Why do bacteria have shape? Is morphology valuable or just a trivial secondary
characteristic? Why should bacteria have one shape instead of another? Three broad …

Predation is a major mortality factor of planktonic bacteria and an important shaping force for
the phenotypic and taxonomic structure of bacterial communities. In this paper we:(1) …

The fact that bacteria have different shapes is not surprising; after all, we teach the concept
early and often and use it in identification and classification. However, why bacteria should …

Major biogeochemical processes in the water columns of lakes and oceans are related to
the activities of heterotrophic microbes, eg, the mineralization of organic carbon from …

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 …

A modified fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) method was used to analyze bacterial
prey composition in protistan food vacuoles in both laboratory and natural populations …

Ciliates are unicellular heterotrophic organisms that play a key role in aquatic planktonic
and benthic food webs. Advances in sedimentary DNA (sed-DNA) analysis offer the …

In a mesotrophic reservoir, we examined the effects on the bacterioplankton of distinct
consumers of bacteria, viruses and heterotrophic nanoflagellates, both alone and combined …

Based on the thesis that insights into both evolution and ecology can be obtained through
the study of microorganismsm, Microbial Ecology examines microbiology through the lens of …

Protistan bacterivory, a microbial process involving ingestion and digestion, is ecologically
important in the microbial loop in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. While bacterial …