Publications
2024 - Present
Inoculation with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria improves seagrass Thalassia hemprichii photosynthesis performance and shifts rhizosphere microbiome
Zhou, W., Ling, J., Shen, X., Xu, Z., Yang, Q., Yue, W., ... & Dong, J. (2024). Marine Environmental Research, 193, 106260.
Noctiluca scintillans bloom alters the composition and carbohydrate utilization of associated bacterial community and enriches potential pathogenic bacterium Vibrio anguillarum
Xia, X., Cheung, S., Zhang, S., Lu, Y., Leung, S. K., Shi, Z., ... & Liu, H. (2024). Water Research, 249, 120974.
Survival of Nutrient-Starved Diatoms Under Ocean Acidification: Perspective from Nutrient Sensing, Cadmium Detection, and Nitrogen Assimilation
Zhang, Z., Pan, K., & Liu, H. (2024). Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 112(1), 21.
Modeling Ocean Cooling Induced by Tropical Cyclone Wind Pump Using Explainable Machine Learning Framework
Cui, H., Tang, D., Liu, H., Liu, H., Sui, Y., Lai, Y., & Gu, X. (2024). IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Nanoplastics impair growth and nitrogen fixation of marine nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria
Deng, L., Cheung, S., Liu, J., Chen, J., Chen, F., Zhang, X., & Liu, H. (2024). Environmental Pollution, 350, 123960.
Community changes of gut microbes highlight their importance in the adaptation of copepods to toxic dinoflagellates
Yang, J., Xu, Z., Chen, Y., Xu, H., Gao, Z., Zhang, X., ... & Liu, H. (2024). Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1368315.
Transcriptomic insights into the shift of trophic strategies in mixotrophic dinoflagellate Lepidodinium in the warming ocean
Chen, J., Deng, L., Pang, M., Li, Y., Xu, Z., Zhang, X., & Liu, H. (2024). ISME Communications, ycae087.
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race
Xu, H., Chen, F., Zhang, X., Zhang, Z., Pan, K., & Liu, H. (2024). Limnology and Oceanography Letters.
Halophilomyces hongkongensis, a Novel Species and Genus in the Lulworthiaceae with Antibacterial Potential, Colonizing the Roots and Rhizomes of the Seagrass Halophila ovalis
Wang, X., Pecoraro, L., Chen, J., Tang, Y., Lee, S., Chen, S., & Liu, H. (2024). Journal of Fungi, 10(7), 474.
Chromatic Acclimating Synechococcus Dominate in Mesoscale Eddies
Zhang, X., Li, Y., Xu, Z., Chen, J., Cheung, S., Jing, H., ... & Liu, H. (2024). Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(7), e2023JC020675.
Spatial variability in blue carbon storage and sequestration of seagrass meadows in southern China
Shen, X., Zhang, Y., Hong, Y., Zeng, X., Zhou, W., Yue, W., ... & Yang, Z. (2024). Science of The Total Environment, 175884.
Chemosynthetic alphaproteobacterial diazotrophs reside in deep-sea cold-seep bottom waters
Chen, J., Deng, L., Wang, X., Zhong, C., Xia, X., & Liu, H. (2024). mSystems, e00176-24.
Nutrient availability influences the thermal response of marine diatoms
Pang, M., Liu, K., Chen, B., Zhang, X., Gao, Z., Xu, Z., ... & Liu, H. (2024). Limnology and Oceanography.
2023
Genomic Insights into Niche Partitioning across Sediment Depth among Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Archaea in Global Methane Seeps
Chen, J., Li, Y., Zhong C., Xu, Z., Lu, G., Jing, H., & Liu, H. (2023). mSystems. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.01179-22
Disentangling the Functional Role of Fungi in Cold Seep Sediment
Shekarriz, E., Chen, J., Xu, Z., & Liu, H. (2023). Microbiology Spectrum. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01978-22
Role of nutrients and temperature in shaping distinct summer phytoplankton and microzooplankton population dynamics in the western North Pacific and Bering Sea
Liu, K., Nishioka, J., Chen, B., Suzuki, K., Cheung, S., Lu, Y., Wu, H., & Liu H. (2023). Limnology and Oceanography, 68(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12300
Genomic and Transcriptomic Insights into Salinity Tolerance-Based Niche Differentiation of Synechococcus Clades in Estuarine and Coastal Waters
Xia, X., Liao, Y., Liu, J., Leung, S., Lee, P., Zhang, L., Tan, Y., & Liu, H. (2023). mSystems. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.01106-22
Do marine planktonic ciliates follow Bergmann's rule?
Liu, K., Jiang, S., Montagnes, D. J., Liu, H., Zheng, L., Huang, B., ... & Chen, B. (2023). Ecography, 2023(6), e06452.
High Microeukaryotic Diversity in the Cold-Seep Sediment
Xu, Z., Chen, J., Li, Y., Shekarriz, E., Wu, W., Chen, B., & Liu, H. (2023). Microbial Ecology, 86(3), 2003-2020.
Hypoxia and warming take sides with small marine protists: An integrated laboratory and field study
Qian, C., Liu, K., Pang, M., Xu, Z., Deng, L., & Liu, H. (2023). Science of The Total Environment, 882, 163568.
Microbial Communities Are Shaped by Different Ecological Processes in Subtropical Reservoirs of Different Trophic States
Zhang, Y., Xia, X., Wan, L., Han, B. P., Liu, H., & Jing, H. (2023). Microbial Ecology, 86(3), 2073-2085.
Temperature-light shapes the nutritional strategy of a mixotrophic green alga, Picochlorum sp. GLMF1 (Trebouxiophyceae)
Pang, M., Liu, K., Gao, Z., Kang, C. K., & Liu, H. (2023). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 713, 39-53.
Predicting Tropical Cyclone‐Induced Sea Surface Temperature Responses Using Machine Learning
Cui, H., Tang, D., Mei, W., Liu, H., Sui, Y., & Gu, X. (2023). Geophysical Research Letters, 50(18), e2023GL104171.
Optimization of Heterotrophic Culture Conditions for the Microalgae Euglena gracilis to Produce Proteins
Xie, W., Li, X., Xu, H., Chen, F., Cheng, K. W., Liu, H., & Liu, B. (2023). Marine Drugs, 21(10), 519.
Mechanisms underlying the alleviated cadmium toxicity in marine diatoms adapted to ocean acidification
Zhang, Z., Ma, J., Chen, F., Chen, Y., Pan, K., & Liu, H. (2024). Journal of Hazardous Materials, 463, 132804.
Ocean acidification affects physiology of coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi and weakens its mechanical resistance to copepods
Xu, H., Liu, H., Chen, F., Zhang, X., Zhang, Z., Ma, J., ... & Liu, H. (2023). Marine Environmental Research, 192, 106232.
Microzooplankton Grazing Exerts a Strong Top‐Down Control on Unicellular Cyanobacterial Diazotrophs
Deng, L., Cheung, S., Xu, Z., Liu, K., & Liu, H. (2023). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(12), e2023JG007824.
