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 …

Living in a hypoxic world: A review of the impacts of hypoxia on aquaculture

Y Zhan, B Ning, J Sun, Y Chang - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypoxia is a harmful result of anthropogenic climate change. With the expansion of global
low-oxygen zones (LOZs), many organisms have faced unprecedented challenges affecting …

Design and evaluation of Illumina MiSeq-compatible, 18S rRNA gene-specific primers for improved characterization of mixed phototrophic communities

IM Bradley, AJ Pinto, JS Guest - Applied and environmental …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
The use of high-throughput sequencing technologies with the 16S rRNA gene for
characterization of bacterial and archaeal communities has become routine. However, the …

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 …

Eukaryotic parasites are integral to a productive microbial food web in oxygen-depleted waters

EA Suter, M Pachiadaki, GT Taylor… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Oxygen-depleted water columns (ODWCs) host a diverse community of eukaryotic protists
that change dramatically in composition over the oxic-anoxic gradient. In the permanently …

Parasitic infections by Group II Syndiniales target selected dinoflagellate host populations within diverse protist assemblages in a model coastal pond

TR Sehein, RJ Gast, M Pachiadaki… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Protists are integral to marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles; however, there is a
paucity of data describing specific ecological niches for some of the most abundant taxa in …

Vertical distribution of planktic foraminifera through an oxygen minimum zone: how assemblages and test morphology reflect oxygen concentrations

CV Davis, K Wishner, W Renema, PM Hull - Biogeosciences, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
Oxygen-depleted regions of the global ocean are rapidly expanding, with important
implications for global biogeochemical cycles. However, our ability to make projections …

Diversity and N2O Production Potential of Fungi in an Oceanic Oxygen Minimum Zone

X Peng, DL Valentine - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fungi in terrestrial environments are known to play a key role in carbon and nitrogen
biogeochemistry and exhibit high diversity. In contrast, the diversity and function of fungi in …

Eukaryotic influence on the oceanic biological carbon pump in the Scotia Sea as revealed by 18S rRNA gene sequencing of suspended and sinking particles

MT Duret, RS Lampitt, P Lam - Limnology and Oceanography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Suspended marine particles constitute most of the particulate organic matter pool in the
oceans, thereby providing substantial substrates for heterotrophs, especially in the …

Do phytoplankton require oxygen to survive? A hypothesis and model synthesis from oxygen minimum zones

JCY Wong, JA Raven, M Aldunate… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is commonly known that phytoplankton have a pivotal role in marine biogeochemistry and
ecosystems as carbon fixers and oxygen producers, but their response to deoxygenation …