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David Needham

@animalkewls.bsky.social
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Marine microbial ecologist, needhamgroup.de

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David Needham @animalkewls.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
add this one to the list of valuable uses of the universal 16S and 18S primers 🤯 @taylorpriest.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Microbial and small zooplankton communities predict density of baleen whales in the southern California Current Ecosystem
Understanding the distribution and abundance of marine mammals is important for assessing population dynamics and evaluating the impacts of human activities on these species. Here, we assessed the cap...
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David Needham @animalkewls.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
in case you missed it, our recent publication on nitrifier distribution, dynamics, and cultivation of AOA from the baltic sea...we and others are currently trying to understand the controls and implications
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David Needham @animalkewls.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy New Year! 🎉 Check out our recent paper describing a seawater microvolume approach for generating amplicon & metagenome data 🧬, enabling high-throughput workflows 🚀. Amplicon results closely match traditional filtration-based methods, & we recover high-quality prokaryotic & viral genomes.👇
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David Needham @animalkewls.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🚨 In case you missed it… our 4-year time-series analysis of Arctic Ocean viruses is out now! Near-monthly samples — including through the dark, cold, polar winter ❄️ — using long-read metagenomics. Short thread 🧵👇
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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Our new perspective paper just out @natecoevo.nature.com Led by Kevin J. Flynn and based on a community effort. More realistic #plankton simulation models will improve projections of #ocean #ecosystem responses to global change. @ueaenv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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More realistic plankton simulation models will improve projections of ocean ecosystem responses to global change - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Plankton models have crucial applications in ecosystem management and climate change projections. This Perspective suggests that stronger alignment of plankton models with empirical knowledge is neede...
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
With a little help from my friends: importance of protist-protist interactions in structuring marine protistan communities in the San Pedro Channel #usc_meb #ResearchAtUSC journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊
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