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SAR11 bacteria linked to ocean anoxia and nitrogen loss.
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- Large diversity in the O-chain biosynthetic cluster within populations of Pelagibacterales.mBio · 2025Article
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- Promiscuous and genome-wide recombination underlies the sequence-discrete species of the SAR11 lineage in the deep ocean.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Quantitative microbial taxonomy across particle size, depth, and oxygen concentration.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Ecological dynamics explain modular denitrification in the ocean.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Bacteria of the SAR11 clade constitute up to one half of all microbial cells in the oxygen-rich surface ocean. SAR11 bacteria are also abundant in oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), where oxygen falls below detection and anaerobic microbes have vital roles in converting bioavailable nitrogen to N2 gas. Anaerobic metabolism has not yet been observed in SAR11, and it remains unknown how these bacteria contribute to OMZ biogeochemical cycling. Here, genomic analysis of single cells from the world's largest OMZ revealed previously uncharacterized SAR11 lineages with adaptations for life without oxygen, including genes for respiratory nitrate reductases (Nar). SAR11 nar genes were experimentally verified to encode proteins catalysing the nitrite-producing first step of denitrification and constituted ~40% of OMZ nar transcripts, with transcription peaking in the anoxic zone of maximum nitrate reduction activity. These results link SAR11 to pathways of ocean nitrogen loss, redefining the ecological niche of Earth's most abundant organismal group.
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