Ecology of prokaryotic viruses

MG Weinbauer - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The finding that total viral abundance is higher than total prokaryotic abundance and that a
significant fraction of the prokaryotic community is infected with phages in aquatic systems …

Functions, Compositions, and Evolution of the Two Types of Carboxysomes: Polyhedral Microcompartments That Facilitate CO2 Fixation in Cyanobacteria and Some …

BD Rae, BM Long, MR Badger… - … and molecular biology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cyanobacteria are the globally dominant photoautotrophic lineage. Their success is
dependent on a set of adaptations collectively termed the CO2-concentrating mechanism …

Deep chlorophyll maxima in the global ocean: Occurrences, drivers and characteristics

M Cornec, H Claustre, A Mignot, L Guidi… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stratified oceanic systems are characterized by the presence of a so‐called Deep
Chlorophyll a Maximum (DCM) not detectable by ocean color satellites. A DCM can either …

Prochlorococcus, a Marine Photosynthetic Prokaryote of Global Significance

F Partensky, WR Hess, D Vaulot - Microbiology and molecular …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
The minute photosynthetic prokaryote Prochlorococcus, which was discovered about 10
years ago, has proven exceptional from several standpoints. Its tiny size (0.5 to 0.7 μm in …

Viruses and nutrient cycles in the sea: viruses play critical roles in the structure and function of aquatic food webs

SW Wilhelm, CA Suttle - Bioscience, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Few of us may ever live on the sea or under it, but all of us are making increasing use of it
either as a source of food and other materials, or as a dump. As our demands upon the …

Global patterns in marine organic matter stoichiometry driven by phytoplankton ecophysiology

K Inomura, C Deutsch, O Jahn, S Dutkiewicz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The proportion of major elements in marine organic matter links cellular processes to global
nutrient, oxygen and carbon cycles. Differences in the C: N: P ratios of organic matter have …

The future is now: single-cell genomics of bacteria and archaea

PC Blainey - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Interest in the expanding catalog of uncultivated microorganisms, increasing recognition of
heterogeneity among seemingly similar cells, and technological advances in whole-genome …

Advances in understanding the cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating-mechanism (CCM): functional components, Ci transporters, diversity, genetic regulation and …

GD Price, MR Badger, FJ Woodger… - Journal of experimental …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria have evolved a significant environmental adaptation, known as a CO2-
concentrating-mechanism (CCM), that vastly improves photosynthetic performance and …

Top-down controls on bacterial community structure: microbial network analysis of bacteria, T4-like viruses and protists

CET Chow, DY Kim, R Sachdeva, DA Caron… - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Characterizing ecological relationships between viruses, bacteria and protists in the ocean
are critical to understanding ecosystem function, yet these relationships are infrequently …

Ecology and physics of bacterial chemotaxis in the ocean

R Stocker, JR Seymour - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Intuitively, it may seem that from the perspective of an individual bacterium the ocean is a
vast, dilute, and largely homogeneous environment. Microbial oceanographers have …