Into the darkness: the ecologies of novel ‘microbial dark matter’ phyla in an Antarctic lake

• Published in: Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Williams, Timothy J., Allen, Michelle A., Panwar, Pratibha, Cavicchioli, Ricardo
• Other Authors: Australian Research Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: Ace Lake; Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16026; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1462-2920.16026; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/1462-2920.16026; https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1462-2920.16026

Summary Uncultivated microbial clades (‘microbial dark matter’) are inferred to play important but uncharacterized roles in nutrient cycling. Using Antarctic lake (Ace Lake, Vestfold Hills) metagenomes, 12 metagenome‐assembled genomes (MAGs; 88%–100% complete) were generated for four ‘dark matter’ p...