Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...

Plankton refers to all organisms suspended in all types of waters (oceans, lakes, rivers and even groundwaters), including viruses, bacteria, insects, larval fish and jellyfish. Plankton come in many ...

A new study published in Nature Geoscience has revealed that the global ocean's chemical makeup is undergoing a ...

The first large-scale mapping of genomes of bacterial plankton in the Baltic Sea shows that the bacterias' closest relatives are not found in oceans or freshwater lakes, but in other brackish ...

How plankton and bacteria shape ocean spray Date: May 11, 2017 Source: Cell Press Summary: As the oceans ebb and flow, the resulting waves and splashes form tiny bubbles.The bubbles burst and ...

The use of genetic evidence to find bacteria that could convert nitrogen to nutrients is “really cool,” says Tracy A. Villareal, a biological oceanographer at the University of Texas’ Marine ...

A team of ocean researchers has uncovered a series of complicated relationships among marine microbes, and these relationships appear to have critical consequences for coastal Southern Ocean food webs ...

Bacterial production was generally not affected by allelochemicals, but bacteria showed higher net growth in all food webs when allelochemicals were added, whereas heterotrophic nanoflagellates > 7 μm ...

Since copepods feed on phytoplankton, the proliferation of phytoplankton may increase the number of cholera bacteria," says principal investigator Shafiqul Islam, member of an interdisciplinary ...