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Osmoregulation in freshwater anaerobic methane oxidizing archaea under salt stress ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Maider J Echeveste Medrano, Andy O Leu, Martin Pabst, Yuemei Lin, Simon J Mcllroy, Gene W Tyson, Jitske van Ede, Irene Sánchez-Andrea, Mike S M Jetten, Robert Jansen, Cornelia U Welte
Climate change-driven sea level rise threatens freshwater ecosystems and elicits salinity stress in microbiomes. Methane emissions in these systems are largely mitigated by methane-oxidizing microorganisms. Here, we characterized the physiological and metabolic response of freshwater methanotrophic archaea to salt stress. In our microcosm experiments, inhibition of methanotrophic archaea started at
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Brittle star genome provides information on the evolution of regeneration Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Kaitlyn Loubet-Senear, Mansi Srivastava
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The brittle star genome illuminates the genetic basis of animal appendage regeneration Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Elise Parey, Olga Ortega-Martinez, Jérôme Delroisse, Laura Piovani, Anna Czarkwiani, David Dylus, Srishti Arya, Samuel Dupont, Michael Thorndyke, Tomas Larsson, Kerstin Johannesson, Katherine M. Buckley, Pedro Martinez, Paola Oliveri, Ferdinand Marlétaz
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Evolutionary origin of the chordate nervous system revealed by amphioxus developmental trajectories Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Yichen Dai, Yanhong Zhong, Rongrong Pan, Liang Yuan, Yongheng Fu, Yuwei Chen, Juan Du, Meng Li, Xiao Wang, Huimin Liu, Chenggang Shi, Gaoming Liu, Pingfen Zhu, Sebastian Shimeld, Xuming Zhou, Guang Li
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Enhanced policy adequacy facilitates national climate adaptation tracking across Africa Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Andreea C. Nowak, Lucy Njuguna, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Pytrik Reidsma, Krystal Crumpler, Todd S. Rosenstock
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Opportunities to strengthen Africa’s efforts to track national-level climate adaptation Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Andreea C. Nowak, Lucy Njuguna, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Pytrik Reidsma, Krystal Crumpler, Todd S. Rosenstock
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Science-based principles for corporate climate transition risk quantification Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Fouad Khan, Edward Byers, David Carlin, Keywan Riahi
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Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends Ecol. Monogr. (IF 7.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Bradley J. Udell, Bethany Rose Straw, Susan C. Loeb, Kathryn M. Irvine, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Cori L. Lausen, Jonathan D. Reichard, Jeremy T. H. Coleman, Paul M. Cryan, Winifred F. Frick, Brian E. Reichert
Estimating the abundance of unmarked animal populations from acoustic data is challenging due to the inability to identify individuals and the need to adjust for observation biases including detectability (false negatives), species misclassification (false positives), and sampling exposure. Acoustic surveys conducted along mobile transects were designed to avoid counting individuals more than once
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Housefly gut microbiomes as a reservoir and facilitator for the spread of antibiotic resistance ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Dehao Gan, Zhenyan Lin, Lingshuang Zeng, Hui Deng, Timothy R Walsh, Shungui Zhou, Qiu E Yang
Arthropods, such as houseflies, play a significant role on the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR); however, their impact has often been overlooked in comparison to other AMR vectors. Understanding the contribution of arthropods to the spread of AMR is critical for implementing robust policies to mitigate the spread of AMR across “One Health” sectors. Herein, we investigated the in-situ
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Globally distributed bacteriophage genomes reveal mechanisms of tripartite phage-bacteria-coral interactions ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Bailey A Wallace, Natascha S Varona, Poppy J Hesketh-Best, Alexandra K Stiffler, Cynthia B Silveira
Reef-building corals depend on an intricate community of microorganisms for functioning and resilience. The infection of coral-associated bacteria by bacteriophages can modify bacteria-host interactions, yet very little is known about phage functions in the holobiont. This gap stems from methodological limitations that have prevented the recovery of high-quality viral genomes and bacterial host assignment
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Time is of the essence: A general framework for uncovering temporal structures of communities Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Hannah Yin, Volker H. W. Rudolf
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Environmental memory alters the fitness effects of adaptive mutations in fluctuating environments Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Clare I. Abreu, Shaili Mathur, Dmitri A. Petrov
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Dynamics of CRISPR-mediated virus-host interactions in the human gut microbiome ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Adrián López-Beltrán, João Botelho, Jaime Iranzo
