Michael S. Rappé

The paper examines how energy quantity and quality influence biodiversity in coastal oceans, finding that high-quality energy sources support greater species richness and planktonic diversity.

The paper introduces synteny-aware pangenome graphs to visualize genomic variation in marine bacteria, revealing structured continua of variability across genomes.

The paper describes 81 new SAR11 isolate genomes and identifies 29 monophyletic ecotypes within the Pelagibacterales, providing a classification system correlated with ecology and evolution.

The paper presents a high-resolution multi-omics dataset of surface ocean metagenomes, metatranscriptomes, and tRNA transcripts collected over 48 hours to study microbial responses to environmental change.

This study identifies distinct habitat preferences for Magnimaribacterales bacteria across marine environments using metagenomic and amplicon data from the tropical Pacific Ocean.

This study examines seasonal and spatial changes in phytoplankton communities across estuarine to open ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, revealing distinct community transitions and environmental drivers.

This study identifies habitat-specific genes in SAR11 bacteria using new genomes and metagenomes, showing ecological and genetic segregation into ecotypes.

The paper analyzes the genomic and functional characteristics of SAR86 marine bacteria using a newly isolated strain and environmental genomes, revealing their metabolic capabilities and ecological distribution.