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Editorial: Women in aquatic microbiology: 2022
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Gene expression dynamics of natural assemblages of heterotrophic flagellates during bacterivory
Abstract Background Marine heterotrophic flagellates (HF) are dominant bacterivores in the ocean, where they represent the trophic …
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A Metagenomic and Amplicon Sequencing Combined Approach Reveals the Best Primers to Study Marine Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs
Studies based on protein-coding genes are essential to describe the diversity within bacterial functional groups. In the case of …
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Water mass age structures the auxiliary metabolic gene content of free-living and particle-attached deep ocean viral communities
Abstract Background Viruses play important roles in the ocean’s biogeochemical cycles. Yet, deep ocean viruses are one of the most …
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Disentangling temporal associations in marine microbial networks
Abstract Background Microbial interactions are fundamental for Earth’s ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical cycling. Nevertheless, …
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Progress on the Link between Nutrient Availability and Toxin Production by Ostreopsis cf. ovata: Field and Laboratory Experiments
This study aimed to improve the understanding of the nutrient modulation of Ostreopsis cf. ovata toxin content. During the 2018 natural …
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Abiotic selection of microbial genome size in the global ocean
Strong purifying selection is considered a major evolutionary force behind small microbial genomes in the resource-poor photic ocean. …
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Impact of particle flux on the vertical distribution and diversity of size-fractionated prokaryotic communities in two East Antarctic polynyas
Antarctic polynyas are highly productive open water areas surrounded by ice where extensive phytoplankton blooms occur, but little is …
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A consensus protocol for the recovery of mercury methylation genes from metagenomes
Mercury (Hg) methylation genes (hgcAB) mediate the formation of the toxic methylmercury and have been identified from diverse …
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A robust approach to estimate relative phytoplankton cell abundances from metagenomes
Abstract Phytoplankton account for textgreater45% of global primary production, and have an enormous impact on aquatic food webs and …
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