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2025

CNCB-NGDC Members and Partners. 2025. Database Resources of the National Genomics Data Center, China National Center for Bioinformation in 2025. Nucleic Acids Research 53(D1): D30-D44. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae978.

2024

Raquel Peixoto, Christian R. Voolstra, Lisa Y. Stein, Philip Hugenholtz, Joana Falcao Salles, Shady A. Amin, Max Häggblom, Ann Gregory, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Fengping Wang, Nadège Adoukè Agbodjato, Yinzhao Wang, Nianzhi Jiao, Jay T. Lennon, Antonio Ventosa, Patrik M. Bavoil, Virginia Miller, Jack A. Gilbert. 2024. Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 6: 4-5; Nature Reviews Microbiology 23: 1–2; Nature Microbiology 9: 3084–3085; Nature Communications 15: 9637; Communications Earth & Environment 5: 672; Communications Biology 7: 1466; The ISME Journal 18(1): wrae219; FEMS Microbiology Ecology 100(11): fiae144; mSystem : e01416-24; npj Biodiversity 3: 34; npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 10: 122; npj Climate Action 3: 102; npj Sustainable Agriculture 2: 23; Sustainable Microbiology 1(1): qvae029 .

Tariq Ahmad, Sidra Erum Ishaq, Lewen Liang, Ruize Xie, Yinzhao Wang, Fengping Wang*. 2024. A diffusion-based integrative approach for culturing previously uncultured bacteria from marine sediments. Marine Life Science & Technology . doi.org/10.1007/s42995-024-00240-2. [2022YFC2804100, 92251303].

Yuxin Tao, Zichao Zeng, Yuhui Deng, Menghan Zhang, Fengping Wang, Yinzhao Wang*. 2024. Phylogeny and evolution of dissimilatory sulfite reduction in prokaryotes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 201: 108208. doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108208. [92351304, 42272354, 42230401, 2023YFC3108600].

Sidra Erum Ishaq, Tariq Ahmad, Lewen Liang, Ruize Xie, Tiantian Yu, Yinzhao Wang, Fengping Wang*. 2024. Cultivation of Diverse Novel Marine Bacteria from Deep Ocean Sediment Using Spent Culture Supernatant of Ca. Bathyarchaeia Enrichment. Journal of Microbiology. doi.org/10.1007/s12275-024-00145-w. [2022YFC2804100].

Tiantian Yu#, Lin Fu#, Yinzhao Wang#, Yijing Dong, Yifan Chen, Gunter Wegener, Lei Cheng*, Fengping Wang*. 2024. Thermophilic Hadarchaeota grow on long-chain alkanes in syntrophy with methanogens. Nature Communications 15: 6560. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50883-z. [92251303, 42276139, 42230401, 323250002].

Yinzhao Wang*, Liuyang Li, Qiang Li, Yaoxun Hu, Wenjie Li, Zhile Wu, Hungchia Huang, Zhenbo Lv, Wan Liu, Ruifang Cao, Guoping Zhao*, Fengping Wang*, Guoqing Zhang*. 2024. MASH-Ocean 1.0: Interactive platform for investigating microbial diversity, function, and biogeography with marine metagenomic data. iMeta 3: e201. doi.org/10.1002/imt2.201. [92251307, 92351304, 91951209, 42272354, 92051116].

Pengfei Zhu#, Jialin Hou#, Yixuan Xiong, Ruize Xie, Yinzhao Wang, Fengping Wang*. 2024. Expanded Archaeal Genomes Shed New Light on the Evolution of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis. Microorganisms 12(4): 707. doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12040707. [42230401].

Linhao Cui, Kelei Zhu, Ruiyun Li, Chao Chang, Laiyuan Wu, Wei Liu, Dongjing Fu, Peiyu Liu, Hao Qiu, Guoqiang Tang, Qiuli Li, Robert R. Gaines, Yuxin Tao, Yinzhao Wang*, Jinhua Li*, Xingliang Zhang*. 2024. The Cambrian microfossil Qingjiangonema reveals the co-evolution of sulfate-reducing bacteria and the oxygenation of Earth’s surface. Science Bulletin 69(10):1486-1494. doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2024.03.001. [41890843, 41890845, 41930319, 42242201, 42272354].

2023

Tiantian Yu, Haining Hu, Xianhong Zeng, Yinzhao Wang, Donald Pan, Longhui Deng, Lewen Liang, Jialin Hou, Fengping Wang*. 2023. Widespread Bathyarchaeia encode a novel methyltransferase utilizing lignin‐derived aromatics. mLife 2(3): 272-282. doi.org/10.1002/mlf2.12082. [42276139, 42230401, 42141003, 41921006, 92051116, 91951209].

