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Shifts in soil microbial diversity and greenhouse gas emission dynamics.
Environmental research · 1 Oct 2026 · Journal Article
Soil microbial diversity shifts during land reclamation significantly influence greenhouse gas emissions, with bacteria, fungi, and protists responding differently over 15 years.
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Rethinking soil microbiome interventions through an ecological lens.
Nature Reviews Microbiology · 30 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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Daily locomotor rhythms and ecdysial stage-dependent behaviors in the tardigrade Hypsibius exemplaris
bioRxiv · 25 Sept 2026 · Preprint
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Soil microbial growth rate, trophic strategy, and the oligotroph-copiotroph continuum.
Applied and environmental microbiology · 23 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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Carbon and nitrogen availability affects biofilm growth and morphology of the extremotolerant fungus Knufia petricola.
Applied and environmental microbiology · 23 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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Diversity of Antarctic sea ice and under-ice seawater RNA viruses.
Applied and environmental microbiology · 23 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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Validation of shoe sole dust as a microbial sampler reveals distinct fungal and bacterial responses to nearby vegetation.
Environmental research · 15 Sept 2026 · Validation Study
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Methanotrophs and co-occurring microbial taxa: Genomic potential for carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles in newly formed high-altitude proglacial lakes.
Environmental research · 15 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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Denitrifier activity drives diurnal N2O flux dynamics in a thawing arctic permafrost
bioRxiv · 10 Sept 2026 · Preprint
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Subglacial geology and thermal conditions regulate methane emissions from Svalbard glaciers.
Nature Communications · 8 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
Subglacial geology and thermal conditions drive methane supersaturation, with concentrations reaching up to 425 times atmospheric levels in Svalbard glaciers.
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Mosses as biomonitors of elemental deposition in the Dachnye hot springs geothermal area, Mutnovsky Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia: A pilot study.
Environmental research · 8 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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Emerging contaminants and legacy pollutants exhibit contrasting exposure and hazard patterns in sediments and suspended particulate matter from an Antarctic coastal ecosystem.
Environmental research · 7 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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Soil extracellular DNA fragments show variable degradation rates among sequences and environmental conditions.
eLife · 4 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
Soil extracellular DNA fragments degrade at rates ranging from 0.05 to 0.16 day^-1, with variability influenced by environmental factors across different sites in China.
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Cryo-EM structures of a neofunctionalized tardigrade peroxiredoxin specialized for nucleic acid binding
bioRxiv · 3 Sept 2026 · Preprint
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Grounding microbial conservation in ecological principles.
Nature Microbiology · 2 Sept 2026 · Letter
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A genomic catalog of Earth's bacterial and archaeal symbionts.
Nature Biotechnology · 31 Aug 2026 · Journal Article
Machine learning predicts that 15-23% of uncultivated bacteria and archaea are likely symbionts across half of all known phyla, revealing widespread symbiosis.
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Soil moisture shifts under warming are associated with divergent topsoil nitrogen responses in permafrost-affected ecosystems.
Nature Communications · 20 Aug 2026 · Journal Article
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Trace gas oxidation supports sub-surface microbial communities across Namib Desert fog and aridity gradients.
Applied and environmental microbiology · 19 Aug 2026 · Journal Article
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Unraveling the diversity and functional potential of cyanosphere microbiomes assembled from terrestrial cyanobacteria.
Applied and environmental microbiology · 19 Aug 2026 · Journal Article
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mGem: A perfect storm in the era of global warming-the convergence between thermotolerant fungi and altered immunity.
mBio · 12 Aug 2026 · Review
Global warming promotes thermotolerance in fungi and alters human immunity, increasing the risk of emerging fungal infections like Candida auris and Rhodosporidiobolus fluvialis.
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The genetic repertoire of deep-sea microbiome: From sequence to structure and function.
Cell Host & Microbe · 12 Aug 2026 · Journal Article
Deep-sea microbiomes harbor 502 million genes with extensive sequence diversity and conserved protein structures, highlighting their evolutionary and biotechnological significance.
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Variations in the latitudinal diversity gradients of the ocean microbiome.
Cell Host & Microbe · 12 Aug 2026 · Journal Article
Surface ocean microbiomes show a latitudinal diversity gradient with peaks at (sub)tropical regions, while deep-sea communities lack such spatial structuring, revealing lineage-specific patterns.
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