Biotic and abiotic surfaces in marine waters are rapidly colonized by microorganisms.
Surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation and development provide numerous …

Water quality is an emergent property of a complex system comprised of interacting
microbial populations and introduced microbial and chemical contaminants. Studies …

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are implicated as hotspots for the dissemination of
antibacterial resistance into the environment. However, the in situ processes governing …

Large rivers create major gaps in reef distribution along tropical shelves. The Amazon River
represents 20% of the global riverine discharge to the ocean, generating up to a 1.3× 106 …

The gut microbiome is intimately related to human health, but it is not yet known which
functional activities are driven by specific microorganisms' ecological configurations or …

Technological advances are enabling the sequencing of environmental DNA and RNA at
increasing depth and with decreasing costs. Metagenomic and transcriptomic analysis of …

CO2 emissions from inland surface waters to the atmosphere are almost as large as the net
carbon transfer from the atmosphere to Earth's land surface. This large flux is supported by …

The recognition of a new family of rhodopsins in marine planktonic bacteria, proton-pumping
proteorhodopsin, expanded the known phylogenetic range, environmental distribution, and …

BACKGROUND Oceanographers began studying the ocean microbiome in earnest over
four decades ago, when it was recognized that microbes are responsible for nearly all of the …

Ocean microbial communities strongly influence the biogeochemistry, food webs, and
climate of our planet. Despite recent advances in understanding their taxonomic and …