Variations in bacterial diversity and community structure in the sediments of an alkaline lake in Inner Mongolia plateau, China by Jumei Liu, Jingli Yu, Wantong Si, Ge Ding, Shaohua Zhang, Donghui Gong, Jie Bi

“…Firmicutes, Clostridia, Gammaproteobacteria, salt-tolerant alkaliphilic denitrifying taxa, haloalkaliphilic sulfur cycling taxa were mainly distributed in S2, S3 and S4, and were well adapted to haloalkaline conditions. …”
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Environmental and Intestinal Phylum Firmicutes Bacteria Metabolize the Plant Sugar Sulfoquinovose via a 6-Deoxy-6-sulfofructose Transaldolase Pathway by Benjamin Frommeyer, Alexander W. Fiedler, Sebastian R. Oehler, Buck T. Hanson, Alexander Loy, Paolo Franchini, Dieter Spiteller, David Schleheck

“…Summary: Bacterial degradation of the sugar sulfoquinovose (SQ, 6-deoxy-6-sulfoglucose) produced by plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, is an important component of the biogeochemical carbon and sulfur cycles. Here, we reveal a third biochemical pathway for primary SQ degradation in an aerobic Bacillus aryabhattai strain. …”
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Anaerobic thiosulfate oxidation by the Roseobacter group is prevalent in marine biofilms by Wei Ding, Shougang Wang, Peng Qin, Shen Fan, Xiaoyan Su, Peiyan Cai, Jie Lu, Han Cui, Meng Wang, Yi Shu, Yongming Wang, Hui-Hui Fu, Yu-Zhong Zhang, Yong-Xin Li, Weipeng Zhang

“…Abstract Thiosulfate oxidation by microbes has a major impact on global sulfur cycling. Here, we provide evidence that bacteria within various Roseobacter lineages are important for thiosulfate oxidation in marine biofilms. …”
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Simultaneous sulfide and methane oxidation by an extremophile by Rob A. Schmitz, Stijn H. Peeters, Sepehr S. Mohammadi, Tom Berben, Timo van Erven, Carmen A. Iosif, Theo van Alen, Wouter Versantvoort, Mike S. M. Jetten, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Arjan Pol

“…Genomic surveys revealed putative sulfide-oxidizing enzymes in numerous methanotrophs, suggesting that H2S oxidation is much more widespread in methanotrophs than previously assumed, enabling them to connect carbon and sulfur cycles in novel ways.…”
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Hydrogen and dark oxygen drive microbial productivity in diverse groundwater ecosystems by S. Emil Ruff, Pauline Humez, Isabella Hrabe de Angelis, Muhe Diao, Michael Nightingale, Sara Cho, Liam Connors, Olukayode O. Kuloyo, Alan Seltzer, Samuel Bowman, Scott D. Wankel, Cynthia N. McClain, Bernhard Mayer, Marc Strous

“…The geochemistry and microbiology show consistent trends suggesting large-scale aerobic and anaerobic hydrogen, methane, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling carried out by diverse microbial communities. …”
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Metabolic diversity and ecological niches of Achromatium populations revealed with single-cell genomic sequencing by Muammar eMansor, Trinity L Hamilton, Matthew S Fantle, Jennifer eMacalady

“…Large, sulfur-cycling, calcite-precipitating bacteria in the genus Achromatium represent a significant proportion of bacterial communities near sediment-water interfaces throughout the world. …”
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REDOX CHEMISTRY OF MOLYBDENUM IN NATURAL WATERS AND ITS INVOLVEMENT IN BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION by Deli eWang

“…Redox switching of the element in these enzymes catalyzes a series of metabolic reactions in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and the element therefore plays a fundamental role in the global carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling. In the present oxygenated waters, oxidized Mo(VI) predominates thermodynamically, whilst reduced Mo species are mainly confined within specific niches including cytoplasm. …”
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Down the Rabbit Hole: toward appropriate discussion of methane release from gas hydrate systems during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and other past hyperthermal events by G. R. Dickens

“…Methane release from gas hydrates remains a congruous explanation for the δ<sup>13</sup>C excursion across the PETM, although it requires an unconventional framework for global carbon and sulfur cycling, and it lacks proof. These issues are addressed here in the hope that they will prompt appropriate discussions regarding the extraordinary carbon injection at the start of the PETM and during other events in Earth's history.…”
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Oxygenation of Hypoxic Coastal Baltic Sea Sediments Impacts on Chemistry, Microbial Community Composition, and Metabolism by Elias Broman, Varvara Sachpazidou, Jarone Pinhassi, Mark Dopson

“…Based on these results, sulfur cycling and nitrogen fixation that were evident in the field samples were ongoing during re-oxygenation of the sediment. …”
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Microbial Ecology of Oxygen Minimum Zones Amidst Ocean Deoxygenation by Andrew M. Long, Sophie K. Jurgensen, Ariel R. Petchel, Emily R. Savoie, Jennifer R. Brum

