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Changes In Bacterioplankton Metabolic Capabilities Along A Salinity Gradient In The York River Estuary, Virginia, Usa, G. E. Schultz, H. W. Ducklow Sep 2000

Changes In Bacterioplankton Metabolic Capabilities Along A Salinity Gradient In The York River Estuary, Virginia, Usa, G. E. Schultz, H. W. Ducklow

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Changes in metabolic capabilities of bacterial communities along the estuarine salinity gradient may affect the extent of organic matter processing and bacterial growth and accumulation during transit through the system; As part of a larger study of estuarine microbial processes, we attempted to quantify differences in bacterial community structure using Biolog plates. Biolog GN plates (Biolog, Inc., Hayward, CA, USA) were used to determine differences in bacterioplankton community metabolic potential. Biolog GN microplates are 96-well microtiter plates in which each well contains an individual carbon source as well the redox dye tetrazolium violet. As bacteria grow and oxidize each substrate, …


'Candidatus Xenohaliotis Californiensis', A Newly Described Pathogen Of Abalone, Haliotis Spp., Along The West Coast Of North America, Cs Friedman, Kb Andree, Ka Beauchamp, Jd Moore, Tt Robbins, Jeffrey D. Shields, Rp Hendricks Mar 2000

'Candidatus Xenohaliotis Californiensis', A Newly Described Pathogen Of Abalone, Haliotis Spp., Along The West Coast Of North America, Cs Friedman, Kb Andree, Ka Beauchamp, Jd Moore, Tt Robbins, Jeffrey D. Shields, Rp Hendricks

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Withering syndrome is a fatal disease of wild and cultured abalone. Haliotis spp., that inhabit the west coast of North America. The aetiological agent of withering syndrome has recently been identified as a member of the family Rickettsiaceae in the order Rickettsiales. Using a combination of morphological, serological, life history and genomic (16S rDNA) characterization. we have identified this bacterium as a unique taxon and propose the provisional status of 'Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis', The Gram-negative. obligate intracellular pleomorphic bacterium is found within membrane-bound vacuoles in the cytoplasm of abalone gastrointestinal epithelial cells. The bacterium is not cultivable on synthetic media …


Limitation Of Bacterial Growth By Dissolved Organic Matter And Iron In The Southern Ocean, Mj Church, Da Hutchins, Hw Ducklow Feb 2000

Limitation Of Bacterial Growth By Dissolved Organic Matter And Iron In The Southern Ocean, Mj Church, Da Hutchins, Hw Ducklow

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The importance of resource limitation in controlling bacterial growth in the high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll (HNLC) region of the Southern Ocean was experimentally determined during February and March 1998. Organic- and inorganic-nutrient enrichment experiments were performed between 42 degrees S and 55 degrees S along 141 degrees E. Bacterial abundance, mean cell volume, and [H-3]thymidine and [H-3]leucine incorporation were measured during 4- to 5-day incubations. Bacterial biomass, production, and rates of growth all responded to organic enrichments in three of the four experiments. These results indicate that bacterial growth was constrained primarily by the availability of dissolved organic matter. Bacterial growth in …


Autumnal Biomass And Potential Productivity Of Salt Marsh Fungi From 29 Degrees To 43 Degrees North Latitude Along The United States Atlantic Coast, Sy Newell, Lk Blum, Re Crawford, T Dai, M Dionne Jan 2000

Autumnal Biomass And Potential Productivity Of Salt Marsh Fungi From 29 Degrees To 43 Degrees North Latitude Along The United States Atlantic Coast, Sy Newell, Lk Blum, Re Crawford, T Dai, M Dionne

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It has been established that substantial amounts of fungal mass accumulate in standing decaying smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) marshes in the southeastern United States (e.g., in standing decaying leaf blades with a total fungal organic mass that accounts for about 20% of the decay system organic mass), but it has been hypothesized that in marshes farther north this is not true. We obtained samples of autumnal standing decaying smooth cordgrass from sites in Florida to Maine over a 3-year period. The variation in latitude could not explain any of the variation in the living fungal standing crop las determined by …