The microbial conveyor belt: connecting the globe through dispersion and dormancy

M Mestre, J Höfer - Trends in Microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the recent increase in knowledge concerning microorganisms, the processes
determining their global distribution and functioning have not been disentangled. Microbial …

Sinking particles promote vertical connectivity in the ocean microbiome

M Mestre, C Ruiz-González… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The sinking of organic particles formed in the photic layer is a main vector of carbon export
into the deep ocean. Although sinking particles are heavily colonized by microbes, so far it …

Environmental gradients and physical barriers drive the basin‐wide spatial structuring of Mediterranean Sea and adjacent eastern Atlantic Ocean prokaryotic …

M Sebastián, E Ortega‐Retuerta… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mediterranean Sea is a miniature ocean divided by the Sicily Strait into two
basins with a marked west to east trophic gradient and separated of the nearby eastern …

Reproductive biology of the two main reef-building cold-water coral species (Desmophyllum pertusum and Madrepora oculata) in the Mediterranean Sea

M Chemel, AL Meistertzheim, V Mouchi… - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although cold-water coral (CWC) biology, physiology, and connectivity, have been
extensively studied, few studies have so far focused on their reproductive biology. The …

Global biogeography of the smallest plankton across ocean depths

PC Junger, H Sarmento, CR Giner, M Mestre… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Tiny ocean plankton (picoplankton) are fundamental for the functioning of the biosphere, but
the ecological mechanisms shaping their biogeography were partially understood …

Higher contribution of globally rare bacterial taxa reflects environmental transitions across the surface ocean

C Ruiz‐González, R Logares, M Sebastián… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial taxa range from being ubiquitous and abundant across space to extremely rare
and endemic, depending on their ecophysiology and on different processes acting locally or …

Bacterial communities and culturable petroleum hydrocarbon degrading bacteria in marine sediments in the northeastern South China Sea

W Xu, Y Qiao, J Wei, Q Jiang, J Xue - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Marine oil spill pollution was one of the factors affecting the marine ecology of the
northeastern South China Sea (nSCS). The submarine oil produced after the oil spill had a …

Seasonal prokaryotic community linkages between surface and deep ocean water

J Wenley, K Currie, S Lockwood, B Thomson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sinking organic particles from surface waters provide key nutrients to the deep ocean, and
could serve as vectors transporting microbial diversity to the deep ocean. However, the …

Contrasting degradation rates of natural dissolved organic carbon by deep-sea prokaryotes under stratified water masses and deep-water convection conditions in the …

M Garel, C Panagiotopoulos, M Boutrif, D Repeta… - Marine Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Most of the ocean is deep with the majority of its volume (> 80%) lying under a depth greater
than 1000 m. Deep-ocean substrates input is mainly supplied as organic matter (in …

In situ growth experiments of reef-building cold-water corals: The good, the bad and the ugly

F Lartaud, AL Meistertzheim, E Peru… - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2017 - Elsevier
The ecological study of corals in their habitat is essential to determine the effects of global
change and to develop strategies for reef conservation. Based on mark and recovery …