Insights into the Vertical Stratification of Microbial Ecological Roles across the Deepest Seawater Column on Earth by Chun-Xu Xue, Jiwen Liu, David J. Lea-Smith, Gary Rowley, Heyu Lin, Yanfen Zheng, Xiao-Yu Zhu, Jinchang Liang, Waqar Ahmad, Jonathan D. Todd, Xiao-Hua Zhang

“…Here, we used metagenomics to investigate the microbial communities and their potential to drive biogeochemical cycling in seven different water layers down the vertical profile of the Challenger Deep (0–10,500 m) in the Mariana Trench, the deepest natural point in the Earth’s oceans. …”
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Distinctive signatures of pathogenic and antibiotic resistant potentials in the hadal microbiome by Liuqing He, Xinyu Huang, Guoqing Zhang, Ling Yuan, Enhui Shen, Lu Zhang, Xiao-Hua Zhang, Tong Zhang, Liang Tao, Feng Ju

“…Results The results indicate that the 10,898 m Challenger Deep bottom sediment harbored prosperous microbiota with contrasting signatures of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance, compared with the neighboring but shallower 6038 m steep wall site and the more nearshore 5856 m Pacific basin site. …”
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A moderately thermophilic origin of a novel family of marine group II euryarchaeota from deep ocean by Haodong Liu, Wei-Wei Liu, Jose M. Haro-Moreno, Bu Xu, Yanfen Zheng, Jiwen Liu, Jiwei Tian, Xiao-Hua Zhang, Ning-Yi Zhou, Liping Qin, Yuanqing Zhu, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, Chuanlun Zhang

“…In this study, 13 new MGII metagenome-assembled genomes were recovered from surface to the hadal zone in Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench; four of them from the deep ocean represent a novel group. …”
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