Our growing awareness of the microbial world’s importance and diversity contrasts starkly
with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA …

Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is critical for controlling the flux of methane from anoxic
environments. AOM coupled to iron 1 , manganese 1 and sulphate 2 reduction have been …

This study investigates interactions between recently identified denitrifying anaerobic
methane oxidation (DAMO) and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) processes in …

Tenericutes are a unique class of bacteria that lack a cell wall and are typically parasites or
commensals of eukaryotic hosts. Environmental 16S rDNA surveys have identified a number …

We modified the standard ribosomal RNA-targeted fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)
protocol by removing the fixation steps to allow recovery of unmodified nucleic acids. Using …

Earth is expected to continue warming and the Red Sea is a model environment for
understanding the effects of global warming on ocean microbiomes due to its unusually high …

Oceanic microbial diversity covaries with physicochemical parameters. Temperature, for
example, explains approximately half of global variation in surface taxonomic abundance. It is …

Over the past decade, technological advances in whole genome amplification, microfluidics,
flow sorting, and high-throughput sequencing have led to the development of single-cell …

RNA-Seq was used to examine the microbial, eukaryotic, and viral communities in water
catchments (‘tanks’) formed by tropical bromeliads from Costa Rica. In total, transcripts with …

The marine picocyanobacteria Prochlorococcus represent a significant fraction of the global
pelagic bacterioplankton community. Specifically, in the surface waters of the Red Sea, they …