Arms races between mobile genetic elements and prokaryotic hosts are major drivers of ecological and evolutionary change in microbial communities. Prokaryotic defense systems such as CRISPR-Cas have the potential to regulate microbiome composition by modifying the interactions among bacteria, plasmids, and phages. Here, we used longitudinal metagenomic data from 130 healthy and diseased individuals
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Molecular basis of phenotypic plasticity in a marine ciliate ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Jiao Pan, Yaohai Wang, Chao Li, Simo Zhang, Zhiqiang Ye, Jiahao Ni, Haichao Li, Yichen Li, Hongwei Yue, Chenchen Ruan, Dange Zhao, Yujian Jiang, Xiaolin Wu, Xiaopeng Shen, Rebecca A Zufall, Yu Zhang, Weiyi Li, Michael Lynch, Hongan Long
Phenotypic plasticity, which involves phenotypic transformation in the absence of genetic change, may serve as a strategy for organisms to survive in complex and highly-fluctuating environments. However, its reaction norm, molecular basis, and evolution remain unclear in most organisms, especially microbial eukaryotes. In this study, we explored these questions by investigating the reaction norm, regulation
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A new type of non-Mendelian segregation Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Caroline Blanc, Marie Delattre
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Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Kip D. Lacy, Taylor Hart, Daniel J. C. Kronauer
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Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16
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New wheat breeding paradigms for a warming climate Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Wei Xiong, Matthew P. Reynolds, Carlo Montes, Jose Crossa, Sieglinde Snapp, Beyhan Akin, Keser Mesut, Fatih Ozdemir, Huihui Li, Zhonghu He, Daowen Wang, Feng Chen
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Environmental gradients mediate dispersal evolution during biological invasions Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 John W. Benning, Eliza I. Clark, Ruth A. Hufbauer, Christopher Weiss‐Lehman
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Hurricane effects on coral health Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Marian Turner
Hurricanes are one of several forms of extreme weather event that will increase in intensity under climate change. Hurricanes generate high winds and high waves, which affect ocean circulation patterns. Writing in Global Change Biology, Dobbelaere et al. explore how these currents might affect the dispersal of coral larvae and the spread of coral disease. The authors used a coupled ocean current–wave
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The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Tlacaelel Rivera-Núñez, Alberto López Arcadia, Andres Contreras-Mora, Brenda Ratoni, Edgar Uriel Echavarría Domínguez, Ixtoc Marlo Rivera-Núñez, Milton Javier Rubiano Guzmán, Sofía Lail Lugo-Castilla, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, Fabricio Villalobos, Javier Laborde, Juan E. Martínez-Gómez, Juliana Merçon, Karina Boege, Wesley Dáttilo
Although colonial legacies in ecology have been widely discussed1,2 and steps have been taken to begin addressing some of the issues3,4, one element that has been less examined is how the challenge to decolonize our field variably affects individuals at different stages of their academic careers5. It is known that early-career researchers and established researchers face different challenges and pressures
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Long-term biotic homogenization in the East African Rift System over the last 6 million years of hominin evolution Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 John Rowan, Andrew Du, Erick J. Lundgren, J. Tyler Faith, Lydia Beaudrot, Christopher J. Campisano, Josephine C. Joordens, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Ellis M. Locke, Irene E. Smail, Kaye E. Reed, Jason M. Kamilar
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Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Kevin C. Rose, Erica M. Ferrer, Stephen R. Carpenter, Sean A. Crowe, Sarah C. Donelan, Véronique C. Garçon, Marilaure Grégoire, Stephen F. Jane, Peter R. Leavitt, Lisa A. Levin, Andreas Oschlies, Denise Breitburg
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Socio-economic and environmental trade-offs in Amazonian protected areas and Indigenous territories revealed by assessing competing land uses Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Bowy den Braber, Johan A. Oldekop, Katie Devenish, Javier Godar, Christoph Nolte, Marina Schmoeller, Karl L. Evans
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The choice of path to resilience is crucial to the future of production forests Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Adam Felton, Rupert Seidl, David B. Lindenmayer, Christian Messier, Magnus Löf, Johannes H. C. de Koning, Thomas Ranius, Michelle Cleary, Per-Ola Hedwall, María Trinidad Torres García, Annika M. Felton
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Metabolism, genome and age of the last universal common ancestor Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-12
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The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Edmund R. R. Moody, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Tara A. Mahendrarajah, James W. Clark, Holly C. Betts, Nina Dombrowski, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Richard A. Boyle, Stuart Daines, Xi Chen, Nick Lane, Ziheng Yang, Graham A. Shields, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Anja Spang, Davide Pisani, Tom A. Williams, Timothy M. Lenton, Philip C. J. Donoghue
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Massospondylus carinatus Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Kimberley Chapelle
Kimberley Chapelle goes for quantity and quality.
