GENERAL INTEREST

DeLong, E. F. "A Plenitude of Ocean Life." Natural History 112.4 (May 2003): 40–46. Bacteria, archaea, and some groups of planktonic protists are by far more abundant and more significant in the ocean than was previously predicted.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_4_112/ai_100736432

Falkowski, P. G. "The Ocean's Invisible Forest." Scientific American 287.2 (Aug.2002): 54–61. Phytoplankton has a crucial role in the marine environment and in the regulation of the earth's climate. Enhancing phytoplankton, however, may have some unpredictable consequences.

Furlow, B. "The Freelance Poisoner." New Scientist 169.2274 (20 January 2001): 30–33. Marine organisms in addition to puffer fishes may have symbiotic bacteria that produce deadly toxins.

Hoppert, M. and F. Mayer. "Prokaryotes." American Scientist 87.6 (Nov.–Dec. 1999): 518–525. Prokaryotic cells have a complex organization, even though they lack a nucleus and most other organelles.

Jarrell, K. F., D. P. Bayley, J. D. Correia and N. A. Thomas. "Recent Excitement About the Archaea." BioScience 49.7 (July 1999): 530–541. The archaea are useful tools in efforts to understand some of the basic characteristics of life.

Leslie, M. "Tales of the Sea." NewScientist 169.2275 (27 January 2001): 32–35. New techniques allow the sampling of previously unknown unicellular organisms in the ocean.

Zimmer, C. "Sea Sickness." Audubon 102.3 (May–June 2000): 38–45. Bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms cause serious diseases in marine life, from seagrasses and corals to cetaceans.

IN DEPTH

Brownie, C., H. B. Glasgow, J. M. Burkholder, R. Reed and Y. Tang. "Re-evaluation of the Relationship Between Pfiesteria and Estuarine Fish Kills." Ecosystems 6 (2003): 1–10.

Cahoon, L. B. "The Role of Benthic Microalgae in Neritic Ecosystems." Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 37 (1999): 47–86.

Curtis, T. P., W. T. Sloan and J. W. Scannell. "Estimating Prokaryotic Diversity and its Limits." Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 99.16 (2002): 10494–10499.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/142680199v1

Lipscomb, D. L., J. S. Farris, M. Källersjö and A. Theler. "Support, Ribosomal Sequences and the Phylogeny of the Eukaryotes." Cladistics 14 (1998): 303-338.

Madigan, M. "Extremophilic Bacteria and Microbial Diversity." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 87 (2000): 3–12.

Schulz, H. N. and B. B. Jørgensen. "Big Bacteria." AnnualReview of Microbiology.55 (2001): 105–137.