BIOS-SCOPE Publications

Baetge, N., Halsey, K.H., Hanan, E.J., Behrenfeld, M.J., Milligan, A.J., Graff, J.R., Hansen, P., Carlson, C.A., Boiteau, R.M., Arrington, E.C. and Comstock, J., 2025. Pre-existing phytoplankton biomass concentrations shape coastal plankton response to fire-generated ash leachate. Limnology and Oceanography.

Brennan, E., Noell, S., Davis II, E., Giovannoni, S., & Suffridge, C. (Submitted). Whole cell affinity for 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (HMP) of the marine bacterium Candidatus Pelagibacter st. HTCC7211 can explain marine dissolved HMP concentrations. Environmental Microbiology Reports, submitted

English, C. J., Parsons, R., Yongblah, K., Opalk, K., & Carlson, C. A. (2025). Photooxidation removes biologically recalcitrant dissolved organic carbon released by the macroalga Sargassum natans. Limnology and Oceanography Letters10(3), 349-359.

Henderson, L.C., English, C. J., Jeng, D.L., Popendorf, K.J., Carlson, C.A., Close, H.G. (2025) ‘Carbohydrate content controls vertical variations in carbon to nitrogen ratios of organic particles within the euphotic zone in the northwest Sargasso Sea’ Communications Earth & Environment, in press

Jimenez-Thamm, V., Sudek, S., Eckmann, C., Bachy, C., Poirier, C., Wittmers, F., Santoro, A. E., Follows, M. J., Chavez, F. P., & Shilova, I. (2025). Distinct phytoplankton assemblages underlie hotspots of primary production in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography, 70(2), 477-492. 

Padaki, V. G., Mayali, X., Weber, P., Giovannoni, S., Abraham, K., Jacobs, K., Collart, L., & Halsey, K. (Submitted). Volatile Organic Compound Specialists in the Phycosphere. Nature microbiology, submitted. 

Stephens, B. M., Stincone, P., Petras, D., English, C. J., Opalk, K., Giovannoni, S., & Carlson, C. A. (2025). Oxidation state of bioavailable dissolved organic matter influences bacterioplankton respiration and growth efficiency. Communications Biology, 8(1), 145. 

Wolf, S., Jayawickrama, C., Carlson, C.A., Deutsch, C., Davis, E.W., Daniels, B.N., Chan, F. and Giovannoni, S.J., 2025. Microbial carbon oxidation in seawater below the hypoxic threshold. Scientific Reports, 15(1), p.2838.

Zakem, E.J., McNichol, J., Weissman, J.L., Raut, Y., Xu, L., Halewood, E.R., Carlson, C.A., Dutkiewicz, S., Fuhrman, J.A. and Levine, N.M., 2025. Functional biogeography of marine microbial heterotrophs. Science, 388(6749), p.eado5323.

Anderson, S. R., Blanco-Bercial, L., Carlson, C. A., & Harvey, E. L. (2024). Role of Syndiniales parasites in depth-specific networks and carbon flux in the oligotrophic ocean. ISME Communications, 4(1). Doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycae014 

Barth, A., Blanco-Bercial, L., Johnson, R., & Stone, J. (2024). Rhizaria in the oligotrophic ocean exhibit clear temporal and vertical variability. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 212, 104371. 

Bayer, B., Liu, S., Louie, K., Northen, T. R., Wagner, M., Daims, H., Carlson, C. A., & Santoro, A. E. (2024). Metabolite release by nitrifiers facilitates metabolic interactions in the ocean. The ISME journal. Doi: 10.1093/ismejo/wrae172 

Boiteau, R. M., Corilo, Y. E., Kew, W. R., Dewey, C., Alvarez Rodriguez, M. C., Carlson, C. A., & Conway, T. M. (2024). Relating Molecular Properties to the Persistence of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter with Liquid Chromatography–Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(7), 3267-3277.  doi: 10.1021/acs.est.3c08245

Bolaños, L. M., Michelsen, M., & Temperton, B. (2024). Viral chronotypes and their role in shaping seasonal viral dynamics in the Western English Channel. bioRxiv, 2024.2005.2016.594516. doi: 10.1101/2024.05.16.594516 

