Unusually high water temperature along Australia's east coast last summer resulted in an abnormally high level of infections among beachgoers by the marine bacteria, Shewanella algae, according to new ...

As oceans warm, pathogenic bacteria are turning up more frequently in northern regions, scientists say. By Roni Caryn Rabin On a warm day in early July, Ed Houlihan guided kayakers on a four-mile trip ...

Shewanella species couple the decomposition of organic matter to the reduction of various terminal electron acceptors that are present in the diverse environments that they can inhabit. The metabolic ...

A common bacteria in coastal waters, including Delaware's inland bays, may be an important tool to control harmful algae blooms that cause life-threatening illnesses like shellfish poisoning and ...

Throughout the world’s oceans in global nutrient cycles, food chains, and climate, as well as increasingly in human-made industrial processes, a diverse set of planktonic microbes, such as algae, play ...

In two recent studies, marine biologists looked at why one species of algae has some strains that can cause fish kills and others that are non-toxic, while examining an algicidal bacterium found in ...