Marine biofilms: diversity, interactions and biofouling

PY Qian, A Cheng, R Wang, R Zhang - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Marine biofilms are ubiquitous in the marine environment. These complex microbial
communities rapidly respond to environmental changes and encompass hugely diverse …

Bacteria and archaea on Earth and their abundance in biofilms

HC Flemming, S Wuertz - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019‏ - nature.com
Biofilms are a form of collective life with emergent properties that confer many advantages
on their inhabitants, and they represent a much higher level of organization than single cells …

Microbial community structure and its functional implications

JA Fuhrman - Nature, 2009‏ - nature.com
Marine microbial communities are engines of globally important processes, such as the
marine carbon, nitrogen and sulphur cycles. Recent data on the structures of these …

Global patterns in bacterial diversity

CA Lozupone, R Knight - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2007‏ - pnas.org
Microbes are difficult to culture. Consequently, the primary source of information about a
fundamental evolutionary topic, life's diversity, is the environmental distribution of gene …

[کتاب][B] Geomicrobiology

HL Ehrlich, DK Newman - 2008‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Uncovers the Key Role Microbes Play in the Transformation of Oxidizable and Reducible
MineralsMany areas of geomicrobial processes are receiving serious attention from …

How to identify cell material in a single ice grain emitted from Enceladus or Europa

F Klenner, J Bönigk, M Napoleoni, J Hillier… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
Icy moons like Enceladus, and perhaps Europa, emit material sourced from their subsurface
oceans into space via plumes of ice grains and gas. Both moons are prime targets for …

Sea surface microlayers: A unified physicochemical and biological perspective of the air–ocean interface

M Cunliffe, A Engel, S Frka, B Gašparović… - Progress in …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The sea surface microlayer (SML) covers more than 70% of the Earth's surface and is the
boundary layer interface between the ocean and the atmosphere. This important …

Changes in coral-associated microbial communities during a bleaching event

D Bourne, Y Iida, S Uthicke, C Smith-Keune - The ISME journal, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
Environmental stressors such as increased sea surface temperatures are well-known for
contributing to coral bleaching; however, the effect of increased temperatures and …

The ocean's vital skin: Toward an integrated understanding of the sea surface microlayer

A Engel, HW Bange, M Cunliffe, SM Burrows… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
Despite the huge extent of the ocean's surface, until now relatively little attention has been
paid to the sea surface microlayer (SML) as the ultimate interface where heat, momentum …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial life on the surface of microplastics in natural waters

O Stabnikova, V Stabnikov, A Marinin, M Klavins… - Applied Sciences, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Major water-polluting microplastics (for example, polyethylene, polypropylene and others)
have lower density than water. Therefore, they are concentrated in the neustonic layer near …