Molecules to marinescapes: the characterization of microbial life in the Arctic Ocean

• Main Author: Hassett, Brandon T.
• Other Authors: Gradinger, Rolf, Collins, R. Eric, Leigh, Mary Beth, McBeath, Jenifer, Lopez, J. Andres
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Fairbanks; Sirkka; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6610

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2016 Microbes are the base of all marine food webs and comprise >90% of all living biomass in the world’s oceans. Microbial life and functioning in high-latitude seas is characterized by the predominance of unknown species that encode uncharact...