The marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the smallest and most abundant
photosynthetic organism on Earth. In this Review, we summarize our understanding of the …

Cyanobacteria are widely-diverse, environmentally crucial photosynthetic prokaryotes of
great interests for basic and applied science. Work to date has focused mostly on the three …

Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, is an important process in
municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Members of the Nitrospira genus that …

Background Cyanobacteria are the major prokaryotic primary producers occupying a range
of aquatic habitats worldwide that differ in levels of salinity, making them a group of interest …

Marine picocyanobacteria of the genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are the most
abundant photosynthetic organisms on Earth, an ecological success thought to be linked to …

The ever-increasing number of available microbial genomes and metagenomes provides
new opportunities to investigate the links between niche partitioning and genome evolution …

The genus Octadecabacter is a member of the ubiquitous marine Roseobacter clade. The
two described species of this genus, Octadecabacter arcticus and Octadecabacter …

Cultivated bacterioplankton representatives from diverse lineages and locations are
essential for microbiology, but the large majority of taxa either remain uncultivated or lack …

Marine regions that have seasonal to long-term low dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations,
sometimes called “dead zones,” are increasing in number and severity around the globe …

Cyanate is utilized by many microbes as an organic nitrogen source. The key enzyme for
cyanate metabolism is cyanase, converting cyanate to ammonium and carbon dioxide …