Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are widespread environmental pollutants of biological
origin that pose a significant threat to human, animal, and plant health, as well as to …

Vast biofilm-like habitats at air–water interfaces of marine and freshwater ecosystems harbor
surface-dwelling microorganisms, which are commonly referred to as neuston. Viruses in the …

Background Permanently stratified lakes contain diverse microbial communities that vary
with depth and so serve as useful models for studying the relationships between microbial …

The microbial composition and diversity in aquaculture pond ecosystems are closely related
to animal productivity and disease outbreaks. Interventions that alter the bacteria found in …

Functional redundancy is considered common in microbial systems, but recent studies have
challenged this idea. The mechanism for this contradictory result is not clear. However, in …

Balaton is the largest shallow lake in Central Europe. It is one of the few lakes where
eutrophication processes have been successfully reversed. The creation of a wetland area …

It has been proposed that zooplankton-associated microbes provide numerous beneficial
services to their “host”. However, there is still a lack of understanding concerning the effect of …

Diversity studies of aquatic picoplankton (bacterioplankton) communities using size-class
filtration, DNA extraction, PCR and sequencing of phylogenetic markers, require a robust …

Bacteria are major consumers of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in aquatic systems. In
coastal zones, bacteria are exposed to a variety of DOM types originating from land and …

Members of the Candidate phylum Patescibacteria, also called Candidate Phyla Radiation
(CPR), are described as ultramicrobacteria with limited metabolic capacities. Wide diversity …