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Diversity of active marine picoeukaryotes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea unveiled using photosystem-II psbA transcripts.
The ISME journal - 1 Aug 2010
Man-Aharonovich Dikla, Philosof Alon, Kirkup Benjamin C, Le Gall Florence, Yogev Tali, Berman-Frank Ilana, Polz Martin F, Vaulot Daniel, Béjà Oded
Abstract excerpt
In vast areas of the oceans, most of the primary production is performed by cells smaller than 2-3 mum in diameter (picophytoplankton). In recent years, several in situ molecular studies showed a broad genetic diversity of small eukaryotes by sequencing 18S rRNA genes. Compared with photosynthetic cyanobacteria that are dominated by two genera, Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus, marine photosynthetic...
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