Efficient degradation of fucoidans depends on complementary bacterial guilds that cooperatively break backbone and side-chain sugars, revealing a conserved, globally relevant mechanism that shapes mar...

Understanding carbon cycling requires simplifying bacterial diversity into functional groups defined by genetic signatures.

Here the authors review current understanding of the mechanistic marine microbial interactions that underpin large-scale ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycling.

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In natural environments, bacteria often encounter low concentrations of nutrient mixtures that are continuously replenished by physical processes s...

Limiting phosphate concentrations could be a strategy to protect and sequester carbon dioxide as fucoidan, a polysaccharide produced by marine algae.

Abstract. Microbial community assembly is governed by the flow of carbon sources and other primary metabolites between species. However, central metabolism

Cross-feeding of small metabolites is known to drive carbon exchange among microbial species, but the role of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) has been poorly understood. This study shows that...

Conjugation accelerates bacterial evolution by enabling bacteria to acquire genes horizontally from their neighbors. Plasmid donors must physically...

The Luo Lab is accepting applications for funded Postdoc and PhD opportunities. Details below. Lab members will have access to state-of-the art wet lab, and computing, and sequencing resources, inclu...

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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Abstract. From the perspective of a marine copiotrophic bacterium, the surface ocean is a mosaic of exploitable hotspots of organic matter released from li

Marine bacteria opt for divergent foraging strategies when faced with carbon starvation—either cease motility entirely, or convert biomass to energy to retain motility.