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Abundant proteorhodopsin genes in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2008
Campbell Barbara J, Waidner Lisa A, Cottrell Matthew T, Kirchman David L
Abstract excerpt
Proteorhodopsin (PR) is a light-driven proton pump that has been found in a variety of marine bacteria, including Pelagibacter ubique, a member of the ubiquitous SAR11 clade. The goals of this study were to explore the diversity of PR genes and to estimate their abundance in the North Atlantic Ocean using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR). We found that PR genes in the western portion of the Sargasso...
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