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  • Culturing uncultured environmental microorganisms

    Creator:
    Connon, Stephanie A.
    Abstract:
    Research on natural environments, over the last decade, is replete with microbial diversity studies that used culture-independent approaches. The cloning and sequencing of the 16S rRNA genes has been the driving force in the expansion of awareness about the great diversity of previously undiscovered microorganisms. Well-known uncultured groups of microorganisms...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Stephanie A. Connon for the

  • Microbial Abundance and Community Analysis in Devil’s Hole, Harrington Sound, Bermuda

    Creator:
    Denman, Carmen C.
    Abstract:
    Microbial activity within elevated CO2 and oxygen depleted environments changes with density driven stratification overturn in the seasonally anoxic region of Devil’s Hole, Bermuda. The temperature gradient developed during the summer months creates a natural laboratory to study bacterial and virus population density and microbial community dynamics in the anoxic...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    (Karl 2007, Schultz et al., 2005). After turnover, nutrient A B C D E F G H I J 19

  • Microbial Abundance and Community Analysis in Devil’s Hole, Harrington Sound, Bermuda

    Creator:
    Denman, Carmen C.
    Abstract:
    Microbial activity within elevated CO2 and oxygen depleted environments changes with density driven stratification overturn in the seasonally anoxic region of Devil’s Hole, Bermuda. The temperature gradient developed during the summer months creates a natural laboratory to study bacterial and virus population density and microbial community dynamics in the anoxic...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    (Karl 2007, Schultz et al., 2005). After turnover, nutrient A B C D E F G H I J 19

  • Proteomic analyses of marine bacteria

    Creator:
    Sowell, Sarah M.
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    Proteins are the metabolic machines of the cell and as such, the study of proteins could illuminate the dominant biological activities that are occurring within cells and reveal how an organism interacts with its environment. Here, we used proteomic techniques to study the abundant marine bacterium SAR11 both as an...
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    Dissertation
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    -regulated in stationary phase. The up-regulation of this suite of proteins suggests a system by which

  • Metabolism of one carbon (C1) and methylated compounds in SAR11 bacteria

    Creator:
    Sun, Jing
    Abstract:
    SAR11 Alphaproteobacteria are the most abundant aerobic chemoheterotrophs in ocean surface waters. Previous studies have indicated SAR11 cells play an important role in marine carbon cycling and consume up to half of some common dissolved organic compounds, such as amino acids. During sequencing of the first SAR11 genome, genes for...
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    Dissertation
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    genome sequences and physiological experiments showed that SAR11 can utilize a variety of C1 and

  • Genome-enabled investigation of the minimal growth requirements andphosphate metabolism for Pelagibacter marine bacteria

    Creator:
    Carini, Paul J.
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    Members of the SAR11 clade of heterotrophic α-proteobacteria are ubiquitous and abundant in the world's oceans where they are thought to play a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle. The first SAR11 bacterium cultivated in vitro, 'Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique' HTCC1062 (Ca. P. ubique), was isolated by dilution into sterile...
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    oceans where they are thought to play a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle. The first SAR11

  • Quantification of Osmolytes in the Sargasso Sea Surface Layer Water Column

    Creator:
    Muslin, Omran
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    Oceanic carbon cycling plays a major role in determining global atmospheric CO₂. A better understanding of dissolved organic matter and its constituents in the water column and how it affects marine carbon cycling is sought after. This study successfully measured osmolytes, low molecular zwitterionic compounds derived from amino acids, in...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Stephen J. Giovannoni Oceanic carbon cycling plays a major role in determining

  • Arsenic methylation by marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

    Creator:
    Lee, Mikaela
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    Our experiments aimed to investigate responses of the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus to toxic arsenic species, such as arsenate, and to understand cellular mechanisms that contribute to arsenic tolerance. We used two strains of Prochlorococcus, a high-light adapted MED4 and low-light adapted MIT9313, both axenic, for cultivation experiments. For...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus by Mikaela Lee A THESIS submitted to

  • Marine bacterioplankton abundances and distributions

    Creator:
    Morris, Robert M.
    Abstract:
    Microorganisms play key roles in ocean biogeochemistry. However, several predominant groups of uncultured bacterioplankton thought to contribute to important biogeochemical processes in the oceans are known primarily from gene cloning studies. Although these studies have greatly expanded our view of microbial diversity in the oceans, they are not quantitative and...
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    Dissertation
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    Abundances and Distributions by Robert M. Moths A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University in

  • Microbial diversity, metabolic potential, and transcriptional activity along the inner continental shelf of the Northeast Pacific Ocean

    Creator:
    Bertagnolli, Anthony D.
    Abstract:
    Continental shelves located along eastern boundary currents occupy relatively small volumes of the world’s oceans, yet are responsible for a large proportion of global primary production. The Oregon coast is among these ecosystems. Recent analyses of dissolved oxygen at shallow depths in the water column has suggested increasing episodes of...
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    relatively small volumes of the world’s oceans, yet are responsible for a large proportion of global