Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean? Researchers have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in this process. The swirling currents contain large ...

Microbial life thrives in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. Bacteria, archaea, and other microorganisms inhabit ...

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered ...

Indeed, archaea and bacteria appear very similar biologically ... Viruses turn out to be the dominant biological entities on Earth. In the ocean, for example, viral particles outnumber cells ...

The majority of these viruses infect microbes, including bacteria, archaea, and microeukaryotes ... Of all the Earth’s biomes, the ocean has emerged as the source for major discoveries on the ...

All of these autotrophic archaea are microaerophiles or anaerobes. Importantly, 189 partial or complete 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydratase gene sequences were found after searching the Global Ocean ...

archaea. The most complex living things were colonies of microbes such as stromatolites and microbial mats. No plants, no animals, just a barren landscape of rock, river and ocean. The emergence ...

While it was previously known that ocean eddies transport large quantities ... between lipids from phytoplankton, bacteria, and archaea species.” The results of the study showed that the lipid ...

Researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and MARUM - Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in ...