Article
Community-level analysis of phototrophy: psbA Gene Diversity.
Methods in enzymology - 1 Jan 2005
Zeidner Gil, Béjà Oded
Abstract excerpt
Photosynthetic organisms play a crucial role in the marine environment. In vast areas of the oceans, most of this marine production is performed by cells smaller than 2-3 microm (picoplankton). This chapter describes molecular analyses of the conserved photosynthetic psbA gene (protein D1 of photosystem II reaction center) as a diversity indicator of naturally occurring marine oxygenic picophytoplankton and of...
Topics
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial
- DNA Primers
- Gene Library
- Genetic Variation
- Photosystem II Protein Complex
- Phototropism
- Phytoplankton
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Seawater