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Explaining green industrial policy in an age of globalization Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Jessica F. Green
Governments are increasingly using industrial policy to develop low-carbon economic sectors and catalyse the energy transition. A recent study provides a framework to explain why governments adopt different types of green industrial policy, depending on industry position in the global supply chain and types of uncertainty.
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Phylogenetic reconciliation: making the most of genomes to understand microbial ecology and evolution ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Tom A Williams, Adrian A Davin, Lénárd L Szánthó, Alexandros Stamatakis, Noah A Wahl, Ben J Woodcroft, Rochelle M Soo, Laura Eme, Paul O Sheridan, Cecile Gubry-Rangin, Anja Spang, Philip Hugenholtz, Gergely J Szöllősi
In recent years, phylogenetic reconciliation has emerged as a promising approach for studying microbial ecology and evolution. The core idea is to model how gene trees evolve along a species tree, and to explain differences between them via evolutionary events including gene duplications, transfers, and losses. Here, we describe how phylogenetic reconciliation provides a natural framework for studying
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Tail‐dependence of masting synchrony results in continent‐wide seed scarcity Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Jakub Szymkowiak, Jessie Foest, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Valentin Journé, Davide Ascoli, Michał Bogdziewicz
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Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Anni Arponen
Global biodiversity loss is showing no signs of slowing down. Two broad studies have attempted to analyse where conservation efforts have failed and succeeded, with seemingly contrasting results.
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Distinctive chemotactic responses of three marine herbivore protists to DMSP and related compounds ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Queralt Güell-Bujons, Medea Zanoli, Idan Tuval, Albert Calbet, Rafel Simó
Marine planktonic predator–prey interactions occur in microscale seascapes, where diffusing chemicals may act either as chemotactic cues that enhance or arrest predation, or as elemental resources that are complementary to prey ingestion. The phytoplankton osmolyte dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and its degradation products dimethylsulfide (DMS) and acrylate are pervasive compounds with high chemotactic
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Nasal commensals reduce Staphylococcus aureus proliferation by restricting siderophore availability ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Yanfeng Zhao, Alina Bitzer, Jeffrey John Power, Darya Belikova, Benjamin Orlando Torres Salazar, Lea Antje Adolf, David Leon Gerlach, Bernhard Krismer, Simon Heilbronner
The human microbiome is critically associated with human health and disease. One aspect of this is that antibiotic-resistant opportunistic bacterial pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus can reside within the nasal microbiota which increases the risk of infections. Epidemiological studies of the nasal microbiome have revealed positive and negative correlations between non-pathogenic
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Agricultural intensification reduces selection of putative plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in wheat ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Tessa E Reid, Vanessa N Kavamura, Adriana Torres-Ballesteros, Monique E Smith, Maïder Abadie, Mark Pawlett, Ian M Clark, Jim A Harris, Tim H Mauchline
The complex evolutionary history of wheat has shaped its associated root microbial community. However, consideration of impacts from agricultural intensification have been limited. This study investigated how endogenous (genome polyploidization), and exogenous (introduction of chemical fertilizers) factors have shaped beneficial rhizobacterial selection. We combined culture -independent and -dependent
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Proteomes of native and non-native symbionts reveal responses underpinning host-symbiont specificity in the cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Amirhossein Gheitanchi Mashini, Clinton A Oakley, Lifeng Peng, Arthur R Grossman, Virginia M Weis, Simon K Davy
Cellular mechanisms responsible for the regulation of nutrient exchange, immune responses, and symbiont population growth in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis are poorly resolved, particularly with respect to the dinoflagellate symbiont. Here, we characterised proteomic changes in the native symbiont Breviolum minutum during colonisation of its host sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana (“Aiptasia”)
