Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific OceanM B Karner
University of Hawaii, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu 96822, USA
Nature 409:507-10. 2001
..3 x 10(28) archaeal cells, and 3.1 x 10(28) bacterial cells. Our data suggest that pelagic crenarchaeota represent one of the ocean's single most abundant cell types...
- Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean
J P Zehr
Department of Ocean Sciences and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Nature 412:635-8. 2001
..Here we show that there are unicellular cyanobacteria in the open ocean that are expressing nitrogenase, and are abundant enough to potentially have a significant role in N dynamics...
Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean MarginFumio Inagaki
Subground Animalcule Retrieval Project, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:2815-20. 2006
..distribution of microbes and their phylogenetic diversities in deeply buried marine sediments of the Pacific Ocean Margins...
- Distinct patterns of genetic differentiation among annelids of eastern Pacific hydrothermal vents
L A Hurtado
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA
Mol Ecol 13:2603-15. 2004
..The present findings are compared with similar evidence from codistributed species of annelids, molluscs and crustaceans to identify potential dispersal filters in these eastern Pacific ridge systems...
- From anchovies to sardines and back: multidecadal change in the Pacific Ocean
Francisco P Chavez
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA
Science 299:217-21. 2003
In the Pacific Ocean, air and ocean temperatures, atmospheric carbon dioxide, landings of anchovies and sardines, and the productivity of coastal and open ocean ecosystems have varied over periods of about 50 years...
- Temporal patterns of nitrogenase gene (nifH) expression in the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean
Matthew J Church
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:5362-70. 2005
..planktonic nitrogenase genes (nifH) in the upper ocean (0 to 175 m) at Station ALOHA in the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean. Clone libraries constructed from reverse-transcribed PCR-amplified mRNA revealed six unique phylotypes...
Temporal variation of Synechococcus clades at a coastal Pacific Ocean monitoring siteVera Tai
Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093 0202, USA
ISME J 3:903-15. 2009
..from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography pier (La Jolla, CA, USA), a coastal site in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Synechococcus from clades I and IV were dominant throughout the time series and correlated with total ..
- Groups without cultured representatives dominate eukaryotic picophytoplankton in the oligotrophic South East Pacific Ocean
Xiao li Shi
UPMC Paris 06 and CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France
PLoS ONE 4:e7657. 2009
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- High rates of N2 fixation by unicellular diazotrophs in the oligotrophic Pacific Ocean
Joseph P Montoya
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Nature 430:1027-32. 2004
..Direct measurements of 15N2 fixation by small diazotrophs in various parts of the Pacific Ocean, including the waters off Hawaii where the unicellular diazotrophs were first characterized, show that N2 ..
- Shewanella loihica sp. nov., isolated from iron-rich microbial mats in the Pacific Ocean
Haichun Gao
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:1911-6. 2006
..strain, PV-4(T), isolated from a microbial mat located at a hydrothermal vent of Loihi Seamount in the Pacific Ocean, has been characterized...
- Controls on tropical Pacific Ocean productivity revealed through nutrient stress diagnostics
Michael J Behrenfeld
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Cordley Hall 2082, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331 2902, USA
Nature 442:1025-8. 2006
..and use these relationships to evaluate the factors that constrain phytoplankton growth in the tropical Pacific Ocean on an unprecedented spatial scale...
- Directional dispersal between mid-ocean ridges: deep-ocean circulation and gene flow in Ridgeia piscesae
C R Young
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039 9644, USA
Mol Ecol 17:1718-31. 2008
..Together, these data suggest that the northern vent fields may experience a higher frequency of habitat turnover and consequently more rapid losses of genetic diversity...
- Microbial community gene expression within colonies of the diazotroph, Trichodesmium, from the Southwest Pacific Ocean
Ian Hewson
Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
ISME J 3:1286-300. 2009
..of microbial gene utilization within colonies of Trichodesmium collected during a bloom in the Southwest Pacific Ocean in April 2007. The survey generated 5711-day and 5385-night putative mRNA reads...
- Mesoscale eddies drive increased silica export in the subtropical Pacific Ocean
Claudia R Benitez-Nelson
Department of Geological Sciences and Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Science 316:1017-21. 2007
..Instead, the system functioned as a selective silica pump. Strong trophic coupling and inefficient organic export may be general characteristics of community perturbation responses in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean.
