Nature Communications (Jul 2018)
Genomic inference of the metabolism and evolution of the archaeal phylum Aigarchaeota
- Zheng-Shuang Hua,
- Yan-Ni Qu,
- Qiyun Zhu,
- En-Min Zhou,
- Yan-Ling Qi,
- Yi-Rui Yin,
- Yang-Zhi Rao,
- Ye Tian,
- Yu-Xian Li,
- Lan Liu,
- Cindy J. Castelle,
- Brian P. Hedlund,
- Wen-Sheng Shu,
- Rob Knight,
- Wen-Jun Li
Affiliations
- Zheng-Shuang Hua
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Yan-Ni Qu
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Qiyun Zhu
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego
- En-Min Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Yan-Ling Qi
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Yi-Rui Yin
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Yang-Zhi Rao
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Ye Tian
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Yu-Xian Li
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Lan Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Cindy J. Castelle
- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
- Brian P. Hedlund
- School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas
- Wen-Sheng Shu
- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University
- Rob Knight
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego
- Wen-Jun Li
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05284-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
The phylum of archaea Aigarchaeota is poorly characterized due to limited genomic sampling. Here, Hua and colleagues use genome-resolved metagenome sequencing to reconstruct six hot spring strains of Aigarchaeota and then infer their metabolism and evolutionary history.
