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Bacterial dimethylsulfoniopropionate degradation genes in the oligotrophic north pacific subtropical gyre.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 2012
Varaljay Vanessa A, Gifford Scott M, Wilson Samuel T, Sharma Shalabh, Karl David M, Moran Mary Ann
Abstract excerpt
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is an organic sulfur compound that is rapidly metabolized by marine bacteria either by cleavage to dimethylsulfide (DMS) or demethylation to 3-methiolpropionate. The abundance and diversity of genes encoding bacterial DMS production (dddP) and demethylation (dmdA) were measured in the North Pacific subtropical gyre (NPSG) between May 2008 and February 2009 at Station ALOHA...
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