- Photosynthetic picoeukaryote community structure in the South East Pacific Ocean encompassing the most oligotrophic waters on Earth
Cécile Lepère
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Environ Microbiol 11:3105-17. 2009
..Here, we analysed PPE community structure along a transect in the South East Pacific Ocean (BIOSOPE cruise) that encompassed a large trophic gradient, including hyper-oligotrophic waters in the South ..
- Loktanella agnita sp. nov. and Loktanella rosea sp. nov., from the north-west Pacific Ocean
Elena P Ivanova
Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:2203-7. 2005
..aerobic bacteria were isolated from sea-water and sediment samples collected in Chazhma Bay (Sea of Japan, Pacific Ocean)...
- Satellite tagging and cardiac physiology reveal niche expansion in salmon sharks
Kevin C Weng
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, 120 Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Science 310:104-6. 2005
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- Prokaryote diversity and virus abundance in shallow hydrothermal vents of the Mediterranean Sea (Panarea Island) and the Pacific Ocean (north Sulawesi-Indonesia)
E Manini
Institute of Marine Science, ISMAR CNR, Largo Fiera della Pesca, 60125 Ancona, Italy
Microb Ecol 55:626-39. 2008
..of four different shallow-water hydrothermal vents (three located in the Mediterranean Sea and one in the Pacific Ocean)...
- Globally distributed uncultivated oceanic N2-fixing cyanobacteria lack oxygenic photosystem II
Jonathan P Zehr
Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Science 322:1110-2. 2008
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- Phocine distemper virus in northern sea otters in the Pacific Ocean, Alaska, USA
Tracey Goldstein
Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 15:925-7. 2009
..virus (PDV) has caused 2 epidemics in harbor seals in the Atlantic Ocean but had never been identified in any Pacific Ocean species...
- Metagenomic analysis of coastal RNA virus communities
Alexander I Culley
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Science 312:1795-8. 2006
..Our results show that the oceans are a reservoir of previously unknown RNA viruses...
- Microbial community structure in the North Pacific ocean
Mark V Brown
NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
ISME J 3:1374-86. 2009
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- Isolation by distance and vicariance drive genetic structure of a coral reef fish in the Pacific Ocean
S Planes
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes ESA CNRS 8046, Universite de Perpignan, France
Evolution 56:378-99. 2002
..The genetic structure of A. triostegus throughout the tropical Pacific Ocean revealed a strong geographic pattern...
- Pleistocene isolation and recent gene flow in Haliotis asinina, an Indo-Pacific vetigastropod with limited dispersal capacity
Benardine Jeffrey
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Mol Ecol 16:289-304. 2007
..asinina phylogeography...
- Production of manoalide and its analogues by the sponge Luffariella variabilis Is hardwired
Piers Ettinger-Epstein
School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Mar Biotechnol (NY) 10:64-74. 2008
..However, these ratios varied between individuals, with some individuals consistently producing high levels of manoalide and manoalide monoacetate, providing the potential for selection of high-yielding stocks...
- Antibacterial and antilarval activity of deep-sea bacteria from sediments of the West Pacific Ocean
Ying Xu
Department of Biology Coastal Marine Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Biofouling 23:131-7. 2007
..study, crude ethyl acetate extracts of 176 strains of deep-sea bacteria, isolated from sediments of the West Pacific Ocean, were screened for their antibacterial activity against four test bacterial strains isolated from marine ..
- Sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: an ongoing legacy of industrial whaling?
A M Springer
Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:12223-8. 2003
..of seals, sea lions, and sea otters have sequentially collapsed over large areas of the northern North Pacific Ocean and southern Bering Sea during the last several decades...
- Phylogeographical structure of the Dover sole Microstomus pacificus: the larval retention hypothesis and genetic divergence along the deep continental slope of the northeastern Pacific Ocean
C A Stepien
Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106 7080, USA
Mol Ecol 8:923-39. 1999
..pacificus (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae), were examined along the continental slope of the north-eastern Pacific Ocean using sequences of the left domain of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region...
- Dispersal barriers and isolation among deep-sea mussel populations (Mytilidae: Bathymodiolus) from eastern Pacific hydrothermal vents
Y Won
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039-0628, USA
Mol Ecol 12:169-84. 2003
..structure, gene flow and isolation in vent-endemic mussels of the genus Bathymodiolus from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Mussels were sampled from localities including the Galapagos Rift (GAR, 0 degrees 48' N; 86 degrees 10' W) ..
