How does evolution work in superabundant microbes?

DA Filatov, M Kirkpatrick - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Marine phytoplankton play crucial roles in the Earth's ecological, chemical, and geological
processes. They are responsible for about half of global primary production and drive the …

Comparative assessment of the intragenomic variations of dinoflagellate Tripos species through single-cell sequencing

X Huang, Y Li, H Du, N Chen - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
Tripos is a large dinoflagellate genus widely distributed in the world's oceans. Morphology-
based species identification is inconclusive due to high morphological intraspecific …

Mapping harmful microalgal species by eDNA monitoring: A large-scale survey across the southwestern South China Sea

AHNA Manaff, KS Hii, Z Luo, M Liu, K Law, ST Teng… - Harmful Algae, 2023 - Elsevier
A large-scale sampling was undertaken during a research cruise across the South China
Sea in August 2016, covering an area of about 100,000 km 2 to investigate the molecular …

Assembly rules vary seasonally in stable phytoplankton associations of the Gulf of Naples (Mediterranean Sea)

A Zingone, C Tortora, DD′ Alelio, F Margiotta… - Marine …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal phytoplankton present remarkable variability because of complex patterns and
relationships of hydrological parameters at the land–sea interface. We analysed a time …

Evaluation of the rbcL marker for metabarcoding of marine diatoms and inference of population structure of selected genera

T Turk Dermastia, I Vascotto, J Francé… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Diatoms are one of the most important phytoplankton groups in the world's oceans. There
are responsible for up to 40% of the photosynthetic activity in the Ocean, and they play an …

Diversity and toxicity of the planktonic diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia from coastal and offshore waters of the Southeast Pacific, including Pseudo-nitzschia dampieri …

P von Dassow, M Mikhno, I Percopo, VR Orellana… - Harmful Algae, 2023 - Elsevier
To expand knowledge of Pseudo-nitzschia species in the Southeast Pacific, we isolated
specimens from coastal waters of central Chile (36° S–30° S), the Gulf of Corcovado, and …

A Pseudo-nitzschia metabarcoding approach with a calibrated ITS1 reference sequence database applied in the Taiwan Strait

B Niu, J Pang, N Lundholm, C Liang, ST Teng… - Harmful Algae, 2024 - Elsevier
Pseudo-nitzschia is a cosmopolitan phytoplankton genus of which some species can form
blooms and produce the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA). Identification of Pseudo-nitzschia is …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping Topic Evolution across the 40-Year-Old Long-Term Ecological Research MareChiara Site in the Gulf of Naples, Italy

L Russo, C Murano, D D'Alelio - Oceans, 2024 - mdpi.com
The forty-year-old Long-Term Ecological Research MareChiara (LTER-MC) program started
on 26 January 1984, with fortnightly oceanographic sampling until 1991 and then, from …

The pennate diatom Pseudo‐nitzschia multistriata as a model for diatom life cycles, from the laboratory to the sea

MI Ferrante, A Broccoli, M Montresor - Journal of Phycology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton dynamics are regulated by external cues, such as light and nutrients, as well
as by biotic interactions and endogenous controls linked to life cycle characteristics. The …

Multiannual patterns of genetic structure and mating type ratios highlight the complex bloom dynamics of a marine planktonic diatom

MV Ruggiero, M Buffoli, KKE Wolf, D D'Alelio… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the genetic structure of populations and the processes responsible for its
spatial and temporal dynamics is vital for assessing species' adaptability and survival in …