Fig. 5: The taxonomy of newly discovered MeHg demethylating and Hg reducing microorganisms and phylogenetic tree of MerB proteins. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: The taxonomy of newly discovered MeHg demethylating and Hg reducing microorganisms and phylogenetic tree of MerB proteins.

From: Genomic potential for mercury biotransformation in marine sediments across marginal slope to hadal zone

Fig. 5: The taxonomy of newly discovered MeHg demethylating and Hg reducing microorganisms and phylogenetic tree of MerB proteins.

a The taxonomy of newly discovered MeHg demethylating and Hg reducing microorganisms at the phylum level. The phylum with * represents the taxa of microorganisms found for the first time in this study. b Unrooted maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree of MerB proteins identified in the MAGs from the global marine sediments. The colors in the inner circle represent the sources of the proteins, and those labeled as Reference were MerB proteins collected from the NCBI database. The protein number from different phyla was shown in the parentheses. BFS Beaufort Sea; NS Norwegian Sea; AS Arabian sea; BS Bashi Channel; CWA Coastal Western Antarctica; GOM Gulf of Mexico; SCS_B South China Sea basin; SCS_S South China Sea slope; AO Atlantic Ocean; MTCD Challenger Deep of Mariana Trench; MTS Mariana Trench slope; SPG South Pacific gyre U1369.

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