Although the occurrence of microbial (algal, protozoan, bacterial, and fungal) epibionts on
marine crustaceans and other invertebrates has been documented repeatedly, the …

Bacterioplankton is an important component of marine as well as fresh waters and accounts
for a large fraction of the production of particulate matter in those ecosystems. The concept …

Bulk nitrogen (N) isotope signatures have long been used to investigate organic N source
and food web structure in aquatic ecosystems. This paper explores the use of compound …

Planktonic food webs play an important role driving the environmental fate of persistent
organic pollutants, and POP accumulation in phytoplankton has been previously studied for …

Bacteria and metazoan zooplankton (mainly crustaceans) are often viewed as 2 separate
functional groups in the pelagic food webs indirectly linked via nutrient cycling and trophic …

Diel and seasonal variations in abundance, activity, and structure of particle-attached vs free-
living bacterial communities were investigated in offshore NW Mediterranean Sea (0–1000 …

The genus Vibrio includes more than 30 species, at least 12 of which are pathogenic to
humans and/or have been associated with foodborne diseases (Chakraborty et al., 1997) …

How symbioses between bacteria and aquatic animals influence food webs in freshwater
ecosystems is a fundamental question in ecology. We investigated symbiosis between a …

Through ingestion a copepod introduces rich organic substrates into its guts and fecal
pellets, where dense bacteria may exploit them and show fast growth. Thus, a copepod and …

The calanoid copepod Calanus finmarchicus is one of the most abundant and ecologically
important species of the zooplankton assemblage of the North Atlantic Ocean and occupies …