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Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Microbes

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Ian Joint

    1. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Natural Environment Research Council, Plymouth, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries G: (ASIG, volume 38)

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. The Potential of Molecular Ecology

    • Ian Joint
    Pages 1-16

  3. Towards Understanding the Molecular Ecology of Phytoplankton Photosynthesis

    • Paul G. Falkowski
    Pages 17-38

  4. Bacteria in Oceanic Carbon Cycling as a Molecular Problem

    • Farooq Azam, David C. Smith, Richard A. Long, Grieg F. Steward
    Pages 39-54

  5. The Role and Regulation of Microbes in Sediment Nitrogen Cycle

    • Henry Blackburn
    Pages 55-71

  6. Functional and Taxonomic Probes for Bacteria in the Nitrogen Cycle

    • Bess B. Ward
    Pages 73-86

  7. The Role of Mixotrophy in Pelagic Environments

    • Bo Riemann, Harry Havskum, Frede Thingstad, Catherine Bernard
    Pages 87-114

  8. Successional Change in the Planktonic Vegetation: Species, Structures, Scales

    • Colin S. Reynolds
    Pages 115-132

  9. Can Molecular Techniques Change Our Ideas About the Species Concept?

    • Linda K. Medlin, Martin Lange, Gary L. A. Barker, Paul K. Hayes
    Pages 133-152

  10. How Do Cyanobacteria Perceive and Adjust to Their Environment?

    • Jean Houmard
    Pages 153-170

  11. How Do Cells Express Nutrient Limitation at the Molecular Level?

    • Nicholas H. Mann
    Pages 171-190

  12. The Problem of Excess and/or Limitation of the Habitat Conditions: Do Natural Assemblages Exist?

    • Ricardo Guerrero, Jordi Mas-Castellà
    Pages 191-203

  13. Signal Transduction in Microorganisms

    • Melvin I. Simon
    Pages 205-215

  14. Microbial Diversity in Oceanic Systems: rRNA Approaches to the Study of Unculturable Microbes

    • Stephen J. Giovannoni, Thomas D. Mullins, Katharine G. Field
    Pages 217-248

  15. Viruses — the New Players in the Game; Their Ecological Role and Could They Mediate Genetic Exchange by Transduction?

    • Gunnar Bratbak, Mikal Heldal
    Pages 249-264

  16. Molecular Analysis of Plastid Evolution

    • Wolfgang Löffelhardt
    Pages 265-278

  17. Can We Estimate Bacterial Growth Rates from Ribosomal RNA Content?

    • Paul F. Kemp
    Pages 279-302

  18. The Cell Cycle of Phytoplankton: Coupling Cell Growth to Population Growth

    • Daniel Vaulot
    Pages 303-322

  19. Response of Photosynthetic Microorganisms to Changing Ambient Concentration of CO2

    • Michal Ronen-Tarazi, Rakefet Schwarz, Anne Bouevitch, Judy Lieman-Hurwitz, Jonathan Erez, Aaron Kaplan
    Pages 323-334

  20. Nitrogen Fixation in the Sea: Why Only Trichodesmium?

    • Jonathan P. Zehr
    Pages 335-364
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A NATO ASI on "Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Microbes" was held at II Ciocco, Lucca, Italy from 28 August - 9 September 1994. The aims of the ASI were to evaluate the potential for molecular biology to solve some important questions in aquatic microbiology, particularly in relation to biogeochemical cycling and microbial physiology. Techniques developed by molecular biologists have now been adopted by a wide range of scientific disciplines. In the last 5 years, aquatic microbial ecologists have begun to incorporate these methods into their research and, as a result, are developing a much clearer understanding of phylogenetic diversity, the molecular basis of physiological acclimations and the transduction of environmental signals and organism responses. The aim of this ASI was to assess progress in this new field of research, to compare and describe techniques and experimental approaches, and to foster communication between disciplines. The ASI offered an excellent opportunity to bring together aquatic ecologists with molecular biologists and to encourage efficient technology transfer. The meeting of information on the status provided a forum for detailed and broad exchange and trends of aquatic molecular ecology and to assess how emerging molecular techniques might solve some important problems in ecology which have prove intractable because of lack of appropriate methodologies.

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  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Natural Environment Research Council, Plymouth, UK

    Ian Joint

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