Sustaining Rare Marine Microorganisms: Macroorganisms As Repositories and Dispersal Agents of Microbial Diversity

Lifestyles of rarity: understanding heterotrophic strategies to inform the ecology of the microbial rare biosphere

(2016) RJ Newton et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Diversity at low abundance: The phenomenon of the rare bacterial biosphere

(2016) M. Yu. Skopina et al.   MICROBIOLOGY

Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity

(2016) Kenneth J. Locey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome

(2016) S. Louca et al.   SCIENCE

The Sponge Hologenome

(2016) Nicole S. Webster et al.   mBio

Marine mammals harbor unique microbiotas shaped by and yet distinct from the sea

(2016) Elisabeth M. Bik et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

(2016) Torsten Thomas et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity and Temporal Dynamics of the Epiphytic Bacterial Communities Associated with the Canopy-Forming Seaweed Cystoseira compressa (Esper) Gerloff and Nizamuddin

(2016) Francesco P. Mancuso et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Whole gut microbiome composition of damselfish and cardinalfish before and after reef settlement

(2016) Darren J. Parris et al.   PeerJ

Symbiotic Bacteria in Gills and Guts of Chinese Mitten Crab (Eriocheir sinensis) Differ from the Free-Living Bacteria in Water

(2016) Meiling Zhang et al.   PLoS One

A comparison of bacterial community structure in seawater pond with shrimp, crab, and shellfish cultures and in non-cultured pond in Ganyu, Eastern China

(2015) LianTai Li et al.   ANNALS OF MICROBIOLOGY

Composition of Bacterial Communities Associated with Aurelia aurita Changes with Compartment, Life Stage, and Population

(2015) Nancy Weiland-Bräuer et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Global diversity and biogeography of deep-sea pelagic prokaryotes

(2015) Guillem Salazar et al.   ISME Journal

Giving microbes their due - animal life in a microbially dominant world

(2015) M. J. McFall-Ngai   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Biodiversity, productivity, and the spatial insurance hypothesis revisited

(2015) David W. Shanafelt et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Comparison of the gut microbiomes of 12 bony fish and 3 shark species

(2015) CE Givens et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Composition and Predictive Functional Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Seawater, Sediment and Sponges in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia

(2015) Daniel F. R. Cleary et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Community assembly of a euryhaline fish microbiome during salinity acclimation

(2015) Victor T. Schmidt et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

(2015) Michael D. J. Lynch et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

(2015) D. J. McCauley et al.   SCIENCE

Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

(2015) S. Sunagawa et al.   SCIENCE

Temporal patterns of rarity provide a more complete view of microbial diversity

(2015) Ashley Shade et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes

(2015) Seth R. Bordenstein et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data

(2015) Stefan Spring et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Estimating and mapping ecological processes influencing microbial community assembly

(2015) James C. Stegen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Resuscitation of the rare biosphere contributes to pulses of ecosystem activity

(2015) Zachary T. Aanderud et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparison of the gut microbiomes of 12 bony fish and 3 shark species

(2015) CE Givens et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Stable Associations Masked by Temporal Variability in the Marine Copepod Microbiome

(2015) Pia H. Moisander et al.   PLoS One

Ecosystem stability in space: α, β and γ variability

(2014) Shaopeng Wang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Amphibian skin may select for rare environmental microbes

(2014) Jenifer B Walke et al.   ISME Journal

Implications of streamlining theory for microbial ecology

(2014) Stephen J Giovannoni et al.   ISME Journal

Host-specificity among abundant and rare taxa in the sponge microbiome

(2014) Julie Reveillaud et al.   ISME Journal

Microbiota of the Major South Atlantic Reef Building Coral Mussismilia

(2014) Samodha C. Fernando et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Composition of Archaea in Seawater, Sediment, and Sponges in the Kepulauan Seribu Reef System, Indonesia

(2014) Ana R. M. Polónia et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Intestinal microbiota in fishes: what's known and what's not

(2014) Kendall D. Clements et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bacterial Community Composition in the Gut Content and Ambient Sediment of Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus Revealed by 16S rRNA Gene Pyrosequencing

(2014) Fei Gao et al.   PLoS One

Microbes ride the current

(2014) S. Giovannoni et al.   SCIENCE

Biogeographic patterns in ocean microbes emerge in a neutral agent-based model

(2014) F. L. Hellweger et al.   SCIENCE

Conditionally Rare Taxa Disproportionately Contribute to Temporal Changes in Microbial Diversity

(2014) A. Shade et al.   mBio

Winter bloom of a rare betaproteobacterium in the Arctic Ocean

(2014) Laura Alonso-Sáez et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Two distinct microbial communities revealed in the sponge Cinachyrella

(2014) Marie L. Cuvelier et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The role of macrobiota in structuring microbial communities along rocky shores

(2014) Catherine A. Pfister et al.   PeerJ

Spatiotemporal distributions of rare bacterioplankton populations indicate adaptive strategies in the oligotrophic ocean

(2013) KL Vergin et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

First insights into the microbiome of a carnivorous sponge

(2013) Samuel Dupont et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Down under the tunic: bacterial biodiversity hotspots and widespread ammonia-oxidizing archaea in coral reef ascidians

(2013) Patrick M Erwin et al.   ISME Journal

Invasion Is a Community Affair: Clandestine Followers in the Bacterial Community Associated to Green Algae, Caulerpa racemosa, Track the Invasion Source

(2013) Tania Aires et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for a persistent microbial seed bank throughout the global ocean

(2013) S. M. Gibbons et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structure of the rare archaeal biosphere and seasonal dynamics of active ecotypes in surface coastal waters

(2013) M. Hugoni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial communities and species-specific associations with the mucus of Brazilian coral species

