Mars is dry today, but numerous precipitation-fed paleo-rivers are found across the planet's
surface. These rivers' existence is a challenge to models of planetary climate evolution. We …

Despite their discovery over 25 years ago, the Marine Group II Euryarchaea (MGII) remain a
difficult group of organisms to study, lacking cultured isolates and genome references. The …

Prasinophytes clade VII is a group of pico/nano-planktonic green algae (division
Chlorophyta) for which numerous ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences have been retrieved …

Diatoms constitute a diverse lineage of unicellular organisms abundant and ecologically
important in aquatic ecosystems. Compared to other protists, their biology and taxonomy are …

The microbiome of atmospheric dust events has raised increasing interest in the last
decade, resulting in numerous studies that characterized the different parameters affecting …

High‐throughput sequencing (HTS) is increasingly being used for the characterization and
monitoring of biodiversity. If applied in a structured way, across broad geographical scales, it …

Information on taxa distribution is a prerequisite for many research fields, and biological
records are a major source of data contributing to biogeographic studies. The Global …

Recognition of the threats to biodiversity and its importance to society has led to calls for
globally coordinated sampling of trends in marine ecosystems. As a step to defining such …

Plastic marine debris represents a global threat for the marine environment, having serious
consequences for the ocean, the wildlife and the human health. While the plastics …

This study investigates the potential of an indigenous estuarine microbial consortium to
degrade two polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), naphthalene and fluoranthene …