Water monitoring technologies are widely used for contaminants detection in wide variety of
water ecology applications such as water treatment plant and water distribution system. A …

Members of the diverse bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes have colonized virtually all types of
habitats on Earth. They are among the major members of the microbiota of animals …

Bacteroidetes are commonly assumed to be specialized in degrading high molecular weight
(HMW) compounds and to have a preference for growth attached to particles, surfaces or …

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 …

Culture-dependent and-independent studies have found that prokaryotic assemblages are
quite diverse in aquatic habitats and contain representatives of virtually all of the roughly 40 …

The ocean's interior is Earth's largest biome. Recently, cultivation-independent ribosomal
RNA gene surveys have indicated a potential importance for archaea in the subsurface …

Picocyanobacteria make up half of the ocean's primary production, and they are subjected to
frequent viral infection. Viral lysis of picocyanobacteria is a major driving force converting …

We used a method that combines microautoradiography with hybridization of fluorescent
rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes to whole cells (MICRO-FISH) to test the hypothesis …

The species is a fundamental unit of biological organization, but its relevance for Bacteria
and Archaea is still hotly debated. Even more controversial is whether the deeper branches …

Flow cytometry is rapidly becoming a routine methodology in aquatic microbial ecology. The
combination of simple to use bench-top flow cytometers and highly fluorescent nucleic acid …