Growth rates of microbes in the oceans

DL Kirchman - Annual review of marine science, 2016 - annualreviews.org
A microbe's growth rate helps to set its ecological success and its contribution to food web
dynamics and biogeochemical processes. Growth rates at the community level are …

Microbial assembly, interaction, functioning, activity and diversification: a review derived from community compositional data

J Liu, Z Meng, X Liu, XH Zhang - Marine Life Science & Technology, 2019 - Springer
Microorganisms play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem stability. The last two decades
have witnessed an upsurge in studies on marine microbial community composition using …

Evaluating digestion efficiency in full-scale anaerobic digesters by identifying active microbial populations through the lens of microbial activity

R Mei, T Narihiro, MK Nobu, K Kuroda, WT Liu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Anaerobic digestion is a common technology to biologically stabilize wasted solids
produced in municipal wastewater treatment. Its efficiency is usually evaluated by …

Predictive genomic traits for bacterial growth in culture versus actual growth in soil

J Li, RL Mau, P Dijkstra, BJ Koch, E Schwartz… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Relationships between microbial genes and performance are often evaluated in the
laboratory in pure cultures, with little validation in nature. Here, we show that genomic traits …

Dynamics and interactions of highly resolved marine plankton via automated high-frequency sampling

DM Needham, EB Fichot, E Wang, L Berdjeb… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Short timescale observations are valuable for understanding microbial ecological
processes. We assessed dynamics in relative abundance and potential activities by …

Understanding microbial arsenic-mobilization in multiple aquifers: insight from DNA and RNA analyses

W Xiu, T Ke, JR Lloyd, J Shen, NM Bassil… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biogeochemical processes critically control the groundwater arsenic (As) enrichment;
however, the key active As-mobilizing biogeochemical processes and associated microbes …

Experimentally validated reconstruction and analysis of a genome-scale metabolic model of an anaerobic Neocallimastigomycota fungus

SE Wilken, JM Monk, PA Leggieri, CE Lawson… - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Anaerobic gut fungi in the phylum Neocallimastigomycota typically inhabit the digestive
tracts of large mammalian herbivores, where they play an integral role in the decomposition …

Microbial community structure of subglacial lake Whillans, West Antarctica

AM Achberger, BC Christner, AB Michaud… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Subglacial Lake Whillans (SLW) is located beneath∼ 800 m of ice on the Whillans Ice
Stream in West Antarctica and was sampled in January of 2013, providing the first …

Microbial energy and matter transformation in agricultural soils

D Finn, PM Kopittke, PG Dennis, RC Dalal - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Low bioavailability of organic carbon (C) and energy are key constraints to microbial
biomass and activity. Microbial biomass, biodiversity and activity are all involved in …

The active free-living bathypelagic microbiome is largely dominated by rare surface taxa

M Sebastián, CR Giner, V Balagué… - ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A persistent microbial seed bank is postulated to sustain the marine biosphere, and recent
findings show that prokaryotic taxa present in the ocean's surface dominate prokaryotic …