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Title

Molecular ecology of aquatic microbes / edited by Ian Joint.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Joint, Ian, 1947-
• NATO Advanced Study Institute on Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Microbes (1994 : Il Ciocco, Italy)

Description

viii, 415 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series G, Ecological sciences ; vol. 38

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series G, Ecological sciences ; no. 38.

Subject

• Water > Microbiology
• Molecular microbiology

Note

• "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Microbes, held at Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy, 28 August-9 September 1994"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The Potential of Molecular Ecology / Ian Joint -- Towards Understanding the Molecular Ecology of Phytoplankton Photosynthesis / Paul G. Falkowski -- Bacteria in Oceanic Carbon Cycling as a Molecular Problem / Farooq Azam, David C. Smith, Richard A. Long and Grieg F. Steward -- The Role and Regulation of Microbes in Sediment Nitrogen Cycle / Henry Blackburn -- Functional and Taxonomic Probes for Bacteria in the Nitrogen Cycle / Bess B. Ward -- The Role of Mixotrophy in Pelagic Environments / Bo Riemann, Harry Havskum, Frede Thingstad and Catherine Bernard -- Successional Change in the Planktonic Vegetation: Species, Structures, Scales / Colin S. Reynolds -- Can Molecular Techniques Change Our Ideas About the Species Concept? / Linda K. Medlin, Martin Lange, Gary L. A. Barker and Paul K. Hayes -- How Do Cyanobacteria Perceive and Adjust to Their Environment? / Jean Houmard -- How Do Cells Express Nutrient Limitation at the Molecular Level? / Nicholas H. Mann --
• The Problem of Excess and/or Limitation of the Habitat Conditions: Do Natural Assemblages Exist? / Ricardo Guerrero and Jordi Mas-Castella -- Signal Transduction in Microorganisms / Melvin I. Simon -- Microbial Diversity in Oceanic Systems: rRNA Approaches to the Study of Unculturable Microbes / Stephen J. Giovannoni, Thomas D. Mullins and Katharine G. Field -- Viruses - the New Players in the Game; Their Ecological Role and Could They Mediate Genetic Exchange by Transduction? / Gunnar Bratbak and Mikal Heldal -- Molecular Analysis of Plastid Evolution / Wolfgang Loffelhardt -- Can We Estimate Bacterial Growth Rates from Ribosomal RNA Content? / Paul F. Kemp -- The Cell Cycle of Phytoplankton: Coupling Cell Growth to Population Growth / Daniel Vaulot -- Response of Photosynthetic Microorganisms to Changing Ambient Concentration of CO[subscript 2] / Michal Ronen-Tarazi, Rakefet Schwarz, Anne Bouevitch, Judy Lieman-Hurwitz, Jonathan Erez and Aaron Kaplan --
• Nitrogen Fixation in the Sea: Why Only Trichodesmium? / Jonathan P. Zehr -- Molecular Ecology of Marine Methanotrophs / J. Colin Murrell and Andrew J. Holmes -- Microbial Cultures and Natural Populations / Noel G. Carr.

ISBN

3540601341 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

95024508

OCLC

ocm32822518

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries