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SUBMITTER: Seitz KW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478937 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190423 1
Large reservoirs of natural gas in the oceanic subsurface sustain complex communities of anaerobic microbes, including archaeal lineages with potential to mediate oxidation of hydrocarbons such as methane and butane. Here we describe a previously unknown archaeal phylum, Helarchaeota, belonging to the Asgard superphylum and with the potential for hydrocarbon oxidation. We reconstruct Helarchaeota genomes from metagenomic data derived from hydrothermal deep-sea sediments in the hydrocarbon-rich G ...[more]