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. 2022:2522:469-486.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2445-6_32.

Progress and Challenges in Studying the Ecophysiology of Archaea

Panagiotis S Adam  1 , Till L V Bornemann  2 , Alexander J Probst  3   4
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Progress and Challenges in Studying the Ecophysiology of Archaea

Panagiotis S Adam et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2022.

Abstract

It has been less than two decades since the study of archaeal ecophysiology has become unshackled from the limitations of cultivation and amplicon sequencing through the advent of metagenomics. As a primer to the guide on producing archaeal genomes from metagenomes, we briefly summarize here how different meta'omics, imaging, and wet lab methods have contributed to progress in understanding the ecophysiology of Archaea. We then peer into the history of how our knowledge on two particularly important lineages was assembled: the anaerobic methane and alkane oxidizers, encountered primarily among Euryarchaeota, and the nanosized, mainly parasitic, members of the DPANN superphylum.

Keywords: ANME; Altiarchaeota; Archaea; DPANN; Metagenomics; Metatranscriptomics; Methane; Microscopy; Phylogenomics.

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