“…We describe the recognized roles of OMZ microbes in carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling, the potential of viruses in altering host metabolisms involved in these cycles, and the control of microbial populations by grazers and viruses. …”
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Implications of a short carbon pulse on biofilm formation on mica schist in microcosms with deep crystalline bedrock groundwater by Maija Nuppunen-Puputti, Riikka Kietäväinen, Ilmo Kukkonen, Malin Bomberg

“…Previously, epilithic Fennoscandian deep subsurface bacterial communities were shown to host genetic potential, especially for heterotrophy and sulfur cycling. Acetate, methane, and methanol link multiple biogeochemical pathways and thus represent an important carbon and energy source for microorganisms in the deep subsurface. …”
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Jellyfish Life Stages Shape Associated Microbial Communities, While a Core Microbiome Is Maintained Across All by Michael D. Lee, Joshua D. Kling, Rubén Araya, Janja Ceh, Janja Ceh, Janja Ceh

“…A microbial core-community was identified as present through all investigated life stages, including bacteria with closest relatives known to be key drivers of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur cycling. Moreover, the fact that half of C. plocamia’s core bacteria were also present in life stages of the jellyfish Aurelia aurita, suggests that this bacterial community might represent an intrinsic characteristic of scyphozoan jellyfish, contributing to their evolutionary success.…”
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Microbial diversity and biogeochemical cycling potential in deep-sea sediments associated with seamount, trench, and cold seep ecosystems by Xiaoyong Zhang, Keyue Wu, Zhuang Han, Zihui Chen, Zhiying Liu, Zuwang Sun, Liyi Shao, Zelong Zhao, Lei Zhou

“…We demonstrated that the microbes in deep-sea sediments were diverse and were functionally different (e.g., carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling) from each other in the seamount, trench, and cold seep ecosystems. …”
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Short-term effect of simulated salt marsh restoration by sand-amendment on sediment bacterial communities. by François Thomas, James T Morris, Cathleen Wigand, Stefan M Sievert

“…Along with the previously observed changes in biogeochemistry, sand amendments drastically modified the bacterial communities, decreasing richness and diversity. The dominant sulfur-cycling bacterial community found in natural sediments was replaced by one dominated by iron oxidizers and aerobic heterotrophs, the abundance of which correlated with higher CO2-flux. …”
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Salinity Impacts the Functional <i>mcrA</i> and <i>dsrA</i> Gene Abundances in Everglades Marshes by Deidra Jordan, John S. Kominoski, Shelby Servais, DeEtta Mills

“…The study addressed this by utilizing next generation sequencing (NGS) to construct a baseline soil microbial community. The carbon and sulfur cycles were studied by sequencing a microbial functional gene involved in each process, the <i>mcrA</i> and <i>dsrA</i> functional genes, respectively. …”
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Microbial electricity generation enhances decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209) degradation. by Yonggang Yang, Meiying Xu, Zhili He, Jun Guo, Guoping Sun, Jizhong Zhou

“…Various other microbial functional genes for carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur cycling, as well as energy transformation process, were also significantly increased in c-MFCs. …”
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Ancient and Modern Geochemical Signatures in the 13,500-Year Sedimentary Record of Lake Cadagno by Jasmine S. Berg, Mathilde Lepine, Emile Laymand, Xingguo Han, Hendrik Vogel, Marina A. Morlock, Niroshan Gajendra, Adrian Gilli, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Carsten J. Schubert, Carsten J. Schubert, Guangyi Su, Mark A. Lever

“…In deeper sediment layers, organic carbon remineralization is much slower but microorganisms nonetheless subsist on fermentation, sulfur cycling, metal reduction, and methanogenesis. The most surprising finding was the presence of a deep, oxidizing groundwater source. …”
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Composite cathodes and modified separators based on corn-silk-based porous carbon for high performance lithium–sulfur batteries by Hui Zhang, Yin Li, Geng Gao, Tingyu Song, Keyu Zhang, Yaochun Yao

“…Furthermore, with an ultralight porous carbon modified separator, significant improvement was achieved in the utilization of sulfur, cycling stability and alleviation of the polysulfide shuttling efficiently. …”
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Isotopic Fractionation Associated With Sulfate Import and Activation by Desulfovibrio vulgaris str. Hildenborough by Derek A. Smith, David A. Fike, David T. Johnston, Alexander S. Bradley, Alexander S. Bradley

“…The use of stable isotopes to trace biogeochemical sulfur cycling relies on an understanding of how isotopic fractionation is imposed by metabolic networks. …”
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Microbial community functional structures in wastewater treatment plants as characterized by GeoChip. by Xiaohui Wang, Yu Xia, Xianghua Wen, Yunfeng Yang, Jizhong Zhou

“…A comprehensive functional gene array named GeoChip 4.2 was used to determine the microbial functional genes involved in a variety of biogeochemical processes such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous and sulfur cycles, metal resistance, antibiotic resistance and organic contaminant degradation. …”
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