Carlson, C. A., Liu, S., Stephens, B. M., & English, C. J. (2024). DOM Production, Removal, and Transformation Processes in Marine Systems. In D. A. Hansell & C. A. Carlson (Eds.), Biogeochemistry of marine dissolved organic matter (3rd ed., pp. 137 - 246). Elsevier. Doi: 10.1016/B978-0-443-13858-4.00013-7 

Cohen, N. R., Krinos, A. I., Kell, R. M., Chmiel, R. J., Moran, D. M., McIlvin, M. R., Lopez, P. Z., Barth, A. J., Stone, J. P., Alanis, B. A., Chan, E. W., Breier, J. A., Jakuba, M. V., Johnson, R., Alexander, H., & Saito, M. A. (2024). Microeukaryote metabolism across the western North Atlantic Ocean revealed through autonomous underwater profiling. Nature communications, 15(1), 7325. Doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51583-4 

Comstock, J., Henderson, L. C., Close, H. G., Liu, S., Vergin, K., Worden, A. Z., Wittmers, F., Halewood, E., Giovannoni, S., & Carlson, C. A. (2024). Marine particle size-fractionation indicates organic matter is processed by differing microbial communities on depth-specific particles. ISME Communications, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae090 

Eckmann, C.A., Bachy, C., Wittmers, F., Strauss, J., Blanco-Bercial, L., Vergin, K.L., Parsons, R.J., Kudela, R.M., Johnson, R., Bolaños, L.M. and Giovannoni, S.J., 2024. Recurring seasonality exposes dominant species and niche partitioning strategies of open ocean picoeukaryotic algae. Communications Earth & Environment5(1), p.266 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01395-7

Eigemann, F., Hoffmann, J., Schampera, C., Liu, S., Bolaños, L. M., Heemeyer, M., Carlson, C. A., Giovannoni, S., & Hellweger, F. L. (2024). Emergent ecology in a microscale model of the surface ocean. mBio, 15(11), e02372-02324. https://doi.org/doi:10.1128/mbio.02372-24 

Eigemann, F., Tait, K., Temperton, B., & Hellweger, F. L. (2024). Internal carbon recycling by heterotrophic prokaryotes compensates for mismatches between phytoplankton production and heterotrophic consumption. The ISME journal, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae103 

Freilich, M. A., Poirier, C., Dever, M., Alou-Font, E., Allen, J., Cabornero, A., Sudek, L., Choi, C. J., Ruiz, S., Pascual, A., Farrar, J. T., Johnston, T. M. S., D’Asaro, E. A., Worden, A. Z., & Mahadevan, A. (2024). 3D intrusions transport active surface microbial assemblages to the dark ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(19), e2319937121. https://doi.org/doi:10.1073/pnas.2319937121 

Grone, J., Poirier, C., Abbott, K., Wittmers, F., Jaeger, G. S., Mahadevan, A., & Worden, A. Z. (2024). A single Prochlorococcus ecotype dominates the tropical Bay of Bengal with ultradian growth. Environmental Microbiology, 26(3), e16605. 

Halsey, K. H., Padaki, V. G., & Giovannoni, S. (2024). The volatile organic carbon component of dissolved organic matter in the ocean. In Biogeochemistry of marine dissolved organic matter (pp. 587-612). Elsevier. 

Hansell, D. A., & Carlson, C. A. (Eds.). (2024). Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter (3rd ed.). Elsevier. 

Harbeitner, R. C., Wittmers, F., Yung, C. C., Eckmann, C. A., Hehenberger, E., Blum, M., Needham, D. M., & Worden, A. Z. (2024). Gradients of bacteria in the oceanic water column reveal finely-resolved vertical distributions. PLoS One, 19(4), e0298139. 

Henderson, L., Wittmers, F., Carlson, C. A., Worden, A., & Close, H. (2024). Variable carbon isotope fractionation of photosynthetic communities over depth in an open ocean euphotic zone. PNAS, 121(10), e2304613121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2304613121 

Karthäuser, C., Fucile, P. D., Maas, A. E., Blanco-Bercial, L., Gossner, H., Lowenstein, D. P., Niimi, Y. J., Van Mooy, B. A., Bernhard, J. M., & Buesseler, K. O. (2024). RotoBOD─ Quantifying Oxygen Consumption by Suspended Particles and Organisms. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(20), 8760-8770. 

