zooplankton

Summary

Summary: Minute free-floating animal organisms which live in practically all natural waters.

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Giant virus with a remarkable complement of genes infects marine zooplankton
    Matthias G Fischer
    Department of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:19508-13. 2010
  2. ncbi Bacteria of the gamma-subclass Proteobacteria associated with zooplankton in Chesapeake Bay
    J F Heidelberg
    Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 68:5498-507. 2002
  3. ncbi Experimental evidence that phenotypic divergence in predators drives community divergence in prey
    Eric P Palkovacs
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8106, USA
    Ecology 90:300-5. 2009
  4. ncbi Association of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor and O139 Bengal with the Copepods Acartia tonsa and Eurytemora affinis
    Tonya K Rawlings
    Institute for Advanced Computer Sciences, University of Maryland, 296 Biomolecular Sciences Building, Room 3103, College Park, MD 20742, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 73:7926-33. 2007
  5. ncbi Assessment of the environmental fate and effects of ivermectin in aquatic mesocosms
    Hans Sanderson
    National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Policy Analysis, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, Post Box 358, DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
    Aquat Toxicol 85:229-40. 2007
  6. ncbi Assessing structural and functional plankton responses to carbendazim toxicity
    Diana M E Slijkerman
    TNO Environment, Energy and Process Innovation, Department of Ecological Risk Studies, PO Box 57, 1780 AB Den Helder, The Netherlands
    Environ Toxicol Chem 23:455-62. 2004
  7. ncbi Habitat structure determines resource use by zooplankton in temperate lakes
    Tessa B Francis
    Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Ecol Lett 14:364-72. 2011
  8. ncbi Allee effect limits colonization success of sexually reproducing zooplankton
    Andrew M Kramer
    Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
    Ecology 89:2760-9. 2008
  9. ncbi Zooplankton diversity analysis through single-gene sequencing of a community sample
    Ryuji J Machida
    Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1 15 1 Minamidai, Nakano Ku, Tokyo 164 8639, Japan
    BMC Genomics 10:438. 2009
  10. ncbi The noncosmopolitanism paradigm of freshwater zooplankton: insights from the global phylogeography of the predatory cladoceran Polyphemus pediculus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Crustacea, Onychopoda)
    S Xu
    Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, ON, Canada
    Mol Ecol 18:5161-79. 2009

Research Grants

  1. EPIDEMIOLOGY & ECOLOGY OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE IN BANGLADESH
    Richard Sack; Fiscal Year: 2000
  2. Epidemiology and Ecology of Vibrio cholerae in Bangladesh
    Richard Bradley Sack; Fiscal Year: 2010
  3. Vibrio Cholerae Colonization of Chitin Surfaces
    Gary Schoolnik; Fiscal Year: 2007
  4. EPIDEMIOLOGY & ECOLOGY OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE IN BANGLADESH
    Richard Sack; Fiscal Year: 2007
  5. DNA REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 2009
  6. DNA REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 1993
  7. DNA REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 2000
  8. DNA REPLICATION & GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 1991
  9. DNA REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 2004
  10. PAH/Metal exposure and effects assessment in Chattanooga
    Sean Richards; Fiscal Year: 2004

Detail Information

Publications240 found, 100 shown here

  1. ncbi Giant virus with a remarkable complement of genes infects marine zooplankton
    Matthias G Fischer
    Department of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:19508-13. 2010
    ..CroV is a highly complex marine virus and the only virus studied in genetic detail that infects one of the major groups of predators in the oceans...
  2. ncbi Bacteria of the gamma-subclass Proteobacteria associated with zooplankton in Chesapeake Bay
    J F Heidelberg
    Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 68:5498-507. 2002
    ..mimicus, Vibrio cincinnatiensis, and Vibrio vulnificus in the Choptank River of Chesapeake Bay associated with zooplankton was monitored from April to December 1996...
  3. ncbi Experimental evidence that phenotypic divergence in predators drives community divergence in prey
    Eric P Palkovacs
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8106, USA
    Ecology 90:300-5. 2009
    ..To examine the effects of predator trait divergence on prey communities, we exposed zooplankton communities in lake mesocosms to predation from either anadromous or landlocked (freshwater resident) alewives, ..
  4. ncbi Association of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor and O139 Bengal with the Copepods Acartia tonsa and Eurytemora affinis
    Tonya K Rawlings
    Institute for Advanced Computer Sciences, University of Maryland, 296 Biomolecular Sciences Building, Room 3103, College Park, MD 20742, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 73:7926-33. 2007
    The association of Vibrio cholerae with zooplankton has been suggested as an important factor in transmission of human epidemic cholera, and the ability to colonize zooplankton surfaces may play a role in the temporal variation and ..
  5. ncbi Assessment of the environmental fate and effects of ivermectin in aquatic mesocosms
    Hans Sanderson
    National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Policy Analysis, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, Post Box 358, DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
    Aquat Toxicol 85:229-40. 2007
    ..This is the first study to demonstrate the potential environmental risk of ivermectin at or below the predicted environmental concentration using a standardized test methodology (mesocosm) with minimal extrapolation uncertainty...
