Marine Group (MG) I (currently known as Thaumarchaeota) and MG II Archaea were first reported over two decades ago. While significant progress has been made on MG I microbiology and ecology, the progress on MG II has been noticeably slower. The common understanding is that while MG I mainly function as chemolithoautotrophs and occur predominantly in the deep ocean, MG II reside mostly in the ph...

Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. 9 Perinatal Research Initiative, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. 10 School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA. 11 University of Connecticut, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. 12 The Rowland Institute at H...

Brucella spp. were isolated from marine mammals for the first time in 1994. Two novel species were later included in the genus; Brucella ceti and Brucella pinnipedialis, with cetaceans and seals as their preferred hosts, respectively. Brucella spp. have since been isolated from a variety of marine mammals. Pathological changes, including lesions of the reproductive organs and associated abortio...

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Heard Island in the Southern Ocean is a biological hotspot that is suffering the effects of climate change. Significant glacier retreat has generated proglacial lagoons, some of which are open to the ocean. We used pyrotag sequencing of SSU rRNA genes and environmental data to characterize microorganisms from two pools adjacent to animal breeding areas, two glacial lagoons and Atlas Cove (marin...

infections of the cerebrospinal shunts and other neurosurgical structures are not uncommon in the clinical practice. these infections are mostly clinical emergencies carrying negative prognostic impacts on the patients as well as spending healthcare resources. the low pathogenicity nature of some implicated pathogens results in minimal physical signs that may complicate the diagnosis and mislea...

Charles H. Wigington, Derek Sonderegger, Corina P.D. Brussaard, 4 Alison Buchan, Jan F. Finke, Jed Fuhrman, Jay T. Lennon, Mathias Middelboe, Curtis A. Suttle, Charles Stock, William H. Wilson, K. Eric Wommack, Steven W. Wilhelm, ∗ and Joshua S. Weitz 14, † 1 School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Northern Arizona Univer...

Pilar Junier,1† Thomas Junier,2 Sheila Podell,3 David R. Sims,4 John C. Detter,4 Athanasios Lykidis,5 Cliff S. Han,4 Nicholas S. Wigginton,1‡ Terry Gaasterland3 and Rizlan Bernier-Latmani1* Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland. Computational Evolutionary Genomics Group, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. Marine ...

They naturally found in coastal, estuarine and marine environment world wide (Letchumanan et al., 2014; Raghunath, 2014). Vibrionaceae have primarily been investigated due to their pathogenic potential to humans and aquatic animals and can be transmitted to humans via infected water or through fecal transmission. Several species of Vibrio have been implicated with disease in fishes (Elhadi et a...

1 Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar and Departamento de Biologia, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, 2 Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia, 3 Zoological Department, University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden, 4 Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America, 5 School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom,...