Liuyang Li, Danyue Huang, Yaoxun Hu, Nicola M. Rudling, Daniel P. Canniffe, Fengping Wang*, Yinzhao Wang*. 2023. Globally distributed Myxococcota with photosynthesis gene clusters illuminate the origin and evolution of a potentially chimeric lifestyle. Nature Communications 14: 6450. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42193-7. [92051116, 92251303, 91951209, 42272354, 20ZR1428000].

Yi Yi, Shunzhang Liu, Yali Hao, Qingyang Sun, Xinjuan Lei, Yecheng Wang, Jiahua Wang Mujie Zhang, Shan Tang, Qingxue Tang, Yue Zhang, Xipeng Liu, Yinzhao Wang, Xiang Xiao, Huahua Jian*. 2023. A systematic analysis of marine lysogens and proviruses. Nature Communications 14: 6013. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41699-4. [42176095, 41921006, 2021YFF0501302].

Jianxun Shen, Greig A. Paterson, Yinzhao Wang, Joseph L. Kirschvink, Yongxin Pan, Wei Lin*. 2023. Renaissance for magnetotactic bacteria in astrobiology. The ISME Journal 17: 1526–1534. doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01495-w. [T2225011, 42293293, 42202339, 2023M733478].

Jialin Hou, Yinzhao Wang*, Pengfei Zhu, Na Yang, Lewen Liang, Tiantian Yu, Mingyang Niu, Kurt Konhauser, Ben J. Woodcroft, Fengping Wang*. 2023. Taxonomic and carbon metabolic diversification of Bathyarchaeia during its coevolution history with early Earth surface environment. Science Advances 9(27): eadf5069. doi.10.1126/sciadv.adf5069. [41921006, 92251303, 92051116, 42272354].

Hao Leng#, Yinzhao Wang#, Weishu Zhao, Stefan M. Sievert, Xiang Xiao*. 2023 Identification of a deep-branching thermophilic clade sheds light on early bacterial evolution. Nature Communications 14: 4354. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39960-x. [41921006, 41776173, 92051116, 91951209, 20ZR1428000, 42106087, 2018YFC0309800].

Tiantian Yu, Weichao Wu, Wenyue Liang, Yinzhao Wang, Jialin Hou, Yunru Chen, Marcus Elvert, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Fengping Wang*. 2023. Anaerobic degradation of organic carbon supports uncultured microbial populations in estuarine sediments. Microbiome 11: 81. doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01531-z. [41867057, 42141003, 41921006].

2022

Weishu Zhao, Bozitao Zhong, Lirong Zheng, Pan Tan, Yinzhao Wang, Hao Leng, Nicolas de Souza, Zhuo Liu, Liang Hong*, Xiang Xiao*. 2022. Proteome-wide 3D structure prediction provides insights into the ancestral metabolism of ancient archaea and bacteria. Nature Communications 13: 7861. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35523-8. [41921006, 42106087, 11974239, 31630002].

Long Wang, Yinzhao Wang, Xingyu Huang, Ruijie Ma, Jiangtao Li, Fengping Wang, Nianzhi Jiao, Rui Zhang*. 2022. Potential metabolic and genetic interaction among viruses, methanogen and methanotrophic archaea, and their syntrophic partners. ISME Communications 2: 50. doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00135-2. [91951209, 42006097, 92051116, 42188102, 2020M671942].

Zhenbo Lv, Jiaxin Ding, Heng Wang, Jiaxin Wan, Yifan Chen, Lewen Liang, Tiantian Yu, Yinzhao Wang*, Fengping Wang. 2022. Isolation of a Novel Thermophilic Methanogen and the Evolutionary History of the Class Methanobacteria. Biology 11(10): 1514. doi.org/10.3390/biology11101514. [92051116, 42272354, 91951209, 41921006, 41867067, 20ZR1428000].

Yinzhao Wang*, Ruize Xie, Jialin Hou, Zhenbo Lv, Liuyang Li, Yaoxun Hu, Hungchia Huang, Fengping Wang*. 2022. The late Archaean to early Proterozoic origin and evolution of anaerobic methane‐oxidizing archaea. mLife 1:96-100. doi.org/10.1002/mlf2.12013. [41902313, 92051116, 41921006, 42141003, 91428308].

Sidra Erum Ishaq, Tariq Ahmad, Jialin Hou, Lewen Liang, Yinzhao Wang, Fengping Wang*. 2022. Draft Genome Sequences of Four Bacterial Strains Isolated from Sediment of the South China Sea. Microbiology Resource Announcements 11: e00191-22. doi.org/10.1128/mra.00191-22. [2018YFC0310803].

2021

Huahua Jian, Guanpeng Xu, Yi Yi, Yali Hao, Yinzhao Wang, Lei Xiong, Siyuan Wang, Shunzhang 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: 6382. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26636-7. [2018YFC0309800, 91851113].

