The function of cells in their native habitat often cannot be reliably predicted from genomic
data or from physiology studies of isolates. Traditional experimental approaches to study the …

Background The deep sea harbors the majority of the microbial biomass in the ocean and is
a key site for organic matter (OM) remineralization and storage in the biosphere. Microbial …

Plastic debris reaching the ocean is exponentially increasing in parallel with plastic
production. Once into seawater, plastic starts to leach organic compounds that are …

Classifying microorganisms as “obligate” aerobes has colloquially implied death without air,
leading to the erroneous assumption that, without oxygen, they are unable to survive …

Plastic in the ocean releases organic compounds that are able to enter the marine dissolved
organic carbon pool and be utilized by heterotrophic bacteria. However, no information is …

Proteins in the open ocean represent a significant source of organic matter, and their profiles
reflect the metabolic activities of marine microorganisms. Here, by analyzing metaproteomic …

BioOrthogonal Non-Canonical Amino acid Tagging (BONCAT) is a powerful tool for tracking
protein synthesis on the level of single cells within communities and whole organisms. A …

Deep ocean microbial communities rely on the organic carbon produced in the sunlit ocean,
yet it remains unknown whether surface processes determine the assembly and function of …

Due to the scarcity of organic matter (OM) sources in the bathypelagic (1000–4000 m depth),
prokaryotic metabolism is believed to be concentrated on particles originating from the …

Carbon budgets of hydrothermal plumes result from the balance between carbon sinks
through plume chemoautotrophic processes and carbon release via microbial respiration …