Longnecker, K., Kido Soule, M. C., & Kujawinski, E. B. (2024). A witches’ brew: dissolved metabolites in seawater. In D. Hansell & C. Carlson (Eds.), Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter, 3rd Edition. Elsevier. 

Longnecker, K., Kido Soule, M. C., Swarr, G. J., Parsons, R. J., Liu, S., Johnson, W. M., Widner, B., Curry, R., Carlson, C. A., & Kujawinski, E. B. (2024). Seasonal and daily patterns in known dissolved metabolites in the northwestern Sargasso Sea. Limnology and Oceanography, 449-466. Doi: 10.1002/lno.12497 

Maas, A. E., Timmins-Schiffman, E., Tarrant, A. M., Nunn, B. L., Park, J., & Blanco-Bercial, L. (2024). Diel metabolic patterns revealed by in situ transcriptome and proteome in a vertically migratory copepod. Molecular Ecology, 33(6), e17284. Doi: 10.1111/mec.17284 

McParland, E. L., Wittmers, F., Bolaños, L. M., Carlson, C. A., Curry, R., Giovannoni, S. J., Michelsen, M., Parsons, R. J., Kido Soule, M. C., Swarr, G. J., Temperton, B., Vergin, K., Worden, A. Z., Longnecker, K., & Kujawinski, E. B. (2024). Seasonal exometabolites are regulated by essential microbial metabolisms in the oligotrophic ocean. bioRxiv, 2024.2003.2005.583599. Doi: 10.1101/2024.03.05.583599v2

Peng, X., Amend, A. S., Baltar, F., Blanco-Bercial, L., Breyer, E., Burgaud, G., Cunliffe, M., Edgcomb, V. P., Grossart, H.-P., Mara, P., Masigol, H., Pang, K.-L., Retter, A., Roberts, C., van Bleijswijk, J., Walker, A. K., & Whitner, S. (2024). Planktonic Marine Fungi: A Review. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129(3), e2023JG007887. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007887

Perhirin, M., Gossner, H., Godfrey, J., Johnson, R., Blanco-Bercial, L., & Ayata, S.-D. (2024). Morphological and taxonomic diversity of mesozooplankton is an important driver of carbon export fluxes in the ocean. Molecular Ecology Resources, 24(2), e13907. Doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13907 

Rao, D., Füssy, Z., Brisbin, M. M., McIlvin, M. R., Moran, D. M., Allen, A. E., Follows, M. J., & Saito, M. A. (2024). Flexible B12 ecophysiology of Phaeocystis antarctica due to a fusion B12–independent methionine synthase with widespread homologues. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(6), e2204075121. 

Saito, M. A., Alexander, H., Benway, H. M., Boyd, P. W., Gledhill, M., Kujawinski, E. B., Levine, N. M., Maheigan, M., Marchetti, A., Obernosterer, I., Santoro, A. E., Shi, D., Suzuki, K., Tagliabue, A., Twining, B. S., & Maldonado, M. T. (2024). The Dawn of the BioGeoSCAPES Program OCEAN METABOLISM AND NUTRIENT CYCLES ON A CHANGING PLANET. Oceanography, 37(2), 162-166. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27309831 

Saito, M. A., Saunders, J. K., McIlvin, M. R., Bertrand, E. M., Breier, J. A., Brisbin, M. M., Colston, S. M., Compton, J. R., Griffin, T. J., Hervey, W. J., Hettich, R. L., Jagtap, P. D., Janech, M., Johnson, R., Keil, R., Kleikamp, H., Leary, D., Martens, L., McCain, J. S. P., . . . Zhao, Z. (2024). Results from a Multi-Laboratory Ocean Metaproteomic Intercomparison: Effects of LC-MS Acquisition and Data Analysis Procedures. EGUsphere, 2024, 1-41. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-3148 

Strauss, J., Chang Jae Choi, Jonathan Grone, Fabian Wittmers, Valeria Jimenez, Kriste Makareviciute-Fichtner, Charles Bachy, Gualtiero Spiro Jaeger, Camille Poirier, Charlotte Eckmann, Rachele Spezzano, Carolin R Löscher, VVSS Sarma, Amala Mahadevan, Alexandra Z Worden (2024). The Bay of Bengal exposes abundant photosynthetic picoplankton and newfound diversity along salinity-driven gradients. Environmental Microbiology; doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.16431

