Marine zooplankton comprise a phylogenetically and functionally diverse assemblage of
protistan and metazoan consumers that occupy multiple trophic levels in pelagic food webs …

A microbe's growth rate helps to set its ecological success and its contribution to food web
dynamics and biogeochemical processes. Growth rates at the community level are …

In aquatic ecosystems, unicellular algae form the basis of the food webs. Theoretical and
experimental studies have demonstrated that one of the mechanisms that maintain high …

Long-term stability of picocyanobacteria in the open oceans is maintained by a balance
between synchronous division and death on daily timescales. Viruses are considered a …

Biogeochemical models for predicting carbon dynamics increasingly include microbial
processes, reflecting the importance of microorganisms in regulating the movement of …

Phytoplankton community structure is shaped by both bottom–up factors, such as nutrient
availability, and top–down processes, such as predation. Here we show that marine viruses …

Interactions between marine microorganisms may determine the dynamics of microbial
communities. Here, we show that two strains of the globally abundant marine …

Phytoplankton contribute almost half of the world's total primary production. The exudates
and viral lysates of phytoplankton are two important forms of dissolved organic matter (DOM) …

Grazing by protists and viral infection are the main known sources of marine bacterial
mortality, and both processes shape the structure and ecology of microbial communities. We …

The role of bottom‐up (nutrient availability) and top‐down (grazers and viruses mortality)
controls on tropical bacterioplankton have been rarely investigated simultaneously from a …