Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in Arctic Hg levels,
which are now being impacted by regional warming, with uncertain ecological …

Microbial communities are essential components of aquatic ecosystems through their
contribution to food web dynamics and biogeochemical processes. Aquatic microbial …

Sequence-based approaches to study microbiomes, such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing
and metagenomics, are uncovering associations between microbial taxa and a myriad of …

Ocean ecosystems have responded and will continue to respond to climate changes of
different rates, magnitudes, and durations (virtually certain). Human societies depend on …

Animals and microorganisms often establish close ecological relationships. However, much
of our knowledge about animal microbiomes comes from two deeply studied groups …

Biological dinitrogen (N2) fixation is an important source of nitrogen (N) in low-latitude open
oceans. The unusual N2-fixing unicellular cyanobacteria (UCYN-A)/haptophyte symbiosis …

The recent worldwide rise in idiopathic immune and inflammatory diseases such as multiple
sclerosis (MS) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) has been linked to Western society …

Metabarcoding of microbial eukaryotes (collectively known as protists) has developed
tremendously in the last decade, almost solely relying on the 18S rRNA gene. As microbial …

A central challenge in microbial community ecology is the delineation of appropriate units of
biodiversity, which can be taxonomic, phylogenetic, or functional in nature. The term …

In aquatic environments, fungal communities remain little studied despite their taxonomic
and functional diversity. To extend the ecological coverage of this group, we conducted an in …