Missing microbial eukaryotes and misleading meta-omic conclusions

AI Krinos, M Mars Brisbin, SK Hu, NR Cohen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Meta-omics is commonly used for large-scale analyses of microbial eukaryotes, including
species or taxonomic group distribution mapping, gene catalog construction, and inference …

Rhizaria in the oligotrophic ocean exhibit clear temporal and vertical variability

A Barth, L Blanco-Bercial, R Johnson… - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently studies have shown that Rhizaria, a super-group of marine protists, have a large
role in pelagic ecosystems. They are unique in that they construct mineral tests out of silica …

Role of Syndiniales parasites in depth-specific networks and carbon flux in the oligotrophic ocean

SR Anderson, L Blanco-Bercial, CA Carlson… - ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Microbial associations that result in phytoplankton mortality are important for carbon
transport in the ocean. This includes parasitism, which in microbial food webs is dominated …

Gelatinous matrix, an original convergent evolution to cope with oligotrophy in Nassellaria (Radiolaria)

N Llopis Monferrer, S Romac, M Laget, Y Nakamura… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Radiolaria are heterotrophic protists abundant in the world's oceans playing important roles
in oceanic biogeochemical cycles. Some species can host photosynthetic algae thus …

Illuminating the Twilight Zone: In-Situ Imaging Facilitates Discovery of Mesopelagic Plankton Dynamics and Community Structure

A Barth - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Ocean ecosystems provide both food and regulation of climate. Much of ocean ecosystem
functioning occurs through processes in the pelagic, where plankton are the dominant …