ArticleMolecular biology and evolution2022
Phylogenomic Evidence for the Origin of Obligate Anaerobic Anammox Bacteria Around the Great Oxidation Event.
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- Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Enrichment and characterization of a haloalkaline-tolerant anammox bacterium.The ISME journal · 2026Article
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- Genomics-based insights into the expanded diversity and adaptation strategies of hadal trench anammox bacteria.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis.Systematic biology · 2025Article
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- Dating Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria with Abundant Eukaryotic Fossils.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Age, metabolisms, and potential origin of dominant anammox bacteria in the global oxygen-deficient zones.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Microbial divergence and evolution. The case of anammox bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- "Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Nitrite accumulation and anammox bacterial niche partitioning in Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge sediments.ISME communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
The anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria can transform ammonium and nitrite to dinitrogen gas, and this obligate anaerobic process accounts for up to half of the global nitrogen loss in surface environments. Yet its origin and evolution, which may give important insights into the biogeochemistry of early Earth, remain enigmatic. Here, we performed a comprehensive phylogenomic and molecular clock analysis of anammox bacteria within the phylum Planctomycetes. After accommodating the uncertainties and factors influencing time estimates, which include implementing both a traditional cyanobacteria-based and a recently developed mitochondria-based molecular dating approach, we estimated a consistent origin of anammox bacteria at early Proterozoic and most likely around the so-called Great Oxidation Event (GOE; 2.32-2.5 Ga) which fundamentally changed global biogeochemical cycles. We further showed that during the origin of anammox bacteria, genes involved in oxidative stress adaptation, bioenergetics, and anammox granules formation were recruited, which might have contributed to their survival on an increasingly oxic Earth. Our findings suggest the rising levels of atmospheric oxygen, which made nitrite increasingly available, was a potential driving force for the emergence of anammox bacteria. This is one of the first studies that link the GOE to the evolution of obligate anaerobic bacteria.
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