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The ocean's invisible forestPaul G Falkowski
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Department of Geology, Rutgers University, USA
Sci Am 287:54-61. 2002
Electrons, life and the evolution of Earth's oxygen cyclePaul G Falkowski
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:2705-16. 2008..The early coevolution of the C, N and O cycles, and the resulting non-equilibrium gaseous by-products can be used as a guide to search for the presence of life on terrestrial planets outside of our Solar System...
The microbial engines that drive Earth's biogeochemical cyclesPaul G Falkowski
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Science 320:1034-9. 2008..A major challenge in the coming decades is to understand how these machines evolved, how they work, and the processes that control their activity on both molecular and planetary scales...- Mix and match: how climate selects phytoplanktonPaul G Falkowski
Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 5:813-9. 2007..Understanding this chain of linked processes will allow informed predictions to be made about how phytoplankton communities will change in the future... - The rise of oxygen over the past 205 million years and the evolution of large placental mammalsPaul G Falkowski
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Science 309:2202-4. 2005.... - Geology. The story of O2Paul G Falkowski
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Science 322:540-2. 2008 - Controls on diatom biogeography in the oceanPedro Cermeño
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Science 325:1539-41. 2009.... - Evolution. Tracing oxygen's imprint on earth's metabolic evolutionPaul G Falkowski
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Science 311:1724-5. 2006 - Climatically driven macroevolutionary patterns in the size of marine diatoms over the CenozoicZoe V Finkel
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:8927-32. 2005.... - The role of nutricline depth in regulating the ocean carbon cyclePedro Cermeño
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:20344-9. 2008.... - Effects of iron limitation on the expression of metabolic genes in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101Tuo Shi
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Environ Microbiol 9:2945-56. 2007..The observed functional and compositional alterations represent the compromises in gene expression and acclimation capacity between two basic metabolic pathways competing for iron when it is limiting... - Membrane lipids of symbiotic algae are diagnostic of sensitivity to thermal bleaching in coralsDan Tchernov
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:13531-5. 2004..A clocked molecular phylogenetic analysis suggests that the evolutionary history of symbiotic algae in cnidarians selected for a reduced tolerance to elevated temperatures in the latter portion of the Cenozoic... - Photosynthetic energy storage efficiency in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, based on microsecond photoacousticsChengyi Yan
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Photosynth Res 108:215-24. 2011..Our results suggest that the shallow excitonic trap in PSII limits the efficiency of ES as a result of an evolutionary frozen metabolic framework of two photosystems in all oxygenic photoautotrophs... - The evolution of modern eukaryotic phytoplanktonPaul G Falkowski
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08540, USA
Science 305:354-60. 2004..Here we examine the geological, geochemical, and biological processes that contributed to the rise of these three, distantly related, phytoplankton groups... - Phytoplankton biogeography and community stability in the oceanPedro Cermeño
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
PLoS ONE 5:e10037. 2010..5 million years. Identifying the causes of this ecological stability is key for understanding the mechanisms that control the tempo and mode of community evolution... - Genomics and evolution. Shotgun sequencing in the sea: a blast from the past?Paul G Falkowski
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program and the Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Science 304:58-60. 2004 - Aragonite precipitation by "proto-polyps" in coral cell culturesTali Mass
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e35049. 2012..This approach provides a novel tool for investigating the biophysical mechanism of calcification in these organisms... - Localization and role of manganese superoxide dismutase in a marine diatomFelisa Wolfe-Simon
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
Plant Physiol 142:1701-9. 2006..The employment of a Mn-based SOD, linked to photosynthetic stress in T. pseudonana, may contribute to the continued success of diatoms in the low iron regions of the modern ocean... - The evolutionary inheritance of elemental stoichiometry in marine phytoplanktonAntonietta Quigg
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Jersey 08901, USA
Nature 425:291-4. 2003..The compositional differences between the two plastid superfamilies suggest that changes in ocean redox state strongly influenced the evolution and selection of eukaryotic phytoplankton since the Proterozoic era... - Proteomic analysis of skeletal organic matrix from the stony coral Stylophora pistillataJeana L Drake
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:3788-93. 2013.... - A kinetic model of non-photochemical quenching in cyanobacteriaMaxim Y Gorbunov
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Biochim Biophys Acta 1807:1591-9. 2011..NPQ decreases the functional absorption cross-section of Photosystem II, suggesting that formation of the quenched centers reduces the flux of absorbed energy from phycobilisomes to the reaction centers by approximately 50%... - Isolation and characterization of Erythrobacter sp. strains from the upper oceanMichal Koblizek
