Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Genomics-informed isolation and characterization of a symbiotic Nanoarchaeota system from a terrestrial geothermal environment

  • Louie Wurch,
  • Richard J. Giannone,
  • Bernard S. Belisle,
  • Carolyn Swift,
  • Sagar Utturkar,
  • Robert L. Hettich,
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach,
  • Mircea Podar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12115
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Many microbial lineages have not yet been cultured, which hampers our understanding of their physiology. Here, Wurch et al. use single-cell genomics to infer cultivation conditions for the isolation of a tiny ectosymbiotic nanoarchaeon and its crenarchaeota host from a geothermal spring.