Zackary J. Jay

Jul 24, 2024 | nature.com | Zackary J. Jay

AbstractMethane is the second most abundant climate-active gas, and understanding its sources and sinks is an important endeavour in microbiology, biogeochemistry, and climate sciences1,2. For decades, it was thought that methanogenesis, the ability to conserve energy coupled to methane production, was taxonomically restricted to a metabolically specialized group of archaea, the Euryarchaeota1.

Jul 11, 2024 | journals.plos.org | George A Schaible |Zackary J. Jay |John B. Cliff |Frederik Schulz

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewedResearch Article Citation: Schaible GA, Jay ZJ, Cliff J, Schulz F, Gauvin C, Goudeau D, et al. (2024) Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells. PLoS Biol 22(7): e3002638.

Nov 27, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Zackary J. Jay |John B. Cliff |Frederik Schulz |George A Schaible

AbstractConsortia of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB) are currently the only known example of bacteria without a unicellular stage in their life cycle. Because of their recalcitrance to cultivation, most previous studies of MMB have been limited to microscopic observations. To study the biology of these unique organisms in more detail, we use multiple culture-independent approaches to analyze the genomics and physiology of MMB consortia at single cell resolution.