Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation

X Wang, S Zhang, Y Ye, S Ma, J Su, H Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all life on Earth. It is, and likely has been, a critical
limiting nutrient controlling primary production rates in the oceans. The marine N budget is …

The scientific legacy of the CARIACO ocean time-series program

FE Muller-Karger, YM Astor… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The CARIACO (Carbon Retention in a Colored Ocean) Ocean Time-Series Program station,
located at 10.50° N, 64.66° W, observed biogeochemical and ecological processes in the …

Diverse secondary metabolites are expressed in particle-associated and free-living microorganisms of the permanently anoxic Cariaco Basin

D Geller-McGrath, P Mara, GT Taylor, E Suter… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Secondary metabolites play essential roles in ecological interactions and nutrient
acquisition, and are of interest for their potential uses in medicine and biotechnology …

[HTML][HTML] Natural variability of surface oceanographic conditions in the offshore Gulf of Mexico

FE Muller-Karger, JP Smith, S Werner, R Chen… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
This work characterizes patterns of temporal variability in surface waters of the central Gulf of
Mexico. We examine remote-sensing based observations of sea surface temperature (SST) …

Viral elements and their potential influence on microbial processes along the permanently stratified Cariaco Basin redoxcline

P Mara, D Vik, MG Pachiadaki, EA Suter… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Little is known about viruses in oxygen-deficient water columns (ODWCs). In surface ocean
waters, viruses are known to act as gene vectors among susceptible hosts. Some of these …

Integrating biogeochemistry with multiomic sequence information in a model oxygen minimum zone

S Louca, AK Hawley, S Katsev… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Microorganisms are the most abundant lifeform on Earth, mediating global fluxes of matter
and energy. Over the past decade, high-throughput molecular techniques generating …

Eukaryotic parasites are integral to a productive microbial food web in oxygen-depleted waters

EA Suter, M Pachiadaki, GT Taylor… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Oxygen-depleted water columns (ODWCs) host a diverse community of eukaryotic protists
that change dramatically in composition over the oxic-anoxic gradient. In the permanently …

Free‐living chemoautotrophic and particle‐attached heterotrophic prokaryotes dominate microbial assemblages along a pelagic redox gradient

EA Suter, M Pachiadaki, GT Taylor… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Using the anoxic Cariaco Basin as a natural laboratory, particle association of
bacterial and archaeal taxa was assessed by iTag sequencing and qPCR gene assays of …

Vertical distribution of phytoplankton and primary production in relation to nutricline depth in the open ocean

K Richardson, J Bendtsen - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2019 - int-res.com
Global ocean primary production (PP) is a function of both light and nutrient availability. The
vertical distribution of nutrients in the euphotic zone differs in both time and space. As a …

Organic biogeochemistry in the oxygen-deficient ocean: a review

SG Wakeham - Organic Geochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Oceanic oxygen-deficient zones (ODZs) encompass open ocean and coastal oxygen
minimum zones and euxinic marine basins. A primary goal of this review is to demonstrate …