Microorganisms are ubiquitous in the ocean environment and they play key roles in marine
ecosystem function and service. However, many of their functions and phenotypes remain …

Background The pure culture of prokaryotes remains essential to elucidating the role of
these organisms. Scientists have reasoned that hard to cultivate microorganisms might grow …

Current understanding of amino acid (AA) degraders in anaerobic digesters is mainly based
on cultured species, whereas microorganisms that play important roles in a complex …

Cyanophycin is an attractive biopolymer with chemical and material properties that are
suitable for industrial applications in the fields of food, medicine, cosmetics, nutrition, and …

The cycle of life and death and Earth's carbon cycle (s) are intimately linked, yet how
bacterial cells, one of the largest pools of biomass on Earth, are recycled back into the …

Through a process called “bioturbation,” burrowing macrofauna have altered the seafloor
habitat and modified global carbon cycling since the Cambrian. However, the impact of …

Lack of robustness is a major barrier to foster a sustainable cyanobacterial biotechnology.
Use of cyanobacterial consortium increases biodiversity, which provides functional …

Dissimilatory perchlorate reduction is an anaerobic respiratory pathway that in communities
might be influenced by metabolic interactions. Because the genes for perchlorate reduction …

Publicly available genomes are crucial for phylogenetic and metagenomic studies, in which
contaminating sequences can be the cause of major problems. This issue is expected to be …

Coastal upwelling zones are hotspots of oceanic productivity, driven by phytoplankton
photosynthesis. Bacteria, in turn, grow on and are the principal remineralizers of dissolved …