At the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute User Meeting held in Walnut Creek, California, last week, researchers announced the genomic identification of a potential new bacterial phylum, Candidatus Kryptonia, based on their study of samples isolated from four hot springs located in North America and Asia.
A talk presented by our postdoc Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh at our recent annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting garnered attention in part because it described what may be the first extremophile found in the Bacteroidetes superphylum. Read the full story in The Scientist.