Seshagiri Raghukumar

TL;DR: In this paper, physical, chemical and biological data indicate that sea surface cooling drives convection processes that lead to the injection of nutrients up into the surface waters of the northeastern Arabian Sea during winter, and that this mechanism is a dominant control on winter productivity.

TL;DR: It is concluded that thraustochytrids may play an important role in mineralisation of phyto- and zooplankton detritus in the sea and their high content of ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids suggests that they may form an important link in the food-web.

TL;DR: Thraustochytrids, the heterotrophic, marine, straminipilan protists, are now established candidates for commercial production of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), that is important in human health and aquaculture.

TL;DR: The currently used taxonomic criteria need serious reconsideration as these groupings are in disagreement with many conventional taxonomic characters and correlated better with the sugar composition of the cell wall.

TL;DR: The state of knowledge as well as the multitude of open questions regarding the diversity and function of fungi in the marine biosphere and geochemical cycles are presented.