Planctomycetes are ubiquitous, environmentally and biotechnologically important bacteria
that are key players in global carbon and nitrogen cycles. Ever since their first discovery in …

Almost the entire seafloor is covered with sediments that can be more than 10 000 m thick
and represent a vast microbial ecosystem that is a major component of Earth's element and …

Brown algae are important players in the global carbon cycle by fixing carbon dioxide into 1
Gt of biomass annually, yet the fate of fucoidan—their major cell wall polysaccharide …

Heterotrophic microbial communities process much of the carbon fixed by phytoplankton in
the ocean, thus having a critical role in the global carbon cycle. A major fraction of the …

Planctomycetes are part of the complex microbial biofilm community of a wide range of
macroalgae. Recently, some studies began to unveil the great diversity of Planctomycetes …

Pirellula-like planctomycetes are ubiquitous aquatic bacteria, which are often detected in
anoxic or micro-oxic habitats. By contrast, the taxonomically described representatives of …

In Arctic marine bacterial communities, members of the phylum Verrucomicrobia are
consistently detected, although not typically abundant, in 16S rRNA gene clone libraries and …

Identifying the roles played by individual heterotrophic bacteria in the degradation of high
molecular weight (HMW) substrates is critical to understanding the constraints on carbon …

Sulfatases cleave sulfate groups from various molecules and constitute a biologically and
industrially important group of enzymes. However, the number of sulfatases whose substrate …

Traditionally recognized as environmental bacteria, Planctomycetes have just been linked
recently to human pathology as opportunistic pathogens, arousing a great interest for clinical …