Pelagic microbes have adopted distinct strategies to inhabit the pelagial of lakes and
oceans and can be broadly categorized in two groups: free‐living, specialized oligotrophs …

Lakes and ponds harbour a high number of diverse planktonic microorganisms that are
centrally involved in biochemical cycles and aquatic food webs. Although the open water …

Background Representatives of the phylum Chloroflexi, though reportedly highly abundant
in the extensive deep water habitats of both marine (SAR202 up to 30% of total prokaryotes) …

Temperate lakes experience variation in mixing and stratification that affects the
distributions, activities, abundances, and diversity of plankton communities. We examined …

Reconstruction of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) has become a fundamental
approach in microbial ecology. However, a MAG is hardly complete and overlooks genomic …

Metagenomics has dramatically expanded the known virosphere, but freshwater viral
diversity and their ecological interaction with hosts remain poorly understood. Here, we …

The oxygenated hypolimnion accounts for a volumetrically significant part of the global
freshwater systems. Previous studies have proposed the presence of hypolimnion-specific …

Ammonia released during organic matter mineralization is converted during nitrification to
nitrate. We followed spatiotemporal dynamics of the nitrifying microbial community in deep …

The Chloroflexi CL500-11 clade contributes a large proportion of the bacterial biomass in
the oxygenated hypolimnia of deep lakes worldwide, including the world's largest freshwater …

DNA methylation plays important roles in prokaryotes, and their genomic landscapes—
prokaryotic epigenomes—have recently begun to be disclosed. However, our knowledge of …