Beatriz Díez

TL;DR: The prasinophyte group appeared to be the most abundant group in the surface Mediterranean samples as determined by the authors' molecular analyses, and the DGGE method provided a reasonably detailed view of marine picoeukaryotic assemblages and allowed tentative phylogenetic identification of the dominant members.

TL;DR: The diversity of marine picoeukaryotes was determined by sequencing cloned 18S rRNA genes in five genetic libraries from North Atlantic, Southern Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea surface waters, and the phylogenetic diversity in each library was rather great, and each library included many different OTUs and members of very distantly related phylogenetic groups.

TL;DR: Although the particular taxonomic composition of microbial communities inhabiting a multipond solar saltern could vary among protocols, the general structure of the microbial assemblages was maintained.

TL;DR: One lineage accounted for up to 46% (average during an annual cycle, 19%) of heterotrophic flagellates in a coastal environment, providing evidence that novel stramenopiles are important and unrecognized components of the total stock of bacterial grazers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified and quantified the microbial communities associated with three common Mediterranean sponge species, Dysidea avara, Agelas oroides and Chondrosia reniformis (Demospongiae), that cohabitate coralligenous community.