Timmins-Schiffman, E., Maas, A. E., Khanna, R., Blanco-Bercial, L., Huang, E., & Nunn, B. L. (2024). Removal of Exogenous Stimuli Reveals a Canalization of Circadian Physiology in a Vertically Migrating Copepod. Journal of Proteome Research, 23(6), 2112-2123. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.4c00086 

Warwick-Dugdale, J., Tian, F., Michelsen, M. L., Cronin, D. R., Moore, K., Farbos, A., Chittick, L., Bell, A., Zayed, A. A., Buchholz, H. H., Bolanos, L. M., Parsons, R. J., Allen, M. J., Sullivan, M. B., & Temperton, B. (2024). Long-read powered viral metagenomics in the oligotrophic Sargasso Sea. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48300-6

Wilken, S., Yung, C.C., Poirier, C., Massana, R., Jimenez, V., Worden, A.Z. (2024). Choanoflagellates alongside diverse uncultured predatory protists consume the abundant open-ocean cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. PNAS10.1073/pnas.2302388120       

Wittmers, F., Comstock, J., Poirier, C., Needham, D. M., Schulz, F., Malmstrom, R., Carlson, C. A., & Worden, A. Z. (2024). Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean. Current Biology, 34(22), R1133-R1134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.009 

 

 

 

Archontikis, Odysseas A., Millán, J.G., Andruleit, H., Cros, L., Kleijne, A., Heldal, M., Doan-Nhu, H., Winter, A., Blanco-Bercial, L., Young, J.R. (2023). Taxonomy and morphology of Calciopappus curvus sp. nov. (Syracosphaeraceae, Prymnesiophyceae), a novel appendage-bearing coccolithophore. Protist; doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2023.125983

Bayer, B., McBeain, K., Carlson, C. A., & Santoro, A. E. (2023). Carbon content, carbon fixation yield and dissolved organic carbon release from diverse marine nitrifiers. Limnology and Oceanography, 68(1), 84-96. 

Carrión, O., Li, C.-Y., Peng, M., Wang, J., Pohnert, G., Azizah, M., Zhu, X.-Y., Curson, A. R. J., Wang, Q., Walsham, K. S., Zhang, X.-H., Monaco, S., Harvey, J. M., Chen, X.-L., Gao, C., Wang, N., Wang, X.-J., Wang, P., Giovanonni, S. J.,  . Zhang, Y.-Z. (2023). DMSOP-cleaving enzymes are diverse and widely distributed in marine microorganisms. Nature microbiology, 8(12), 2326-2337. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01526-4 

Cox, D. A., Parsons, R. J., Van Mooy, B. A. S. and Valentine, D. L. (2023). Methylphosphonate is utilized by commensal microbiota of macroalgae in the oligotrophic Sargasso Sea. JJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(12).  doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020315

Eckmann, Charlotte A., Jessica S Eberle, Fabian Wittmers, Susanne Wilken, Kristin Bergauer, Camille Lou Poirier, Marguerite Blum, Kriste Makareviciute, Valeria Jimenez, Charles Bachy, Mark J Vermeij, Alexandra Zoe Worden (2023). Eukaryotic algal community composition of tropical environments from solar salterns to the open sea. Frontiers in Marine Science; doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1131351

Johnson, W.M., M. C. Kido Soule, K. Longnecker, M. P. Bhatia, S. J. Hallam, M. W. Lomas and E. B. Kujawinski (2023). Particulate and dissolved metabolite distributions along a latitudinal transect of the western Atlantic Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography; 68(2), 377-393.  doi: 10.1002/lno.12275

Lim, Y., Seo, J.-H., Giovannoni, S. J., Kang, I., & Cho, J.-C. (2023). Cultivation of SAR202 Bacteria from the Ocean. bioRxiv, 2023.2003. 2025.534242. 

