As we enter the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development,
extensive efforts to reverse the decline of ocean health are taking place. Moreover, the need …

The salinity gradient separating marine and freshwater environments represents a major
ecological divide for microbiota, yet the mechanisms by which marine microbes have …

Over the centuries, human society has evolved based on the ability to select and use more
adapted species for food supply, which means making plant species tastier and more …

Coastal phytoplankton present remarkable variability because of complex patterns and
relationships of hydrological parameters at the land–sea interface. We analysed a time …

Extreme environmental fluctuations such as marine heatwaves (MHWs) can have
devastating effects on ecosystem health and functioning through rapid population declines …

Increasing evidence shows that structural variants represent an overlooked aspect of
genetic variation with consequential evolutionary roles. Among those, copy number variants …

Diatoms are unicellular algae with morphologically diverse silica cell walls, which are called
frustules. The mechanism of frustule morphogenesis has attracted attention in biology and …

Diatoms are eukaryotic microalgae responsible for nearly half of the marine productivity.
RNA interference (RNAi) is a mechanism of regulation of gene expression mediated by …

The processes leading to the emergence of new species are poorly understood in marine
plankton, where weak physical barriers and homogeneous environmental conditions limit …

Understanding the origin and maintenance of genetic diversity is crucial to elucidate
population dynamics of unicellular microalgae, their microevolutionary history and their …