Microbial gene expression patterns in the Amazon River and Plume

• Main Author: Satinsky, Brandon Meyer
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: uga 2014
• Subjects: Amazon River; Amazon Plume; Ocean; Metatranscriptomics; Gene Expression; Gene Regulation; Microbial communities; RNA; Bacteria; Metagenomics; Biogeochemistry; Internal Standards; Burd; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/31505; http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/satinsky_brandon_m_201412_phd

The Amazon River is the world’s largest river system and spans nearly 6,500 km across South America prior to discharging freshwater and nutrients into the ocean via a low salinity plume that covers 20% of the Western Tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) carry out critica...