  6. ncbi Assessing structural and functional plankton responses to carbendazim toxicity
    Diana M E Slijkerman
    TNO Environment, Energy and Process Innovation, Department of Ecological Risk Studies, PO Box 57, 1780 AB Den Helder, The Netherlands
    Environ Toxicol Chem 23:455-62. 2004
    ..magna were compared with effects on zooplankton species richness (ecosystem structure) and development of phytoplankton biomass (ecosystem function)...
  7. ncbi Habitat structure determines resource use by zooplankton in temperate lakes
    Tessa B Francis
    Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Ecol Lett 14:364-72. 2011
    ..Estimates of terrestrial contributions to lake zooplankton have omitted a key food source, phytoplankton produced below the mixed layer...
  8. ncbi Allee effect limits colonization success of sexually reproducing zooplankton
    Andrew M Kramer
    Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
    Ecology 89:2760-9. 2008
    ..Together, these lines of evidence support the importance of the Allee effect to population recovery of H. shoshone in the Sierra Nevada, and to diaptomid copepods in general...
  9. ncbi Zooplankton diversity analysis through single-gene sequencing of a community sample
    Ryuji J Machida
    Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1 15 1 Minamidai, Nakano Ku, Tokyo 164 8639, Japan
    BMC Genomics 10:438. 2009
    ..Among the components of the ocean ecosystem, zooplankton play vital roles in energy and matter transfer through the system...
  10. ncbi The noncosmopolitanism paradigm of freshwater zooplankton: insights from the global phylogeography of the predatory cladoceran Polyphemus pediculus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Crustacea, Onychopoda)
    S Xu
    Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, ON, Canada
    Mol Ecol 18:5161-79. 2009
    ..In contrast, little genetic subdivision is apparent across the formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America, areas that historical demographic analyses suggest that were recolonized just 5500-24 000 years ago...
  11. ncbi High plankton densities reduce mercury biomagnification
    Celia Y Chen
    Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
    Environ Sci Technol 39:115-21. 2005
    ..4-45 microm), two size classes of zooplankton (45-202 and >202 microm), and fish to phytoplankton and zooplankton densities from 20 lakes in the northeastern ..
  12. ncbi Trophic cascades in a formerly cod-dominated ecosystem
    Kenneth T Frank
    Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Ocean Sciences Division, Post Office Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 4A2, Canada
    Science 308:1621-3. 2005
    ..Several cod stocks in other geographic areas have also collapsed without recovery, suggesting the existence of trophic cascades in these systems...
  13. ncbi Effects of global climate on infectious disease: the cholera model
    Erin K Lipp
    Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA
    Clin Microbiol Rev 15:757-70. 2002
    ..The cholera model provides a template for future research on climate-sensitive diseases, allowing definition of critical parameters and offering a means of developing more sophisticated methods for prediction of disease outbreaks...
  14. ncbi Global biodiversity patterns of marine phytoplankton and zooplankton
    Xabier Irigoien
    AZTI, Arrantza eta Elikaigintzarako Institutu Teknologikoa, Herrera Kaia Portualdea, 20110 Pasaia, Spain
    Nature 429:863-7. 2004
    ..the oceans cover 70% of the Earth's surface, our knowledge of biodiversity patterns in marine phytoplankton and zooplankton is very limited compared to that of the biodiversity of plants and herbivores in the terrestrial world...
  15. ncbi In deep trouble: habitat selection constrained by multiple enemies in zooplankton
    Ellen Decaestecker
    Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Catholic University of Leuven, Charles De Beriotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:5481-5. 2002
    ..This tradeoff highlights a substantial cost of predator-induced changes in habitat selection behavior. Tradeoffs caused by multiple enemies may explain genetic polymorphism for habitat selection behavior in many natural populations...
  16. ncbi Effects of the pyrethroid insecticide, cypermethrin, on a freshwater community studied under field conditions. I. Direct and indirect effects on abundance measures of organisms at different trophic levels
    Ursula Friberg-Jensen
    Freshwater Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Helsingørsgade 51, DK 3400 Hillerød, Denmark
    Aquat Toxicol 63:357-71. 2003
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  17. ncbi Trajectories of zooplankton recovery in the Little Rock Lake whole-lake acidification experiment
    Thomas M Frost
    Trout Lake Station, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 10810 County Highway N, Boulder Junction, Wisconsin 54512, USA
    Ecol Appl 16:353-67. 2006
    ..Here we report on zooplankton community recovery following the experimental acidification of Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin, USA...
  18. ncbi The species sensitivity distribution approach compared to a microcosm study: a case study with the fungicide fluazinam
    R P A Van Wijngaarden
    Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P O Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
    Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 73:109-22. 2010
    ..The 10 microgL(-1) treatment resulted in short-term effects on a few zooplankton taxa. Clear effects were observed at 50 and 250 microgL(-1)...
  19. ncbi Measuring and modeling dispersal of adult zooplankton
    Michael R Allen
    Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
    Oecologia 153:135-43. 2007
    ..Wetlands are one such system that have undergone excessive destruction and fragmentation in recent years. Zooplankton within these communities have historically been considered frequent and widespread dispersers, but direct, ..
  20. ncbi Effects of ultraviolet radiation on pigmentation, photoenzymatic repair, behavior, and community ecology of zooplankton
    Lars Anders Hansson
    Lund University, Institute of Ecology Limnology, Ecology Building, SE 223 62, Lund, Sweden
    Photochem Photobiol Sci 8:1266-75. 2009
    In this report, we provide a perspective on how zooplankton are able to respond to present and future levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, a threat that has been present throughout evolutionary time...
