The utility of macroecological rules for microbial biogeography

JR Dickey, RA Swenie, SC Turner… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Macroecological rules have been developed for plants and animals that describe large-
scale distributional patterns and attempt to explain the underlying physiological and …

A review of microscopy and comparative molecular-based methods to characterize “Plastisphere” communities

C De Tender, C Schlundt, LI Devriese, TJ Mincer… - Analytical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Plastic is currently the most abundant form of debris in the ocean. Since the early 70's,
investigators have recognized the presence of life such as pennate diatoms, bryozoans and …

Pole-to-pole biogeography of surface and deep marine bacterial communities

JF Ghiglione, PE Galand, T Pommier… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The Antarctic and Arctic regions offer a unique opportunity to test factors shaping
biogeography of marine microbial communities because these regions are geographically …

An alternative polysaccharide uptake mechanism of marine bacteria

G Reintjes, C Arnosti, BM Fuchs, R Amann - The ISME journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Heterotrophic microbial communities process much of the carbon fixed by phytoplankton in
the ocean, thus having a critical role in the global carbon cycle. A major fraction of the …

Diet and phylogeny shape the gut microbiota of A ntarctic seals: a comparison of wild and captive animals

TM Nelson, TL Rogers, AR Carlini… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The gut microbiota of mammals underpins the metabolic capacity and health of the host. Our
understanding of what influences the composition of this community has been limited …

Extracellular enzymes in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments: perspectives on system variability and common research needs

C Arnosti, C Bell, DL Moorhead, RL Sinsabaugh… - Biogeochemistry, 2014 - Springer
Extracellular enzymes produced by heterotrophic microbial communities are major drivers of
carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. Although …

Community richness of amphibian skin bacteria correlates with bioclimate at the global scale

JG Kueneman, MC Bletz, VJ McKenzie… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Animal-associated microbiomes are integral to host health, yet key biotic and abiotic factors
that shape host-associated microbial communities at the global scale remain poorly …

Soil microbial community analysis using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms

JE Thies - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T‐RFLP) analysis is a polymerase chain
reaction (PCR)‐fingerprinting method that is commonly used for comparative microbial …

Microbial community composition and function in permanently cold seawater and sediments from an Arctic fjord of Svalbard

A Teske, A Durbin, K Ziervogel, C Cox… - Applied and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Heterotrophic microbial communities in seawater and sediments metabolize much of the
organic carbon produced in the ocean. Although carbon cycling and preservation depend …

Composition of the summer photosynthetic pico and nanoplankton communities in the Beaufort Sea assessed by T-RFLP and sequences of the 18S rRNA gene from …

S Balzano, D Marie, P Gourvil, D Vaulot - The ISME journal, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The composition of photosynthetic pico and nanoeukaryotes was investigated in the North
East Pacific and the Arctic Ocean with special emphasis on the Beaufort Sea during the …