- Migratory shearwaters integrate oceanic resources across the Pacific Ocean in an endless summer
Scott A Shaffer
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:12799-802. 2006
..Tracks (262+/-23 days) reveal that shearwaters fly across the entire Pacific Ocean in a figure-eight pattern while traveling 64,037+/-9,779 km roundtrip, the longest animal migration ever ..
- Assessing diversity and biogeography of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in surface waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans using the Global Ocean Sampling expedition metagenomes
Natalya Yutin
Biology Department, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Environ Microbiol 9:1464-75. 2007
..Our results support the notion that marine AAnP populations are complex and dynamic, and compose an important fraction of bacterioplankton assemblages in certain oceanic areas...
- Key role of selective viral-induced mortality in determining marine bacterial community composition
T Bouvier
CNRS UMR5119, Universite de Montpellier II, Case 093, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Environ Microbiol 9:287-97. 2007
..We further suggest that this mode of regulation may influence not just the distribution of single strains but of entire phylogenetic groups...
- Reconciling patterns of inter-ocean molecular variance from four classes of molecular markers in blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)
V P Buonaccorsi
School of Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA, USA
Mol Ecol 10:1179-96. 2001
..Mitochondrial and microsatellite loci revealed striking phylogeographic partitioning among Atlantic and Pacific Ocean samples...
- Defining DNA-based operational taxonomic units for microbial-eukaryote ecology
David 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...
- Quorum sensing antagonism from marine organisms
Mette Elena Skindersoe
Department of Bioscience and Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Mar Biotechnol (NY) 10:56-63. 2008
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- Nitrogen fixation in an anticyclonic eddy in the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean
Allison A Fong
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
ISME J 2:663-76. 2008
..These results suggest that mesoscale physical variability can play an important role in modifying the abundances of N(2) fixing microorganisms and associated rates of N(2) fixation in open ocean ecosystems...
- Community genomics among stratified microbial assemblages in the ocean's interior
Edward F DeLong
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Science 311:496-503. 2006
..Comparative genomic analyses of stratified microbial communities have the potential to provide significant insight into higher-order community organization and dynamics...
- Culturable marine actinomycete diversity from tropical Pacific Ocean sediments
Paul R Jensen
Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0204, USA
Environ Microbiol 7:1039-48. 2005
..These bacteria can be readily cultured using low nutrient media and represent an unexplored resource for pharmaceutical drug discovery...
- Morbillivirus infection in stranded common dolphins from the Pacific Ocean
T H Reidarson
Sea World of California, San Diego 92109, USA
J Wildl Dis 34:771-6. 1998
..The first individual to strand survived and was released back into the Pacific Ocean 14 mo later...
- Measurement and implications of nonphotochemically generated superoxide in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
Andrew L Rose
Centre for Water and Waste Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Environ Sci Technol 42:2387-93. 2008
..in the water column of the Costa Rica Dome (CRD) seasonal upwelling region of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. After 0...
- Genetic divergence between Atlantic and Indo-Pacific stocks of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) and admixture around South Africa
S Chow
National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, 5 7 1 Orido, Shimizu 424 8633, Japan
Mol Ecol 9:221-7. 2000
..The simple and diagnostic genetic marker found in this study can be used to estimate mixing ratios between Atlantic and Indian stocks around South Africa...
- Two new species of hydrothermal vent crabs of the genus Bythograea from the southern East Pacific Rise and from the Galapagos Rift (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Bythograeidae)
Danièle Guinot
Département Milieux et Peuplements Aquatiques, Museum national d histoire naturelle, 61, rue Buffon 75005 Paris, France
C R Biol 326:423-39. 2003
..galapagensis is the sister species of B. thermydron Williams. Bythograea is now composed of six described species, all endemic to hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise and from the Galapagos Rift...
- In situ cardiac performance of Pacific bluefin tuna hearts in response to acute temperature change
Jason M Blank
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
J Exp Biol 207:881-90. 2004
..In situ data from Pacific bluefin are compared to in situ measurements of cardiac performance in yellowfin tuna and preliminary results from albacore tuna...
- Thermosipho melanesiensis sp. nov., a new thermophilic anaerobic bacterium belonging to the order Thermotogales, isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
E Antoine
Laboratoire de Biotechnologie des Microorganismes Hydrothermaux, DRV VP, Center IFREMER de Brest, France
Int J Syst Bacteriol 47:1118-23. 1997
..from the gills of a deep-sea vent hydrothermal mussel, Bathymodiolus brevior, from the Lau Basin (Southwestern Pacific Ocean)...
