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Cryptic carbon and sulfur cycling between surface ocean plankton
Description: In the surface ocean, organic matter released by phytoplankton and degraded by heterotrophic bacteria is a key step in the carbon cycle. Compounds important in this trophic link are poorly known, in part because of the thousands of chemicals making up marine dissolved organic matter. The authors of this journal paper cocultured a Roseobacter clade bacterium with the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana and used gene expression changes to assay for compounds passed to the bacterium. [Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1413137112
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Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Publish Date: 1/13/2015
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