Nitrate assimilation by cyanobacteria is inhibited by the presence of ammonium in the
growth medium. Both nitrate uptake and transcription of the nitrate assimilatory genes are …

Prochlorococcus is both the smallest and numerically most abundant photosynthesizing
organism on the planet. While thriving in the warm oligotrophic gyres, Prochlorococcus …

Marine raphidophytes are common red tide organisms that are distributed worldwide. They
are known to be harmful to other plankton and fish and have often caused large‐scale fish …

We investigated the feeding by 18 red-tide dinoflagellate species on the cyanobacterium
Synechococcus sp. We also calculated grazing coefficients by combining the field data on …

Small eukaryotic phytoplankton are major contributors to global primary production and
marine biogeochemical cycles. Many taxa are thought to be mixotrophic, but quantitative …

Functional ecology is a subdiscipline that aims to enable a mechanistic understanding of
patterns and processes from the organismic to the ecosystem level. This paper addresses …

Marine cyanobacteria from the genus Synechococcus are found throughout the world's
oceans and are important contributors to global primary productivity and carbon cycling …

Bacterial growth rates are often high, yet bacterial numbers are remarkably constant in
pelagic systems, implying that bacterial mortality rates have to be in the same range as …

Despite the increasing knowledge of Synechococcus spp. and their co-occurring
cyanophages in oceanic and coastal water, little is known about their abundance …

Mixotrophic nanoflagellates can account for more than half of the bacterivory in the sunlit
ocean, yet very little is known about their ecophysiology. Here, we characterize the grazing …