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2025Halophilic archaea produce wax esters and use an alternative fatty acyl-coenzyme A reductase for precursor synthesis., ISME J 2025 Jan; 19(1): .
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2024Identification of Veillonella parvula and Streptococcus gordonii adhesins mediating co-aggregation and its impact on physiology and mixed biofilm structure., mBio 2024 Nov; (): e0217124.
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2024Identification of V. parvula and S. gordonii adhesins mediating co-agregation and its impact on physiology and mixedbiofilm structure., mBio. 2024, in press.
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2024Stable coexistence between an archaeal virus and the dominant methanogen of the human gut., Nat Commun 2024 Sep; 15(1): 7702.
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2024Terrabacteria: redefining bacterial envelope diversity, biogenesis and evolution., Nat Rev Microbiol 2024 Aug; (): .
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2024Borg extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea have conserved and expressed genetic repertoires, Nature Communications, 2024, 15 (1), pp.5414. ⟨10.1038/s41467-024-49548-8⟩.
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2024Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division., Nat Microbiol 2024 Mar; 9(3): 698-711.
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2024MuDoGeR: Multi-Domain Genome recovery from metagenomes made easy., Mol Ecol Resour 2024 Feb; 24(2): e13904.
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2023Diversification of division mechanisms in endospore-forming bacteria revealed by analyses of peptidoglycan synthesis in Clostridioides difficile., Nat Commun 2023 Dec; 14(1): 7975.
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2023The Mla system of diderm Firmicute Veillonella parvula reveals an ancestral transenvelope bridge for phospholipid trafficking., Nat Commun 2023 Nov; 14(1): 7642.
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2023Dual function of OmpM as outer membrane tether and nutrient uptake channel in diderm Firmicutes., Nat Commun 2023 Nov; 14(1): 7152.
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2023Components of iron-Sulfur cluster assembly machineries are robust phylogenetic markers to trace the origin of mitochondria and plastids., PLoS Biol 2023 Nov; 21(11): e3002374.
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