Abstract The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) programme has been tracking microbial and
biogeochemical processes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre since October 1988. The …

The third edition of this bestselling text has been rigorously updated to reflect major new
discoveries and concepts since 2011, especially progress due to extensive application of …

All known phototrophic metabolisms on Earth rely on one of three categories of energy-
converting pigments: chlorophyll-a (rarely-d), bacteriochlorophyll-a (rarely-b), and retinal …

As part of an ongoing survey of microbial community gene expression in the ocean, we
sequenced and compared∼ 38 Mbp of community transcriptomes and∼ 157 Mbp of …

The Archaea evolved as one of the three primary lineages several billion years ago, but the
first archaea to be discovered were described in the scientific literature about 130 years ago …

Previous studies have demonstrated that Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique, a member of the
SAR11 clade, constitutively expresses proteorhodopsin (PR) proteins that can function as …

Microbial life is surprisingly abundant and diverse in global desert ecosystems. In these
environments, microorganisms endure a multitude of physicochemical stresses, including …

Giant viruses are remarkable for their large genomes, often rivaling those of small bacteria,
and for having genes thought exclusive to cellular life. Most isolated to date infect nonmarine …

Since Jacques Monod's foundational work in the 1940s, investigators studying bacterial
physiology have largely (but not exclusively) focused on the exponential phase of bacterial …

Background Oceanic microbiomes play a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle and are
central to the transformation and recycling of carbon and energy in the ocean's interior …