Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Microbes

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

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.

• Limnologie
• Meeresbiologie
• Microbial ecology
• Mikrobielle Ökologie
• Phytoplankton
• biogeochemical cycles
• biogeochemische Zyklen
• ecology
• limnology
• marine biology
• microbe
• microbiology
• microorganism
• molecular ecology
• phytoplancton

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

  Ian Joint

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