NPG Library
Below is a selection of recent Research highlights, News and views, Reviews, Perspectives and Research articles published by Nature Publishing Group on the topic of marine microbiology.
Research highlights
Proteorhodopsins tune in
Sheilagh Molloy
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1686
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 396-397 (2007)
Microbial physiology: The power of light
Susan Jones
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1648
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 244-245 (2007)
A global marine viral metagenome
Edward Wawrzynczak
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1582
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 6-7 (2007)
A global unculture...
David O'Connell
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1435
Nature Reviews Microbiology 4, 418-419 (2006)
Illuminating research
Sheilagh Molloy
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1279
Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, 744 (2005)
Down in the depths
Sheilagh Molloy
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1220
Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, 582 (2005)
Viral genomics: Small is beautiful
David O'Connell
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1196
Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, 520 (2005)
Sediments alive!
Susan Jones
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1135
Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, 274 (2005)
News and Views
Therapeutic treasures from the deep
David A Hopwood
doi:10.1038/nchembio0807-457
Nature Chemical Biology 3, 457-458 (2007) FREE ACCESS
Genomics: Blueprints for partnerships
David A. Stahl & Seana K. Davidson
doi:10.1038/nature05208
Nature 443, 925-927 (2006) FREE ACCESS
Environmental science: Germ theory for ailing corals
Stephen R. Palumbi
doi:10.1038/434713a
Nature 434, 713-715 (2005) FREE ACCESS
Reviews
Colorful niches of phototrophic microorganisms shaped by vibrations of the water molecule
Maayke Stomp, Jef Huisman, Lucas J Stal1, and Hans C P Matthijs
doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.59
The ISME Journal 1, 271–282 (2007) FREE ACCESS
The role of microorganisms in coral health, disease and evolution
Eugene Rosenberg, Omry Koren, Leah Reshef, Rotem Efrony & Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1635
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 355-362 (2007)
Distribution, diversity and ecology of aerobic CO-oxidizing bacteria
Gary M. King & Carolyn F. Weber
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1595
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 107-118 (2007) FREE ACCESS
The versatile 
-proteobacteria: key players in sulphidic habitats
Barbara J. Campbell, Annette Summers Engel, Megan L. Porter & Ken Takai
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1414
Nature Reviews Microbiology 4, 458-468 (2006)
Cold-adapted archaea
Ricardo Cavicchioli
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1390
Nature Reviews Microbiology 4, 331-343 (2006)
Marine microorganisms make a meal of oil
Ian M. Head, D. Martin Jones & Wilfred F. M. Röling
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1348
Nature Reviews Microbiology 4, 173-182 (2006)
Metagenomics: DNA sequencing of environmental samples
Susannah Green Tringe & Edward M. Rubin
doi:10.1038/nrg1709
Nature Reviews Genetics 6, 805-814 (2005)
Genomic perspectives in microbial oceanography
Edward F. DeLong & David M. Karl
doi:10.1038/nature04157
Nature 437, 336-342 (2005)
Molecular diversity and ecology of microbial plankton
Stephen J. Giovannoni & Ulrich Stingl
doi:10.1038/nature04158
Nature 437, 343-348 (2005)
Marine microorganisms and global nutrient cycles
Kevin R. Arrigo
doi:10.1038/nature04159
Nature 437, 349-355 (2005)
Predation on prokaryotes in the water column and its ecological implications
Jakob Pernthaler
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1180
Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, 537-546 (2005) FREE ACCESS
Microbial community genomics in the ocean
Edward F. DeLong
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1158
Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, 459-469 (2005) FREE ACCESS
Perspectives
Developing a new resource for drug discovery: marine actinomycete bacteria
William Fenical & Paul R Jensen
doi:10.1038/nchembio841
Nature Chemical Biology 2, 666-673 (2006)
Viral metagenomics
Robert A. Edwards & Forest Rohwer
doi:10.1038/nrmicro1163
Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, 504-510 (2005) FREE ACCESS
Research articles
Fosmids of novel marine Planctomycetes from the Namibian and Oregon coast upwelling systems and their cross-comparison with planctomycete genomes
Dagmar Woebken, Hanno Teeling, Patricia Wecker, Alexandra Dumitriu, Ivaylo Kostadinov, Edward F DeLong, Rudolf Amann and Frank O Glöckner
doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.63
The ISME Journal 1, 419–435 (2007) FREE ACCESS
Biological and chemical sulfide oxidation in a Beggiatoa inhabited marine sediment
André Preisler, Dirk de Beer, Anna Lichtschlag, Gaute Lavik, Antje Boetius and Bo Barker Jřrgensen
doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.50
The ISME Journal 1, 341–353 (2007) FREE ACCESS
Improvements of high-throughput culturing yielded novel SAR11 strains and other abundant marine bacteria from the Oregon coast and the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series study site
Ulrich Stingl, Harry James Tripp and Stephen J Giovannoni
doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.49
The ISME Journal 1, 361–371 (2007) FREE ACCESS
Is there a cost of virus resistance in marine cyanobacteria?
Jay T Lennon, Sameed Ahmed M Khatana, Marcia F Marston, Jennifer B H Martiny
doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.37
The ISME Journal 1, 300-312 (2007) FREE ACCESS
Synchrony in aquatic microbial community dynamics
Angela D Kent, Anthony C Yannarell, James A Rusak, Eric W Triplett, Katherine D McMahon, Dr KD McMahon
doi:10.1038/nature05381
The ISME Journal 1, 38-47 (2007) FREE ACCESS
Adaptation and spectral tuning in divergent marine proteorhodopsins from the eastern Mediterranean and the Sargasso Seas
Gazalah Sabeh, Benjamin C Kirkup, Mira Rozenberg1, Noga Stambler, Martin F Polz and Oded Béjŕ
doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.10
The ISME Journal 1, 48-55 (2007) FREE ACCESS
Diazotrophic bacterioplankton in a coral reef lagoon: phylogeny, diel nitrogenase expression and response to phosphate enrichment
Ian Hewson, Pia H Moisander, Amanda E Morrison, Jonathan P Zehr, Dr I Hewson
doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.5
The ISME Journal 1, 78-91 (2007) FREE ACCESS
Light stimulates growth of proteorhodopsin-containing marine Flavobacteria
Laura Gómez-Consarnau, José M. González, Montserrat Coll-Lladó, Pontus Gourdon, Torbjörn Pascher, Richard Neutze, Carlos Pedrós-Alió & Jarone Pinhassi
doi:10.1038/nature05381
Nature 445, 210-213 (2007) FREE ACCESS
Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as a methane sink
Helge Niemann, Tina Lösekann, Dirk de Beer, Marcus Elvert, Thierry Nadalig, Katrin Knittel, Rudolf Amann, Eberhard J. Sauter, Michael Schlüter, Michael Klages, Jean Paul Foucher & Antje Boetius
doi:10.1038/nature05227
Nature 443, 854-858 (2006)
Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium
Tanja Woyke, Hanno Teeling, Natalia N. Ivanova, Marcel Huntemann, Michael Richter, Frank Oliver Gloeckner, Dario Boffelli, Iain J. Anderson, Kerrie W. Barry, Harris J. Shapiro, Ernest Szeto, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Marc Mussmann, Rudolf Amann, Claudia Bergin, Caroline Ruehland, Edward M. Rubin & Nicole Dubilier
doi:10.1038/nature05192
Nature 443, 950-955 (2006)
Evidence for complete denitrification in a benthic foraminifer
Nils Risgaard-Petersen, Alexandra M. Langezaal, Signe Ingvardsen, Markus C. Schmid, Mike S. M. Jetten, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Jan W. M. Derksen, Elisa Piña-Ochoa, Susanne P. Eriksson, Lars Peter Nielsen, Niels Peter Revsbech, Tomas Cedhagen & Gijsbert J. van der Zwaan
doi:10.1038/nature05070
Nature 443, 93-96 (2006)
Genome sequence of the ubiquitous hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis
Susanne Schneiker, Vítor AP Martins dos Santos, Daniela Bartels, Thomas Bekel, Martina Brecht, Jens Buhrmester, Tatyana N Chernikova, Renata Denaro, Manuel Ferrer, Christoph Gertler, Alexander Goesmann, Olga V Golyshina, Filip Kaminski, Amit N Khachane, Siegmund Lang, Burkhard Linke, Alice C McHardy, Folker Meyer, Taras Nechitaylo, Alfred Pühler, Daniela Regenhardt, Oliver Rupp, Julia S Sabirova, Werner Selbitschka, Michail M Yakimov, Kenneth N Timmis, Frank-Jörg Vorhölter, Stefan Weidner, Olaf Kaiser & Peter N Golyshin
doi:10.1038/nbt1232
Nature Biotechnology 24, 997-1004 (2006)
