Marine resistome of a temperate zone: Distribution, diversity, and driving factors across the trophic gradient

M Dželalija, M Kvesić-Ivanković, S Jozić, M Ordulj… - Water research, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine and ocean environments are the most widespread habitats in the world but are still
the least studied from the aspect of antibiotic resistance. The indigenous and tetracycline …

Evaluation of DNA extraction methods and direct PCR in metabarcoding of mock and marine bacterial communities

I Stojan, Ž Trumbić, I Lepen Pleić, D Šantić - Frontiers in microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in new molecular biology methods and next-generation sequencing
(NGS) technologies have revolutionized metabarcoding studies investigating complex …

Phosphate-related genomic islands as drivers of environmental adaptation in the streamlined marine alphaproteobacterial HIMB59

C Molina-Pardines, JM Haro-Moreno, M López-Pérez - MSystems, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Prokaryotic species are composed of multiple clonal lineages coexisting in the same habitat.
In recent years, understanding the maintenance of this high intraspecific genetic diversity in …

Niche differentiation within bacterial key-taxa in stratified surface waters of the Southern Pacific Gyre

M Oggerin, T Viver, J Brüwer, D Voß… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
One of the most hostile marine habitats on Earth is the surface of the South Pacific Gyre
(SPG), characterized by high solar radiation, extreme nutrient depletion, and low …

How do open coastal fire episodes' impact sea surface microlayer neuston communities?

AV Tomaš, D Šantić, M Šolić, S Skejić… - Science of the total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human-induced climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of
vegetation fires. The Mediterranean region is considered particularly prone to fire episodes …

Picoplankton diversity in an oligotrophic and high salinity environment in the central Adriatic Sea

D Šantić, I Stojan, F Matić, Ž Trumbić… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
By combining qualitative 16S metabarcoding and quantitative CARD-FISH methods with
neural gas analysis, different patterns of the picoplankton community were revealed at finer …

Lineage-specific growth curves document large differences in response of individual groups of marine bacteria to the top-down and bottom-up controls

LK Fecskeová, K Piwosz, D Šantić, S Šestanović… - …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Marine bacterioplankton represent a diverse assembly of species differing largely in their
abundance, physiology, metabolic activity, and role in microbial food webs. To analyze their …

The AEGEAN-169 clade of bacterioplankton is synonymous with SAR11 subclade V (HIMB59) and metabolically distinct

EW Getz, VC Lanclos, CY Kojima, C Cheng… - Msystems, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterioplankton of the SAR11 clade are the most abundant marine microorganisms and
consist of numerous subclades spanning order-level divergence (Pelagibacterales). The …

Uncovering the dynamic evolution of microbes and n-alkanes: Insights from the Kuroshio Extension in the Northwest Pacific Ocean

X Hu, X Wang, S Zhao, L Cao, Y Pan, F Li, F Li… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biomarkers offer unique insights into the state of the environment, but little is known about
how they interact with microbial communities in the open ocean. This study investigated the …

Analysis of the influence of seasonal water column dynamics on the relationship between marine viruses and microbial food web components using an artificial neural …

M Ordulj, D Šantić, F Matić, S Jozić… - Journal of marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Artificial neural network analysis (ANN) is used to study the seasonal distribution of viruses
and microbial food web (MFW) components in the open Adriatic Sea. The effect of viruses …