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Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
Research on how bacteria and archaea interact with other members of the plankton food-web is much more advanced in #ocean systems compared to freshwaters, but still very much unknown. They are food, but we also know of many cases of apparent symbiosis between #bacteria and organisms, with bacteria providing bioluminescence, energy via photosynthesis, or B vitamins, but how common is this? Read about the mission here. #science #ClimateChange

https://fondationtaraocean.org/en/scientific-news/the-plankton-paradox-unprecedented-cooperationbetween-bacteria-in-the-ocean/


Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐

#Copepod #zooplankton are the most numerous metazoans on the planet, and some have evolved into fantastical forms. Take Calocalanus pavo, the beautiful "peacock copepod", which has amazingly plumed antenna and caudal rami. It is small, ~1mm long, and uses the plumes to slow its sinking for feeding in the upper #ocean. It is famous for being very prominent in Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904) plate 54 #watercolour paintings of copepoda.
#science #art


So sorry to hear that the quite wonderful Hakai Magazine will shut down at the end of the year.

https://hakaimagazine.com/

A great privilege to read and even contribute to this excellent publication about science and societies on coasts around the world.

@hakaimagazine @HakaiInstitute #ocean #harbor #marine #coast


We know so little of the hidden world beneath the seas. This is a perfect example of why it is so risky to just power ahead and start mining our oceans.

#environment #ocean

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo



Globally occurring pelagiphage infections create ribosome-deprived cells

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48172-w

#viruses #marine #ocean


https://phys.org/news/2024-04-team-potentially-deep-sea-species.html
So cool!
#Science
#Ocean
Great pics of new ocean species recently discovered!


Sun Setting
By John Connolly ©

#art #ocean #sunset


Endless Days
By Ann Marie Bone ©

IG: @annmariebone

#art #ocean


It's humpback🐋 season but the only one I've seen so far this year was a glimpse from a plane last week.

Calm mornings are a good time to see them though.

(There is a fishing boat heading out in this photo.)

#Hawaii #whales #ocean


Rovinj Zachod Stinka Li
By Katarzyna Sikorska ©

#art #ocean


Daily turnover of active giant virus infection during algal blooms revealed by single-cell transcriptomics

"A consistent percent of infected coccolithophores displayed the early phase of viral replication for several consecutive days, indicating a daily turnover and continuous virocell-associated metabolite production, potentially affecting the surrounding microbiome"

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adf7971

#viruses #algae #HAB #ocean #marine #virology


Happy to share our latest paper, in which we examined the timing at which different microbial groups colonized the ocean!

The first author (Carolina Martinez) is starting her lab at UC Santa Barbara in 2024 and is looking to recruit postdocs and PhD students, so if this looks interesting to you, please reach out to her!

A timeline of bacterial and archaeal diversification in the ocean

https://elifesciences.org/articles/88268

#microbiology #ocean #marine #evolution


Contrasting drivers of abundant phage and prokaryotic communities revealed in diverse coastal ecosystems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00333-6

#marine #viruses #phages #ocean #microbiology #virology


Kratosvirus quantuckense: the history and novelty of an algal bloom disrupting virus and a model for giant virus research

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1284617

#viruses #marine #ocean #HAB #GiantViruses


Marine #microorganisms are crucial for #ocean health.

#Bacteria, #archaea, #fungi, #algae and #viruses make up most of the biomass in the seas and form the base of marine food webs.

They support nutrient cycling and drive crucial biogeochemical processes, including key steps in the carbon, nitrogen and silicon cycles.

Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account.

#biology #ecology #oceans
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03425-4


Nice study on polar giant viruses!

Genomic adaptation of giant viruses in polar oceans

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41910-6

#viruses #GiantViruses #virology #oceanography #marine #ocean #polar


I'm in Appledore in Devon, to give a talk later about Blue Machine and I've just discovered that they have a KNITTED OCEAN outside their church. And this is the Best Thing Ever.

#science #knitting #ocean


Top abundant deep ocean heterotrophic bacteria can be retrieved by cultivation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00290-0

#microbiology #marine #ocean #DeepBiosphere


Phylogenetic diversity and functional potential of large and cell-associated viruses in the Bay of Bengal

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.17.548743v1

#viruses #ecology #marine #ocean #giantViruses


Hoping to see some new #science folks exploring Mastodon so figured it’s time for another #introduction - I’m Mya, a professor at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. Our lab studies #microbes (bacteria, viruses, protists) in the oceans and other environments and also works on #fish egg identification. I also post about my cute dog and cat a lot! #USFCMS #ocean #marine #oceanography #microbiology #virology #research #seagrass #urchin #academia


Teamwork makes the dream work - another amazing week of sea #urchin and #coral experiments #USFCMS #Science #ocean #reef


Happy to share a collaborative preprint with Assaf Vardi's group in which we use single cell transcriptomics to link giant viruses with their native hosts during a marine algal bloom!

This approach is quite sensitive - we were able to identify viruses infecting one protist group that made up <0.5% of the community.

Homing in on the rare virosphere reveals the native host of giant viruses

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.27.546645v1

#viruses #giantViruses #ocean #marine


My first "reviewed preprint" on @eLife !

A Timeline of Bacterial and Archaeal Diversification in the Ocean

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/88268

Lots of hard work from former PhD student in my lab Carolina Martinez. Part of a collaboration with @pseudacris

We are enjoying the new process so far and working on revisions to address some of the concerns raised by reviewers.

#ocean #marine #microbiology #evolution #ecology


Our latest work on marine giant virus diversity -

Assessing the biogeography of marine giant viruses in four oceanic transects

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00252-6

#viruses #marine #ocean #giantviruses


Hello from RV #atlantic in the South #Atlantic #Ocean ! We’ve been sailing a week already but I haven’t got around to posting anything before now. Here’s the beautiful ending of a pre-dawn multinet cast this morning to collect #plankton and other particles from the upper kilometre of the water column


Wonderful essay by @vincentflora and Assaf Vardi on viruses in the ocean

Viral infection in the ocean—A journey across scales

"Aquatic virology tackles some of the most challenging questions in microbial ecology and oceanography, trying to understand how microorganisms that are invisible to the naked eye can influence large-scale processes, such as biogeochemical cycles, or affect entire marine food webs."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001966

#viruses #virology #ocean #marine


Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the #ocean. In this #PLOSBiology Essay, @vincentflora @vardilab discuss interactions between hosts and #viruses in the ocean and their relevance for global ocean ecosystem function in a changing climate.
https://plos.io/3kJcjDY

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