Whole Community Metatranscriptomes and Lipidomes Reveal Diverse Responses Among Antarctic Phytoplankton to Changing Ice Conditions

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Bowman, Jeff S., Van Mooy, Benjamin A. S., Lowenstein, Daniel P., Fredricks, Helen F., Hansel, Colleen M., Gast, Rebecca, Collins, James R., Couto, Nicole, Ducklow, Hugh W.
• Other Authors: National Science Foundation, Simons Foundation, Joint Genome Institute
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Arthur Harbor; Palmer Station; Palmer-Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.593566; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.593566/full

The transition from winter to spring represents a major shift in the basal energy source for the Antarctic marine ecosystem from lipids and other sources of stored energy to sunlight. Because sea ice imposes a strong control on the transmission of sunlight into the water column during the polar spri...