Francesco Mattei, Anna E. Hickman, Julia Uitz, Louison Dufour, Vincenzo Vellucci, Laurence Garczarek, Frédéric Partensky, Stephanie Dutkiewicz (2025), Chromatic acclimation shapes phytoplankton biogeography, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adr9609 Continue reading Chromatic acclimation shapes phytoplankton biogeography
Category Archives: Research
Alexandra E. Jones-Kellett, Jesse C. McNichol, Yubin Raut, Kelsy R. Cain, François Ribalet, E. Virginia Armbrust, Michael J. Follows, and Jed A. Fuhrman (2024), Amplicon Sequencing with Internal Standards Yields Accurate Picocyanobacteria Cell Abundances as Validated with Flow Cytometry, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycae115 Continue reading Amplicon Sequencing with Internal Standards Yields Accurate Picocyanobacteria Cell Abundances as Validated with Flow Cytometry
Study: Weaker ocean circulation could enhance CO2 buildup in the atmosphere
New findings challenge current thinking on the ocean’s role in storing carbon. Continue reading Study: Weaker ocean circulation could enhance CO2 buildup in the atmosphere
Vitamin B12 adaptability in Antarctic algae has implications for climate change
Vitamin B12 deficiency in people can cause a slew of health problems and even become fatal. Until now, the same deficiencies were thought to impact certain types of algae, as well. A new study led by former MIT CBIOMES postdoc Deepa Rao examined the algae Phaeocystis antarctica’s (P. antarctica) exposure to a matrix of iron and vitamin B12 conditions. Results show that this algae can survive without B12, something that computer analysis of genome sequences had incorrectly indicated. Continue reading Vitamin B12 adaptability in Antarctic algae has implications for climate change
Stephanie I. Anderson, Clara Fronda, Andrew D. Barton, Sophie Clayton, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Stephanie Dutkiewicz (2023), Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean, Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.17093 Continue reading Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean
Enrico Ser-Giacomi, Ricardo Martinez-Garcia, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, and Michael J. Follows (2023), A Lagrangian model for drifting ecosystems reveals heterogeneity-driven enhancement of marine plankton blooms, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41469-2 Continue reading A Lagrangian model for drifting ecosystems reveals heterogeneity-driven enhancement of marine plankton blooms
The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of climate change
The color changes reflect significant shifts in essential marine ecosystems. Continue reading The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of climate change
Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles
A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin. Continue reading Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles
Niall McGinty, Andrew J. Irwin, Zoe V. Finkel and Stephanie Dutkiewicz (2023), Using ecological partitions to assess zooplankton biogeography and seasonality, Front. Mar. Res., doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.989770 Continue reading Using ecological partitions to assess zooplankton biogeography and seasonality
C. Bertin, D. Carroll, D. Menemenlis, S. Dutkiewicz, H. Zhang, A. Matsuoka, S. Tank, M. Manizza, C. E. Miller, M. Babin, A. Mangin, V. Le Fouest (2023), Biogeochemical River Runoff Drives Intense Coastal Arctic Ocean CO2 Outgassing, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2022GL102377 Continue reading Biogeochemical River Runoff Drives Intense Coastal Arctic Ocean CO2 Outgassing