Summary To acquire phosphorus, cyanobacteria use the typical bacterial ABC‐type phosphate transporter, which is composed of a periplasmic high‐affinity phosphate‐binding protein PstS and a channel formed by two transmembrane proteins PstC and PstA. A putative pstS gene was identified in the genomes of cyanophages that infect the unicellular marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus . However, it has not been deter...

Summary Marine intertidal sediments fluctuate in redox conditions and nutrient availability, and they are also known as an important sink of nitrogen mainly through denitrification, yet how denitrifying bacteria adapt to this dynamic habitat remains largely untapped. Here, we investigated novel intertidal benthic ecotypes of the model pelagic marine bacterium Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS‐3 with a population genomic approach. While di...

Summary The transcriptomic responses of bacteria to environmental stresses have been studied extensively, yet we know little about how the stressed cells respond to bacteriophage infection. Here, we conducted the first whole transcriptome sequencing (RNA‐seq) study of stressed bacteria to phage infection by infecting the marine picocyanobacterium P rochlorococcus NATL2A with cyanomyovirus P ‐ SSM 2 under P limitation, a strong...