Cameron Thrash
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Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com
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Today’s dive we start around 2pm central, and will be exploring where I think there’s a canyon that has not been sampled. I expect it to be very exciting!
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Schmidt Ocean
Our Purpose: to excite interest and inform the wise stewardship of our planet. Our Mission: Catalyze the discoveries needed to understand our ocean, sustain life, and ensure the health of our planet ...
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Sampling is underway!
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An optimized flow cytometry sorting-sequencing workflow reduces storage, sorting and extraction bias in sorted microbial communities
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The role of biological nitrogen fixation in polyhydroxybutyrate production from methane by methane-oxidizing bacteria: a review of metabolic routes and yield enhancement
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Conserved genetic markers reveal widespread diatom sexual reproduction in the global ocean
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Conserved genetic markers reveal widespread diatom sexual reproduction in the global ocean - Nature Communications
Diatoms dominate the oceans, yet sexual reproduction - key to bloom dynamics and species evolvability - is rarely observed. Using a lab-to-field approach, this study presents conserved markers applica...
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Factors influencing the spatial distributions of river microbial communities at the watershed scale: a case study involving the Wuding River Basin
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Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
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Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce ...
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DNA viral community enhances microbial carbon fixation capacity via auxiliary metabolic genes in contaminated soils
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DNA viral community enhances microbial carbon fixation capacity via auxiliary metabolic genes in contaminated soils - Nature Communications
Soil viruses may impact soil carbon cycle. Here, the authors use metagenomic analysis of contaminated soil and 13 C labeled microcosm incubation to show that the DNA viral community enhances microbial...
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Key role of hydrogen in regulating hydrogenases and the reductive TCA cycle in a thermophilic, autotrophic sulfur-reducing bacterium
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Augmenting microbial phylogenomic signal with tailored marker gene sets
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Augmenting microbial phylogenomic signal with tailored marker gene sets - Nature Communications
Marker genes used in microbial phylogenomics are limited to fixed gene sets selected from complete genomes. TMarSel is a flexible yet robust method for selecting any number of markers from genomes or ...
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Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis
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Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis - Nature
Viral NblA accelerates the cyanophage infection cycle, directs degradation of the host phycobilisome and other proteins, and reduces host photosynthetic light-harvesting efficiency.
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Deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria form intracellular carbonates enriched in trace metals
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Bioplastic Production Potential of Azospira suillum PS: Growth-Associated PHB Production Under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions
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Chemical richness and diversity of uncultivated ‘Entotheonella’ symbionts in marine sponges
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Chemical richness and diversity of uncultivated ‘Entotheonella’ symbionts in marine sponges - Nature Chemical Biology
Marine sponges host bacteria that produce diverse bioactive compounds. Here, the authors conduct a large-scale metagenomic, single-bacterial and biochemical study to reveal the untapped biosynthetic p...
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Nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones induced by microbial nitrite consumers
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Nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones induced by microbial nitrite consumers - Nature Geoscience
Despite being consumers, nitrite-oxidizing bacteria contribute to the accumulation of nitrite in marine oxygen minimum zones through interactions with other microbes, in particular denitrifiers, accor...
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Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly for the efficient recovery of novel genomes
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Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly for the efficient recovery of novel genomes - Nature Methods
By developing a strategy of metagenomic coassembly and prioritizing divergent marker gene sequences, Bin Chicken efficiently recovers more than 77,000 microbial genomes with high novel diversity, ther...
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Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers
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Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Surface layers (S-layers) are ubiquitous protein assemblies that coat prokaryotic cells, with their functional roles increasingly coming into focus. In this Review, Isbilir and colleagues discuss rece...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-025-01258-8
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Deep-sea corals near cold seeps associate with sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophs in the family Ca. Thioglobaceae
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Deep-sea corals near cold seeps associate with sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophs in the family Ca. Thioglobaceae - Microbiome
Background Corals are known for their symbiotic relationships, yet there is limited evidence of chemoautotrophic associations. This is despite some corals occurring near cold seeps where chemosymbioti...
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Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy
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Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy - Nature Communications
It is commonly thought that bacterial species borders tend to be fuzzy, due to frequent exchange of DNA. Here, Diop et al. quantify the patterns of gene flow between core genomes across 50 major bacte...
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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
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Decoding emergent properties of microbial community functions through subcommunity observations and interpretable machine learning
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Decoding emergent properties of microbial community functions through subcommunity observations and interpretable machine learning
Abstract. The functions of microbial communities, including substrate conversion and pathogen suppression, arise not as a simple sum of individual species’
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Plastic degradation by enzymes from uncultured deep sea microorganisms
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Plastic degradation by enzymes from uncultured deep sea microorganisms
Abstract. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)-hydrolyzing enzymes (PETases) are a recently discovered enzyme class capable of plastic degradation. PETases are
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Metagenomes and Metagenome-Assembled Genomes from Microbial Communities in a Biological Nutrient Removal Plant Operated at Los Angeles County Sanitation District (LACSD) with High and Low Dissolved Oxygen Conditions
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Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered
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Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered | PNAS
Dihydrodichlorofluorescein derivatives have been employed as reporters of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) in innumerable studies. Their...
