Mesoscale distribution and functional diversity of picoeukaryotes in the first-year sea ice of the Canadian Arctic

• Published in: The ISME Journal
• Main Authors: Piwosz, Kasia, Wiktor, Józef Maria, Niemi, Andrea, Tatarek, Agnieszka, Michel, Christine
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
• Subjects: Original Article; Arctic; Barrow Strait; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Cornwallis; Cornwallis Island; Arctic Archipelago; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3721110; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23514779; https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.39

Sea ice, a characteristic feature of polar waters, is home to diverse microbial communities. Sea-ice picoeukaryotes (unicellular eukaryotes with cell size <3 μm) have received little attention compared with diatoms that dominate the spring bloom in Arctic first-year sea ice. Here, we investigated...