-discrete activities in thawing permafrost. This work underscores the importance of using genome-resolved metagenomics to survey specific putative methylating populations of a given mercury-impacted ecosystem. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost ASM Journals (American Society for Microbiology) mSystems 5 4 |
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Accurately assessing the production of bioaccumulative neurotoxic methylmercury by characterizing the phylogenetic diversity, metabolic functions, and activity of methylators in the environment is crucial for understanding constraints on the mercury cycle. Much of our understanding of methylmercury production is based on cultured anaerobic microorganisms within the Deltaproteobacteria , Firmicutes , and Euryarchaeota. Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have enabled large-scale cultivation-independent surveys of diverse and poorly characterized microorganisms from numerous ecosystems. We used genome-resolved metagenomics and metatranscriptomics to highlight the vast phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of putative mercury methylators and their depth-discrete activities in thawing permafrost. This work underscores the importance of using genome-resolved metagenomics to survey specific putative methylating populations of a given mercury-impacted ecosystem. |
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Kent, Angela D. National Science Foundation DOC | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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McDaniel, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Benjamin D. Stevens, Sarah L. R. Tran, Patricia Q. Anantharaman, Karthik McMahon, Katherine D. Expanded Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Flexibility of Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms |
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McDaniel, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Benjamin D. Stevens, Sarah L. R. Tran, Patricia Q. Anantharaman, Karthik McMahon, Katherine D. |
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Expanded Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Flexibility of Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms |
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Expanded Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Flexibility of Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms |
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Expanded Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Flexibility of Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms |
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Expanded Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Flexibility of Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms |
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Expanded Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Flexibility of Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms |
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expanded phylogenetic diversity and metabolic flexibility of mercury-methylating microorganisms |
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