TY  - JOUR
A1  - Arias-Andres, Maria
A1  - Rojas-Jimenez, Keilor
A1  - Grossart, Hans-Peter
T1  - Collateral effects of microplastic pollution on aquatic microorganisms
BT  - An ecological perspective
JF  - Trends in Analytical Chemistry
N2  - Microplastics (MP) provide a unique and extensive surface for microbial colonization in aquatic ecosystems. The formation of microorganism-microplastic complexes, such as biofilms, maximizes the degradation of organic matter and horizontal gene transfer. In this context, MP affect the structure and function of microbial communities, which in turn render the physical and chemical fate of MP. This new paradigm generates challenges for microbiology, ecology, and ecotoxicology. Dispersal of MP is concomitant with that of their associated microorganisms and their mobile genetic elements, including antibiotic resistance genes, islands of pathogenicity, and diverse metabolic pathways. Functional changes in aquatic microbiomes can alter carbon metabolism and food webs, with unknown consequences on higher organisms or human microbiomes and hence health. Here, we examine a variety of effects of MP pollution from the microbial ecology perspective, whose repercussions on aquatic ecosystems begin to be unraveled. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Microplastics (MP)
KW  - Biofilms
KW  - HGT
KW  - Microbial ecology
KW  - Carbon cycling
KW  - Aquatic ecosystems
KW  - Health risk assessment
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2018.11.041
SN  - 0165-9936
SN  - 1879-3142
VL  - 112
SP  - 234
EP  - 240
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Großart, Hans-Peter
A1  - Rojas-Jimenez, Keilor
T1  - Aquatic fungi: targeting the forgotten in microbial ecology
JF  - Current opinion in microbiology
N2  - Fungi constitute important and conspicuous components of aquatic microbial communities, but their diversity and functional roles remain poorly characterized. New methods and conceptual frameworks are required to accurately describe their ecological roles, involvement in global cycling processes, and utility for human activities, considering both cultivation independent techniques as well as experiments in laboratory and in natural ecosystems. Here we highlight recent developments and extant knowledge gaps in aquatic mycology, and provide a conceptual model to expose the importance of fungi in aquatic food webs and related biogeochemical processes.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2016.03.016
SN  - 1369-5274
SN  - 1879-0364
VL  - 31
SP  - 140
EP  - 145
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Frenken, Thijs
A1  - Alacid, Elisabet
A1  - Berger, Stella A.
A1  - Bourne, Elizabeth Charlotte
A1  - Gerphagnon, Melanie
A1  - Großart, Hans-Peter
A1  - Gsell, Alena S.
A1  - Ibelings, Bas W.
A1  - Kagami, Maiko
A1  - Kupper, Frithjof C.
A1  - Letcher, Peter M.
A1  - Loyau, Adeline
A1  - Miki, Takeshi
A1  - Nejstgaard, Jens C.
A1  - Rasconi, Serena
A1  - Rene, Albert
A1  - Rohrlack, Thomas
A1  - Rojas-Jimenez, Keilor
A1  - Schmeller, Dirk S.
A1  - Scholz, Bettina
A1  - Seto, Kensuke
A1  - Sime-Ngando, Telesphore
A1  - Sukenik, Assaf
A1  - Van de Waal, Dedmer B.
A1  - Van den Wyngaert, Silke
A1  - Van Donk, Ellen
A1  - Wolinska, Justyna
A1  - Wurzbacher, Christian
A1  - Agha, Ramsy
T1  - Integrating chytrid fungal parasites into plankton ecology: research gaps and needs
JF  - Environmental microbiology
N2  - Chytridiomycota, often referred to as chytrids, can be virulent parasites with the potential to inflict mass mortalities on hosts, causing e.g. changes in phytoplankton size distributions and succession, and the delay or suppression of bloom events. Molecular environmental surveys have revealed an unexpectedly large diversity of chytrids across a wide range of aquatic ecosystems worldwide. As a result, scientific interest towards fungal parasites of phytoplankton has been gaining momentum in the past few years. Yet, we still know little about the ecology of chytrids, their life cycles, phylogeny, host specificity and range. Information on the contribution of chytrids to trophic interactions, as well as co-evolutionary feedbacks of fungal parasitism on host populations is also limited. This paper synthesizes ideas stressing the multifaceted biological relevance of phytoplankton chytridiomycosis, resulting from discussions among an international team of chytrid researchers. It presents our view on the most pressing research needs for promoting the integration of chytrid fungi into aquatic ecology.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13827
SN  - 1462-2912
SN  - 1462-2920
VL  - 19
SP  - 3802
EP  - 3822
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -