Microbial ecology of oxygen minimum zones amidst ocean deoxygenation

AM Long, SK Jurgensen, AR Petchel… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) have substantial effects on the global ecology and
biogeochemical processes of marine microbes. However, the diversity and activity of OMZ …

Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation

X Wang, S Zhang, Y Ye, S Ma, J Su, H Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all life on Earth. It is, and likely has been, a critical
limiting nutrient controlling primary production rates in the oceans. The marine N budget is …

Mercury methylation by metabolically versatile and cosmopolitan marine bacteria

H Lin, DB Ascher, Y Myung, CH Lamborg… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Microbes transform aqueous mercury (Hg) into methylmercury (MeHg), a potent neurotoxin
that accumulates in terrestrial and marine food webs, with potential impacts on human …

Diverse Marinimicrobia bacteria may mediate coupled biogeochemical cycles along eco-thermodynamic gradients

AK Hawley, MK Nobu, JJ Wright, WE Durno… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Microbial communities drive biogeochemical cycles through networks of metabolite
exchange that are structured along energetic gradients. As energy yields become limiting …

Pangenomics reveals alternative environmental lifestyles among chlamydiae

S Köstlbacher, A Collingro, T Halter, F Schulz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chlamydiae are highly successful strictly intracellular bacteria associated with diverse
eukaryotic hosts. Here we analyzed metagenome-assembled genomes of the “Genomes …

Constraining the oxygen requirements for modern microbial eukaryote diversity

DB Mills, RL Simister, TR Sehein… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Eukaryotes originated prior to the establishment of modern marine oxygen (O2) levels.
According to the body fossil and lipid biomarker records, modern (crown) microbial …

Non‐denitrifier nitrous oxide reductases dominate marine biomes

AD Bertagnolli, KT Konstantinidis… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial enzymes often occur as distinct variants that share the same substrate but differ in
substrate affinity, sensitivity to environmental conditions, or phylogenetic ancestry …

A compendium of multi-omic sequence information from the Saanich Inlet water column

AK Hawley, M Torres-Beltrán, E Zaikova, DA Walsh… - Scientific data, 2017 - nature.com
Marine oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) are widespread regions of the ocean that are
currently expanding due to global warming. While inhospitable to most metazoans, OMZs …

Aerobic and anaerobic methane oxidation in a seasonally anoxic basin

HGR Steinsdóttir, C Schauberger… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Shallow coastal waters are dynamic environments that dominate global marine methane
emissions. Particularly high methane concentrations are found in seasonally anoxic waters …

Sediment redistribution processes in Baffin Island fjords

J Syvitski, A Normandeau - Marine Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Four decades of studies on pristine Baffin Island fjords are summarized with respect to
sediment redistribution processes and resulting deposits. Sediment fill in these fjords …