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Kaftiarchaeum gen. nov., a thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing archaeal genus with genomic potential for formaldehyde assimilation

Xinrui Han1, 2, 3†,Caiyu Lu1, 2, 3†*, Shixiu Zhang4, Ting Liu5, Liqiang Meng6, Yalong Liu7, Jianyu Jiao8, Lan Liu9, Wenjun Li8*, Bin Ma1, 2, 3*   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Soil Pollution Control and Safety, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
    2 Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural, Resources and Environment, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
    3 ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 311215, China
    4Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130000, China
    5College of Resources and Environmental Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
    6 Institute of Microbiology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150010, China
    7 College of Land and Environment, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China
    8 State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
    9 Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
    These authors contributed equally
    *Authors for correspondence. Wenjun Li. E-mail: liwenjun3@mail.sysu.edu.cn; Caiyu Lu. E-mail:lucy20@zju.edu.cn; Bin Ma. E-mail:bma@zju.edu.cn
  • Received:2026-04-19 Accepted:2026-08-11
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    This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2024YFD1501800), National Key Science and Technology Special Project for Deep Earth Research (2024ZD1000603), National Natural Science Foundation of China (42277283), Key R&D Program of Zhejiang Province (2024C03131), Key R&D Program of Ningbo (2024Z267), National Program for Funding Postdoctoral Researchers (GZC20251786).