aquatic microbiology
Research Article | Applied and Environmental ScienceRandomized Lasso Links Microbial Taxa with Aquatic Functional Groups Inferred from Flow CytometryA major goal in microbial ecology is to understand how microbial community structure influences ecosystem functioning. Various methods to directly associate bacterial taxa to functional groups in the environment are being developed. In this study, we applied machine learning methods to relate taxonomic data obtained from marker gene surveys to functional groups identified by flow cytometry. This allowed us to identify the taxa that are...
Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary ScienceReevaluating the Salty Divide: Phylogenetic Specificity of Transitions between Marine and Freshwater SystemsThe distribution of microbial diversity across environments yields insight into processes that create and maintain this diversity as well as potential to infer how communities will respond to future environmental changes. We integrated data sets from dozens of freshwater lake and marine samples to compare diversity across open water habitats differing in salinity. Our novel combination of sequence-based approaches revealed lineages that...