Despite the surge of microbial genome data, experimental testing is important to confirm
inferences about the cell biology, ecological roles and evolution of microorganisms. As the …

Pelagic microbes have adopted distinct strategies to inhabit the pelagial of lakes and
oceans and can be broadly categorized in two groups: free‐living, specialized oligotrophs …

Metagenomics has dramatically expanded the known virosphere, but freshwater viral
diversity and their ecological interaction with hosts remain poorly understood. Here, we …

Reconstruction of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) has become a fundamental
approach in microbial ecology. However, a MAG is hardly complete and overlooks genomic …

Summary The Laurentian Great Lakes are a vast, interconnected freshwater system
spanning strong physicochemical gradients, thus constituting a powerful natural laboratory …

Freshwater ecosystems are under new and increasing threats from anthropogenic change.
Ability to detect and predict consequences of environmental perturbations on ecosystem …

In warm monomictic lakes, the hypolimnion is important for accumulating and decomposing
organic matter derived from surface production, and the regenerated nutrients will be …

Background Freshwater ecosystems are inhabited by members of cosmopolitan
bacterioplankton lineages despite the disconnected nature of these habitats. The lineages …

In deep lakes, many investigations highlighted the existence of exclusive groups of bacteria
adapted to deep oxygenated and hypoxic and anoxic hypolimnia. Nevertheless, the extent …

Chlorophyll-based phototrophy is performed using quinone and/or Fe-S type reaction
centers,. Unlike oxygenic phototrophs, where both reaction center classes are used in …