Fungi are phylogenetically and functionally diverse ubiquitous components of almost all
ecosystems on Earth, including aquatic environments stretching from high montane lakes …

Within the wealth of molecules constituting marine dissolved organic matter, carbohydrates
make up the largest coherent and quantifiable fraction. Their main sources are from primary …

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

Background The pure culture of prokaryotes remains essential to elucidating the role of
these organisms. Scientists have reasoned that hard to cultivate microorganisms might grow …

Microdiversity can lead to different ecotypes within the same species. These are assumed to
provide stability in time and space to those species. However, the role of microdiversity in …

Pelagic microbes have adopted distinct strategies to inhabit the pelagial of lakes and
oceans and can be broadly categorized in two groups: free‐living, specialized oligotrophs …

Virophages are small dsDNA viruses that hijack the machinery of giant viruses during the co-
infection of a protist (ie, microeukaryotic) host and represent an exceptional case of …

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. Its depth provides the only bathypelagic (>
1000 m deep) freshwater habitat on Earth and its oxic, ultra‐oligotrophic features make it a …

Heme, a porphyrin ring complexed with iron, is a metalloprosthetic group of numerous
proteins involved in diverse metabolic and respiratory processes across all domains of life …

Recent theory and experiments have reported a reproducible tendency for the coexistence
of microbial species under controlled environmental conditions. This observation has been …