Scientists have made the first comprehensive marine wildlife size database to help scientists better understand ocean ecosystems.

Researchers find that tiny ocean plants react to nutrient and temperature shifts. In nutrient-poor zones, efficient Prochlorococcus thrives; as nutrients rise, larger phytoplankton take over, altering ...

MIT researchers have discovered a new ocean-regulating role of Prochlorococcus: they release DNA building blocks into the water, which are then “cross-fed” to other ocean microbes. These compounds ...

Prochlorococcus marinus, a tiny, emerald-colored microbe, is the most abundant photosynthesizing organism on Earth. It is found in large numbers throughout the ocean’s surface waters. These small, ...

Mixotrophic nanoflagellates can account for more than half of the bacterivory in the sunlit ocean, yet very little is known about their ecophysiology. Here, we characterize the grazing ecology of an ...

Prochlorococcus is known for its extensive diversity that falls into two groups of ecotypes, the low-light (LL) and high-light (HL) adapted ecotypes. Previous work has shown niche partitioning of the ...

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a multifunctional mammalian cytokine, which exhibits tautomerase and oxidoreductase activity. MIF homologues with pairwise sequence identities to human ...

Following this study, the team plans to introduce Prochlorococcus α-carboxysome into plant chloroplasts and investigate whether the minimal α-carboxysome can improve the photosynthetic ...

New research suggests the Prochlorococcus microbe’s ancient coastal ancestors colonized the ocean by rafting out on chitin particles. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT A new study shows that ...

But Prochlorococcus didn't always inhabit open waters. Ancestors of the microbe likely stuck closer to the coasts, where nutrients were plentiful and organisms survived in communal microbial mats on ...

Scientists have discovered a gene-transfer mechanism in Prochlorococcus, the world’s most abundant photosynthetic organism, that may be key to its abundance and diversity. They have dubbed the ...