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

• Main Authors: Bowman, Jeff S, Van Mooy, Benjamin AS, Lowenstein, Daniel P, Fredricks, Helen F, Hansel, Colleen M, Gast, Rebecca, Collins, James R, Couto, Nicole, Ducklow, Hugh W
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2021
• Subjects: Affordable and Clean Energy; Antarctica; phytoplankton; lipids; metatranscriptomics; Palmer LTER project; Oceanography; Ecology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Arthur Harbor; Palmer Station; Palmer-Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42b6w2hb

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...