Please choose 3- 5 best papers from the nominated list as 2023 "Deep Life Paper", which can represent the most important findings and contributions in the deep life field in 2023.

Link for more information of nominated papers: nomination list of 2023 Deep Life Paper

1. A carbonate corrosion experiment at a marine methane seep: The role of aerobic methanotrophic bacteria
2. A latitudinal gradient of deep-sea invasions for marine fishes
3. A moderately thermophilic origin of a novel family of marine group II euryarchaeota from deep ocean
4. Abiotic selection of microbial genome size in the global ocean
5. Abyssal hydrothermal springs-Cryptic incubators for brooding octopus
6. Alternative Z-genome biosynthesis pathway shows evolutionary progression from Archaea to phage
7. Anaerobic degradation of organic carbon supports uncultured microbial populations in estuarine sediments
8. Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent sediment oxidize petroleum alkanes
9. Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific
10. Characterization of two keystone taxa, sulfur-oxidizing, and nitrate-reducing bacteria, by tracking their role transitions in the benzo [a] pyrene degradative microbiome
11. Deconvolving microbial and environmental controls on marine sedimentary pyrite sulfur isotope ratios
12. Determination of carbon-fixing potential of Bathyarchaeota in marine sediment by DNA stable isotope probing analysis
13. Disentangling Effects of Sea Surface Temperature and Water Depth on Hydroxylated Isoprenoid GDGTs: Insights From the Hadal Zone and Global Sediments
14. DMSOP-cleaving enzymes are diverse and widely distributed in marine microorganisms
15. Dynamic redox and nutrient cycling response to climate forcing in the Mesoproterozoic ocean
16. Earthquake-enhanced dissolved carbon cycles in ultra-deep ocean sediments
17. Enhanced production of highly methylated brGDGTs linked to anaerobic bacteria from sediments of the Mariana Trench
18. Enrichment and characterization of a nitric oxide-reducing microbial community in a continuous bioreactor
19. Evidence for nontraditional mcr-containing archaea contributing to biological methanogenesis in geothermal springs
20. Evolutionary diversification of methanotrophic ANME-1 archaea and their expansive virome
21. Evolutionary ecology of microbial populations inhabiting deep sea sediments associated with cold seeps
22. Fossil organic carbon utilization in marine Arctic fjord sediments by subsurface micro-organisms
23. Gene loss and symbiont switching during adaptation to the deep sea in a globally distributed symbiosis
24. Genomic insights into cryptic cycles of microbial hydrocarbon production and degradation in contiguous freshwater and marine microbiomes
25. Genomic Insights into Niche Partitioning across Sediment Depth among Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Archaea in Global Methane Seeps
26. Genomics discovery of giant fungal viruses from subsurface oceanic crustal fluids
27. Global biogeography of the smallest plankton across ocean depths
28. Globally distributed Myxococcota with photosynthesis gene clusters illuminate the origin and evolution of a potentially chimeric lifestyle
29. Heterotrophic Growth Dominates in the Most Extremotolerant Extremophile Cultures
30. High variability in organic carbon sources and microbial activities in the hadopelagic waters
31. Hydrogen and dark oxygen drive microbial productivity in diverse groundwater ecosystems
32. Hydrostatic pressure induces transformations in the organic matter and microbial community composition of marine snow particles
33. Hydrothermal-derived black carbon as a source of recalcitrant dissolved organic carbon in the ocean
34. Hyperactive nanobacteria with host-dependent traits pervade Omnitrophota
35. Identification of a deep-branching thermophilic clade sheds light on early bacterial evolution
36. Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes
37. Influence of Extremely High Pressure and Oxygen on Hydrocarbon-Enriched Microbial Communities in Sediments from the Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench
38. Late acquisition of the rTCA carbon fixation pathway by Chlorobi
39. Life strategies for Aminicenantia in subseafloor oceanic crust
40. Long-term organic carbon preservation enhanced by iron and manganese
41. Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown
42. Mesophilic and thermophilic viruses are associated with nutrient cycling during hyperthermophilic composting
43. Metal-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane as an important methane sink in methanic cold seep sediments
44. Methane Index: Towards a quantitative archaeal lipid biomarker proxy for reconstructing marine sedimentary methane fluxes
45. Mineral weathering is linked to microbial priming in the critical zone
46. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal methylation in Me-GDGTs as a microbial low-temperature adaptation
47. Molecular evidence for the production of labile, sulfur-bearing dissolved organic matter in the seep sediments of the South China Sea
48. Multiple Sulfur Isotopes of Iron Sulfides From Thick Greigite‐Bearing Sediments Indicate Anaerobic Oxidation and Possible Leakages of Coastal Methane
49. Niche differentiation of microbial community shapes vertical distribution of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter in deep-sea sediments
50. Nitrogen fixation and diazotroph diversity in groundwater systems
51. Novel D-glutamate catabolic pathway in marine Proteobacteria and halophilic archaea
52. Organic matter degradation causes enrichment of organic pollutants in hadal sediments
53. Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation
54. Pathways of N2O production by marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea determined from dual-isotope labeling
55. Phenotypic and genomic characterization of Bathyarchaeum tardum gen. nov., sp. nov., a cultivated representative of the archaeal class Bathyarchaeia
56. Phylogenetic diversity of functional genes in deep-sea cold seeps: a novel perspective on metagenomics
57. Polar lake microbiomes have distinct evolutionary histories
58. Reduced nitrite accumulation at the primary nitrite maximum in the cyclonic eddies in the western North Pacific subtropical gyre
59. Refractory humic-like dissolved organic matter fuels microbial communities in deep energy-limiting marine sediments
60. Reversibility controls on extreme methane clumped isotope signatures from anaerobic oxidation of methane
61. Sterol methyltransferases in uncultured bacteria complicate eukaryotic biomarker interpretations
62. Strategy for the Adaptation to Stressful Conditions of the Novel Isolated Conditional Piezophilic Strain Halomonas titanicae ANRCS81
63. Sulfur cycling connects microbiomes and biogeochemistry in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes
64. Taxonomic and carbon metabolic diversification of Bathyarchaeia during its coevolution history with early Earth surface environment
65. The formation of authigenic phosphorus minerals in cold-seep sediments from the South China Sea: Implications for carbon cycling below the sulfate-methane transition
66. The TorRS two component system regulates expression of TMAO reductase in response to high hydrostatic pressure in Vibrio fluvialis
67. Thermophilic Dehalococcoidia with unusual traits shed light on an unexpected past
68. Uncovering the Ediacaran phosphorus cycle
69. Unexplored diversity and ecological functions of transposable phages
70. Uniform selective pressures within redox zones drive gradual changes in microbial community composition in hadal sediments
71. Upper intermediate layer-derived brGDGTs revealed from surface sediments along an elevation transect of a seamount
72. Viruses in deep-sea cold seep sediments harbor diverse survival mechanisms and remain genetically conserved within species
73. Well-hidden methanogenesis in deep, organic-rich sediments of Guaymas Basin
74. Whole-soil-profile warming does not change microbial carbon use efficiency in surface and deep soils
75. Widespread Bathyarchaeia encode a novel methyltransferase utilizing lignin-derived aromatics