News Finding: A comprehensive understanding of microbial behavior in the ocean can inform human health, fisheries, and aquaculture, specifically through monitoring water quality.
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News Context: The researchers' findings also provide insight into the conditions that more permanent organisms in the region face as the microbial plankton turnover. A comprehensive understanding of microbial behavior in the ocean can inform human health, fisheries, and aquaculture, specifically through monitoring water quality. "This paper represents a significant advance in our knowledge of the forces that mediate community assembly in fluid environments, and provides a wealth of new information to support new hypothesis-driven research into the specific mechanisms that underpin this complex association," says Jack Gilbert, faculty director of the Microbiome Center at the University of Chicago, who was not involved in this work.
Paper Context: 6B ), and also found that clustering of non-distributional OTUs results in a similar number of clusters, sharp transitions, and similar patterns of abundance ( Supplementary Fig. 8 ). We note that it will be important to keep in mind the potential effects of autocorrelation, especially when there is a large difference in autocorrelation between long and short time scales.