  21. ncbi Harmful effects of un-ionised ammonia on the zooplankton community in a deep waste treatment pond
    M Arauzo
    Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales, C S I C, Serrano 115 dpdo, 28006 Madrid, Spain
    Water Res 37:1048-54. 2003
    The harmful effects of NH(3) on the zooplankton community in a deep waste treatment pond were evaluated under natural conditions...
  22. ncbi Effect of algal and bacterial diet on methyl mercury concentrations in zooplankton
    Martin Kainz
    Water and Watershed Research Program, Department of Biology, University of Victoria, STN CSC, Victoria BC V8W 3N5, Canada
    Environ Sci Technol 39:1666-72. 2005
    We studied the effect of zooplankton diet on MeHg accumulation in different zooplankton size-fractions from lakes of different trophic status...
  23. ncbi Impact of triphenyltin acetate in microcosms simulating floodplain lakes. I. Influence of sediment quality
    I Roessink
    Alterra, Wageningen UR, P O Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
    Ecotoxicology 15:267-93. 2006
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  24. ncbi Swimming against the flow: a mechanism of zooplankton aggregation
    Amatzia Genin
    Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences and the Hebrew University, Eilat, Israel
    Science 308:860-2. 2005
    b>Zooplankton reside in a constantly flowing environment...
  25. ncbi Effects of lambda-cyhalothrin in two ditch microcosm systems of different trophic status
    Ivo Roessink
    Alterra, Wageningen UR, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
    Environ Toxicol Chem 24:1684-96. 2005
    ..Indirect effects (e.g., increase of rotifers and microcrustaceans) were more pronounced in the plankton-dominated test systems, particularly at treatment levels of 25 ng/L and higher...
  26. ncbi Large nonlethal effects of an invasive invertebrate predator on zooplankton population growth rate
    Kevin L Pangle
    Michigan State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, 13 Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 1222, USA
    Ecology 88:402-12. 2007
    ..We focused on the effects of an invasive invertebrate predator, Bythotrephes longimanus, on zooplankton prey populations in Lakes Michigan and Erie...
  27. ncbi Ecological impact of repeated applications of chlorpyrifos on zooplankton community in mesocosms under Mediterranean conditions
    Patricia López-Mancisidor
    Laboratory for Ecotoxicology, Department of the Environment, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, A 6, km 7 5, 28040 Madrid, Spain
    Ecotoxicology 17:811-25. 2008
    ..Indirect effects on zooplankton populations were observed due to shifts in competition and predation between populations...
  28. ncbi Independent gradients of producer, consumer, and microbial diversity in lake plankton
    Allyson Longmuir
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Ecology 88:1663-74. 2007
    ..Here we examine correlations in diversity among zooplankton, phytoplankton, and bacteria in the pelagic zone of 31 lakes in British Columbia, Canada...
  29. ncbi Does dispersal limitation impact the recovery of zooplankton communities damaged by a regional stressor?
    Derek K Gray
    Department of Biology, Queen s University, 116 Barrie Street, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3J9, Canada
    Ecol Appl 21:1241-56. 2011
    ..In this study, we sought to determine if dispersal limitation could impede the recovery of zooplankton communities affected by a regional stressor...
  30. ncbi The scale of divergence: a phylogenetic appraisal of intercontinental allopatric speciation in a passively dispersed freshwater zooplankton genus
    Sarah J Adamowicz
    Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ont, Canada N2L 3G1
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 50:423-36. 2009
    Molecular studies have enlightened our understanding of freshwater zooplankton biogeography, yet questions remain regarding the scale and commonality of geographic speciation...
  31. ncbi Trophic transfer of cyanobacterial toxins from zooplankton to planktivores: consequences for pike larvae and mysid shrimps
    Miina Karjalainen
    Finnish Institute of Marine Research, P O Box 33, FIN 00931 Helsinki, Finland
    Environ Toxicol 20:354-62. 2005
    The aim of this study was to evaluate the potentially harmful effects of zooplankton preexposed to cyanobacteria on two planktivorous animals: a fish larva (pike, Esox lucius) and a mysid shrimp (Neomysis integer)...
  32. ncbi Zooplankton community responses to chlorpyrifos in mesocosms under Mediterranean conditions
    Patricia López-Mancisidor
    Department of the Environment, Laboratory for Ecotoxicology, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, Madrid, Spain
    Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 71:16-25. 2008
    The effects of chlorpyrifos (organophosphate insecticide) on zooplankton were studied in outdoor experimental tanks (mesocosms) sited in the Mediterranean Region (Madrid, Spain) at two nominal concentrations of chlorpyrifos (0...
  33. ncbi Uptake and accumulation of dissolved, radiolabeled nodularin in Baltic Sea zooplankton
    M Karjalainen
    Finnish Institute of Marine Research, PO Box 33, FIN-00931 Helsinki, Finland
    Environ Toxicol 18:52-60. 2003
    ..Therefore, we wanted to use a precise and sensitive method to study toxin uptake and accumulation in zooplankton. We used chemically tritiated nodularin, (3)H-dihydronodularin, to study the uptake of dissolved nodularin, a ..
  34. ncbi Temporal, spatial, and between-host comparisons of patterns of parasitism in lake zooplankton
    Meghan A Duffy
    School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332 0230, USA
    Ecology 91:3322-31. 2010
    ..dentifera. Overall, this study demonstrates a method for parsing patterns of variation and covariation in infection prevalence data, providing greater insight into the relative importance of different underlying drivers of parasitism...
