ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2019
Predominance of Anaerobic, Spore-Forming Bacteria in Metabolically Active Microbial Communities from Ancient Siberian Permafrost.
Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Review
- Incomplete denitrifying bacteria drive N2O fluxes in ancient Siberian permafrost microcosms.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
- Divergent Responses of Bacterial Communities to Permafrost Degradation and Their Associations With Carbon Across Vertical Profiles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Exploring the biosynthesis potential of permafrost microbiomes.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- Comparative analysis of prokaryotic microbiomes in high-altitude active layer soils: insights from Ladakh and global analogues using In-Silico approaches.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024Article
- Paleomicrobiology: Tracking the past microbial life from single species to entire microbial communities.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Review
- Genomic evidence that microbial carbon degradation is dominated by iron redox metabolism in thawing permafrost.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Permafrost microbial communities and functional genes are structured by latitudinal and soil geochemical gradients.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Distinct taxonomic and functional profiles of high Arctic and alpine permafrost-affected soil microbiomes.Environmental microbiome · 2023Article
- Microbial life in 25-m-deep boreholes in ancient permafrost illuminated by metagenomics.Environmental microbiome · 2023Article
- Article
- Metapangenomic investigation provides insight into niche differentiation of methanogenic populations from the subsurface serpentinizing environment, Samail Ophiolite, Oman.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Summer thaw duration is a strong predictor of the soil microbiome and its response to permafrost thaw in arctic tundra.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Past and present giant viruses diversity explored through permafrost metagenomics.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Water is a preservative of microbes.Microbial biotechnology · 2022Article
- Eight Metagenome-Assembled Genomes Provide Evidence for Microbial Adaptation in 20,000- to 1,000,000-Year-Old Siberian Permafrost.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2021Article
- Genomic reconstruction of fossil and living microorganisms in ancient Siberian permafrost.Microbiome · 2021Article
- Genome-centric resolution of novel microbial lineages in an excavated Centrosaurus dinosaur fossil bone from the Late Cretaceous of North America.Environmental microbiome · 2020Article
- Life at the Frozen Limit: Microbial Carbon Metabolism Across a Late Pleistocene Permafrost Chronosequence.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The prevalence of microbial life in permafrost up to several million years (Ma) old has been well documented. However, the long-term survivability, evolution, and metabolic activity of the entombed microbes over this time span remain underexplored. We integrated aspartic acid (Asp) racemization assays with metagenomic sequencing to characterize the microbial activity, phylogenetic diversity, and metabolic functions of indigenous microbial communities across a ∼0.01- to 1.1-Ma chronosequence of continuously frozen permafrost from northeastern Siberia. Although Asp in the older bulk sediments (0.8 to 1.1 Ma) underwent severe racemization relative to that in the youngest sediment (∼0.01 Ma), the much lower d-Asp/l-Asp ratio (0.05 to 0.14) in the separated cells from all samples suggested that indigenous microbial communities were viable and metabolically active in ancient permafrost up to 1.1 Ma. The microbial community in the youngest sediment was the most diverse and was dominated by the phyla
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.