Abstract The Arctic Ocean (AO) has a harsh environment characterized by low temperatures,
extensive ice coverage, and periodic freezing and melting of sea ice, which has provided …

Climate change alters environmental conditions that are expected to have a profound effect
on the biodiversity, community composition, and metabolic processes of microeukaryotic …

Microbial eukaryotes can play prominent roles in the Arctic marine ecosystem, but their
diversity and variability is not well known in the ice-covered ecosystems. We determined the …

Microeukaryotes are the key ecosystem drivers mediating marine productivity, the food web
and biogeochemical cycles. The northwestern Pacific Ocean (NWPO), as one of the world's …

ABSTRACT Microeukaryotic plankton (0.2–200 µm), which are morphologically and
genetically highly diverse, play a crucial role in ocean productivity and carbon consumption …

Two gene regions commonly used to characterise the diversity of eukaryotic communities
using metabarcoding are the 18S ribosomal DNA V4 and V9 gene regions. We assessed …

Abstract The Arctic Ocean is facing rapid environmental changes with cascading effects on
the entire Arctic marine ecosystem. However, we have a limited understanding of the …

The frosty polar environment houses diverse habitats mostly driven by psychrophilic and
psychrotolerant microbes. Along with traditional cultivation methods, next-generation …

Marine environments harbour a vast diversity of micro‐eukaryotic organisms (protists and
other small eukaryotes) that play important roles in structuring marine ecosystems. However …

Background Dinoflagellates are an ecologically important group of protists with important
functions as primary producers, coral symbionts and in toxic red tides. Although widely …