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| Title |
Single cell genomics indicates horizontal gene transfer and viral infections in a deep subsurface Firmicutes population
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00349 |
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| Authors |
Jessica M. Labonté, Erin K. Field, Maggie Lau, Dylan Chivian, Esta Van Heerden, K. Eric Wommack, Thomas L. Kieft, Tullis C. Onstott, Ramunas Stepanauskas |
| Abstract |
A major fraction of Earth's prokaryotic biomass dwells in the deep subsurface, where cellular abundances per volume of sample are lower, metabolism is slower, and generation times are longer than those in surface terrestrial and marine environments. How these conditions impact biotic interactions and evolutionary processes is largely unknown. Here we employed single cell genomics to analyze cell-to-cell genome content variability and signatures of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and viral infections in five cells of Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator, which were collected from a 3 km-deep fracture water in the 2.9 Ga-old Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa. Between 0 and 32% of genes recovered from single cells were not present in the original, metagenomic assembly of Desulforudis, which was obtained from a neighboring subsurface fracture. We found a transposable prophage, a retron, multiple clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) and restriction-modification systems, and an unusually high frequency of transposases in the analyzed single cell genomes. This indicates that recombination, HGT and viral infections are prevalent evolutionary events in the studied population of microorganisms inhabiting a highly stable deep subsurface environment. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| Norway | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 12 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 56% |
| Scientists | 7 | 39% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 123 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 114 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 27% |
| Researcher | 21 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 7% |
| Professor | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 23 | 19% |
| Unknown | 21 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 37 | 30% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 16 | 13% |
| Environmental Science | 16 | 13% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 13% |
| Unknown | 26 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 June 2015.
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#2,962,849
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Outputs from Frontiers in Microbiology
#2,662
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#39,118
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Microbiology
#33
of 356 outputs
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