Auxiliary metabolic gene functions in pelagic and benthic viruses of the Baltic Sea

B Heyerhoff, B Engelen, C Bunse - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Marine microbial communities are facing various ecosystem fluctuations (eg, temperature,
organic matter concentration, salinity, or redox regimes) and thus have to be highly adaptive …

Ecosystem-wide metagenomic binning enables prediction of ecological niches from genomes

J Alneberg, C Bennke, S Beier, C Bunse… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The genome encodes the metabolic and functional capabilities of an organism and should
be a major determinant of its ecological niche. Yet, it is unknown if the niche can be …

Labile dissolved organic matter compound characteristics select for divergence in marine bacterial activity and transcription

B Pontiller, S Martínez-García, D Lundin… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria play a key role in the planetary carbon cycle partly because they rapidly assimilate
labile dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the ocean. However, knowledge of the molecular …

Multiyear analysis uncovers coordinated seasonality in stocks and composition of the planktonic food web in the Baltic Sea proper

E Fridolfsson, C Bunse, E Lindehoff, H Farnelid… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The planktonic realm from bacteria to zooplankton provides the baseline for pelagic aquatic
food webs. However, multiple trophic levels are seldomly included in time series studies …

Evaluating metagenomic assembly approaches for biome-specific gene catalogues

LF Delgado, AF Andersson - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background For many environments, biome-specific microbial gene catalogues are being
recovered using shotgun metagenomics followed by assembly and gene calling on the …

Environmental changes affect the microbial release of hydrogen sulfide and methane from sediments at Boknis Eck (SW Baltic Sea)

M Perner, K Wallmann, N Adam-Beyer… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Anthropogenic activities are modifying the oceanic environment rapidly and are causing
ocean warming and deoxygenation, affecting biodiversity, productivity, and biogeochemical …

Seasonal succession and coherence among bacteria and microeukaryotes in Lake Baikal

IS Mikhailov, YP Galachyants, YS Bukin, DP Petrova… - Microbial ecology, 2022 - Springer
Microorganisms exhibit seasonal succession governed by physicochemical factors and
interspecies interactions, yet drivers of this process in different environments remain to be …

Stochasticity-driven weekly fluctuations distinguished the temporal pattern of particle-associated microorganisms from its free-living counterparts in temperate coastal …

Y Zhang, J Liu, D Song, P Yao, S Zhu, Y Zhou, J Jin… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Microbial community dynamics directly determine their ecosystem functioning. Despite the
well-known annual recurrence pattern, little is known how different lifestyles affect the …

Genomic and Seasonal Variations among Aquatic Phages Infecting the Baltic Sea Gammaproteobacterium Rheinheimera sp. Strain BAL341

E Nilsson, K Li, J Fridlund, S Šulčius… - Applied and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Knowledge in aquatic virology has been greatly improved by culture-independent methods,
yet there is still a critical need for isolating novel phages to identify the large proportion of …

Coastal upwelling systems as dynamic mosaics of bacterioplankton functional specialization

E Delgadillo-Nuño, E Teira, B Pontiller… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Coastal upwelling areas are extraordinarily productive environments where prokaryotic
communities, the principal remineralizers of dissolved organic matter (DOM), rapidly …