  35. ncbi Tracking the small with the smallest--using nanotechnology in tracking zooplankton
    Mercy Lard
    Institute of Biology, Limnology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    PLoS ONE 5:e13516. 2010
    ..in close cooperation between biologists, chemists and physicists, offers new opportunities to routinely study zooplankton responses to light, food and predation, opening up advancements within research areas such as diel vertical/..
  36. ncbi Polarization sensitivity as a contrast enhancer in pelagic predators: lessons from in situ polarization imaging of transparent zooplankton
    Sonke Johnsen
    Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:655-70. 2011
    ..sensitivity found in certain pelagic species may serve to enhance the contrast of their transparent zooplankton prey...
  37. ncbi Strong evidence for terrestrial support of zooplankton in small lakes based on stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen
    Jonathan J Cole
    Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:1975-80. 2011
    ..Here, we adopt a unique approach by using stable isotopes of H, C, and N to estimate terrestrial support to zooplankton in two contrasting lakes...
  38. ncbi Phytoplankton, not allochthonous carbon, sustains herbivorous zooplankton production
    Michael T Brett
    Department of Civil Engineering, Box 352700, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 2700, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:21197-201. 2009
    ..suggest terrestrial particulate organic carbon (t-POC) inputs account for a disproportionate portion of zooplankton production...
  39. ncbi Effects of time-variable exposure regimes of the insecticide chlorpyrifos on freshwater invertebrate communities in microcosms
    Mazhar Iqbal Zafar
    Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
    Environ Toxicol Chem 30:1383-94. 2011
    ..These results suggest that for this combination of concentrations and duration of the TWA, the TWA concentration is more important for most species than the peak concentration for the assessment of long-term risks of chlorpyrifos...
  40. ncbi Environmental context determines community sensitivity of freshwater zooplankton to a pesticide
    Nathalie C Stampfli
    Department of System Ecotoxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
    Aquat Toxicol 104:116-24. 2011
    ..We conducted an outdoor microcosm experiment in which zooplankton communities were exposed to the insecticide esfenvalerate (0.03, 0...
  41. ncbi Interactions between zooplankton feeding, photosynthesis and skeletal growth in the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata
    Fanny Houlbrèque
    Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Avenue Saint Martin, MC 98000 Monaco Principality
    J Exp Biol 207:1461-9. 2004
    We investigated the effect of zooplankton feeding on tissue and skeletal growth of the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata...
  42. ncbi The electric sense of the paddlefish: a passive system for the detection and capture of zooplankton prey
    Lon A Wilkens
    Center for Neurodynamics, Department of Biology, University of Missouri St Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St Louis, Missouri 63121, USA
    J Physiol Paris 96:363-77. 2002
    ..We also describe the ascending and descending neuronal circuitry of the electrosensory system in the brain based on tracer studies using dextran amines...
  43. ncbi Patterns of mercury accumulation among seston in lakes of the Adirondack Mountains, New York
    Ryan M Adams
    Center for the Environment, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699, USA
    Environ Sci Technol 43:4836-42. 2009
    ..2-2 microm size class. The results suggest that surface water Al concentrations and seston density influence Hg accumulation at the base of the aquatic food chain...
  44. ncbi Recovery after local extinction: factors affecting re-establishment of alpine lake zooplankton
    Roland A Knapp
    Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, University of California, HCR 79, Box 198, Mammoth Lakes, California 93546, USA
    Ecol Appl 18:1850-9. 2008
    ..introduction of fishes into naturally fishless mountain lakes often results in the extirpation of large-bodied zooplankton species...
  45. ncbi Changes in zooplankton abundance and diversity after ballast water exchange in regional seas
    Tracy McCollin
    Fisheries Research Services, Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, PO Box 101, 375 Victoria Road, Aberdeen AB11 9DB, United Kingdom
    Mar Pollut Bull 56:834-44. 2008
    ..b>Zooplankton samples were taken before and after exchange on ten voyages where BWE took place (North Sea, English Channel, ..
  46. ncbi Extrinsic and intrinsic controls of zooplankton diversity in lakes
    Dag O Hessen
    University of Oslo, Department of Biology, Norway
    Ecology 87:433-43. 2006
    Pelagic crustacean zooplankton were collected from 336 Norwegian lakes covering a wide range of latitude, altitude, lake area, mean depth, production (as chlorophyll a), and fish community structure...
  47. ncbi Environmental stability and lake zooplankton diversity - contrasting effects of chemical and thermal variability
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    Ecol Lett 13:453-63. 2010
    ..The net effect of environmental variation on diversity is largely unknown. We examined the association between zooplankton species richness in lakes and environmental variability on interannual, seasonal and shorter time scales, as ..
  48. ncbi Can overwintering versus diapausing strategy in Daphnia determine match-mismatch events in zooplankton-algae interactions?
    Lisette N de Senerpont Domis
    NIOO KNAW, Centre for Limnology, Rijksstraatweg 6, 3631 AC, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands
    Oecologia 150:682-98. 2007
    ..Here, we examine the potential for climate change induced mismatches between zooplankton and algae during spring succession, with a focus on Daphnia and its algal food...