- Inverse relationship between F and microsatellite polymorphism in the marine fish, walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma): implications for resolving weak population structure
M F Canino
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 4A2, USA
Mol Ecol 13:1799-814. 2004
..Genetic differentiation at 14 microsatellite loci among six putative populations from across the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea was weak but significant on large geographical scales and conformed to an isolation-by-distance ..
- Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity
S Y Moon-van der Staay
Station Biologique, , Roscoff, France
Nature 409:607-10. 2001
..ribosomal RNA gene derived from a picoplanktonic assemblage collected at a depth of 75 m in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and show that there is a high diversity of picoeukaryotes...
- Marine debris collects within the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone
William G Pichel
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Room 102 WWB, 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746, USA
Mar Pollut Bull 54:1207-11. 2007
..A Debris Estimated Likelihood Index (DELI) was developed to predict where high concentrations of debris would be most likely in the North Pacific during spring and early summer...
- Migration, isolation, and speciation of hydrothermal vent limpets (Gastropoda; Lepetodrilidae) across the Blanco Transform Fault
Shannon B Johnson
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, California, USA
Biol Bull 210:140-57. 2006
..and Blanco Transform Fault separate the Explorer, Juan de Fuca, and Gorda ridge systems of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. To test whether such offsets in the ridge axis create barriers to along-axis dispersal of the endemic ..
- Rapid stepwise onset of Antarctic glaciation and deeper calcite compensation in the Pacific Ocean
Helen K Coxall
Southampton Oceanography Centre, School of Ocean and Earth Science, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK
Nature 433:53-7. 2005
..records of calcium carbonate content as well as carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions from the tropical Pacific Ocean that cover the Eocene/Oligocene boundary...
- Biomass, size, and trophic status of top predators in the Pacific Ocean
John Sibert
Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Science 314:1773-6. 2006
Fisheries have removed at least 50 million tons of tuna and other top-level predators from the Pacific Ocean pelagic ecosystem since 1950, leading to concerns about a catastrophic reduction in population biomass and the collapse of ..
- Constrained circulation at Endeavour ridge facilitates colonization by vent larvae
Richard E Thomson
Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, British Columbia, V8L 4B2, Canada
Nature 424:545-9. 2003
..Larvae are then exported preferentially down-ridge during regional flow events that intermittently over-ride the currents within the valley...
- Distinguishing random environmental fluctuations from ecological catastrophes for the North Pacific Ocean
Chih-hao Hsieh
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0202, USA
Nature 435:336-40. 2005
..Here we show that time series observations of key physical variables for the North Pacific Ocean that seem to show these behaviours are not deterministically nonlinear, and are best described as linear ..
- Toxaphene and other persistent organochlorine pesticides in three species of albatrosses from the north and south Pacific Ocean
Derek C G Muir
National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Burlington, Ontario
Environ Toxicol Chem 21:413-23. 2002
..Diomedea immutabilis) and in fat and eggs of blackfooted albatross (Diomedea nigripes) from the central north Pacific Ocean. The HCH isomers and chlordane- and DDT-related compounds were also determined in eggs of northern royal ..
- Expanded niche for white sharks
Andre M Boustany
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University and Monterey Bay Aquarium, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California 93950, USA
Nature 415:35-6. 2002
..Here we report the tracking of movements of white sharks by using pop-up satellite archival tags, which reveal that their migratory movements, depth and ambient thermal ranges are wider than was previously thought...
- Sequence analysis of marine virus communities reveals that groups of related algal viruses are widely distributed in nature
Steven M Short
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 6720 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Appl Environ Microbiol 68:1290-6. 2002
..Natural algal virus communities were obtained from coastal sites in the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, Canada, and the Southern Ocean near the Antarctic peninsula...
- The shifting baseline of northern fur seal ecology in the northeast Pacific Ocean
Seth D Newsome
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:9709-14. 2007
..P., long before European contact. The relative roles of human hunting versus climatic factors in explaining this ecological shift are unclear, as more paleoclimate information is needed from the coastal zone...
- High abundances of aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria in the South Pacific Ocean
Raphael Lami
Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, UMR7621 INSU CNRS, BP44, F 66650 Banyuls sur Mer, France
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:4198-205. 2007
..We investigated the abundance of AAP bacteria across the South Pacific Ocean, including the center of the gyre, the most oligotrophic water body of the world ocean...