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, Institute of Coastal and Marine Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Arch Microbiol 180:327-38. 2003..They required an organic carbon substrate for growth; however, they are able to supplement a significant fraction of their metabolic requirements with photosynthetically derived energy... - Fossil genes and microbes in the oldest ice on earthKay D Bidle
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:13455-60. 2007..1 million years, thereby constraining the geological preservation of microbes in icy environments and the possible exchange of genetic material to the oceans... - Natural proportionsPaul G Falkowski
Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey 08540, USA
Nature 431:131. 2004 - Genome evolution in cyanobacteria: the stable core and the variable shellTuo Shi
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:2510-5. 2008..Our phylogenetic trees constructed from 16S rRNA gene sequences, concatenated orthologous proteins, and the core gene set all suggest that the ancestral cyanobacterium did not fix nitrogen and probably was a thermophilic organism... - Ocean science. A dive to Challenger DeepRichard A Lutz
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Science 336:301-2. 2012 - Cell death in planktonic, photosynthetic microorganismsKay D Bidle
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 2:643-55. 2004 - Adaptive evolution of phytoplankton cell sizeLin Jiang
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
Am Nat 166:496-505. 2005..These results suggest that evolutionary interactions between phytoplankton and zooplankton may have contributed to observed changes in phytoplankton sizes and associated biogeochemical cycles over geological time scales... - Extracellular matrix production and calcium carbonate precipitation by coral cells in vitroYael Helman
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program and Inorganic Analytical Laboratory, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:54-8. 2008..Our results demonstrate the ability of isolated, differentiated coral cells to undergo fundamental processes required for multicellular organization... - Protein interactions limit the rate of evolution of photosynthetic genes in cyanobacteriaTuo Shi
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, USA
Mol Biol Evol 22:2179-89. 2005..In effect, these core proteins have become "frozen metabolic accidents.".. - Diatom genomes come of ageAssaf Vardi
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08540, USA
Genome Biol 9:245. 2008..The results of two published genome sequences from marine diatoms provide basic insights into how these remarkable organisms evolved to become one of the most successful groups of eukaryotic algae in the contemporary ocean... - Plastid regulation of Lhcb1 transcription in the chlorophyte alga Dunaliella tertiolectaYi-Bu Chen
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8521, USA
Plant Physiol 136:3737-50. 2004..The regulation of these elements allows the cell to up- or down-regulate the expression on Lhcb1 in response to changes in irradiance... - Biophysical characterization of natural and mutant fluorescent proteins cloned from zooxanthellate coralsYi Sun
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
FEBS Lett 570:175-83. 2004..Time-resolved emission lifetimes and anisotropies suggest that the electronic structure of the chromophore is highly dependent on the protonation state of adjoining residues... - Universal constant for heat production in protistsMatthew D Johnson
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:6696-9. 2009.... - Southern Ocean iron enrichment experiment: carbon cycling in high- and low-Si watersKenneth H Coale
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039 9647, USA
Science 304:408-14. 2004..These experiments demonstrate iron's pivotal role in controlling carbon uptake and regulating atmospheric partial pressure of carbon dioxide... - Environment. Ocean iron fertilization--moving forward in a sea of uncertaintyKen O Buesseler
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Science 319:162. 2008 - Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivityMichael J Behrenfeld
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
Nature 444:752-5. 2006..The observed reductions in ocean productivity during the recent post-1999 warming period provide insight on how future climate change can alter marine food webs... - The role of functional traits and trade-offs in structuring phytoplankton communities: scaling from cellular to ecosystem levelElena Litchman
W K Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, 3700 East Gull Lake Drive, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA
Ecol Lett 10:1170-81. 2007..These diverse strategies of nutrient utilization can explain the distribution patterns of major functional groups and size classes along nutrient availability gradients... - Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton bloomsDennis J McGillicuddy
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543 1541, USA
Science 316:1021-6. 2007..In contrast, eddy/wind interactions dampen eddy-induced upwelling in cyclones. Carbon export inferred from oxygen anomalies in eddy cores is one to three times as much as annual new production for the region... - Discovery of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in coralsMichael P Lesser
Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Science 305:997-1000. 2004..The presence of this prokaryotic symbiont in a nitrogen-limited zooxanthellate coral suggests that nitrogen fixation may be an important source of this limiting element for the symbiotic association... - Cell death in the unicellular chlorophyte Dunaliella tertiolecta. A hypothesis on the evolution of apoptosis in higher plants and metazoansMaría Segovia
School of Biology and Biochemistry, Queen s University of Belfast, United Kingdom
Plant Physiol 132:99-105. 2003....