Freshwater bacteria are at the hub of biogeochemical cycles and control water quality in
lakes. Despite this, little is known about the identity and ecology of functionally significant …

▪ Abstract Since the delineation of 12 bacterial phyla by comparative phylogenetic analyses
of 16S ribosomal RNA in 1987 knowledge of microbial diversity has expanded dramatically …

Salinity is a major factor controlling the distribution of biota in aquatic systems, and most
aquatic multicellular organisms are either adapted to life in saltwater or freshwater …

Background Marine microbial communities have been essential contributors to global
biomass, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity since the early history of Earth, but so far their …

The respiratory activities of plant roots, of their mycorrhizal fungi and of the free-living
microbial heterotrophs (decomposers) in soils are significant components of the global …

Overview of the Marine Roseobacter Lineage | Applied and Environmental Microbiology CLOSE
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Microbial diversity studies based on the cloning and sequencing of DNA from nature support
the conclusion that only a fraction of the microbial diversity is currently represented in culture …

Sponges (class Porifera) are evolutionarily ancient metazoans that populate the tropical
oceans in great abundances but also occur in temperate regions and even in freshwater …

Proteorhodopsin, a retinal-containing integral membrane protein that functions as a light-
driven proton pump, was discovered in the genome of an uncultivated marine bacterium; …

We evaluate the substantial amount of information accumulated on bacterial diversity in a
variety of environments and address several fundamental questions, focusing on aquatic …