2022
How elevated nitrogen load affects bacterial community structure and nitrogen cycling services in coastal water
Lo, S., Xu, Z., Lee, S., Lau, W., Qiu, J., Liu, H., Qian, P., & Cheng, J. (2022). Frontiers in Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1062029
Community Dynamics of Free-Living and Particle-Attached Bacteria over Sequential Blooms of Heterotrophic Dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans and Mixotrophic Ciliate Mesodinium rubrum
Zhang Shuwen, Liu Hongbin, & Xia Xiaomin. (2022). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(22), e01323-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01323-22
Cell size is a key ecological trait associated with biogeographic patterns of microbial eukaryotes in coastal waters
Wu Wenxue, & Liu Hongbin. (2022). Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 933256. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.933256
High biomass turnover rates of endosymbiotic nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria in the western Bering Sea
Cheung, S., Liu, K., Turk‐Kubo, K. A., Nishioka, J., Suzuki, K., Landry, M. R., Zehr, J. P., Leung, S., Deng, L., & Liu, H. (2022). Limnology and Oceanography Letters, lol2.10267. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10267
Selective Feeding of a Mixotrophic Dinoflagellate (Lepidodinium sp.) in Response to Experimental Warming and Inorganic Nutrient Imbalance
Liu, K., Ng, H. Y.-T., Gao, Z., & Liu, H. (2022). Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 805306. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.805306
Spatio-Temporal Variation of Synechococcus Assemblages at DNA and cDNA Levels in the Tropical Estuarine and Coastal Waters
Wang, T., Xia, X., Chen, J., Liu, H., & Jing, H. (2022). Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 837037. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.837037
Highly Diverse Synechococcus Pigment Types in the Eastern Indian Ocean
Zhang, X., Cheung, S., Wang, J., Zhang, G., Wei, Y., Liu, H., Sun, J., & Liu, H. (2022). Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 806390. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.806390
Disentangling the Ecological Processes Shaping the Latitudinal Pattern of Phytoplankton Communities in the Pacific Ocean
Xu, Z., Cheung, S., ., Cheung, S., Endo, H., Xia, X., Wu, W., Chen, B., Ho, N., Suzuki, K., Li, M., & Liu, H. (2022). mSystems, 7(1):e01203-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01203-21
Active Degradation-Nitrification Microbial Assemblages in the Hypoxic Zone in a Subtropical Estuary
Lu, Y., Cheung, S., Koh X., Xia, X., Jing, H., LEE, P., Kao, S., Gan, J., Dai, M., & Liu, H. (2022). SSRN Electronic Journal. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4033193
2021
Gut-microbial adaptation and transformation of silver nanoparticles mediated the detoxification of Daphnia magna and offsprings
Li, Y., Liu, H., & Wang, W.-X. (2021). Environmental Science: Nano, 10.1039.D1EN00765C. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EN00765C
Genomic and transcriptomic evidence for the diverse adaptations of subclusters 5.2 and 5.3 Synechococcus to mesoscale eddies.
Chen, J., Li, Y., Jing, H., Zhang, X., Xu, Z., Xu, J., & Liu, H. (2021). New Phytologist, nph.17903. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17903
Gamma4: A genetically versatile Gammaproteobacterial NIFH phylotype that is widely distributed in the North Pacific Ocean.
Cheung, S., Zehr, J. P., Xia, X., Tsurumoto, C., Endo, H., Nakaoka, S., Mak, W., Suzuki, K., & Liu, H. (2021). Environmental Microbiology, 23(8), 4246–4259. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15604
Distinct interaction effects of warming and anthropogenic input on diatoms and dinoflagellates in an urbanized estuarine ecosystem.
Cheung, Y. Y., Cheung, S., Mak, J., Liu, K., Xia, X., Zhang, X., Yung, Y., & Liu, H. (2021). Global Change Biology, 27(15), 3463–3473. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15667
Elevated temperature relieves phosphorus limitation of marine unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacteria.
Deng, L., Cheung, S., Kang, C., Liu, K., Xia, X., & Liu, H. (2021). Limnology and Oceanography, lno.11980. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11980
Evidence of partial thermal compensation in natural phytoplankton assemblages.
Liu, K., Chen, B., & Liu, H. (2021). Limnology and Oceanography Letters, lol2.10227. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10227
What controls microzooplankton biomass and herbivory rate across marginal seas of China?
Liu, K., Chen, B., Zheng, L., Su, S., Huang, B., Chen, M., & Liu, H. (2021). Limnology and Oceanography, 66(1), 61–75. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11588
Effects of temperature on a mixotrophic dinoflagellate (Lepidodinium sp.) under different nutritional strategies.
