ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Unveiling oceanic bacterivory through gene expression
Oceanic bacterivory is the process through which marine bacteria are grazed by microbial eukaryotes. It consumes a large fraction of bacterial production, transfers bacterial biomass to upper trophic levels, and completes the inorganic nutrient recycling needed for regenerated primary production. Global estimates indicate that ~15% of the Earth's primary production circulates through this process. Despite its central role in marine food webs, the identity of the dominant grazers is not well known, and in situ bacterivory rates are seldom measured as they require laborious techniques. Consequently, it is impossible to predict how oceanic bacterivory will react in light of the dramatic…
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