Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities

NC Millette, RJ Gast, JY Luo, HV Moeller… - Journal of Plankton …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Phago-mixotrophy, the combination of photoautotrophy and phagotrophy in mixoplankton,
organisms that can combine both trophic strategies, have gained increasing attention over …

Global analysis of ocean phytoplankton nutrient limitation reveals high prevalence of co-limitation

TJ Browning, CM Moore - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Nutrient availability limits phytoplankton growth throughout much of the global ocean. Here
we synthesize available experimental data to identify three dominant nutrient limitation …

Persistent equatorial Pacific iron limitation under ENSO forcing

TJ Browning, MA Saito, SP Garaba, X Wang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Projected responses of ocean net primary productivity to climate change are highly
uncertain. Models suggest that the climate sensitivity of phytoplankton nutrient limitation in …

Marine microeukaryote metatranscriptomics: sample processing and bioinformatic workflow recommendations for ecological applications

NR Cohen, H Alexander, AI Krinos, SK Hu… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microeukaryotes (protists) serve fundamental roles in the marine environment as
contributors to biogeochemical nutrient cycling and ecosystem function. Their activities can …

Microbial functional diversity across biogeochemical provinces in the central Pacific Ocean

JK Saunders, MR McIlvin, CL Dupont… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Enzymes catalyze key reactions within Earth's life-sustaining biogeochemical cycles. Here,
we use metaproteomics to examine the enzymatic capabilities of the microbial community …

Microeukaryote metabolism across the western North Atlantic Ocean revealed through autonomous underwater profiling

NR Cohen, AI Krinos, RM Kell, RJ Chmiel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Microeukaryotes are key contributors to marine carbon cycling. Their physiology, ecology,
and interactions with the chemical environment are poorly understood in offshore …

A robust approach to estimate relative phytoplankton cell abundances from metagenomes

JJ Pierella Karlusich, E Pelletier… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton account for> 45% of global primary production, and have an enormous
impact on aquatic food webs and on the entire Earth System. Their members are found …

New plastids, old proteins: repeated endosymbiotic acquisitions in kareniacean dinoflagellates

AMG Novák Vanclová, C Nef, Z Füssy, A Vancl… - EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Dinoflagellates are a diverse group of ecologically significant micro-eukaryotes that can
serve as a model system for plastid symbiogenesis due to their susceptibility to plastid loss …

Phylogeny and biogeography of the algal DMS-releasing enzyme in the global ocean

A Shemi, S Ben-Dor, R Rotkopf, O Dym… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Phytoplankton produce the volatile dimethyl sulfide (DMS), an important infochemical
mediating microbial interactions, which is also emitted to the atmosphere and affecting the …

Global biogeography of microbes driving ocean ecological status under climate change

Z Zhang, Q Zhang, B Chen, Y Yu, T Wang, N Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial communities play a crucial role in ocean ecology and global biogeochemical
processes. However, understanding the intricate interactions among diversity, taxonomical …