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Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Pengfei Dang, Miaomiao Zhang, Xinli Chen, Michel Loreau, J. Emmett Duffy, Xin'e Li, Shuyue Wen, Xiaoqing Han, Lechen Liao, Tiantian Huang, Chenxi Wan, Xiaoliang Qin, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Bernhard Schmid
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Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Adam Tomašových, Michał Kowalewski, Rafał Nawrot, Daniele Scarponi, Martin Zuschin
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Higher-resolution projections needed for small island climates Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Jason P. Evans, Ali Belmadani, Christophe Menkes, Tannecia Stephenson, Marcus Thatcher, Peter B. Gibson, Alexandre Peltier
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Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Walter Leal Filho, Johannes M. Luetz, Patrick D. Nunn, Amelia Turagabeci, Donovan Campbell
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More than rising seas Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10
Small island states and territories have been leading climate action in many ways. In this issue, we highlight climate change research conducted on large ocean islands and how science can improve to help them adapt to changing environments.
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Climate research on big ocean islands Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Jerome Aucan, Ameer Ebrahim, Krishna Kumar Kotra, Anita Latai-Niusulu, Carlos A. Mancina, Michelle Mycoo, Mariyam Nashath, Tannecia Stephenson, Sarina Theys
Small island states and territories are often seen as particularly vulnerable to climate change, which affects the shape of the land, its ecosystems and the resources that people depend on. Nature Climate Change asked a selection of scientists from different island states and territories to discuss the role that climate science and action has in supporting island communities.
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Linking active rectal mucosa-attached microbiota to host immunity reveals its role in host-pathogenic STEC O157 interactions ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Zhe Pan, Yanhong Chen, Mi Zhou, Tim A McAllister, Tom N Mcneilly, Le Luo Guan
The rectal anal junction (RAJ) is the major colonization site of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 in beef cattle, leading to transmission of this foodborne pathogen from farms to food chains. To date, there is limited understanding on whether mucosa-attached microbiome has a profound impact on host-STEC interactions. In this study, the active RAJ mucosa-attached microbiota and its
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Defined synthetic microbial communities colonize and benefit field-grown sorghum ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Citlali Fonseca-García, Dean Pettinga, Andrew Wilson, Joshua R Elmore, Ryan McClure, Jackie Atim, Julie Pedraza, Robert Hutmacher, Halbay Turumtay, Yang Tian, Aymerick Eudes, Henrik V Scheller, Robert Egbert, Devin Coleman-Derr
The rhizosphere constitutes a dynamic interface between plant hosts and their associated microbial communities. Despite the acknowledged potential for enhancing plant fitness by manipulating the rhizosphere, the engineering of the rhizosphere microbiome through inoculation has posed significant challenges. These challenges are thought to arise from the competitive microbial ecosystem where introduced
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Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Chris Venditti, Joanna Baker, Robert A. Barton
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Floristic diversity and its relationships with human land use varied regionally during the Holocene Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Jonathan D. Gordon, Brennen Fagan, Nicky Milner, Chris D. Thomas
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Large-scale single-virus genomics uncovers hidden diversity of river water viruses and diversified gene profiles ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Yohei Nishikawa, Ryota Wagatsuma, Yuko Tsukada, Lin Chia-ling, Rieka Chijiiwa, Masahito Hosokawa, Haruko Takeyama
Environmental viruses (primarily bacteriophages) are widely recognized as playing an important role in ecosystem homeostasis through the infection of host cells. However, the majority of environmental viruses are still unknown as their mosaic structure and frequent mutations in their sequences hinder genome construction in current metagenomics. To enable the large-scale acquisition of environmental
