Cameron Thrash
Associate Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com
Isotopomer labeling and oxygen dependence of hybrid nitrous oxide productionbg.copernicus.org Abstract. Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas and ozone depletion agent, with a significant natural source from marine oxygen-deficient zones (ODZs). Open questions remain, however, about t...
Variable contribution of wastewater treatment plant effluents to downstream nitrous oxide concentrations and emissionsbg.copernicus.org Abstract. Nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-destroying agent, is produced during nitrogen transformations in both natural and human-constructed environments. Wastewater treatment ...
Hydrogen–independent CO2 reduction dominates methanogenesis in five temperate lakes that differ in trophic statesacademic.oup.com Abstract. Emissions of microbially produced methane (CH4) from lake sediments are a major source of this potent greenhouse gas to the atmosphere. The rates
Streamflow in the United States: Characteristics, trends, regime shifts, and extremes - Scientific Datawww.nature.com Scientific Data - Streamflow in the United States: Characteristics, trends, regime shifts, and extremes
Cellular interactions and evolutionary origins of endosymbiotic relationships with ciliatesacademic.oup.com Abstract. As unicellular predators, ciliates engage in close associations with diverse microbes, laying the foundation for the establishment of endosymbios
Eco-evolutionary strategies for relieving carbon limitation under salt stress differ across microbial clades - Nature Communicationswww.nature.com From metagenomic sequencing of coastal soils along a salinity gradient, this study shows contrasting eco-evolutionary strategies for relieving carbon limitation under salt stress in bacteria and archa...
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability - Nature Ecology & Evolutionwww.nature.com Deoxygenation is rapidly occurring in marine and freshwater habitats worldwide. This Perspective proposes that deoxygenation should be considered as a planetary boundary, discusses how deoxygenation a...
The immune modules conserved across the tree of life: Towards a definition of ancestral immunityjournals.plos.org A subset of prokaryotic antiviral systems are conserved in eukaryotes and have crucial roles in immune pathways. This Essay introduces the concept of ancestral immunity, which refers to the set of imm...
Frontiers | Niche differentiation in microorganisms capable of using alternative reduced nitrogen sources studied across depth and between oxic and anoxic ocean regionswww.frontiersin.org IntroductionAssimilation of reduced nitrogen is less energetically costly than assimilation of oxidized forms. In the open ocean, ammonium is generally absen...
Not All Is Lost: Resilience of Microbiome Samples to Freezer Failures and Long-term Storagewww.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
Metabolism, genome and age of the last universal common ancestor - Nature Ecology & Evolutionwww.nature.com Through analysis of gene families that were duplicated before the last universal common ancestor (LUCA), we estimate the date of the LUCA at approximately 4.2 billion years ago. Our reconstruction of ...
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system - Nature Ecology & Evolutionwww.nature.com Integration of phylogenetics, comparative genomics and palaeobiological approaches suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived about 4.2 billion years ago and was a complex prokaryote-grade...
Uncovering the hidden complexity of multicellular magnetotactic bacteriajournals.plos.org Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB) have a surprisingly complex multicellular lifestyle. This Primer explores a new study in PLOS Biology which combines genomics, microscopy, and isotopic label...
Deep metagenomic sequencing unveils novel SAR202 lineages and their vertical adaptation in the ocean - Communications Biologywww.nature.com The authors apply deep metagenomic sequencing to analyze six depth samples at the BATS station. They identify novel SAR202 groups/subgroups in the ocean to understand their vertical distribution, meta...