- Thermal stress and coral cover as drivers of coral disease outbreaks
John F Bruno
Department of Marine Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
PLoS Biol 5:e124. 2007
..Our results indicate that the frequency of temperature anomalies, which is predicted to increase in most tropical oceans, can increase the susceptibility of corals to disease, leading to outbreaks where corals are abundant...
- Fisheries productivity in the northeastern Pacific Ocean over the past 2,200 years
Bruce P Finney
Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775 7220, USA
Nature 416:729-33. 2002
..The coherent patterns observed across large regions demonstrate the strong role of climatic forcing in regulating northeastern Pacific fish stocks...
- Vertical distribution and characterization of aerobic phototrophic bacteria at the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean
Christopher Rathgeber
Department of Microbiology, The University of Manitoba, 422 Buller Building, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3T 2N2
Photosynth Res 97:235-44. 2008
..anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria was investigated at five sites at or near the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. Twelve similar strains of obligately aerobic phototrophic bacteria were isolated in pure culture, from depths ..
- Archaeoglobus infectus sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, chemolithoheterotrophic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea rock collected at Suiyo Seamount, Izu-Bonin Arc, western Pacific Ocean
Koji Mori
NITE Biological Resource Center NBRC, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation NITE, 2 5 8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292 0818, Japan
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:810-6. 2008
..from a rock sample collected from a deep-sea hydrothermal field in Suiyo Seamount, Izu-Bonin Arc, western Pacific Ocean. Cells of the isolate were irregular cocci with single flagella and exhibited blue-green fluorescence at 436 ..
- Ubiquity and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in water columns and sediments of the ocean
Christopher A Francis
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:14683-8. 2005
..Considering the abundance of nonextremophilic archaea in the ocean, our results suggest that AOA may play a significant, but previously unrecognized, role in the global nitrogen cycle...
- One-third of reef-building corals face elevated extinction risk from climate change and local impacts
Kent E Carpenter
IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Programme Species Survival Commission SSC, Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
Science 321:560-3. 2008
..Our results emphasize the widespread plight of coral reefs and the urgent need to enact conservation measures...
- Distinct distribution pattern of abundance and diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in the global ocean
Nianzhi Jiao
National Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Environ Microbiol 9:3091-9. 2007
..Our results suggest that AAPB abundance and diversity follow opposite trends from oligotrophic to eutrophic regimes in the ocean...
- Isolation, gene detection and solvent tolerance of benzene, toluene and xylene degrading bacteria from nearshore surface water and Pacific Ocean sediment
Lin Wang
Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, The Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Daxue Road 178, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, People s Republic of China
Extremophiles 12:335-42. 2008
BTX (benzene, toluene and xylene) degrading bacteria were isolated from Pacific Ocean sediment and nearshore surface water...
- Trends in selenium utilization in marine microbial world revealed through the analysis of the global ocean sampling (GOS) project
Yan Zhang
Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
PLoS Genet 4:e1000095. 2008
..Overall, our study provides insights into global trends in microbial selenium utilization in marine environments...
- Methanococcus aeolicus sp. nov., a mesophilic, methanogenic archaeon from shallow and deep marine sediments
Melissa M Kendall
Biology Department, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207 0751, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:1525-9. 2006
..The name Methanococcus aeolicus sp. nov. is proposed, with strain Nankai-3(T) (=OCM 812(T)=DSM 17508(T)) as the type strain...
- Thermophily in the Geobacteraceae: Geothermobacter ehrlichii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic member of the Geobacteraceae from the "Bag City" hydrothermal vent
Kazem Kashefi
Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, 203 Morrill Science Center IVN, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:2985-93. 2003
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- Diversity of algal endosymbionts (zooxanthellae) in octocorals: the roles of geography and host relationships
M J H van Oppen
Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No 3, Townsville MC, Qld 4810, Australia
Mol Ecol 14:2403-17. 2005
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- Accidental discharge of brodifacoum baits in a tidal marine environment: a case study
T Primus
Landcare Research, Post Office Box 69, Lincoln 8152, New Zealand
Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 74:913-9. 2005
- Different Planctomycetes diversity patterns in latitudinal surface seawater of the open sea and in sediment
Qinglong Shu
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P R China
J Microbiol 46:154-9. 2008
..was applied to investigate the diversity of Planctomycetes in latitudinal surface seawater of the Western Pacific Ocean. The results revealed that the Pirellula-Rhodopirellula-Blastopirellula clade dominated the Planctomycetes ..
