Marine viruses play a key role in regulating phytoplankton populations, greatly affecting the biogeochemical cycling of major nutrients in the ocean. Resistance to viral infection has been reported for various phytoplankton species under laboratory conditions. Nevertheless, the occurrence of resi...

The marine microbiome contributes to nearly half of our planet’s net primary production. It plays a central role in the ocean’s carbon cycle through both passive and active release of metabolites into seawater, forming a pool of dissolved compounds known as the marine exometabolome.

The communities of marine bacteria that assemble around living microphytoplankton are predictably dominated by three taxonomic groups, each of which specializes in the use or transport of different components of the available metabolite pool: Rhodobacterales transport small and polar metabolites,...

Metabolites, or the small organic molecules that are synthesized by cells during metabolism, comprise a complex and dynamic pool of carbon in the ocean. They are an essential form of information, linking genotype to phenotype at the individual, population and community levels of biological organi...

The communities of marine bacteria that assemble around living microphytoplankton are predictably dominated by three taxonomic groups, each of which specializes in different components of the available metabolite pool: Rhodobacterales transport small and polar metabolites, Flavobacteriia use carb...