Noell, S. E., Brennan, E., Washburn, Q., Davis, E. W., Hellweger, F. L., & Giovannoni, S. J. (2023). Differences in the regulatory strategies of marine oligotrophs and copiotrophs reflect differences in motility. Environmental Microbiology, 25(7), 1265-1280. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16357 

Parsons, R.J., Liu, S., Longnecker, K., Yongblah, K., Johnson, C., Bolaños, L., Comstock, J., Opalk, K., Kido Soule, M.C., Garley, R., Carlson, C.A., Temperton, B. and Bates, N.R. (2023). Suboxic DOM is bioavailable to surface prokaryotes in a simulated overturn of an oxygen minimum zone, Devil’s Hole, Bermuda. Frontiers in Microbiology; doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1287477

Santoferrara, L. F., Qureshi, A., Sher, A., & Blanco‐Bercial, L. (2023). The photic‐aphotic divide is a strong ecological and evolutionary force determining the distribution of ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora) in the ocean. Journal of eukaryotic microbiology, 70(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12976      

Singleton, S. L., Davis, E. W., Arnold, H. K., Daniels, A. M. Y., Brander, S. M., Parsons, R. J., Sharpton, T. J., & Giovannoni, S. J. (2023). Identification of rare microbial colonizers of plastic materials incubated in a coral reef environment. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1259014 

Strauss, J., Choi, C. J., Grone, J., Wittmers, F., Jimenez, V., Makareviciute-Fichtner, K., Bachy, C., Jaeger, G. S., Poirier, C., Eckmann, C., Spezzano, R., Löscher, C. R., Sarma, V. V. S. S., Mahadevan, A., & Worden, A. Z. (2023). The Bay of Bengal exposes abundant photosynthetic picoplankton and newfound diversity along salinity-driven gradients. Environmental Microbiology, 25(11), 2118-2141. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16431                                                                                                                                          
Stephen Noel, Ferdi Hellweger, Ben Temperton, Stephen Giovannoni (2023). A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews; doi: 10.1128/mmbr.00124-22

Villiot, N., Maas, A. E., Poulton, A. J., & Blanco-Bercial, L. (2023). Organic and inorganic nutrients modulate taxonomic diversity and trophic strategies of small eukaryotes in oligotrophic oceans. FEMS microbes, 4, xtac029. 

Wilken, S., Yung, C. C., Poirier, C., Massana, R., Jimenez, V., & Worden, A. Z. (2023a). Choanoflagellates alongside diverse uncultured predatory protists consume the abundant open-ocean cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(27), e2302388120. 

Wilken, S., Yung, C. C. M., Poirier, C., Massana, R., Jimenez, V., & Worden, A. Z. (2023b). Choanoflagellates alongside diverse uncultured predatory protists consume the abundant open-ocean cyanobacterium <i>Prochlorococcus</i>. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(27), e2302388120. https://doi.org/doi:10.1073/pnas.2302388120 

Bachy, C., Hehenberger, E., Ling, Y.-C., Needham, D. M., Strauss, J., Wilken, S., & Worden, A. Z. (2022). Marine Protists: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to their Role in the Marine Microbiome. In (pp. 159-241). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90383-1_4

Bachy, C., Wittmers, F., Muschiol, J., Hamilton, M., Henrissat, B., & Worden, A. Z. (2022). The Land–Sea Connection: Insights Into the Plant Lineage from a Green Algal Perspective. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 73(1), 585-616. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-071921-100530 

Baetge, N., L.M. Bolaños, A.D. Penna, P. Gaube, S. Liu, K. Opalk, J.R. Graff, S. J. Giovannoni, M.J. Behrenfeld, C.A. Carlson. (2022) Bacterioplankton response to physical stratification following deep convection. . Elem Sci Anth, 10(1), 00078 doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00078

*Bayer, B., et al. (2022). “Carbon content, carbon fixation yield and dissolved organic carbon release from diverse marine nitrifiers.” bioRxivLimnology and Oceanography.

Blanco-Bercial, L., Parsons, R., Bolaños, L. M., Johnson, R., Giovannoni, S. J., & Curry, R. (2022). The protist community traces seasonality and mesoscale hydrographic features in the oligotrophic Sargasso Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.897140 

Bolaños LM, Tait K, Somerfield PJ, Parsons RJ, Giovannoni SJ, Smyth T, Temperton B. (2022). Influence of short and long-term processes on SAR11 communities in open ocean and coastal systems. ISME Communications, 2(1).  bioRxiv:2022.06.17.496560. DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.17.496560.

