2016/12/14 by Anders K. Krabberød, MFM Bjorbækmo, Kamran Shalchian‐Tabrizi +1 · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology #Protist diversity and phylogeny #Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.3354/ame01811
openalex publication_date 2016/12/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Our collective awareness of the significance of marine ecosystems has increased steadily during the last 40 yr, progressing in concert with the development of new technologies that have allowed us to dig deeper into the microbial world. A number of key events can be identified from this period, for example the formulation of the microbial-loop concept, the discovery of abundant photoautotrophic (Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus) and heterotrophic (SAR11) pico-sized prokaryotic plankton as well as novel lineages of heterotrophic picoeukaryotes (e.g. MALV and MAST), the recognition of the importance of Archaea in oceanic plankton, the realization that the majority of marine microbes cannot be cultured, the discovery of the rare biosphere and the key role of viruses in oceanic communities (Kirchman 2008).