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Marine protistan diversityDavid A Caron
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 0371, USA
Ann Rev Mar Sci 4:467-93. 2012..These activities support the development of predictive models that describe how microbial communities will respond to natural or anthropogenically mediated changes in environmental conditions...- Protists are microbes too: a perspectiveDavid A Caron
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0371, USA
ISME J 3:4-12. 2009.... - Defining DNA-based operational taxonomic units for microbial-eukaryote ecologyDavid A Caron
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0371, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:5797-808. 2009..A total of 388 operational taxonomic units were observed for 2,207 sequences obtained from samples collected in the western North Atlantic and eastern North Pacific oceans... - Harmful algae and their potential impacts on desalination operations off southern CaliforniaDavid A Caron
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0371, USA
Water Res 44:385-416. 2010..This review identifies the toxic substances, their known producers, and our present state of knowledge regarding the causes of toxic episodes, with a special focus on the Southern California Bight... - Past President's address: protistan biogeography: why all the fuss?David A Caron
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, California 90089 0371, USA
J Eukaryot Microbiol 56:105-12. 2009..On the positive side, the debate has led to the development and application of new approaches to the study of protistan diversity, and stimulated discussions involving how (and why) we define protistan species... - Development and application of a monoclonal-antibody technique for counting Aureococcus anophagefferens, an alga causing recurrent brown tides in the Mid-Atlantic United StatesDavid A Caron
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 0371, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:5492-502. 2003..A spatial survey of several Long Island estuaries in May 2000 using this new approach documented a range of abundances of A. anophagefferens in these bays spanning nearly 3 orders of magnitude... - Introductory remarks: advances in the molecular ecology of protistsDavid A Caron
Department of Biological Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0371, USA
J Eukaryot Microbiol 52:81-2. 2005 - The growing contributions of molecular biology and immunology to protistan ecology: molecular signatures as ecological toolsDavid A Caron
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 0371, USA
J Eukaryot Microbiol 51:38-48. 2004..These issues include the highly technical nature of some of the molecular methods, the reconciliation of morphology-based and sequence-based species identifications, and the species concept itself... - Phylogenetic affiliations of mesopelagic acantharia and acantharian-like environmental 18S rRNA genes off the southern California coastIlana C Gilg
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Pkwy AHF 301, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0371, USA
Protist 161:197-211. 2010..Our CARD-FISH experiments targeting phylotypes from an unidentified clade offer preliminary glimpses into the morphology of these protists, while a morphology for the aphotic acantharian lineages remains unknown at this time... - Effects of temperature on growth rate and gross growth efficiency of an Antarctic bacterivorous protistJulie M Rose
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
ISME J 3:252-60. 2009..Results indicated that our Antarctic P. imperforata grew at rates comparable to other polar isolates at ambient polar temperatures, but these low temperatures may be outside the physiological optimum for the isolate... - Distinct protistan assemblages characterize the euphotic zone and deep sea (2500 m) of the western North Atlantic (Sargasso Sea and Gulf Stream)Peter D Countway
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0371, USA
Environ Microbiol 9:1219-32. 2007..These data suggest that particular groups of protistan OTUs formed distinct 'shallow' and 'deep-sea' assemblages across widely spaced oceanic locales... - Protistan diversity estimates based on 18S rDNA from seawater incubations in the Western North AtlanticPeter D Countway
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 0371, USA
J Eukaryot Microbiol 52:95-106. 2005..Containment resulted in significant shifts in the dominance of these taxa, enabling the presence of previously unobserved phylotypes to be documented after 24 or 72 h of incubation... - Rapid shifts in the structure and composition of a protistan assemblage during bottle incubations affect estimates of total protistan species richnessDiane Y Kim
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0371, USA
Microb Ecol 62:383-98. 2011..Additionally, the rapid increase in the relative abundance of some members of the "rare biosphere" in our results implies an ecological importance of at least some of the taxa comprising the "rare biosphere.".. - Marine bacterial, archaeal and protistan association networks reveal ecological linkagesJoshua A Steele
Department of Biological Sciences and Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
ISME J 5:1414-25. 2011..This approach provides new insights into the natural history of microbes... - Use of quantitative real-time PCR to investigate the dynamics of the red tide dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrumStefanie D Moorthi
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Parkway, AHF 301, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0371, USA
Microb Ecol 52:136-50. 2006..The development of this new approach for enumerating L. polyedrum provides a useful tool for studying the ecology of this important red tide species... - Abundance and distribution of Ostreococcus sp. in the San Pedro Channel, California, as revealed by quantitative PCRPeter D Countway
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0371, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:2496-506. 2006..Our work provides a new technique for quantifying the abundance of Ostreococcus and demonstrates the seasonal dynamics of this genus and its contribution to picoeukaryote biomass at our coastal sampling station... - Immunofluorescence flow cytometry technique for enumeration of the brown-tide alga, Aureococcus anophagefferensBeth A Stauffer
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 03711, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:6931-40. 2008..Overall, the IFCM approach was an accurate and relatively simple technique for the rapid enumeration of A. anophagefferens in natural samples over a wide range of abundance values (10(3) to 10(6) cells ml(-1))... - Rapid and label-free cell detection by metal-cluster-decorated carbon nanotube biosensorsFumiaki N Ishikawa
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Biosens Bioelectron 24:2967-72. 2009..anophagefferens. These nanobiosensors may find potential applications for environmental monitoring and disease diagnosis... - Effect of temperature and prey type on nutrient regeneration by an antarctic bacterivorous protistJulie M Rose
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Parkway, AHF 301, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0371, USA
Microb Ecol 56:101-11. 2008.... - Whole-cell sensing for a harmful bloom-forming microscopic alga by measuring antibody--antigen forcesAlexander S Lee
Mork Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and the Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0781, USA
IEEE Trans Nanobioscience 5:149-56. 2006..anophagefferens. The methods described in this paper can be used, in principle, to construct sensors with single-cell resolution for arbitrary cells for which monoclonal antibodies are available... - A description of seven Antarctic marine gymnamoebae including a new subspecies, two new species and a new genus: Neoparamoeba aestuarina antarctica n. subsp., Platyamoeba oblongata n. sp., Platyamoeba contorta n. sp. and Vermistella antarctica n. gen. n. Dawn M Moran
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MS 32, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
J Eukaryot Microbiol 54:169-83. 2007.... - Kleptoplasty in an Antarctic dinoflagellate: caught in evolutionary transition?Rebecca J Gast
Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Environ Microbiol 9:39-45. 2007..Our findings may indicate an emerging endosymbiotic event yielding a dinoflagellate that is presently neither purely phototrophic nor purely heterotrophic, but occupies a niche juxtaposed between these contrasting nutritional modes... - Characterization of protistan assemblages in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresisRebecca J Gast
Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:2028-37. 2004..Sequence analysis of selected DGGE bands revealed sequences that represent diatoms, dinoflagellates, ciliates, flagellates, and several unidentified eukaryotes... - Isolation of symbiotically expressed genes from the dinoflagellate symbiont of the solitary radiolarian Thalassicolla nucleataRebecca J Gast
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
Biol Bull 204:210-4. 2003..Second, investigation of these interactions may shed light on the molecular and evolutionary mechanisms involved in the integration of cells and their genomes...