Pigments are an essential part of everyday life on Earth with rapidly growing industrial and
biomedical applications. Synthetic pigments account for a major portion of these pigments …

Microbial cells accumulate pigments under certain culture conditions, which have very
important industrial applications. Microorganisms can serve as sources of carotenoids, the …

To understand how planet Earth works we study it increasingly as a system–a collection of
interdependent parts or spheres–the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the …

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is a key parameter in lakes that can affect numerous
features, including microbial metabolism, light climate, acidity, and primary production. In an …

Toward the poles, life on land is increasingly dominated by microorganisms, yet the
evolutionary origin of polar microbiomes remains poorly understood. Here, we use …

Drawing on a combination of modern occurrences and likely ancient counterparts, this atlas
is a treatise of mat-related sedimentary features that one may expect to see in ancient …

We investigated the fine pigment structure and composition of phytoplankton and benthic
cyanobacterial mats in Ward Hunt Lake at the northern limit of High Arctic Canada and the …

A total of 48 strains of thin, filamentous cyanobacteria in the Synechococcales were studed
by sequencing 16S rRNA, rpoC1, and rbcLX gene fragments. A subset of these were …

To date, little is known about the relative importance of dispersal related versus local factors
in shaping microbial metacommunities. A common criticism regarding existing datasets is …

Both natural and anthropogenic processes can lead to the increasing salinity of surface
waters. The knowledge about the ecological consequences of salinization on the biota is …