Buchholz HH, Bolaños LM, Bell AG, Michelsen ML, Allen MJ, Temperton B. (2022). Pelagibacter phage Skadi – An abundant polar specialist that exemplifies ecotypic niche specificity among the most abundant viruses on Earth. bioRxiv:2022.08.10.503363. DOI: 10.1101/2022.08.10.503363.

Buchholz HH, Bolaños LM, Bell AG, Michelsen ML, Allen MJ, Temperton B. (2022). A Novel and Ubiquitous Marine Methylophage Provides Insights into Viral-Host Coevolution and Possible Host-Range Expansion in Streamlined Marine Heterotrophic Bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(7), e00255-00222. Doi: 88:e0025522.

Comstock, J., et al. “Bacterioplankton communities reveal horizontal and vertical influence of an Island Mass Effect.” Environmental Microbiology 24(9): 4193-4208. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16092

Halewood, E., Opalk, K., Custals, L., Carey, M., Hansell, D. A., & Carlson, C. A. (2022). Determination of dissolved organic carbon and total dissolved nitrogen in seawater using High Temperature Combustion Analysis [Methods]. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9:1061646. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1061646 

Moore, E., Eric Moore, Alec Weaver, Edward Davis, Stephen Giovannoni, and Kimberly Halsey (2022).  Metabolism of key atmospheric volatile organic compounds by the marine heterotrophic bacterium Pelagibacter HTCC1062 (SAR11). mBio; doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15837      

Blanco-Bercial, L., R. Parsons, L.M. Bolaños, R. Johnson, G. Giovannoni, R. Curry (2022) The protist community traces seasonality and mesoscale hydrographic features in the oligotrophic Sargasso Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science; doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.897140

Bõlanos, L, Tait K, Somerfield PJ, Parsons RJ, Giovannoni SJ, Smyth T, Temperton B. (2022)  Influence of short and long–term processes on SAR11 communities in open ocean and coastal systems. ISME Commshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-022-00198-1

Buchholz HH, Bolaños LM, Bell AG, Michelsen ML, Allen MJ, Temperton B (2022) Pelagibacter phage Skadi – An abundant polar specialist that exemplifies ecotypic niche specificity among the most abundant viruses on Earth. ISME.

Buchholz, H. H., Luis M. Bolaños, Ashley G. Bell, Michelle L. Michelsen, Michael J. Allen, Ben Temperton (2022). A Novel and Ubiquitous Marine Methylophage Provides Insights into Viral-Host Coevolution and Possible Host-Range Expansion in Streamlined Marine Heterotrophic Bacteria. Appl. Env. Micro; doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00255-22

Liu, S, K. Longnecker, E.B. Kujawinski, K. Verginc, LM. Bolaños, S Giovannoni, R Parsons, K Opalk, E Halewood, DA. Hansell, R Johnson, R Curry, CA. Carlson (2022) Linkage between dissolved organic matter export, dissolved metabolites and associated microbial community structure response in the northwestern Sargasso Sea on the seasonal scale. Frontiers; doi: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.833252/full                       

Wittmers, F., Wittmers F., D.M. Needham, E. Hehenberger, S.J. Giovannoni, A.Z. Worden (2022). Genomes from Uncultivated Pelagiphages Reveal Multiple Phylogenetic Clades Exhibiting Extensive Auxiliary Metabolic Genes and Cross-Family Multigene Transfers. mSystems; doi; https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/msystems.01522-21

Johnson, W. M., M. C. Kido Soule, K. Longnecker, M. P. Bhatia, S. J. Hallam, M. W. Lomas and E. B. Kujawinski (revision submitted, September 2022). Insights into the controls on metabolite distributions along a latitudinal transect of the western Atlantic Ocean. bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.09.434501 Limnology and Oceanography.

*Lee, C.P., L.P. Collart, K.H. Halsey and S.J. Giovannoni. Quantitative seawater arsenic speciation by proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry. In Review.

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Wittmers, F., Needham, D. M., Hehenberger, E., Giovannoni, S. J., & Worden, A. Z. (2022). Genomes from uncultivated pelagiphages reveal multiple phylogenetic clades exhibiting extensive auxiliary metabolic genes and cross-family multigene transfers. Msystems, 7(5), e01522-01521. 

 

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