Much recent marine microbial research has focused on sponges, but very little is known
about how the sponge microbiome fits in the greater coral reef microbial metacommunity …

Rapid improvements in the technology used to assess microbial communities have led to an
expansion of the breadth and scope of microbial ecology research over the past 20 y. The …

Bivalves are ubiquitous filter-feeders able to alter ecosystems functions. Their impact on
nitrogen (N) cycling is commonly related to their filter-feeding activity, biodeposition, and …

Bundera sinkhole, located in north-western Australia, is the only known continental
anchialine system in the Southern Hemisphere. Anchialine environments are characterised …

Background Anchialine environments, in which oceanic water mixes with freshwater in
coastal aquifers, are characterised by stratified water columns with complex …

Total community 16S rDNA was used to determine the diversity and composition of bacteria
and archaea within lakes Olbolosat and Oloiden in Kenya. The V3-V4 hypervariable region …

Marine lakes are small bodies of landlocked seawater that are isolated from the open sea
and have been shown to house numerous rare and unique taxa. The environmental …

Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) are invasive, filter-feeding, bivalves that have
disrupted the ecology of thousands of freshwater biomes across North America. Due to their …

Marine lakes are landlocked bodies of seawater, isolated to varying degrees from the
surrounding marine habitat. Isolated lakes generally have lower pH values, salinities and …

Seaweeds are a diverse, abundant, and ecologically important component of coral reef
ecosystems. However, relatively little is known about their prokaryotic communities. In the …