Ruize Xie#, Yinzhao Wang#, Danyue Huang, Jialin Hou, Liuyang Li, Haining Hu, Xiaoxiao Zhao, Fengping Wang*. 2021. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Science China Life Sciences 65: 818–829. doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-1969-6. [91751205, 41921006, 41902313, 92051116, DY135-B2-12, 2018YFC0310803].

Yinzhao Wang, Yoichi Kamagata , Meng Li, Feifei Han, Fengping Wang*, Xiang Xiao. 2021. New approaches for archaeal genome-guided cultivation. Science China Earth Sciences 64:1658–1673. doi.org/10.1007/s11430-020-9793-5. [2016YFA0601102, DY135-B2-12, 41525011, 41921006, 41902313, 91751205, 92051116, 20ZR1428000].

王寅炤, KAMAGATA Yoichi, 李猛, 韩菲菲, 王风平*, 肖湘. 2021. 基于基因组信息指导的古菌培养新策略. 中国科学：地球科学 51(11): 1837-1855. doi.org/10.1360/N072020-0322. [2016YFA0601102, DY135-B2-12, 41525011, 41921006, 41902313, 91751205, 92051116, 20ZR1428000].

Wensi Zhang, Yinzhao Wang, Li Liu, Yongxin Pan, Wei Lin*. 2021. Identification and genomic characterization of two previously unknown magnetotactic Nitrospirae. Frontiers in Microbiology 12: 2054. doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.690052. [41822704, 41621004].

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. doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-1969-6. [2018YFC0309800, 91851113, 41921006, 41776173, 41676118].

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. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj1453. [2018YFC0309800, 2016YFA0601102, DY135-B2-12, 41525011, 41902313, 91751205, 92051116, 20ZR1428000].

2020

Yinzhao Wang, Gunter Wegener, S. Emil Ruff, Fengping Wang*. 2021. Methyl/alkyl-coenzyme M reductase-based anaerobic alkane oxidation in archaea. Environmental Microbiology 23(2): 530–541. doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15057. [2018YFC0310800, 2016YFA0601102, DY135-B2-12, 41525011, 41902313, 91751205].

聂唱, 侯佳林, 王寅炤, 蹇华哗*. 2020. Shewanella菌属最大基因组-深海嗜冷细菌Shewanella psychrophila WP2的基因组学分析. 应用海洋学学报 39(3): 319-328. doi.org/10.3969/J.ISSN.2095-4972.2020.03.003. [2018YFC0309800, 41676118].

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: 3941. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17860-8. [2018YFC0309800, 41476123, 91951117, 41921006, 41676177, 41902313, 91751205].

Jialin Hou, Stefan M. Sievert, Yinzhao Wang, Jeff S. Seewald, Vengadesh Perumal Natarajan, Fengping Wang*, Xiang Xiao. 2020. Microbial succession during the transition from active to inactive stages of deep-sea hydrothermal vent sulfide chimneys. Microbiome 8: 102. doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00851-8. [DY135-B2-12, 41530967, 41921006, 91751205].

Yinzhao Wang, Xinxu Zhang, Jiahua Wang, Xiang Xiao, Fengping Wang*. 2020. Genomic analysis of Marinobacter sp. NP-4 and NP-6 isolated from the deep-sea oceanic crust on the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Marine Genomics 5: 100693. doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2019.06.001. [2018YFC0310800, 31661143022].

2019

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. doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0364-2.

Yinzhao Wang, Xiaoyuan Feng, Vengadesh Perumal Natarajan, Xiang Xiao*, Fengping Wang*. 2019. Diverse anaerobic methane- and multi-carbon alkane-metabolizing archaea coexist and show activity in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediment. Environmental Microbiology 21(4):1344-1355. doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14568.

Yinzhao Wang*, Giorgio Casaburi, Wei Lin, Ying Li, Fengping Wang, Yongxin Pan. 2019. Genomic evidence of the illumination response mechanism and evolutionary history of magnetotactic bacteria within the Rhodospirillaceae family. BMC Genomics 20:407. doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5751-9.

Lewen Liang, Yinzhao Wang, Orit Sivan, Fengping Wang*. 2019. Metal-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation in marine sediment: Insights from marine settings and other systems. Science China Life Sciences 62:1287–1295. doi.org/10.1007/s11427-018-9554-5.

Xiaoyuan Feng, Yinzhao Wang, Rahul Zubin, Fengping Wang*. 2019. Core Metabolic Features and Hot Origin of Bathyarchaeota. Engineering 5(3):498-504. doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2019.01.011.

Jinhua Li*, Heng Zhang, Peiyu Liu, Nicolas Menguy, Andrew P. Roberts, Haitao Chen, Yinzhao Wang, Yongxin Pan. 2019. Phylogenetic and structural identification of a novel magnetotactic Deltaproteobacterium strain WYHR-1 from a freshwater lake. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 85(14):e00731-19. doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00731-19.

