Small phytoplankton dominate western North Atlantic biomass

LM Bolaños, L Karp-Boss, CJ Choi… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The North Atlantic phytoplankton spring bloom is the pinnacle in an annual cycle
that is driven by physical, chemical, and biological seasonality. Despite its important …

Seasonality of the microbial community composition in the North Atlantic

LM Bolaños, CJ Choi, AZ Worden, N Baetge… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Planktonic communities constitute the basis of life in marine environments and have
profound impacts in geochemical cycles. In the North Atlantic, seasonality drives annual …

Ecophysiology of uncultivated marine euryarchaea is linked to particulate organic matter

WD Orsi, JM Smith, HM Wilcox, JE Swalwell… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Particles in aquatic environments host distinct communities of microbes, yet the evolution of
particle-specialized taxa and the extent to which specialized microbial metabolism is …

Diel transcriptional response of a California Current plankton microbiome to light, low iron, and enduring viral infection

BC Kolody, JP McCrow, LZ Allen, FO Aylward… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Phytoplankton and associated microbial communities provide organic carbon to oceanic
food webs and drive ecosystem dynamics. However, capturing those dynamics is …

Genomic differentiation among wild cyanophages despite widespread horizontal gene transfer

AC Gregory, SA Solonenko, JC Ignacio-Espinoza… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background Genetic recombination is a driving force in genome evolution. Among viruses it
has a dual role. For genomes with higher fitness, it maintains genome integrity in the face of …

Synechococcus Assemblages across the Salinity Gradient in a Salt Wedge Estuary

X Xia, W Guo, S Tan, H Liu - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Synechococcus are the most abundant and widely distributed picocyanobacteria in the
ocean. The salt-wedge type of estuary possesses the complete horizontal and vertical …

Factors influencing nitrification rates and the abundance and transcriptional activity of ammonia‐oxidizing microorganisms in the dark northeast P acific O cean

JM Smith, J Damashek, FP Chavez… - Limnology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Pelagic marine Thaumarchaea play a primary role in ammonia oxidation, an integral part of
nitrification and the nitrogen cycle. This study examines how physicochemical and biological …

Seasonal and geographical transitions in eukaryotic phytoplankton community structure in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

CJ Choi, V Jimenez, DM Needham, C Poirier… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Much is known about how broad eukaryotic phytoplankton groups vary according to nutrient
availability in marine ecosystems. However, genus-and species-level dynamics are …

Abundance and biogeography of picoprasinophyte ecotypes and other phytoplankton in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean

MP Simmons, S Sudek, A Monier… - Applied and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Eukaryotic algae within the picoplankton size class (≤ 2 μm in diameter) are important
marine primary producers, but their spatial and ecological distributions are not well …

[HTML][HTML] The Bay of Bengal exposes abundant photosynthetic picoplankton and newfound diversity along salinity‐driven gradients

J Strauss, CJ Choi, J Grone, F Wittmers… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Bay of Bengal (BoB) is a 2,600,000 km2 expanse in the Indian Ocean upon
which many humans rely. However, the primary producers underpinning food chains here …