- Paenibacillus donghaensis sp. nov., a xylan-degrading and nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from East Sea sediment
Jeong Hwa Choi
Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology Research, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 361 763, Korea
J Microbiol Biotechnol 18:189-93. 2008
..Based on the phylogenetic, phenotypic, and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain JH8T would appear to belong to a novel species, for which the name Paenibacillus donghaensis sp. nov. is proposed (type strain =KCTC 13049T=LMG 23780T)...
- Thalassospira xiamenensis sp. nov. and Thalassospira profundimaris sp. nov
Chenli Liu
Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, PR China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:316-20. 2007
..from the surface water of a waste-oil pool in a coastal dock and from a deep-sea sediment sample from the West Pacific Ocean, respectively...
- Genomic islands and the ecology and evolution of Prochlorococcus
Maureen L Coleman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Science 311:1768-70. 2006
..Genomic islands in this free-living photoautotroph share features with pathogenicity islands of parasitic bacteria, suggesting a general mechanism for niche differentiation in microbial species...
- Microbial population structures in the deep marine biosphere
Julie A Huber
Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Science 318:97-100. 2007
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- Evidence for hydrothermal Archaea within the basaltic flanks of the East Pacific Rise
Christopher J Ehrhardt
Department of Earth Sciences, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Environ Microbiol 9:900-12. 2007
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- [Discoloration of microalgal blooms as a bioindicating parameter in the Bahia de Mazatlán, México]
Roberto Cortés-Altamirano
Laboratorio de Plancton, Unidad Académica Mazatlán ICMyL UNAM, Apdo Postal 811, C P, 82040 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
Rev Biol Trop 52:27-34. 2004
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- PCB contamination in surface sediments in the coastal waters of Costa Rica
Alison L Spongberg
Department of Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Mail Stop 604, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606 3390, USA
Rev Biol Trop 52:1-10. 2004
..80 ng/g dw, with a standard deviation of 2.75. The low concentration could be due to lack of contamination or the subsequent degradation in the warm climate, or the low sorptive capacity of the sediment. Further investigation is ongoing...
- PCB concentrations in sediments from the Gulf of Nicoya estuary, Pacific coast of Costa Rica
Alison L Spongberg
Department of Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences, M S 604, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606 3390, USA
Rev Biol Trop 52:11-22. 2004
..Considering the presence of airborne PCBs in the Gulf of Papagayo to the north, the lack of airborne PCBs and more varied congener distribution in the Gulf of Nicoya estuary was surprising...
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Mausmi P Mehta
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Science 314:1783-6. 2006
..This increase in the temperature limit of nitrogen fixation could reveal a broader range of conditions for life in the subseafloor biosphere and other nitrogen-limited ecosystems than previously estimated...
- PCB contamination in marine sediments from Golfo Dulce, Pacific coast of Costa Rica
Alison L Spongberg
Department of Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences, M S 604, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606 3390, USA
Rev Biol Trop 52:23-32. 2004
..Overall, the data from Golfo Dulce show moderate PCB contamination, despite the pristine nature of the gulf and surrounding lands...
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Marco A Quesada-Alpízar
Programa Regional de Posgrado en Biologia, Sistema de Estudios de Posgrado, Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2060, San Jose, Costa Rica
Rev Biol Trop 52:95-103. 2004
..These events might be related to the same forces driving the coastal upwelling system in the Gulf of Panama...
- Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system
Fumio Inagaki
Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Program, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:14164-9. 2006
..Clearly, the Yonaguni Knoll is an exceptional natural laboratory for the study of consequences of CO2 disposal as well as of natural CO2 reservoirs as potential microbial habitats on early Earth and other celestial bodies...
- Detection of glycolate oxidase gene glcD diversity among cultured and environmental marine bacteria
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School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Environ Microbiol 8:1688-702. 2006
..Glycolate is produced in marine environments mainly by phytoplankton. Examination of glcD diversity will aid in understanding the influence of phytoplankton on bacterial community structure...
- Construction and preliminary analysis of a metagenomic library from a deep-sea sediment of east Pacific Nodule Province
Meixiang Xu
Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 62:233-41. 2007
..The data suggest that the retrieved DNA in 17H9 might be derived from a novel Magnetospirillum species...
