Publication Date:
2006-05-13
Description:
By using data collected during a continuous circumnavigation of the Southern Hemisphere, we observed clear patterns in the population-genetic structure of Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth, between and within the three Southern Subtropical Gyres. The same mechanisms that were previously invoked to account for the vertical distribution of ecotypes at local scales accounted for the global (horizontal) patterns we observed. Basin-scale and seasonal variations in the structure and strength of vertical stratification provide a basis for understanding large-scale horizontal distribution in genetic and physiological traits of Prochlorococcus, and perhaps of marine microbial communities in general.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bouman, Heather A -- Ulloa, Osvaldo -- Scanlan, David J -- Zwirglmaier, Katrin -- Li, William K W -- Platt, Trevor -- Stuart, Venetia -- Barlow, Ray -- Leth, Ole -- Clementson, Lesley -- Lutz, Vivian -- Fukasawa, Masao -- Watanabe, Shuichi -- Sathyendranath, Shubha -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 May 12;312(5775):918-21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratorio de Procesos Oceanograficos y Clima, Departamento de Oceanografia, and Centro de Investigacion Oceanografica en el Pacifico Sur-Oriental, Universidad de Concepcion, Casilla 160-C, Concepcion, Chile. heather@profc.udec.cl〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16690867" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Atlantic Ocean
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Biomass
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Chlorophyll/analysis
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Climate
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Colony Count, Microbial
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*Ecosystem
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Flow Cytometry
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Indian Ocean
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Light
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Oceanography
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Pacific Ocean
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Phytoplankton/*genetics/*growth & development/physiology
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Prochlorococcus/classification/*genetics/*growth & development/physiology
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Seasons
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Seawater/*microbiology
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Temperature
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Vinyl Compounds/analysis
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
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