Protist plankton are major members of open‐water marine food webs. Traditionally divided
between phototrophic phytoplankton and phagotrophic zooplankton, recent research shows …

Palaeontologically, eubacteria are> 3× older than neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria).
Cell biology contrasts ancestral eubacterial murein peptidoglycan walls and derived …

The unicellular picocyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photoautotroph
and contributes substantially to global CO 2 fixation. In the vast euphotic zones of the open …

Analysis of trait trade-offs, through which physiological traits requiring common resources
are 'traded'to optimize competitive advantage, provides a route to simplify and more readily …

Aim Most protist plankton are mixotrophic, with potential to engage in photoautotrophy and
phagotrophy; however, the ecology of these organisms has been misdiagnosed for over a …

Arguments based on cell energetics favour the view that a mitochondrion capable of
oxidative phosphorylation was a prerequisite for the evolution of other features of the …

Bacteria acquire phosphate (Pi) by maintaining a periplasmic concentration below
environmental levels. We recently described an extracellular Pi buffer which appears to …

In the last decade, the known biogeography of nitrogen fixation in the ocean has been
expanded to colder and nitrogen‐rich coastal environments. The symbiotic nitrogen‐fixing …

The end-Cretaceous bolide impact triggered the devastation of marine ecosystems.
However, the specific kill mechanism (s) are still debated, and how primary production …

Phytomyxea are intracellular biotrophic parasites infecting plants and stramenopiles,
including the agriculturally impactful Plasmodiophora brassicae and the brown seaweed …