Rhythms and clocks in marine organisms

NS Häfker, G Andreatta, A Manzotti… - Annual Review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
The regular movements of waves and tides are obvious representations of the oceans'
rhythmicity. But the rhythms of marine life span across ecological niches and timescales …

Microbial circadian clocks: host-microbe interplay in diel cycles

EM Wollmuth, ER Angert - BMC microbiology, 2023‏ - Springer
Background Circadian rhythms, observed across all domains of life, enable organisms to
anticipate and prepare for diel changes in environmental conditions. In bacteria, a circadian …

Siderophore production and utilization by marine bacteria in the North Pacific Ocean

J Park, BP Durham, RS Key… - Limnology and …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Siderophores are strong iron‐binding molecules produced and utilized by microbes to
acquire the limiting nutrient iron (Fe) from their surroundings. Despite their importance as a …

Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle

D Muratore, AK Boysen, MJ Harke, KW Becker… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Complex assemblages of microbes in the surface ocean are responsible for approximately
half of global carbon fixation. The persistence of high taxonomic diversity despite …

[PDF][PDF] Glycine betaine uptake and metabolism in marine microbial communities

AK Boysen, BP Durham, W Kumler… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Glycine betaine (GBT) is a compatible solute in high concentrations in marine
microorganisms. As a component of labile organic matter, GBT has complex biochemical …

A rapid aureochrome opto-switch enables diatom acclimation to dynamic light

H Zhang, X **ong, K Guo, M Zheng, T Cao… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Diatoms often outnumber other eukaryotic algae in the oceans, especially in coastal
environments characterized by frequent fluctuations in light intensity. The identities and …

The world of algae reveals a broad variety of cryptochrome properties and functions

J Petersen, A Rredhi, J Szyttenholm… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Algae are photosynthetic eukaryotic (micro-) organisms, lacking roots, leaves, and other
organs that are typical for land plants. They live in freshwater, marine, or terrestrial habitats …

MarFERReT, an open-source, version-controlled reference library of marine microbial eukaryote functional genes

RD Groussman, S Blaskowski, SN Coesel… - Scientific Data, 2023‏ - nature.com
Metatranscriptomics generates large volumes of sequence data about transcribed genes in
natural environments. Taxonomic annotation of these datasets depends on availability of …

The land–sea connection: insights into the plant lineage from a green algal perspective

C Bachy, F Wittmers, J Muschiol… - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The colonization of land by plants generated opportunities for the rise of new heterotrophic
life forms, including humankind. A unique event underpinned this massive change to earth …

Plastid-localized xanthorhodopsin increases diatom biomass and ecosystem productivity in iron-limited surface oceans

J Strauss, L Deng, S Gao, A Toseland, C Bachy… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Microbial rhodopsins are photoreceptor proteins that convert light into biological signals or
energy. Proteins of the xanthorhodopsin family are common in eukaryotic photosynthetic …