Traditionally recognized as environmental bacteria, Planctomycetes have just been linked
recently to human pathology as opportunistic pathogens, arousing a great interest for clinical …

The phylum Planctomycetes comprises bacteria with uncommon features among
prokaryotes, such as cell division by budding, absence of the bacterial tubulin-homolog cell …

The first interaction of water column‐derived organic matter with benthic microbial
communities takes place in surface sediments which are acting as biological filters …

The microbiome of freshwater sponges is rarely studied, and not a single novel bacterial
species has been isolated and subsequently characterized from a freshwater sponge to …

The application of high-throughput microbial community profiling as well as “omics”
approaches unveiled high diversity and host-specificity of bacteria associated with marine …

The contamination of marine and freshwater ecosystems with the items from thermoplastics,
including polystyrene (PS), necessitates the search for efficient microbial degraders of these …

Antimicrobials are naturally produced by microbes and therefore have always been present
in their environment, as well as accompanying resistance mechanisms. The antibiotic …

Planctomycetes are bacteria with complex molecular and cellular biology. They have large
genomes, some over 7 Mb, and complex life cycles that include motile cells and sessile …

Kelp forests, among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, cover large areas of the
South Atlantic coast. Sediment heterotrophic bacteria have a pivotal role in the degradation …

Bacteria from the distinctive Planctomycetes phylum are well spread around the globe; they
are capable of colonizing many habitats, including marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and even …