Diatom molecular research comes of age: model species for studying phytoplankton biology and diversity

A Falciatore, M Jaubert, JP Bouly, B Bailleul… - The Plant …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Diatoms are the world's most diverse group of algae, comprising at least 100,000 species.
Contributing~ 20% of annual global carbon fixation, they underpin major aquatic food webs …

Large-scale genome sequencing reveals the driving forces of viruses in microalgal evolution

DR Nelson, KM Hazzouri, KJ Lauersen, A Jaiswal… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
Being integral primary producers in diverse ecosystems, microalgal genomes could be
mined for ecological insights, but representative genome sequences are lacking for many …

Strain-specific transcriptional responses overshadow salinity effects in a marine diatom sampled along the Baltic Sea salinity cline

E Pinseel, T Nakov, K Van den Berge… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The salinity gradient separating marine and freshwater environments represents a major
ecological divide for microbiota, yet the mechanisms by which marine microbes have …

Studying ecosystems with DNA metabarcoding: lessons from biomonitoring of aquatic macroinvertebrates

A Bush, ZG Compson, WA Monk, TM Porter… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
An ongoing challenge for ecological studies has been the collection of data with high
precision and accuracy at a suitable scale to detect and manage critical global change …

Irreversible community difference between bacterioplankton generalists and specialists in response to lake dredging

Y Yang, W Zhang, W Liu, D He, W Wan - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding response of bacterioplankton community responsible for maintaining
ecological functions of aquatic ecosystems to environmental disturbance is an important …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of exact sequence variants (ESVs) to interpret and assess the impact of agricultural pressure on stream diatom assemblages revealed by DNA …

K Tapolczai, GB Selmeczy, B Szabó, B Viktória… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Land-use imposes an important potential threat on the aquatic ecosystems of riverine
habitats. In this study, DNA metabarcoding was used to assess the effect of land-use on …

Diatoms are selective segregators in global ocean planktonic communities

F Vincent, C Bowler - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Diatoms are a major component of phytoplankton, believed to be responsible for around
20% of the annual primary production on Earth. As abundant and ubiquitous organisms …

Diatom abundance in the polar oceans is predicted by genome size

WR Roberts, AM Siepielski, AJ Alverson - PLoS Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
A principal goal in ecology is to identify the determinants of species abundances in nature.
Body size has emerged as a fundamental and repeatable predictor of abundance, with …

The dynamic response to hypo‐osmotic stress reveals distinct stages of freshwater acclimation by a euryhaline diatom

KM Downey, KJ Judy, E Pinseel, AJ Alverson… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The salinity gradient separating marine and freshwater environments is a major ecological
divide, and the mechanisms by which most organisms adapt to new salinity environments …

A New Dawn for Protist Biogeography

E Pinseel, K Sabbe, E Verleyen… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Biogeographers have believed for a long time that the geographical distributions of
protists are only determined by environmental conditions, because dispersal is not limited …