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Yinzhao Wang*, Gunter Wegener, Tom A. Williams, Ruize Xie, Jialin Hou, Chen Tian, Yu Zhang, Fengping Wang, Xiang Xiao*. (2021). A methylotrophic origin of methanogenesis and early divergence of anaerobic multi-carbon alkane metabolism. Science Advances, 7:eabj1453. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj1453

Yi Yang, Weishu Zhao*, Xiang Xiao. (2021). The upper temperature limit of life under high hydrostatic pressure in the deep biosphere. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 176: 103604. (Cover article) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103604

Xiang Xiao*, Yu Zhang, Fengping Wang. (2021). Hydrostatic pressure is the universal key driver of microbial evolution in the deep ocean and beyond. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 13(1), 68-72.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12915

Huahua Jian, Guanpeng Xu, Yi Yi, Yali Hao, Yinzhao Wang, Lei Xiong, Siyuan Wang, Shun-zhang Liu, Canxing Meng, Jiahua Wang, Yue Zhang, Chao Chen, Xiaoyuan Feng, Haiwei Luo, Hao Zhang, Xingguo Zhang, Lianrong Wang, Zhijun Wang, Zixin Deng, Xiang Xiao*. (2021). The origin and impeded dissemination of the DNA phosphorothioation system in prokaryotes. Nature Communications, 12(1): 6382. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26636-7

Jiahao Gu, Xiaojun Wang, Xiaopan Ma,Ying Sun, Xiang Xiao*, Haiwei Luo*. (2021). Unexpectedly high mutation rate of a deep-sea hyperthermophilic anaerobic archaeon. The ISME Journal, 15(6), 1862-1869. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00888-5

Huahua Jian, Yi Yi, Jiahua Wang, Yali Hao, Mujie Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Canxing Meng, Yue Zhang, Hongmei Jing, Yinzhao Wang, Xiang Xiao*. (2021). Diversity and distribution of viruses inhabiting the deepest ocean on Earth. The ISME Journal, 15: 3094–3110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-00994-y

Shanshan Yang, Yongxin Lv, Xipeng Liu, Yinzhao Wang, Qilian Fan, Zhifeng Yang, Nico Boon, Fengping Wang, Xiang Xiao, Yu Zhang*. (2020). Genomic and enzymatic evidence of acetogenesis by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea. Nature Communications, 11(1):1-1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17860-8

Yinzhao Wang, Gunter Wegener, Jialin Hou, Fengping Wang, Xiang Xiao*. (2019). Expanding anaerobic alkane metabolism in the domain of Archaea. Nature Microbiology, 4: 595-602. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0364-2

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