Thaumarchaea Genome Sequences from a High Arctic Active Layer

Emily Wei-Hsin Sun; Sassan Hajirezaie; Mackenzie Dooner; Tatiana A Vishnivetskaya; Alice Layton; Archana Chauhan; Susan M Pfiffner; Lyle G Whyte; Tullis C Onstott; Maggie C Y Lau

doi:10.1128/MRA.00326-20

Thaumarchaea Genome Sequences from a High Arctic Active Layer

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 May 21;9(21):e00326-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00326-20.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA esun@princeton.edu maglau@idsse.ac.cn.
² Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
³ Department of Humanistic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
⁴ Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
⁵ Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Québec, Canada.
⁶ Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
⁷ Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA esun@princeton.edu maglau@idsse.ac.cn.
⁸ Laboratory of Extraterrestrial Ocean Systems, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.

Abstract

The role of archaeal ammonia oxidizers often exceeds that of bacterial ammonia oxidizers in marine and terrestrial environments but has been understudied in permafrost, where thawing has the potential to release ammonia. Here, three thaumarchaea genomes were assembled and annotated from metagenomic data sets from carbon-poor Canadian High Arctic active-layer cryosols.