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Molecular Markers of Phytoplankton Physiological Status and Their Application at the Level of Individual Cells

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Molecular Approaches to the Study of the Ocean

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Three of the basic questions in biological oceanography are ‘What limits primary production?’, ‘What is the fate of organic material produced by phytoplankton?’, and ‘Why are there so many species of plankton?’. These questions can be asked separately — the last question for example was framed elegantly in Hutchinson’s classic paper (Hutchinson, 1961) — but all three are clearly interrelated. Different phytoplankton species have been shown to have different requirements for optimal growth and different physiological mechanisms for responding to limiting conditions. Thus the answer to the first question may be dependent on the species present, and the number of phytoplankton species may be dependent on the number and types of limits on phytoplankton growth. The fate of the organic material of cells is often dependent on cell size, shape and density, characteristics of individual phytoplankton species. All these differences result in well-described, although not necessarily mechanistically understood, successional cycles (Smayda, 1980) and are likely to generate considerable heterogeneity of physiological conditions among the members of all phytoplankton communities. In this chapter, we review some of the evidence that species composition among the phytoplankton influences ecosystem structure and function. We then examine ways that molecular biology and advances in single cell analysis can be used to understand the factors influencing primary production and material flux at the level of individual species and taxa.

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Palenik, B., Wood, A.M. (1998). Molecular Markers of Phytoplankton Physiological Status and Their Application at the Level of Individual Cells. In: Cooksey, K.E. (eds) Molecular Approaches to the Study of the Ocean. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4928-0_8

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