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Marine Bacterioplankton Composition Predicts Oxygen Consumption During Dissolved Organic Matter Degradation Experiments
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Marine Bacterioplankton Composition Predicts Oxygen Consumption During Dissolved Organic Matter Degradation Experiments
We performed 50 DOM biodegradation experiments along with microbial community profiling to test whether bacterioplankton taxonomic and functional composition could account for oxygen consumption. Tax...
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Quantifying microbial interactions based on compositional data using an iterative approach for solving generalized Lotka-Volterra equations
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Quantifying microbial interactions based on compositional data using an iterative approach for solving generalized Lotka-Volterra equations
Author summary Microbes and animals often live in communities where species interact in complex ways. Understanding these interactions is essential for predicting population dynamics and how ecosystem...
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Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition
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Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition - Nature Microbiology
Mathematical modelling and experimental tests reveal principles that govern displacement of a resident strain by an invader in microbial communities.
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Reciprocal transplantation experiments reveal local adaptation of seaweed-associated bacteria
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Spatiotemporal and temperature-dependent disconnect between ammonia oxidation and dark DIC fixation in deep oligotrophic Lake Constance
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A century of research on Planctomycetota bacterial phylum, previously known as Planctomycetes
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Phytoplankton Under Pressure: Temperature, Precipitation and Cyanobacterial Blooms as Drivers of Chytrid Infections
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Phytoplankton Under Pressure: Temperature, Precipitation and Cyanobacterial Blooms as Drivers of Chytrid Infections
Chytrid parasites of phytoplankton infect a wide range of species, including green algae, diatoms, and cyanobacteria. Infection patterns varied, indicating that chytrid occurrence is highly dynamic i....
https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-2229.70224?af=R
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The Hidden Viral Network: How Viruses Shape Microbial Adaptability and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Polyextreme Mars‐Analog Qaidam Basin Desert
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The Hidden Viral Network: How Viruses Shape Microbial Adaptability and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Polyextreme Mars‐Analog Qaidam Basin Desert
Our study unveils the largely unexplored soil virosphere and virus-host interactions in the hyperarid Mars-analog desert of the Qaidam Basin. The findings underscore the vital ecological role of viru....
https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.70202?af=R
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The cell envelope of diderm bacteria: a unified scaffold, not a stack of layers
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Spontaneous evolution of heterotrophy in cultured dinoflagellate algae
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Spontaneous evolution of heterotrophy in cultured dinoflagellate algae
Acquisition of chloroplasts by an early eukaryote and their subsequent spread across eukaryotes is well understood. However, evolution can be undone, …
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Carbon monoxide-driven proton respiration enables facultative anaerobes to survive electron acceptor limitation
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Facilitation-competition tradeoffs structure microbial niches and nitrogen cycling
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Microcompartments in Hodarchaeales: a bioenergetic engine that could have fuelled eukaryogenesis
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PGAP2: A comprehensive toolkit for prokaryotic pan-genome analysis based on fine-grained feature networks
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PGAP2: A comprehensive toolkit for prokaryotic pan-genome analysis based on fine-grained feature networks - Nature Communications
Prokaryotic pan-genome analysis is crucial for understanding microbial diversity, however current analytical methods often struggle to balance accuracy and computational efficiency. Here the authors p...
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Multifunctionally diverse alkaline phosphatases of Alteromonas drive the phosphorus cycle in the ocean
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Multifunctionally diverse alkaline phosphatases of Alteromonas drive the phosphorus cycle in the ocean - Nature Communications
This study shows that Alteromonas is a key driver of phosphorus recycling in the ocean and that its alkaline phosphatases are multifunctional—with different families coexisting in one genome by adopti...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64455-2
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Increased mutation rates and diversity are dominant features of Geobacter multiheme cytochromes
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Metabolic Potential of Candidatus Saccharimonadia Including Rare Lineages in Activated Sludge
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Metabolic Potential of Candidatus Saccharimonadia Including Rare Lineages in Activated Sludge
Candidatus Saccharimonadia is ubiquitously found in activated sludge processes, but its ecophysiological characteristics remain poorly understood. Metagenome analysis of Ca. Saccharimonadia in size-f....
https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-2229.70231?af=R
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River metabolism in the contiguous United States: A West of extremes
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River metabolism in the contiguous United States: A West of extremes
River metabolism is among the most uncertain fluxes in the global carbon cycle. We present estimates for gross primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER) for more than 175,000 rivers ac...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu9843
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Methanogenic archaea encoding Pyrrolysine maintain ambiguous amber codon usage
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New chemicals fuel the evolution of microbial biodegradation
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Depth-resolved paired metagenomes and metatranscriptomes from the Lake Erie ‘dead zone’
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Inferring absolute counts from proportions by constraining multivariate normal distributions
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Characterization of Phytoplankton-Excreted Metabolites Mediating Carbon Flux through the Surface Ocean
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Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
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Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes - Nature Microbiology
Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
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Bacteria sense virus-induced genome degradation via methylated mononucleotides
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Tracing the contribution of dust origins on deposition and phytoplankton carbon uptake in global oceans
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Tracing the contribution of dust origins on deposition and phytoplankton carbon uptake in global oceans
Abstract. Dust provides iron, essential for marine phytoplankton growth, altering their carbon uptake capacity and affecting the global carbon cycle. However, due to the limited availability of observ...
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