  49. ncbi Diversity-stability relationship varies with latitude in zooplankton
    Jonathan B Shurin
    Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
    Ecol Lett 10:127-34. 2007
    ..We examined patterns of diversity and community stability in zooplankton time series data from 36 lakes sampled over a combined 483 years...
  50. ncbi Impacts of zooplankton composition and algal enrichment on the accumulation of mercury in an experimental freshwater food web
    Paul C Pickhardt
    Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    Sci Total Environ 339:89-101. 2005
    ..lower levels of the food web where mercury is bioconcentrated to phytoplankton and transferred to herbivorous zooplankton. Prior research derived patterns of mercury accumulation in freshwater invertebrates from field collected ..
  51. ncbi The role of virus infection in a simple phytoplankton zooplankton system
    Brajendra K Singh
    Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, A.P. 500 007, India
    J Theor Biol 231:153-66. 2004
    ..To study the role of viral diseases in the planktonic species, we model the phytoplankton-zooplankton system as a prey-predator system...
  52. ncbi The effect of temporal scale on the outcome of trophic cascade experiments
    Thomas Bell
    Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4 Canada
    Oecologia 134:578-86. 2003
    ..We found that, as predicted by our literature review, there was no decline in the strength of the trophic cascade as the experiment progressed...
  53. ncbi Influence of light in acute toxicity bioassays of imidacloprid and zinc pyrithione to zooplankton crustaceans
    Francisco Sanchez-Bayo
    Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University, 648 Matsudo shi, Chiba 271 8510, Japan
    Aquat Toxicol 78:262-71. 2006
    ....
  54. ncbi Biodiversity and ecosystem function in the Gulf of Maine: pattern and role of zooplankton and pelagic nekton
    Catherine L Johnson
    Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
    PLoS ONE 6:e16491. 2011
    ..It synthesizes current data on species diversity of zooplankton and pelagic nekton, including compilation of observed species and descriptions of seasonal, regional and cross-..
  55. ncbi Pesticide exposure and inducible antipredator responses in the zooplankton grazer, Daphnia magna Straus
    João L T Pestana
    CESAM and Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitario de Santiago, 3810 193 Aveiro, Portugal
    Chemosphere 78:241-8. 2010
    ..play a key role in population dynamics, the combined direct and indirect effects of sub-lethal concentrations of pesticides could induce maladaptive responses in zooplankton populations in the field, reducing their long-term viability.
  56. ncbi Accumulation of microcystins by a tropical zooplankton community
    Aloysio da S Ferrão-Filho
    Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras de Ribeirao Preto, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
    Aquat Toxicol 59:201-8. 2002
    In the current study, the hepatotoxic peptide microcystins, were measured in the zooplankton community of Jacarepaguá Lagoon during a 6-month period. Concurrent phytoplankton and seston samples were obtained...
  57. ncbi LOX-induced lipid peroxidation mechanism responsible for the detrimental effect of marine diatoms on zooplankton grazers
    Angelo Fontana
    CNR, Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078, Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy
    Chembiochem 8:1810-8. 2007
    Some marine diatoms negatively affect the reproduction of dominant zooplankton grazers such as copepods, thus compromising the transfer of energy through the marine food chains...
  58. ncbi Sublethal effects of silver in zooplankton: importance of exposure pathways and implications for toxicity testing
    S E Hook
    Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794-5000, USA
    Environ Toxicol Chem 20:568-74. 2001
    ..We compared the response of marine and freshwater crustacean zooplankton to silver following dissolved and food exposure...
  59. ncbi MtDNA sequencing from zooplankton after long-term preservation in buffered formalin
    A Bucklin
    Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory, 142 Morse Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH 03824, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 30:879-82. 2004
    Molecular genetic analysis of zooplankton has been slowed by the usual practice of preservation and storage of samples in dilute formalin solutions, which are not always adequately buffered for pH...
  60. ncbi The impact of ultraviolet radiation on the vertical distribution of zooplankton of the genus Daphnia
    S C Rhode
    , Department of Ecology, Zoological Institute, Germany
    Nature 412:69-72. 2001
    The vertical migration of zooplankton into lower and darker water strata by day is generally explained by the avoidance of visually orienting predators, mainly fish; however, it is unclear why daily zooplankton migration has been ..
  61. ncbi Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton
    Gaspar Jekely
    Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg 69117, Germany
    Nature 456:395-9. 2008
    ..They are characteristic for the zooplankton larvae of marine invertebrates and are thought to mediate larval swimming towards the light...
  62. ncbi Optimal foraging by zooplankton within patches: the case of Daphnia
    Ricardo Garcia
    Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri at St Louis, St Louis, MO 63121, USA
    Math Biosci 207:165-88. 2007
    ..Search strategies that lead to optimization is a topic of high current interest across many disciplines [D. Wolpert, W. MacReady, No free lunch theorems for optimization, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 1 (1997) 67]...
  63. ncbi An indoor mesocosm system to study the effect of climate change on the late winter and spring succession of Baltic Sea phyto- and zooplankton
    Ulrich Sommer
    Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences, Kiel University, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105, Kiel, Germany
    Oecologia 150:655-67. 2007
    An indoor mesocosm system was set up to study the response of phytoplankton and zooplankton spring succession to winter and spring warming of sea surface temperatures...
