The capacity of planktonic marine microorganisms to actively seek out and exploit microscale chemical hotspots has been widely theorized to affect ocean-basin scale biogeochemistry1-3, but has never been examined comprehensively in situ among natural microbial communities. Here, using a field-based microfluidic platform to quantify the behavioural responses of marine bacteria and archaea, we observed significant levels of chemotaxis towards microscale hotspots of phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic matter (DOM) at a coastal field site across multiple deployments, spanning several months. Microscale metagenomics revealed that a wide diversity of marine prokaryotes, spanning 27 bacterial and 2 archaeal phyla, displayed chemotaxis towards ...
The degree to which planktonic microbes can exploit microscale resource patches will have considerab...
Most biological diversity on Earth is contained within microbial communities. In the ocean, these co...
Corals experience intimate associations with distinct populations of marine microorganisms, but the ...
The capacity of planktonic marine microorganisms to actively seek out and exploit microscale chemica...
The capacity of planktonic marine microorganisms to actively seek out and exploit microscale chemica...
The microenvironment surrounding individual phytoplankton cells is often rich in dissolved organic m...
© 2014, by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. The nutrient environment ...
Marine bacteria are important players in regulating the pelagic ecosystem structure and functioning ...
Roughly half of the global primary production originates from microscopic phytoplankton in marine ec...
Linking microbial metabolomics and carbon sequestration in the ocean via refractory organic molecule...
The cyanobacterial genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are key phototrophic organisms in the op...
The ability of marine microbes to navigate toward chemical hotspots can determine their nutrient upt...
Heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs (HBDs) are ubiquitous in the pelagic ocean, where they have been...
Marine microbes, including both eukaryotes and prokaryotes, are the basal components of marine food ...
Abstract Microbes mediate global biogeochemical cycles through their metabolism, and all metabolic p...
The degree to which planktonic microbes can exploit microscale resource patches will have considerab...
Most biological diversity on Earth is contained within microbial communities. In the ocean, these co...
Corals experience intimate associations with distinct populations of marine microorganisms, but the ...
The capacity of planktonic marine microorganisms to actively seek out and exploit microscale chemica...
The capacity of planktonic marine microorganisms to actively seek out and exploit microscale chemica...
The microenvironment surrounding individual phytoplankton cells is often rich in dissolved organic m...
© 2014, by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. The nutrient environment ...
Marine bacteria are important players in regulating the pelagic ecosystem structure and functioning ...
Roughly half of the global primary production originates from microscopic phytoplankton in marine ec...
Linking microbial metabolomics and carbon sequestration in the ocean via refractory organic molecule...
The cyanobacterial genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are key phototrophic organisms in the op...
The ability of marine microbes to navigate toward chemical hotspots can determine their nutrient upt...
Heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs (HBDs) are ubiquitous in the pelagic ocean, where they have been...
Marine microbes, including both eukaryotes and prokaryotes, are the basal components of marine food ...
Abstract Microbes mediate global biogeochemical cycles through their metabolism, and all metabolic p...
The degree to which planktonic microbes can exploit microscale resource patches will have considerab...
Most biological diversity on Earth is contained within microbial communities. In the ocean, these co...
Corals experience intimate associations with distinct populations of marine microorganisms, but the ...