Microscopic eukaryotes are abundant, diverse and fill critical ecological roles across every
ecosystem on Earth, yet there is a well-recognized gap in understanding of their global …

Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) have substantial effects on the global ecology and
biogeochemical processes of marine microbes. However, the diversity and activity of OMZ …

Marine plankton support global biological and geochemical processes. Surveys of their
biodiversity have hitherto been geographically restricted and have not accounted for the full …

Plastic debris pervades in our oceans and freshwater systems and the potential ecosystem-
level impacts of this anthropogenic litter require urgent evaluation. Microbes readily colonize …

The interrogation of genetic markers in environmental meta-barcoding studies is currently
seriously hindered by the lack of taxonomically curated reference data sets for the targeted …

Abstract The Tara Oceans expedition (2009–2013) sampled contrasting ecosystems of the
world oceans, collecting environmental data and plankton, from viruses to metazoans, for …

Although protists are critical components of marine ecosystems, they are still poorly
characterized. Here we analysed the taxonomic diversity of planktonic and benthic protist …

CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and
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We tracked temporal changes in protist diversity at the Long Term Ecological Research
(LTER) station MareChiara in the Gulf of Naples (Mediterranean Sea) on eight dates in 2011 …

In the bathypelagic realm of the ocean, the role of marine snow as a carbon and energy
source for the deep-sea biota and as a potential hotspot of microbial diversity and activity …