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Principles for Rigorous Design and Application of Synthetic Microbial Communities

Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 10, 18 February 2026.
SynComs are artificially designed to enable inter‐species metabolic interactions, metabolic division of labor, and ecological interactions that can elicit phenotypes like colonization stability and environmental adaptation. This systematic review explores the processes used to construct SynComs, the assessment of the mechanisms of metabolic interaction
Yuxiao Zhang, Minyu Jing, Lihui Lyu, Li Nie, Xihui Xu, Ru Sun, Xiyuan Xu, Siyu Chen, Shuobing He, Yumeng Zhang, Ping Huang, Weijie Luo, Jiaojiao Liang, Guifeng Gao, Kunkun Fan, Teng Yang, Liyan Zhang, Xiao Fu, Sarah M. Allard, Jack A. Gilbert, Jiabao Zhang, Haiyan Chu   +21 more
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Syntrophy of bacteria and archaea in the anaerobic catabolism of hydrocarbon contaminants

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2022
The extensive use of organic chemicals has resulted in the widespread distribution of hydrocarbon contaminants (HCs) in many ecosystems on a global scale. Many subterranean ecosystems can rapidly become anaerobic or even methanogenic following hydrocarbon contamination.
Jean Damascene Harindintwali, Leilei Xiang, Fang Wang, Scott X. Chang, Zhiliang Zhao, Zhi Mei, Zhongjun Jia, Xin Jiang, Yong-guan Zhu, James M. Tiedje   +9 more
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Eukaryogenesis: Did an Oxidative Crucible Result in Misleading Bioinformatic Analyses?

BioEssays, Volume 48, Issue 2, February 2026.
Recently, Nature published a timed gene duplication analysis favoring gradual models for eukaryogenesis. However, high initial mutation rates due to endogenous ROS formation by the OXPHOS system of the future mitochondrion and ensuing positive selection for countermeasures might strongly inflate branch lengths in such analyses. Ruling out symbiogenesis
Dave Speijer
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Alternative Pathways of Acetogenic Ethanol and Methanol Degradation in the Thermophilic Anaerobe Thermacetogenium phaeum

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Growth of the anaerobic thermophile Thermacetogenium phaeum with methanol, ethanol, ethanolamine, and acetate was investigated in axenic cultures and in syntrophic cultures with Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus.
Anja Keller, Anja Keller, Bernhard Schink, Bernhard Schink, Nicolai Müller   +4 more
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Microbial Communities Powering Plant‐Microbial Fuel Cells: Diversity, Functions and Biotechnological Perspectives

Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 19, Issue 2, February 2026.
Bacterial and archaeal communities power plant‐microbial fuel cells. This review integrates current knowledge through comprehensive tables and knowledge graphs, emphasising microbial diversity, functions, and biotechnological potential for renewable energy and environmental applications.
Juliana Bueno Freire, Laura Faustino, Antônio Alexandre Abreu, Ian Alcântara Garcia Damiani e Cruz, Ernane José Xavier Costa   +4 more
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Cross‐Feeding of Carbon and Nitrogen Between Aquificales and Thermus in Hot Springs

Environmental Microbiology, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2026.
Pampinifervens and Thermus populations are co‐distributed in hot springs in Yellowstone and Iceland. Genome reconstruction suggests Pampinifervens Flu05 cross feeds Thermus organic carbon and nitrogen, a phenomenon that was verified via co‐culture studies.
Lisa M. Keller, Daniel R. Colman, Andri Stefánsson, Eric S. Boyd   +3 more
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Multilevel Mechanisms of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Enhancing Dark Fermentative Hydrogen Production: From Pure to Mixed Cultures

Hydrogen
Dark fermentative hydrogen production is constrained by challenges including low hydrogen yield and operational instability. Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have emerged as promising additives for enhancing biohydrogen production due to their unique ...
Junwei Yan, Zhangzhang Xie
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Plugging in or Going Wireless: Strategies for Interspecies Electron Transfer

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014
Interspecies exchange of electrons enables a diversity of microbial communities to gain energy from reactions that no one microbe can catalyze. The first recognized strategies for interspecies electron transfer were those that relied on chemical ...
Pravin Malla Shrestha, Pravin Malla Shrestha, Amelia-Elena eRotaru   +2 more
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Advances in Low‐Carbon Hydrogen Production via Anaerobic Digestion: A Review of the Processes, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

International Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Hydrogen production through anaerobic fermentation has gained prominence among researchers as a promising ecological route, capable of combining the treatment of highly polluting waste with the generation of a clean fuel. Hydrogen is considered a strategic energy carrier for the transition and restructuring of the global energy matrix, as it is a ...
Adrielle S. dos Santos, Maria I. T. Silva, Mayara A. de F. Santos, Fernanda N. R. P. Santana, Diego F. Bispo, Samia T. A. Maciel, Arnab Biswas   +6 more
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Comparative Profiling of Yeast Communities in Kefir Grains and Liquid Kefir Using ITS Amplicon Next‐Generation Sequencing

International Journal of Food Science, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Kefir is a fermented dairy beverage produced by a complex microbial consortium of bacteria and yeasts coexisting within a polysaccharide–protein matrix known as kefir grains. Although the bacterial communities are well‐characterized, the distribution of yeast taxa, specifically those transitioning into the fermented liquid phase, remains insufficiently
Kurniawan, Tiana Milanda, Sri Agung Fitri Kusuma, Jose Alberto Gallegos-Infante   +3 more
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