Abstract. Microbial communities are often more species-rich than predicted from classical ecological models. The high levels of coexistence observed in nat

Marine microbes which lack catalases, like Prochlorococcus, depend on ‘helpers’, like catalase-positive Alteromonas, for hydrogen peroxide detoxification. Our results indicate diverse and distinct di...

Microbes might behave less like distinct species and more like constantly interbreeding communities.

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

The tiny and enormously abundant marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus contains many levels of population structure, with sequenced isolates spanning four orders of magnitude of diversity. It ...