Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities

NI van den Berg, D Machado, S Santos… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent studies have brought forward the critical role of emergent properties in shaping
microbial communities and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Emergent properties …

Metagenomic analysis reveals global-scale patterns of ocean nutrient limitation

LJ Ustick, AA Larkin, CA Garcia, NS Garcia, ML Brock… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Nutrient supply regulates the activity of phytoplankton, but the global biogeography of
nutrient limitation and co-limitation is poorly understood. Prochlorococcus adapt to local …

Evolutionary mechanisms of long-term genome diversification associated with niche partitioning in marine picocyanobacteria

H Doré, GK Farrant, U Guyet, J Haguait… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Marine picocyanobacteria of the genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are the most
abundant photosynthetic organisms on Earth, an ecological success thought to be linked to …

Siderophores as an iron source for picocyanobacteria in deep chlorophyll maximum layers of the oligotrophic ocean

SL Hogle, T Hackl, RM Bundy, J Park… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are the most abundant photosynthesizing organisms
in the oceans. Gene content variation among picocyanobacterial populations in separate …

Global patterns and predictors of C: N: P in marine ecosystems

T Tanioka, CA Garcia, AA Larkin, NS Garcia… - … earth & environment, 2022 - nature.com
Oceanic nutrient cycles are coupled, yet carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus (C: N: P) stoichiometry
in marine ecosystems is variable through space and time, with no clear consensus on the …

Evolution of phytoplankton as estimated from genetic diversity

C Sjöqvist - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
Phytoplankton are photosynthetic, single-celled organisms producing almost half of all
oxygen on Earth and play a central role as prey for higher organisms, making them …

Global Phylogeography of Marine Synechococcus in Coastal Areas Reveals Strong Community Shifts

H Doré, J Leconte, U Guyet, S Breton, GK Farrant… - Msystems, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Marine Synechococcus comprise a numerically and ecologically prominent phytoplankton
group, playing a major role in both carbon cycling and trophic networks in all oceanic …

High spatial resolution global ocean metagenomes from Bio-GO-SHIP repeat hydrography transects

AA Larkin, CA Garcia, N Garcia, ML Brock, JA Lee… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
Detailed descriptions of microbial communities have lagged far behind physical and
chemical measurements in the marine environment. Here, we present 971 globally …

Environmental control of marine phytoplankton stoichiometry in the North Atlantic Ocean

B Sauterey, BA Ward - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The stoichiometric coupling of carbon to limiting nutrients in marine phytoplankton regulates
the magnitude of biological carbon sequestration in the ocean. While clear links between …

Differential global distribution of marine picocyanobacteria gene clusters reveals distinct niche-related adaptive strategies

H Doré, U Guyet, J Leconte, GK Farrant, B Alric… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The ever-increasing number of available microbial genomes and metagenomes provides
new opportunities to investigate the links between niche partitioning and genome evolution …