  64. ncbi Microcystin production by Microcystis aeruginosa exposed to different stages of herbivorous zooplankton
    Min Ho Jang
    Department of Biology Education, Kongju National University, Kongju, 314 701, South Korea
    Toxicon 51:882-9. 2008
    ..was evaluated in response to infochemicals (indirect exposure) released from different stages of herbivorous zooplankton (neonate/juvenile and adult Daphnia magna and Moina macrocopa)...
  65. ncbi Polarization contrast of zooplankton: a model for polarization-based sighting distance
    Shai Sabbah
    The Interuniversity Institute of Eilat, Steinitz Marine Biology Laboratory, P.O. Box 469, 88103 Eilat, Israel
    Vision Res 46:444-56. 2006
    Transparency is commonly used by zooplankton for camouflage in open waters. Polarization vision allows planktivorous animals to increase their prey's detectability...
  66. ncbi Escape from UV threats in zooplankton: a cocktail of behavior and protective pigmentation
    Lars Anders Hansson
    Institute of Ecology Limnology, Lund University, Lund SE 223 62 Sweden
    Ecology 88:1932-9. 2007
    ..in high-latitude Siberia and in temperate Sweden, we show for the first time that, among freshwater crustacean zooplankton, the defense against threats from ultraviolet radiation (UV) is a system where phenotypic plasticity and ..
  67. ncbi Geographical and genetic distances among zooplankton populations in a set of interconnected ponds: a plea for using GIS modelling of the effective geographical distance
    E Michels
    Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, K U Leuven, Ch De Beriotstraat 32, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
    Mol Ecol 10:1929-38. 2001
    In systems of interconnected ponds or lakes, the dispersal of zooplankton may be mediated by the active population component, with rivulets and overflows functioning as dispersal pathways...
  68. ncbi Rapid evolutionary radiation of marine zooplankton in peripheral environments
    Michael N Dawson
    Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:9235-40. 2005
    ..Marine lakes present situations rare in their clarity for studying evolution in marine taxa...
  69. ncbi Oceans. Climate drives sea change
    Charles H Greene
    Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Science 315:1084-5. 2007
  70. ncbi Temperature sensitivity of vertical distributions of zooplankton and planktivorous fish in a stratified lake
    Ingeborg Palm Helland
    Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, P O Box 850 119, 12561, Berlin, Germany
    Oecologia 151:322-30. 2007
    ..Here, we studied the vertical distribution of two planktivorous fish species (Coregonus spp.) and their zooplankton prey in the deep, oligotrophic Lake Stechlin (Germany)...
  71. ncbi The effect of different zooplankton grazing patterns resulting from diel vertical migration on phytoplankton growth and composition: a laboratory experiment
    Elke S Reichwaldt
    Department Biologie II, Abteilung Aquatische Okologie, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Grosshadener Str 2, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
    Oecologia 141:411-9. 2004
    Diel vertical migration (DVM) of herbivorous zooplankton is a widespread behavioural phenomenon in freshwater ecosystems. So far only little attention has been paid to the impact of DVM on the phytoplankton community in the epilimnion...
  72. ncbi Causes and projections of abrupt climate-driven ecosystem shifts in the North Atlantic
    Gregory Beaugrand
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences, UMR LOG CNRS 8187, Station Marine, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille Lille 1 BP 80, 62930 Wimereux, France
    Ecol Lett 11:1157-68. 2008
    ..These findings offer a way to anticipate major ecosystem changes and to propose adaptive strategies for marine exploited resources such as cod in order to minimize social and economic consequences...
  73. ncbi Influence of season, location, and feeding strategy on bioaccumulation of halogenated organic contaminants in Arctic marine zooplankton
    Ingeborg G Hallanger
    Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
    Environ Toxicol Chem 30:77-87. 2011
    ..biphenyls, chlorinated pesticides, and brominated flame retardants) was investigated within an Arctic zooplankton food web...
  74. ncbi Studies on phyto-and-zooplankton composition and its relation to fish productivity in a west coast fish pond ecosystem
    Kwan Soon Park
    Department of Marine Biotechnology, Soonchunhyang University, Asan City, 336 745, South Korea
    J Environ Biol 28:415-22. 2007
    ..The total cell density during the study period ranged from16 x 103 to 13.59 x 10(5) cells l(-1). As for the zooplankton, the monthly density ranged from 26 - 8.684 x 10(3) cells m(-3) with an average of 126...
  75. ncbi Small phytoplankton and carbon export from the surface ocean
    Tammi L Richardson
    Marine Sciences Program and Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
    Science 315:838-40. 2007
    ..We suggest that all primary producers, not just the large cells, can contribute to export from the surface layer of the ocean at rates proportional to their production rates...
  76. ncbi Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean
    T F Thingstad
    Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
    Science 309:1068-71. 2005
    ..Copepods may thus be coupled to lower trophic levels through interactions not usually considered...
  77. ncbi Modelling PCB bioaccumulation in a Baltic food web
    Erick Nfon
    Department of Applied Environmental Science, Unit for Environmental Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry, Frescativägen 50, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
    Environ Pollut 148:73-82. 2007
    ..Parameters such as feeding rate, growth rate and lipid content of organism are only important at higher trophic levels...
  78. ncbi Allochthonous subsidy of periodical cicadas affects the dynamics and stability of pond communities
    Weston H Nowlin
    Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA
    Ecology 88:2174-86. 2007
    ..e., the amount of cicada detritus). Our study underscores the need for theory to further explore consequences of pulsed allochthonous subsidies for food web stability...