2018

Zhen Li, Qinghao Song, Yinzhao Wang, Xiang Xiao, Jun Xu*. 2018. Identification of a functional toxin–antitoxin system located in the genomic island PYG1 of piezophilic hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus yayanosii. Extremophiles 22:347-357. doi.org/10.1007/s00792-018-1002-2.

2017

Wei Lin, Greig A Paterson, Qiyun Zhu, Yinzhao Wang, Evguenia Kopylova, Ying Li, Rob Knight, Dennis A Bazylinski, Rixiang Zhu, Joseph L Kirschvink, Yongxin Pan*. 2017. Origin of microbial biomineralization and magnetotaxis during the Archean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(9):2171-2176. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.161465411.

范习贝, 梁前勇, 牛明杨, 余甜甜, 王寅炤, 王风平*. 2017. 中国南海北部陆坡沉积物古菌多样性及丰度分析. 微生物学通报 44(7):1589-1601. DOI:10.13344/j.microbiol.china.170159.

2016

Yinzhao Wang, Yongxin Pan*. 2016. The ultraviolet-B radiation effects on the community, physiology and mineralization of magnetotactic bacteria. Stress and Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression and Adaptation in Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Inc 532-544. doi.org/10.1002/9781119004813.ch50.

Yinzhao Wang, Tongwei Zhang, Wei Lin, Bingfang Zhang, Yao Cai, Caiyun Yang, Jinhua Li, Huangtao Xu, Yongxin Pan*. 2016. Complete sequence of one freshwater Magnetospirillum sp. strain XM-1, isolated from the Xi’an city moat, China. Genome Announcements 4:e01171-16. doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01171-16.

Jinhua Li, Nicolas Menguy, Marie-Anne Arrio, Philippe Sainctavit, Amélie Juhin, Yinzhao Wang, Haitao Chen, Oana Bunau, Edwige Otero, Philippe Ohresser, Yongxin Pan*. 2016. Controlled cobalt doping in the spinel structure of magnetosome magnetite: new evidences from element-and site-specific X-ray magnetic circular dichroism analyses. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 13(121):20160355. doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2016.0355.

2015

Yinzhao Wang, Wei Lin, Jinhua Li, Tongwei Zhang, Ying Li, Jiesheng Tian, Lixin Gu, Yvan Vander Heyden, Yongxin Pan*. 2015. Characterizing and optimizing magnetosome production of Magnetospirillum sp. XM-1 isolated from Xi'an City Moat, China. FEMS Microbiology Letter 362(21):fnv167. doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnv167.

2014

林巍, 王寅炤, 陈海涛, 潘永信*. 2014. 吉林龙岗火山区玛珥湖趋磁细菌多样性与分布. 中国科学：地球科学 44(6):1253-1262. doi.org/10.1360/zd-2014-44-6-1253.

2013

Yinzhao Wang, Wei Lin, Jinhua Li, Yongxin Pan*. 2013. Effects of ultraviolet B on Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1: Changes in cell growth and magnetosome biomineralization. Frontiers in Microbiology 4:397. doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00397.

Yinzhao Wang, Wei Lin, Jinhua Li, Yongxin Pan*. 2013. High diversity of the magnetotactic Deltaproteobacteria in a freshwater niche. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79(8):2813-2817. doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03635-12.

Greig A Paterson, Yinzhao Wang, Yongxin Pan*. 2013. The fidelity of paleomagnetic records carried by magnetosome chains. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 383:82-91. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.09.031.

Wei Lin, Yinzhao Wang, Yuri Gorby, Kenneth Nealson, Yongxin Pan*. 2013. Integrating niche-based process and spatial process in biogeography of magnetotactic bacteria. Scientific Reports 3:1643. doi.org/10.1038/srep01643.

陈海涛, 林巍, 王寅炤, 李金华, 陈冠军, 潘永信*. 2013. 西安未央湖趋磁细菌多样性与磁学研究. 第四纪研究 33(1):88-96. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1001-7410.2013.01.10.

2012

蒿慧文, 王寅炤, 郑燕森, 谢鑫*. 2012. CD326分子胞外区表皮生长因子样结构域融合蛋白的表达与纯化. 细胞与分子免疫学杂志 28(9):923-925. DOI:10.13423/j.cnki.cjcmi.006543.

Wei Lin, Yinzhao Wang, Yongxin Pan*. 2012. Short-term effects of temperature on the abundance and diversity of magnetotactic cocci. MicrobiologyOpen 1(1):53-63. doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.7.

2011

Wei Lin, Yinzhao Wang, Bi Li, Yongxin Pan*. 2012. A biogeographic distribution of magnetotactic bacteria influenced by salinity. The ISME Journal 6:475-479. doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.112.