Biotic and abiotic surfaces in marine waters are rapidly colonized by microorganisms.
Surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation and development provide numerous …

Pelagic microbes have adopted distinct strategies to inhabit the pelagial of lakes and
oceans and can be broadly categorized in two groups: free‐living, specialized oligotrophs …

Microbial rhodopsin, a significant contributor to sustaining life through light harvesting, holds
untapped potential for carbon fixation. Here, we construct an artificial photosynthesis system …

The ocean–atmosphere exchange of CO2 largely depends on the balance between marine
microbial photosynthesis and respiration. Despite vast taxonomic and metabolic diversity …

Viruses play an important role in the marine ecosystem. However, our comprehension of
viruses inhabiting the dark ocean, and in particular, under the Antarctic Ice Shelves, remains …

The recognition of a new family of rhodopsins in marine planktonic bacteria, proton-pum**
proteorhodopsin, expanded the known phylogenetic range, environmental distribution, and …

BACKGROUND Oceanographers began studying the ocean microbiome in earnest over
four decades ago, when it was recognized that microbes are responsible for nearly all of the …

The oceanic waters below a depth of 200 m represent, in terms of volume, the largest habitat
of the biosphere, harboring approximately 70% of the prokaryotic biomass in the oceanic …

Planktonic microbial communities in the ocean are typically dominated by several
cosmopolitan clades of Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya characterized by their ribosomal …

Dinoflagellates are diverse and ecologically important protists characterized by many
morphological and molecular traits that set them apart from other eukaryotes. These features …