QUANTIFICATION OF RECA GENE EXPRESSION AS AN INDICATOR OF REPAIR POTENTIAL IN MARINE BACTERIOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES OF ANTARCTICA.

• Main Authors: M Booth, L Hutchinson, G Brumley, P Aas, R Coffin, R Downer, C Kelley, M Lyons, J Pakulski, S Sandvik, W Jeffrey, R Miller
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Austral; Gerlache; Gerlache Strait; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimsapi.dispdetail?deid=65286

Marine bacteria in surface waters must cope daily with the damaging effects of exposure to solar radiation (containing both UV-A and UV-B wavelengths), which produces lesions in their DNA. As the stratospheric ozone layer is depleted, these coping mechanisms are likely to play an even more important...