In collaboration with colleagues at the University of Bergen in Norway, a new article has been accepted to Frontiers in Microbiology: Global Biogeographic Distribution Patterns of Thermoacidophilic Verrucomicrobia Methanotrophs Suggest Allopatric Evolution by Helge-André Erikstad, Ruben Michael Ceballos, Natalie B. Smestad and Nils-Kaare Birkeland