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Laboratoire de Biochimie des Signaux Régulateurs Cellulaires et Moléculaires, FRE 2621, CNRS, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, 96, bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, France
C R Biol 329:527-40. 2006
..Moreover to survive in these environments, living organisms have developed various strategies to protect themselves against toxic molecules such as H2S and heavy metals...
- Strong top-down control in southern California kelp forest ecosystems
Benjamin S Halpern
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Science 312:1230-2. 2006
..Management of top-down influences such as fishing may be more important in coastal marine ecosystems, particularly in kelp forest systems, than is commonly thought...
- Oceanographic basis of the global surface distribution of Prochlorococcus ecotypes
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Laboratorio de Procesos Oceanográficos y Clima, Departamento de Oceanografia, and Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica en el Pacífico Sur Oriental, Universidad de Concepcion, Casilla 160 C, Concepcion, Chile
Science 312:918-21. 2006
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- Alcanivorax dieselolei sp. nov., a novel alkane-degrading bacterium isolated from sea water and deep-sea sediment
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Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, People's Republic of China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:1181-6. 2005
..B-5(T) and NO1A, were isolated from the surface water of the Bohai Sea and deep-sea sediment of the east Pacific Ocean, respectively...
- Alteromonas addita sp. nov
Elena P Ivanova
Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:1065-8. 2005
..bacterium designated R10SW13(T) was isolated from sea water samples collected in Chazhma Bay (Sea of Japan, Pacific Ocean)...
- Shifts in deep-sea community structure linked to climate and food supply
Henry A Ruhl
Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0202, USA
Science 305:513-5. 2004
..Such faunal changes highlight the importance of an adequate temporal perspective in describing biodiversity, ecology, and anthropogenic impacts in deep-sea communities...
- Identity and diversity of coral endosymbionts (zooxanthellae) from three Palauan reefs with contrasting bleaching, temperature and shading histories
K E Fabricius
Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3, Townsville MC, Qld 4810, Australia
Mol Ecol 13:2445-58. 2004
..Future increases in seawater temperature might, therefore, result in an increasing prevalence of Symbiodinium phylotype D in scleractinian corals, possibly associated with a loss of diversity in both zooxanthellae and corals...
- Multiple trans-Pacific migrations of deep-sea vent/seep-endemic bivalves in the family Vesicomyidae
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Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 164-8639, Japan
Mol Phylogenet Evol 32:396-406. 2004
- Challenges of modeling ocean basin ecosystems
Brad deYoung
Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University, St John s, Canada
Science 304:1463-6. 2004
..We discuss a strategy that builds on recent advances in modeling and observations and suggest a way forward that includes approaches to coupling across trophic levels and the inclusion of uncertainty...
- Are hydrothermal vents oases for parasitic protists?
David Moreira
Unité d Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, UMR CNRS 8079, Universite Paris Sud, Batiment 360, 91405 Orsay, France
Trends Parasitol 19:556-8. 2003
- Prevalence of the Chloroflexi-related SAR202 bacterioplankton cluster throughout the mesopelagic zone and deep ocean
R M Morris
Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 9733, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:2836-42. 2004
..Atlantic time series study site in the north Atlantic Ocean, the Hawaii ocean time series site in the central Pacific Ocean, and along the Newport hydroline in eastern Pacific coastal waters showed that SAR202 cluster cells were most ..
- Interdecadal variation in the extent of South Pacific tropical waters during the Younger Dryas event
Thierry Corrège
UR 055 Paléotropique, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, BP A5, Noumea, New Caledonia
Nature 428:927-9. 2004
..in growth position on the raised reef terraces of Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu, in the southwestern tropical Pacific Ocean. Our data indicate that sea surface temperatures in Vanuatu were on average 4.5 +/- 1...
- Fluids from aging ocean crust that support microbial life
James P Cowen
Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Science 299:120-3. 2003
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- Millennial and orbital variations of El Niño/Southern Oscillation and high-latitude climate in the last glacial period
Chris S M Turney
School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen s University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Nature 428:306-10. 2004
..We suggest that climate variations in the tropical Pacific Ocean on millennial as well as orbital timescales, which determined precipitation in northeastern Australia, also ..
- Global change: Monsoon linkages
Rainer Zahn
Nature 421:324-5. 2003
- Coral record of increased sediment flux to the inner Great Barrier Reef since European settlement
Malcolm McCulloch
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia
Nature 421:727-30. 2003
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