Parasitic bacteria feeding on their hosts’ RNA!? New cultures and Patescibacteriota/Minisyncoccota/CPR continue to surprise us… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our archaea-parasitizing bacterium Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus from Minisyncoccota/CPR/Patescibacteria featured as Microbe of the Month! Amazing culture and images @kuroda-kyohei.bsky.social microb.io/3XxK9w2

New isolates from eukaryote's closest archaeal relative: ‘Hodarchaeales’!! Syntrophic microaerotolerant peptide-degrading anaerobic archaea w/ simple cell structure & protrusions. Features conserved across the phylum provide new insight into our ancestor’s biology! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Underground happy hour? Excited to share our discovery of a new symbiosis between subsurface bacteria and archaea bridged by syntrophic transfer of the smallest alcohol—methanol! @nature.com Work led by a former student Huang Yan, congratulations! rdcu.be/d7W2s