Nikos C. Kyrpides

TL;DR: The first meeting of the Earth Microbiome Project to discuss sample selection and acquisition focused on discussion of how to prioritize environmental samples for sequencing and metagenomic analysis as part of the global effort of the EMP.

TL;DR: It is anticipated that the global diversity of NCLDVs that are described here will establish giant viruses—which are associated with most major eukaryotic lineages—as important players in ecosystems across Earth’s biomes.

TL;DR: It is shown that approximately 10% of environmental microbial sequences might be missed from classical PCR-based SSU rRNA gene surveys, mostly members of the Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) and as yet uncharacterized Archaea.

TL;DR: A machine learning approach was used to recover over 10,000 inovirus-like sequences from existing microbial genomes and metagenomes, consequently proposing the reclassification of the Inoviridae family to a viral order, and uncover the previously unrecognized diversity of these viruses across hosts and environments.

TL;DR: A metagenomic approach is used to describe four co-occurring symbionts from the marine oligochaete Olavius algarvensis, a worm lacking a mouth, gut and nephridia to propose a model that describes how the versatile metabolism within this symbiotic consortium provides the host with an optimal energy supply as it shuttles between the upper oxic and lower anoxic coastal sediments that it inhabits.