经过全球深部生命学者提名推荐、投票以及评选委员会评选等多轮环节，2023年度“深部生命亮点论文”及“思源海洋-深部生命新星”获奖名单近日隆重产生：

 

深部生命亮点论文

 

基于研究成果的重要性和学术影响潜力，五篇“深部生命亮点论文”为：

 

• S. Emil Ruff*, Pauline Humez, Isabella Hrabe de Angelis, Muhe Diao, Michael Nightingale, Sara Cho, Liam Connors, Olukayode O. Kuloyo, Alan Seltzer, Samuel Bowman, Scott D. Wankel, Cynthia N. McClain, Bernhard Mayer & Marc Strous, Hydrogen and dark oxygen drive microbial productivity in diverse groundwater ecosystems, Nature Communications. 2023, 14(1): 3194

“for providing a completely new view of the Deep Biosphere. There is oxygen available in an environment that was considered to be completely anoxic. Any future Deep Biosphere research will have to consider this possibility.”

 

• Laura Eme, Daniel Tamarit, Eva F. Caceres, Courtney W. Stairs, Valerie De Anda, Max E. Schön, Kiley W. Seitz, Nina Dombrowski, William H. Lewis, Felix Homa, Jimmy H. Saw, Jonathan Lombard, Takuro Nunoura, Wen-Jun Li, Zheng-Shuang Hua, Lin-Xing Chen, Jillian F. Banfield, Emily St John, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Matthew B. Stott, Andreas Schramm, Kasper U. Kjeldsen, Andreas P. Teske, Brett J. Baker & Thijs J. G. Ettema*, Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes, Nature. 2023, 618(7967): 992-999.

“for demonstrating the phylogenetic placement of Eukaryotes within the Asgard archaeal superphylum, with the archaeal Order Hodarchaeales as its closest sister group, based on a re-analysis of phylogenetically informative genes as well as the presence of newly discovered eukaryotic signature proteins in the Eukaryote-adjacent clades. Their findings establish a potential origin of the eukaryotes as a mesophilic clade from within the Asgard archaea.”

 

• Hanna Zehnle*, Rafael Laso-Pérez, Julius Lipp, Dietmar Riedel, David Benito Merino, Andreas Teske & Gunter Wegener*, Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent sediment oxidize petroleum alkanes, Nature Microbiology. 2023, 8(7): 1199-1212.

“for reporting the first enrichments of anaerobic archaea oxidizing petroleum alkane chains of 5-14 carbons, using a newly discovered enzyme, alkyl-CoM reuctases (Acrs). This work identifies a new set of organisms that may be responsible for oil degradation in high temperature wells.”

 

• Jialin Hou, Yinzhao Wang*, Pengfei Zhu, Na Yang, Lewen Liang, Tiantian Yu, Mingyang Niu, Kurt Konhauser, Ben J.Woodcroft & Fengping Wang*, Taxonomic and carbon metabolic diversification of Bathyarchaeia during its coevolution history with early Earth surface environment, Science Advances. 2023, 9(27): eadf5069.

“for taxonomically classifying the globally important archaea Bathyarchaeia for future research, not only illustrating their metabolic characteristics and diversification among different lineages, also providing a new insight into their coevolution history with the tectonics and carbon cycle of early Earth.”

 

• Oliver W. Moore*, Lisa Curti, Clare Woulds, James A. Bradley, Peyman Babakhani, Benjamin J. W. Mills, William B. Homoky, Ke-Qing Xiao, Andrew W. Bray, Ben J. Fisher, Majid Kazemian, Burkhard Kaulich, Andrew W. Dale & Caroline L. Peacock, Long-term organic carbon preservation enhanced by iron and manganese, Nature. 2023, 621(7978): 312-317.

“for groundbreaking insights into the metal-mediated abiotic formation of recalcitrant organic macromolecules, which is a potential major driver behind the long-term preservation of organic carbon in marine sediments.”

 

思源海洋-深部生命新星

 

本奖项旨在表彰有杰出学术表现和领导潜力的青年领域研究者。

 

2023年度两名获奖者分别为德国克里斯蒂安-阿尔伯特基尔大学Felix J. Elling博士和自然资源部第三海洋研究所董西洋研究员。

德国克里斯蒂安-阿尔伯特基尔大学Felix J. Elling博士

"for his groundbreaking work on the lipid biogeochemistry of marine microbes, advancing our understanding of microbial ecology in the modern ocean and informing paleoenvironmental applications of microbial lipids."

我们谨向获奖者表示热烈祝贺，并对他们在深度生命研究方面的重要贡献表示感谢，同时也感谢评选委员会的大力支持。获奖者将被邀请在2024年度IC-DLI研讨会进行专题讲座，敬请期待。