Marine phytoplankton blooms are annual spring events that sustain active and diverse
bloom-associated bacterial populations. Blooms vary considerably in terms of eukaryotic …

Members of the diverse bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes have colonized virtually all types of
habitats on Earth. They are among the major members of the microbiota of animals …

Gastrointestinal microbiota play a vital role in maintaining organismal health, through
facilitating nutrient uptake, detoxification and interactions with the immune system. The …

In 1909, H. Joel Conn (25) expressed the hope that methods would soon be at hand by
which the significance of the different bacteria present in any soil could be determined …

Culture-dependent and-independent studies have found that prokaryotic assemblages are
quite diverse in aquatic habitats and contain representatives of virtually all of the roughly 40 …

Vibrios are ubiquitous and abundant in the aquatic environment. A high abundance of
vibrios is also detected in tissues and/or organs of various marine algae and animals, eg …

The dissolution of sulfide minerals such as pyrite (FeS2), arsenopyrite (FeAsS), chalcopyrite
(CuFeS2), sphalerite (ZnS), and marcasite (FeS2) yields hot, sulfuric acid-rich solutions that …

The most abundant class of bacterial ribosomal RNA genes detected in seawater DNA by
gene cloning belongs to SAR11—an α-proteobacterial clade. Other than indications of their …

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-labeled
oligonucleotide probes and tyramide signal amplification, also known as catalyzed reporter …

The oxic realms of freshwater and marine environments are zones of high prokaryotic
mortality. Lysis by viruses and predation by ciliated and flagellated protists result in the …