Freshwater bacterioplankton assemblages are composed of sympatric populations that can
be delineated, for example, by ribosomal RNA gene relatedness and that differ in key …

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) …

The most abundant aquatic microbes are small in cell and genome size. Genome-
streamlining theory predicts gene loss caused by evolutionary selection driven by …

Freshwater environments teem with microbes that do not have counterparts in culture
collections or genetic data available in genomic repositories. Currently, our apprehension of …

To investigate how the aquatic bacterial community of a stratified reservoir drives the
evolution of water parameters, the microbial community structure and network characteristics …

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 …

Microbial communities, which include prokaryotes and protists, play an important role in
aquatic ecosystems and influence ecological processes. To understand these communities …

Summary The Laurentian Great Lakes are a vast, interconnected freshwater system
spanning strong physicochemical gradients, thus constituting a powerful natural laboratory …