Pereira, Tiago J Walters, Tina L El-Shaffey, Hisham M Bik, Holly M Frischer, Marc E
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Molecular ecology
Bloom-forming gelatinous zooplankton occur circumglobally and significantly influence the structure of pelagic marine food webs and biogeochemical cycling through interactions with microbial communities. During bloom conditions especially, gelatinous zooplankton are keystone taxa that help determine the fate of primary production, nutrient reminera...
Câmara Dos Reis, Mariana Romac, Sarah Le Gall, Florence Marie, Dominique Frada, Miguel J Koplovitz, Gil Cariou, Thierry Henry, Nicolas de Vargas, Colomban Jeanthon, Christian
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Molecular ecology
Coccolithophores have global ecological and biogeochemical significance as the most important calcifying marine phytoplankton group. The structure and selection of prokaryotic communities associated with the most abundant coccolithophore and bloom-forming species, Emiliania huxleyi, are still poorly known. In this study, we assessed the diversity o...
Navine, Amanda K Paxton, Kristina L Paxton, Eben H Hart, Patrick J Foster, Jeffrey T McInerney, Nancy Fleischer, Robert C Videvall, Elin
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Molecular ecology
Of the estimated 55 Hawaiian honeycreepers (subfamily Carduelinae) only 17 species remain, nine of which the International Union for Conservation of Nature considers endangered. Among the most pressing threats to honeycreeper survival is avian malaria, caused by the introduced blood parasite Plasmodium relictum, which is increasing in distribution ...
van der Loos, Luna M D'hondt, Sofie Engelen, Aschwin H Pavia, Henrik Toth, Gunilla B Willems, Anne Weinberger, Florian De Clerck, Olivier Steinhagen, Sophie
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Molecular ecology
The green seaweed Ulva is a model system to study seaweed-bacteria interactions, but the impact of environmental drivers on the dynamics of these interactions is little understood. In this study, we investigated the stability and variability of the seaweed-associated bacteria across the Atlantic-Baltic Sea salinity gradient. We characterized the ba...
Lu, Jingjing Zhang, Xudong Zhang, Xuan Wang, Linqi Zhao, Ruilin Liu, Xiao Yong Liu, Xinzhan Zhuang, Wenying Chen, Liang Cai, Lei
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Molecular ecology
High-throughput sequencing has substantially improved our understanding of fungal diversity. However, the short read (
Encinas-Viso, Francisco Bovill, Jessica Albrecht, David E Florez-Fernandez, Jaime Lessard, Bryan Lumbers, James Rodriguez, Juanita Schmidt-Lebuhn, Alexander Zwick, Andreas Milla, Liz
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Molecular ecology
Alpine plant-pollinator communities play an important role in the functioning of alpine ecosystems, which are highly threatened by climate change. However, we still have a poor understanding of how environmental factors and spatiotemporal variability shape these communities. Here, we investigate what drives structure and beta diversity in a plant-p...
Andrés, Jose Czechowski, Paul Grey, Erin Saebi, Mandana Andres, Kara Brown, Christopher Chawla, Nitesh Corbett, James J Brys, Rein Cassey, Phillip
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Molecular ecology
The spread of nonindigenous species by shipping is a large and growing global problem that harms coastal ecosystems and economies and may blur coastal biogeographical patterns. This study coupled eukaryotic environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding with dissimilarity regression to test the hypothesis that ship-borne species spread homogenizes port com...
Molina, Lucía Rajchenberg, Mario de Errasti, Andrés Vogel, Braian Coetzee, Martin P A Aime, Mary Catherine Pildain, María Belén
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Molecular ecology
Los bosques del mundo están cada vez más amenazados por las condiciones climáticas alteradas y el aumento de los ataques de plagas y patógenos. Las complejas interacciones ecológicas entre los patógenos, las comunidades microbianas, los árboles hospedantes y el medio ambiente son impulsores importantes de la dinámica forestal. Poco se sabe sobre la...
Hu, Sarah K Smith, Amy R Anderson, Rika E Sylva, Sean P Setzer, Michaela Steadmon, Maria Frank, Kiana L Chan, Eric W Lim, Darlene S S German, Christopher R
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Molecular ecology
Single-celled microbial eukaryotes inhabit deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments and play critical ecological roles in the vent-associated microbial food web. 18S rRNA amplicon sequencing of diffuse venting fluids from four geographically- and geochemically-distinct hydrothermal vent fields was applied to investigate community diversity patterns ...
Lowe, Abigail Jones, Laura Brennan, Georgina Creer, Simon Christie, Lynda de Vere, Natasha
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Molecular ecology
Generalist species are core components of ecological networks and crucial for the maintenance of biodiversity. Generalist species and networks are expected to be more resilient, and therefore understanding the dynamics of specialization and generalization in ecological networks is a key focus in a time of rapid global change. Whilst diet generaliza...