Liu K, Ng HY, Zhang S, & Liu H. (2021). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 678, 37–49.
Are temperature sensitivities of PROCHLOROCOCCUS and SYNECHOCOCCUS impacted by nutrient availability in the subtropical northwest Pacific?
Liu, K., Suzuki, K., Chen, B., & Liu, H. (2021). Limnology and Oceanography, 66(3), 639–651. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11629
Evidence for mixotrophy in pico-chlorophytes: Study based on new Picochlorum (Trebouxiophyceae) strain1.
Pang, M., Liu, K., & Liu, H. (2021). J Phycol. PubMed. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13218
Homogeneous selection shapes free‐living and particle‐associated bacterial communities in subtropical coastal waters.
Wu, W., Xu, Z., Dai, M., Gan, J., & Liu, H. (2021). Diversity and Distributions, 27(10), 1904–1917. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13193
Distinct metabolic strategies of the dominant heterotrophic bacterial groups associated with marine Synechococcus.
Xia, X., Zheng, Q., Leung, S. K., Wang, Y., Lee, P. Y., Jing, H., Jiao, N., & Liu, H. (2021). Science of The Total Environment, 798, 149208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149208
Transcriptomic response of Daphnia magna to nitrogen‐ or phosphorus‐limited diet.
Xu, Z., Li, Y., Li, M., & Liu, H. (2021). Ecology and Evolution, 11(16), 11009–11019. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7889
Diatom frustules with different silica contents affect copepod grazing due to differences in the nanoscale mechanical properties.
Xu, H., Shi, Z., Zhang, X., Pang, M., Pan, K., & Liu, H. (2021). Limnology and Oceanography, 66(9), 3408–3420. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11887
Population dynamics and interactions of Noctiluca scintillans and Mesodinium rubrum during their successive blooms in a subtropical coastal water.
Zhang, S., Xia, X., Ke, Y., Song, S., Shen, Z., Cheung, S., & Liu, H. (2021). Science of The Total Environment, 755, 142349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142349
Effect of river plume on phytoplankton community structure in Zhujiang River estuary.
Zhong, Q., Xue, B., Noman, M. A., Wei, Y., Liu, H., Liu, H., Zheng, L., Jing, H., & Sun, J. (2021). Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 39(2), 550–565. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-020-9213-7
2020
Physical Forcing Controls the Basin‐Scale Occurrence of Nitrogen‐Fixing Organisms in the North Pacific Ocean.
Cheung, S., Nitanai, R., Tsurumoto, C., Endo, H., Nakaoka, S., Cheah, W., Lorda, J. F., Xia, X., Liu, H., & Suzuki, K. (2020). Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GB006452
Protistal Grazers Increase Grazing on Unicellular Cyanobacteria Diazotroph at Night.
Deng, L., Cheung, S., & Liu, H. (2020). Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 135. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00135
Metabolic response of prokaryotic microbes to sporadic hypoxia in a eutrophic subtropical estuary.
Li, Y., Jing, H., Kao, S.-J., Zhang, W., & Liu, H. (2020). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 154, 111064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111064
New insight to niche partitioning and ecological function of ammonia oxidizing archaea in subtropical estuarine ecosystem.
Lu, Y., Cheung, S., Chen, L., Kao, S.-J., Xia, X., Gan, J., Dai, M., & Liu, H. (2020). Biogeosciences, 17(23), 6017–6032. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6017-2020
Marine Microbial Community Composition During the Upwelling Season in the Southern Benguela.
Rocke, E., Cheung, S., Gebe, Z., Dames, N. R., Liu, H., & Moloney, C. L. (2020). Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 255. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00255
Rare bacteria in seawater are dominant in the bacterial assemblage associated with the Bloom-forming dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans.
Xia, X., Ki Leung, S., Cheung, S., Zhang, S., & Liu, H. (2020). Science of The Total Environment, 711, 135107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135107
Discovery of Euryhaline Phycoerythrobilin-Containing Synechococcus and Its Mechanisms for Adaptation to Estuarine Environments.
