The finding that total viral abundance is higher than total prokaryotic abundance and that a
significant fraction of the prokaryotic community is infected with phages in aquatic systems …

Marine microorganisms constitute the largest percentage of living biomass and serve as the
major driving force behind nutrient and energy cycles. While viruses only comprise a small …

ABSTRACT A total of 90 bacterial strains were isolated from the sea surface microlayer (ie,
bacterioneuston) and underlying waters (ie, bacterioplankton) from two sites of the …

Archaea are widespread in marine sediments, but their occurrence and relationship with
natural salinity gradients in estuarine sediments is not well understood. This study …

Understanding how phenotypes emerge from genotypes is a foundational goal in biology.
As challenging as this task is when considering cellular life, it is further complicated in the …

Bacteriophages play critical roles in impacting microbial community succession both
ecologically and evolutionarily. Although the majority of phage genetic diversity has been …

Cyanobacterial (algal) blooms have by convention been attributed to the excessive level of
nutrients from pollution and runoff, which promotes the rapid growth and multiplication of …

Planktonic microbial communities often appear stable over periods of days and thus tight
links are assumed to exist between different functional groups (ie producers and …

One common observation concerning mitochondrial genomes is that they have a low
guanine and cytosine content (GC content); of the complete mitochondrial genome …

UV radiation induced DNA damage (inferred from cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers, CPDs) in
native marine virus communities was examined at 12 locations along a latitudinal transect …