  79. ncbi Seasonal plankton dynamics along a cross-shelf gradient
    Nils Chr Stenseth
    Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, University of Oslo, PO Box 1066 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
    Proc Biol Sci 273:2831-8. 2006
    ..Using 10 years of monthly data on phyto- and zooplankton abundance from the Bay of Biscay (coastal to shelf-break sites), we demonstrate that the interaction between ..
  80. ncbi Impact of polychlorinated biphenyl and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon sequestration in sediment on bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs
    Caroline T A Moermond
    Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, 6700 DD Wageningen, The Netherlands
    Environ Toxicol Chem 26:607-15. 2007
    ..Thus, aging may translate directly into reduced uptake at higher trophic levels...
  81. ncbi Revisiting carbon flux through the ocean's twilight zone
    Ken O Buesseler
    Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Science 316:567-70. 2007
    ..This large variability in transfer efficiency is poorly represented in biogeochemical models. If applied globally, this is equivalent to a difference in carbon sequestration of more than 3 petagrams of carbon per year...
  82. ncbi Spring bloom succession, grazing impact and herbivore selectivity of ciliate communities in response to winter warming
    N Aberle
    IFM GEOMAR Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24116, Kiel, Germany
    Oecologia 150:668-81. 2007
    ..During the spring bloom ciliates and copepods showed a strong dietary overlap characterized by a wide food spectrum consisting mainly of Chrysochromulina sp., diatom chains and large, single-celled diatoms...
  83. ncbi Trophic dilution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a marine food web from Bohai Bay, north China
    Yi Wan
    College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
    Environ Sci Technol 41:3109-14. 2007
    ..This study analyzed 18 PAHs in phytoplankton/seston, zooplankton, five invertebrate species, five fish species, and one seabird species collected from Bohai Bay, and trophic ..
  84. ncbi How green is my river? A new paradigm of eutrophication in rivers
    John Hilton
    Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Winfrith Technology Centre, Winfrith Newburgh, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8ZD, United Kingdom
    Sci Total Environ 365:66-83. 2006
    ..The implications of this conceptual model are discussed and a series of observable effects are predicted, which should result if the model is correct...
  85. ncbi The role of environmental and spatial processes in structuring lake communities from bacteria to fish
    Beatrix E Beisner
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal, C P 8888, Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, Quebec H3C3P8, Canada
    Ecology 87:2985-91. 2006
    ..We use taxonomic presence-absence and abundance data for bacteria, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish from 18 lakes in southern Quebec, Canada...
  86. ncbi Comment on "Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean"
    Michelle S Hale
    Ocean Science Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John s, NL A1C 5S7, Canada
    Science 312:1748; author reply 1748. 2006
    ..However, because of a lack of replication and a misinterpretation of their statistical analyses, that conclusion is not supported by the data...
  87. ncbi Response of plankton communities in freshwater pond and stream mesocosms to the herbicide metazachlor
    S Mohr
    Umweltbundesamt, Schichauweg 58, 12307 Berlin, Germany
    Environ Pollut 152:530-42. 2008
    ..The effects on zooplankton were caused by changes in habitat structure due to the strong decline of macrophytes...
  88. ncbi Parametric analysis of a predator-prey system stabilized by a top predator
    Andrew Y Morozov
    Ecological Complexity and Modeling Laboratory, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 0124, USA
    J Math Biol 53:305-35. 2006
    ..Although the model here is applied to the plankton communities with fish (or carnivorous zooplankton) as the top trophic level, the general form of the equations allows applications of our results to other ..
  89. ncbi Oceans. Picoplankton do some heavy lifting
    Richard T Barber
    Science 315:777-8. 2007
  90. ncbi Establishment of trophic continuum in the food web of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea ecosystem: insight from carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes
    Deling Cai
    Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology and Environment Geology, SOA, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China
    Sci China C Life Sci 48:531-9. 2005
    ..This result indicates that the stable isotope method is a potential useful means for further studying the complete marine food web trophic continuum from viruses to top predators and food web stability...
  91. ncbi Inter-annual variations of planktonic food webs in the northern Adriatic Sea
    Serena Fonda Umani
    Laboratorio di Biologia Marina, Via A Piccard 54, 34010 Trieste, Italy
    Sci Total Environ 353:218-31. 2005
    ..A large part of the microphytoplankton blooms, although not particularly intense, was exported to the bottom in the particulate phase, where it was processed by bacteria, enhancing the production of refractory dissolved material...
  92. ncbi Multi-indicator assessment of water environment in government environmental auditing
    Gui Zhen He
    Research Centre for Eco Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
    J Environ Sci (China) 19:494-501. 2007
    ..This method can be used to evaluate the performance of national environmental protection programs and provide technical support for environmental auditors...
  93. ncbi Ecosystem and human health assessment to define environmental management strategies: The case of long-term human impacts on an Arctic lake
    T I Moiseenko
    Water Problems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina 3, GSP 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia
    Sci Total Environ 369:1-20. 2006
    ..We argue that prospects for implementation of such a system are quite bleak at this time, and that more likely we will see a continued depopulation of these Northern regions...
  94. ncbi Nutrient and grazing factors in relation to phytoplankton level in a eutrophic shallow lake: the effect of low macrophyte abundance
    S S S Lau
    Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK
    Water Res 36:3593-601. 2002
    ..5%) in the context of nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton interaction in a eutrophic shallow lake...