Xia, X., Lee, P., Cheung, S., Lu, Y., & Liu, H. (2020). MSystems, 5(6). https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00842-20
Impacts of the Zhe-Min Coastal Current on the biogeographic pattern of microbial eukaryotic communities.
Xu, Z., Li, Y., Lu, Y., Li, Y., Yuan, Z., Dai, M., & Liu, H. (2020). Progress in Oceanography, 183, 102309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102309
Snapshot of Peptidomics of the Red Tide Forming Species Noctiluca scintillans.
Zhang, S., Li, C., Cheung, S., Sun, M., Song, S., Guo, W., Guo, C., Wu, G., & Liu, H. (2020). Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 569807. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.569807
Community, Distribution, and Ecological Roles of Estuarine Archaea.
Zou, D., Liu, H., & Li, M. (2020). Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 2060. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.02060
The Distribution of Bathyarchaeota in Surface Sediments of the Pearl River Estuary Along Salinity Gradient.
Zou, D., Pan, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, C., Liu, H., & Li, M. (2020). Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 285. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00285
Genomic Characteristics of a Novel Species of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea from the Jiulong River Estuary.
Zou, D., Wan, R., Han, L., Xu, M. N., Liu, Y., Liu, H., Kao, S.-J., & Li, M. (2020). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86(18). https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00736-20
2019
Overlooked Genetic Diversity of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea Lineages in the Global Oceans.
Cheung, S., Mak, W., Xia, X., Lu, Y., Cheung, Y., & Liu, H. (2019). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(7), 1799–1811. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004636
Transportation of Diazotroph Community From the Upstream to Downstream of the Kuroshio.
Cheung, S., Suzuki, K., Xia, X., & Liu, H. (2019). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(9), 2680–2693. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004960
Interaction of antibacterial silver nanoparticles and microbiota-dependent holobionts revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis.
Li, Y., Yan, N., Wong, T. Y., Wang, W.-X., & Liu, H. (2019). Environmental Science: Nano, 6(11), 3242–3255. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9EN00587K
Differential Distribution and Determinants of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea Sublineages in the Oxygen Minimum Zone off Costa Rica.
Lu, Y., Xia, X., Cheung, S., Jing, H., & Liu, H. (2019). Microorganisms, 7(10), 453. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7100453
Spatial distributions of mesozooplankton biomass, community composition and grazing impact in association with hypoxia in the Pearl River Estuary.
Shi, Z., Liu, K., Zhang, S., Xu, H., & Liu, H. (2019). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 225, 106237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.05.019
Metatranscriptomics of the bacterial community in response to atmospheric deposition in the Western North Pacific Ocean.
Tan, S., Cheung, S., Ho, T.-Y., & Liu, H. (2019). Marine Genomics, 45, 57–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2019.01.008
Latitudinal and Vertical Variation of Synechococcus Assemblage Composition Along 170° W Transect From the South Pacific to the Arctic Ocean.
Xia, X., Cheung, S., Endo, H., Suzuki, K., & Liu, H. (2019). Microbial Ecology, 77(2), 333–342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-018-1308-8
Marine biofilms constitute a bank of hidden microbial diversity and functional potential.
Zhang, W., Ding, W., Li, Y.-X., Tam, C., Bougouffa, S., Wang, R., Pei, B., Chiang, H., Leung, P., Lu, Y., Sun, J., Fu, H., Bajic, V. B., Liu, H., Webster, N. S., & Qian, P.-Y. (2019). Nature Communications, 10(1), 517. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08463-z
Genomic adaptation to eutrophication of ammonia‐oxidizing archaea in the Pearl River estuary.
Zou, D., Li, Y., Kao, S., Liu, H., & Li, M. (2019). Environmental Microbiology, 21(7), 2320–2332. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14613
