In the May 22, 2015 issue of Science magazine, several articles (including the editorial, research papers, and perspectives) were published on the Tara Oceans Project and studies related to ocean microbes [1–8]. This represents truly a milestone for studies in both ocean ecology and microbial communities. As stated on the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) website (http://www.embl.de/...

Colomban de Vargas,*† Stéphane Audic,† Nicolas Henry,† Johan Decelle,† Frédéric Mahé,† Ramiro Logares, Enrique Lara, Cédric Berney, Noan Le Bescot, Ian Probert, Margaux Carmichael, Julie Poulain, Sarah Romac, Sébastien Colin, Jean-Marc Aury, Lucie Bittner, Samuel Chaffron, Micah Dunthorn, Stefan Engelen, Olga Flegontova, Lionel Guidi, Aleš Horák, Olivier Jaillon, Gipsi Lima-Mendez, Julius Lukeš...

Plankton communities play a key role in the marine food web and are expected to be highly sensitive to ongoing environmental change. Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) causes pronounced shifts in marine carbonate chemistry and a decrease in seawater pH. These changes-summarized by the term ocean acidification (OA)-can significantly affect the physiology of planktonic organisms...

Andrew D. Barton,* Andrew J. Pershing, Elena Litchman, Nicholas R. Record, Kyle F. Edwards, Zoe V. Finkel, Thomas Kiørboe, and Ben A. Ward Abstract Changes in marine plankton communities driven by environmental variability impact the marine food web and global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and other elements. To predict and assess these community shifts and their consequences, ecologists are ...

Some of the most data depauperate eukaryotic lineages live in the ocean and many plankton are known only from environmental sequences. A recent study adds two novel plastid lineages to our expanding understanding of marine biodiversity.

Mesoscale circulation generated by the Loop Current in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM) delivers growth-limiting nutrients to the microbial plankton of the euphotic zone. Consequences of physicochemically driven community shifts on higher order consumers and subsequent impacts on the biological carbon pump remain poorly understood. This study evaluates microbial plankton <10 μm abundance and ...

Planktonic eukaryotes are important components of aquatic ecosystems, and analyses the whole eukaryotic planktonic community composition function have far-reaching significance for water resource management. We aimed to understand spatiotemporal variation drivers plankton distribution in Middle Route Project South-to-North Water Diversion Henan Province, China. Specifically, we examined assembl...

The smallest size fractions of plankton, nano- and pico-plankton, have been highlighted due to they accomplish key functions in marine ecosystems. However, the knowledge about some them is scarce because are difficult or impossible be detected identified with non-DNA-based methodologies. Here we evaluated five DNA extraction protocols (MT1–MT5) seven bioinformatic pipelines (P1–P7) find best pr...

Citation: Bergo NM, Signori CN, Amado AM, Brandini FP and Pellizari VH (2017) The Partitioning of Carbon Biomass among the Picoand Nano-plankton Community in the South Brazilian Bight during a Strong Summer Intrusion of South Atlantic Central Water. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:238. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00238 The Partitioning of Carbon Biomass among the Picoand Nano-plankton Community in the South Bra...