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Evolutionary history of an immune protein conserved across all domains of life Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-05
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Divergent marine anaerobic ciliates harbor closely related Methanocorpusculum endosymbionts ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Anna Schrecengost, Johana Rotterová, Kateřina Poláková, Ivan Čepička, Roxanne A Beinart
Ciliates are a diverse group of protists known for their ability to establish various partnerships and thrive in a wide variety of oxygen-depleted environments. Most anaerobic ciliates harbor methanogens, one of the few known archaea living intracellularly. These methanogens increase the metabolic efficiency of host fermentation via syntrophic use of host end-product in methanogenesis. Despite the
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Viperin immunity evolved across the tree of life through serial innovations on a conserved scaffold Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Helena Shomar, Héloïse Georjon, Yanlei Feng, Bismarck Olympio, Marie Guillaume, Florian Tesson, Jean Cury, Fabai Wu, Aude Bernheim
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Global evaluation of current and future threats to drylands and their vertebrate biodiversity Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Amir Lewin, Gopal Murali, Shimon Rachmilevitch, Uri Roll
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Romantic rewilding Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Patrick Goymer
A film about the Knepp Estate rewilding project in southern England is high in romance and beauty, but is not a deep dive into ecological concepts. It is a film that combines nature documentary with biopic. Tree is the main narrator, alongside smaller segments with Burrell, but younger versions of the two of them are also played by actors. In this way, they tell the story of giving up farming and document
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Blind spots in the EU’s Regulation on Deforestation-free products Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Gustavo M. Oliveira, Rafaella F. Ziegert, Andrea Pacheco, Laila Berning, Metodi Sotirov, Jochen Dürr, Daniel Braun, Felipe S. M. Nunes, Britaldo S. Soares-Filho, Jan Börner
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Insufficient pollinator visitation often limits yield in crop systems worldwide Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Katherine J. Turo, James R. Reilly, Thijs P. M. Fijen, Ainhoa Magrach, Rachael Winfree
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Strategies to improve the impact of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 William Solecki, Debra Roberts, Karen C. Seto
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Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown Nat. Clim. Change (IF 29.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Martijn van de Pol, Liam D. Bailey, Magali Frauendorf, Andrew M. Allen, Martijn van der Sluijs, Nadia Hijner, Lyanne Brouwer, Hans de Kroon, Eelke Jongejans, Bruno J. Ens
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Geographic population structure and distinct intra-population dynamics of globally abundant freshwater bacteria ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Matthias Hoetzinger, Martin W Hahn, Linnéa Y Andersson, Nathaniel Buckley, Chelsea Ramsin, Moritz Buck, Julia K Nuy, Sarahi L Garcia, Fernando Puente-Sánchez, Stefan Bertilsson
Implications of geographic separation and temporal dynamics on the evolution of free-living bacterial species are widely unclear. However, the vast amount of metagenome sequencing data generated during the last decades from various habitats around the world provides an unprecedented opportunity for such investigations. Here we exploited publicly available and new freshwater metagenomes in combination
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Type IV secretion system effector sabotages multiple defense systems in a competing bacterium ISME J. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Bingxin Wang, Fugui Xu, Zeyu Zhang, Danyu Shen, Limin Wang, Huijun Wu, Qing Yan, Chuanbin Cui, Pingping Wang, Qi Wei, Xiaolong Shao, Mengcen Wang, Guoliang Qian
Effector proteins secreted by bacteria that infect mammalian and plant cells often subdue eukaryotic host cell defenses by simultaneously affecting multiple targets. However, instances when a bacterial effector injected in the competing bacteria sabotage more than a single target have not been reported. Here, we demonstrate that the effector protein, LtaE, translocated by the type IV secretion system
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Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities Nat. Ecol. Evol. (IF 13.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Michael R. Silverstein, Jennifer M. Bhatnagar, Daniel Segrè