However, knowledge of which species or taxa of bacterioplankton are actually consumed by small protists is still quite rudimentary (Boenigk and Arndt, 2002) and available for only a few freshwater ...

Formidable challenges remain, however, such as quantifying more precisely the energy and material flux through newly recognized bacterioplankton metabolic pathways and understanding better the net ...

Total genomic DNA was extracted in triplicate from sponge tissues (150–200 mg) and seawater using the FastDNA ® Spin Kit for Soil (Q-Biogene, Carlsbad, CA) according to the protocol of the ...

Microbial communities are crucial for important ecosystem functions in the open ocean, such as primary production and nutrient cycling. However, few studies have addressed the distribution of ...