(2013) Camila Carlos et al.   Scientific Reports

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Changes of bacterioplankton apparent species richness in two ornamental fish aquaria

(2013) Nikolaos Vlahos et al.   SpringerPlus

Resistance and resilience of microbial communities - temporal and spatial insurance against perturbations

(2012) Didier L. Baho et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

‘Sponge-specific’ bacteria are widespread (but rare) in diverse marine environments

(2012) Michael W Taylor et al.   ISME Journal

Macroecological patterns of marine bacteria on a global scale

(2012) Anthony S. Amend et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Pyrosequencing Reveals Diverse and Distinct Sponge-Specific Microbial Communities in Sponges from a Single Geographical Location in Irish Waters

(2012) Stephen A. Jackson et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Marine Microbes See a Sea of Gradients

(2012) R. Stocker   SCIENCE

Linking metacommunity theory and symbiont evolutionary ecology

(2012) Joseph R. Mihaljevic   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The generation and maintenance of diversity in microbial communities

(2011) Noah Fierer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Rare Bacterial Biosphere

(2011) Carlos Pedrós-Alió   Annual Review of Marine Science

Genetic difference but functional similarity among fish gut bacterial communities through molecular and biochemical fingerprints

(2011) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Assessing the complex sponge microbiota: core, variable and species-specific bacterial communities in marine sponges

(2011) Susanne Schmitt et al.   ISME Journal

Effects of resources and food web structure on bacterioplankton production in a tropical humic lagoon

(2011) E. S. Fonte et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Depth attenuation of organic matter export associated with jelly falls

(2011) Mario Lebrato et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy

(2011) Jay T. Lennon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial Diversity of a Brazilian Coastal Region Influenced by an Upwelling System and Anthropogenic Activity

(2011) Juliano C. Cury et al.   PLoS One

Global Patterns of Bacterial Beta-Diversity in Seafloor and Seawater Ecosystems

(2011) Lucie Zinger et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic Diversity, Host-Specificity and Community Profiling of Sponge-Associated Bacteria in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

(2011) Patrick M. Erwin et al.   PLoS One

Activity of abundant and rare bacteria in a coastal ocean

(2011) B. J. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Role of gastrointestinal microbiota in fish

(2010) Sukanta K Nayak   AQUACULTURE RESEARCH

Linkage between crustacean zooplankton and aquatic bacteria

(2010) KW Tang et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

mmSAR: an R-package for multimodel species-area relationship inference

(2010) François Guilhaumon et al.   ECOGRAPHY

General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

(2010) A. Hector et al.   ECOLOGY

Abundance, diversity, and activity of microbial assemblages associated with coral reef fish guts and feces

(2010) Steven Smriga et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Probiotics and immunity: A fish perspective

(2010) S.K. Nayak   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Pyrosequencing reveals highly diverse and species-specific microbial communities in sponges from the Red Sea

(2010) On On Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Composition, uniqueness and variability of the epiphytic bacterial community of the green alga Ulva australis

(2010) Catherine Burke et al.   ISME Journal

Scaling of swim speed in breath-hold divers

(2010) Yuuki Y. Watanabe et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Trade-Offs between Competition and Defense Specialists among Unicellular Planktonic Organisms: the "Killing the Winner" Hypothesis Revisited

(2010) C. Winter et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Water mass-specificity of bacterial communities in the North Atlantic revealed by massively parallel sequencing

(2010) HÉLÈNE AGOGUÉ et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genomic and functional adaptation in surface ocean planktonic prokaryotes

(2010) Shibu Yooseph et al.   NATURE

Threatened Corals Provide Underexplored Microbial Habitats

(2010) Shinichi Sunagawa et al.   PLoS One

Fine-Scale Bacterial Beta Diversity within a Complex Ecosystem (Zodletone Spring, OK, USA): The Role of the Rare Biosphere

(2010) Noha H. Youssef et al.   PLoS One

Bacteria dispersal by hitchhiking on zooplankton

(2010) H.-P. Grossart et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dormancy contributes to the maintenance of microbial diversity

(2010) S. E. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic characterization and in situ detection of bacterial communities associated with seahorses (Hippocampus guttulatus) in captivity

(2010) José L. Balcázar et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

How Microbial Community Composition Regulates Coral Disease Development

(2010) Justin Mao-Jones et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Deep sequencing reveals exceptional diversity and modes of transmission for bacterial sponge symbionts

(2009) Nicole S. Webster et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Hydrocarbon utilization within a diesel-degrading bacterial consortium

(2009) Lena Ciric et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Changes in marine prokaryotic community induced by varying types of dissolved organic matter and subsequent grazing pressure

(2009) L. Alonso-Saez et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Antibacterial Activity of Marine Culturable Bacteria Collected from a Global Sampling of Ocean Surface Waters and Surface Swabs of Marine Organisms

(2009) Lone Gram et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Ecology of the rare microbial biosphere of the Arctic Ocean

(2009) Pierre E. Galand et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The genomic basis of trophic strategy in marine bacteria

(2009) F. M. Lauro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Growth rates of different phylogenetic bacterioplankton groups in a coastal upwelling system

(2009) Eva Teira et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Novelty and Uniqueness Patterns of Rare Members of the Soil Biosphere

(2008) M. S. Elshahed et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Gradients of coastal fish farm effluents and their effect on coral reef microbes

(2008) Melissa Garren et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity rankings among bacterial lineages in soil

(2008) Noha H Youssef et al.   ISME Journal

Diversity and productivity peak at intermediate dispersal rate in evolving metacommunities

(2008) P. A. Venail et al.   NATURE

A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria

(2008) J. A. Fuhrman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA