Cristian Villena-Alemany, Izabela Mujakić, Livia K Fecskeová, Jason Woodhouse, Adrià Auladell, Jason Dean, Martina Hanusová, Magdalena Socha, Carlota R Gazulla, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh, Shinichi Sunagawa, Vinicius Silva Kavagutti, Adrian-Ştefan Andrei, Hans-Peter Grossart, Rohit Ghai, Michal Koblížek, Kasia Piwosz
BACKGROUND: Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic (AAP) bacteria are heterotrophic bacteria that supply their metabolism with light energy harvested by bacteriochlorophyll-a-containing reaction centers. Despite their substantial contribution to bacterial biomass, microbial food webs, and carbon cycle, their phenology in freshwater lakes remains unknown. Hence, we investigated seasonal variations of AAP abundance and community composition biweekly across 3 years in a temperate, meso-oligotrophic freshwater lake...
March 27, 2024: Microbiome