Marine algae play a vital role in the ocean's food chain and they produce part of the world's oxygen that reaches the atmosphere. A variety of organisms are found in this zone including coral reefs, sharks, whales, fish, sea turtles, and more. ...
2. Evolution of biological studies in the deep-sea environment Deep-sea fauna, which are completely different from shallow marine organisms, were discovered gradually since the great age of oceanic exploration. To access the deep-sea habitats, specific equipment is required in such harsh environments...
What organisms are producers in the marine food web? What is the first consumer in the food chain? What links all the food chains in an ecosystem together? What ecosystem services do decomposers perform? What is a producer in a food chain? What are the producers in an aquatic...
Here, we investigate biome transitions and specialization in natural populations of a focal bacterial phylum, the Myxococcota, sampled across a range of replicated soils and freshwater and marine sediments in Cornwall (UK). By targeted deep sequencing of the protein-coding gene rpoB, we found >...
The mouthparts of insects are a phenomenal example of a multi-element, modular, feeding apparatus that repeatedly has been modified structurally to perform every feeding function imaginable in the terrestrial and freshwater realms, a process that began in the Early Devonian. Insect mouthparts have been...
Thus, in addition to classical smut fungi and nonteliosporic species, this subphylum includes lipophilic yeasts associated with warm-blooded animals or marine environments, the species of Malassezia Baill. (Begerow et al. 2000; Amend 2014; Cabañes 2014; Wang et al. 2014), mite-associated ...