  95. ncbi Fatty acid trophic markers in the pelagic marine environment
    Johanne Dalsgaard
    University of Copenhagen, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Charlottenlund Castle, DK-2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark
    Adv Mar Biol 46:225-340. 2003
    ..particularly in herbivorous calanoid copepods, which accumulate large lipid reserves, and which dominate the zooplankton biomass in high latitude ecosystems...
  96. ncbi The effect of cannibalism intensity on net primary production and dynamics of trophic links in aquatic ecosystems
    I M Shirobokova
    Institute of Biophysics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
    Adv Space Res 31:1737-41. 2003
    ..principal trophic links: limiting nutrient concentration, producers (phytoplankton), nonpredatory and predatory zooplankton. The model takes into account the age structure of the predator and includes two age groups (the young and ..
  97. ncbi The PCB pollution of Lake Iseo (N. Italy) and the role of biomagnification in the pelagic food web
    A Binelli
    Department of Biology, University of Milan, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy
    Chemosphere 53:143-51. 2003
    ..because its physiological characteristics and population size do not change much with time (as do algae and zooplankton) but also because it takes up toxicants exclusively from the water, as shown by the application of two ..
  98. ncbi [Using chlorella and effective microorganisms to optimize aquatic ecological structure and to regulate water quality]
    Shiqun Han
    Center of Special Aquatic Products Research and Development, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China
    Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 14:101-4. 2003
    ..92 and 4.76 times of CK. The zooplankton biomass reached to 4.32 mg.L-1 and 2.84 mg.L-1, increasing by 19.3% and 2.5%, compared with CK, respectively...
  99. ncbi The status of the ecological environment and a proposed protection strategy in Sanya Bay, Hainan Island, China
    Liangmin Huang
    Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Environmental Dynamics, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS, 510301, Guangzhou, China
    Mar Pollut Bull 47:180-6. 2003
    ..Sanya Bay is rich in natural resources and biodiversity with 235 species of phytoplankton and 129 species of zooplankton identified in the survey...
  100. ncbi Effects of the pyrethroid insecticide cypermethrin on a freshwater community studied under field conditions. II. Direct and indirect effects on the species composition
    Lina Wendt-Rasch
    Department of Ecology, Chemical Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Lund University, Ecology Building, Solvegatan 37, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
    Aquat Toxicol 63:373-89. 2003
    ..The direct acute effect of exposure to cypermethrin was a rapid decrease of many species of crustacean zooplankton. The alterations in crustacean species composition were probably due to variations in susceptibility to the ..
  101. ncbi Effects of metsulfuron methyl and cypermethrin exposure on freshwater model ecosystems
    L Wendt-Rasch
    Department of Ecology, Chemical Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Lund University, Ecology Building, Solvegatan 37, S 22362 Lund, Sweden
    Aquat Toxicol 63:243-56. 2003
    ..The zooplankton communities in the enclosures were dominated by rotifers, which were not affected by the exposure to ..

Research Grants44

  1. EPIDEMIOLOGY & ECOLOGY OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE IN BANGLADESH
    Richard Sack; Fiscal Year: 2000
    ..non-culturable forms, using sensitive sampling techniques (including PCR), 3) the growth of phytoplankton and zooplankton in these areas, using direct sampling and identification techniques as well as remote sensing by satellite, and ..
  2. Epidemiology and Ecology of Vibrio cholerae in Bangladesh
    Richard Bradley Sack; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..A significant finding was that zooplankton, namely copepods, serve as an effective host for V. cholerae...
  3. Vibrio Cholerae Colonization of Chitin Surfaces
    Gary Schoolnik; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..In these habitats, it associates with the chitinous exoskeletons of zooplankton. The principal objective of this research project is to characterize the interaction of this human pathogen ..
  4. EPIDEMIOLOGY & ECOLOGY OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE IN BANGLADESH
    Richard Sack; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..cholerae attached to specific zooplankton species, using direct fluorescent antibody techniques and fluorescent in situ hybridization assays...
  5. DNA REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..Thus, chlorella viruses are an important model for studying large nucleocytoplasmic dsDNA viruses because they have evolutionary ties to important mammalian viruses, such as the pox viruses and the quarantined African swine fever virus. ..
  6. DNA REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 1993
    ..v) To determine by genetic, molecular genetic, immunological, and biochemical methods those genes and gene products encoded by the prototype virus, PBCV-1, which glycosylate the virus major capsid protein...
  7. DNA REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 2000
    ..Such mutants could be important in structure-function analyses and in providing an assay for new inhibitors of these proteins, which would bear on treatments for heart disease and cancer. ..
  8. DNA REPLICATION & GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 1991
    ..v) Isolate and characterize virus DNA and RNA polymerases from different virus-host combinations and compare the ability of the enzymes to function with different methylated DNA templates...
  9. DNA REPLICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION OF CHLORELLA VIRUSES
    James Van Etten; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..We propose to initiate studies on the role of Kcv in PBCV-1 replication. ..
  10. PAH/Metal exposure and effects assessment in Chattanooga
    Sean Richards; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..5) Quantify the potential for the residents of South Chattanooga to be exposed and affected by PAHs and metals present in area soil by using the data generated in this study in a probabilistic risk assessment. ..