Stratified prokaryote network in the oxic–anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline
Daniele Daffonchio, Sara Borin, Tullio Brusa, Lorenzo Brusetti, Paul W. J. J. van der Wielen, Henk Bolhuis, Michail M. Yakimov, Giuseppe D'Auria, Laura Giuliano, Danielle Marty, Christian Tamburini, Terry J. McGenity, John E. Hallsworth, Andrea M. Sass, Kenneth N. Timmis, Anastasios Tselepides, Gert J. de Lange, Andreas Hübner, John Thomson, Soterios P. Varnavas, Francesco Gasparoni, Hans W. Gerber, Elisa Malinverno, Cesare Corselli & Biodeep Scientific Party
doi:10.1038/nature04418
Nature 440, 203-207 (2006)
An acidic protein aligns magnetosomes along a filamentous structure in magnetotactic bacteria
André Scheffel, Manuela Gruska, Damien Faivre, Alexandros Linaroudis, Jürgen M. Plitzko & Dirk Schüler
doi:10.1038/nature04382
Nature 440, 110-114 (2006)
Proteorhodopsin lateral gene transfer between marine planktonic Bacteria and Archaea
Niels-Ulrik Frigaard, Asuncion Martinez, Tracy J. Mincer & Edward F. DeLong
doi:10.1038/nature04435
Nature 439, 847-850 (2006)
Proteorhodopsin in the ubiquitous marine bacterium SAR11
Stephen J. Giovannoni, Lisa Bibbs, Jang-Cheon Cho, Martha D. Stapels, Russell Desiderio, Kevin L. Vergin, Michael S. Rappé, Samuel Laney, Lawrence J. Wilhelm, H. James Tripp, Eric J. Mathur & Douglas F. Barofsky
doi:10.1038/nature04032
Nature 438, 82-85 (2005)
Photosynthesis genes in marine viruses yield proteins during host infection
Debbie Lindell, Jacob D. Jaffe, Zackary I. Johnson, George M. Church & Sallie W. Chisholm
doi:10.1038/nature04111
Nature 438, 86-89 (2005) FREE ACCESS
Isolation of an autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon
Martin Könneke, Anne E. Bernhard, José R. de la Torre, Christopher B. Walker, John B. Waterbury & David A. Stahl
doi:10.1038/nature03911
Nature 437, 543-546
Deep sub-seafloor prokaryotes stimulated at interfaces over geological time
R. John Parkes, Gordon Webster, Barry A. Cragg, Andrew J. Weightman, Carole J. Newberry, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Jens Kallmeyer, Bo B. Jørgensen, Ivano W. Aiello & John C. Fry
doi:10.1038/nature03796
Nature 436, 390-394 (2005) FREE ACCESS
Prokaryotic cells of the deep sub-seafloor biosphere identified as living bacteria
Axel Schippers, Lev N. Neretin, Jens Kallmeyer, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Barry A. Cragg, R. John Parkes & Bo B. Jørgensen
doi:10.1038/nature03302
Nature 433, 861-864 (2004)
Substrate-induced gene-expression screening of environmental metagenome libraries for isolation of catabolic genes
Taku Uchiyama, Takashi Abe, Toshimichi Ikemura & Kazuya Watanabe
doi:10.1038/nbt1048
Nature Biotechnology 23, 88-93 (2005)
Commentary
Metagenomics and the global ocean survey: what's in it for us, and why should we care?
Kenneth H Nealson and J Craig Venter
doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.43
The ISME Journal 1, 185–187 (2007)
Soaking it up: the complex lives of marine sponges and their microbial associates
Michael W Taylor, Russell T Hill, Jörn Piel, Robert W Thacker and Ute Hentschel
doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.32
The ISME Journal 1, 187–190 (2007)
