The origin of cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice: Marine or freshwater?
Cyanobacteria play an important role in the primary productivity of many ecosystems and are dominant in non-marine polar environments. Apart from detecting low levels of cyanobacteria-like pigments in the Southern Ocean, little effort has been spent in trying to elucidate Cyanobacteria in Antarctic...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:95696 2023-05-15T13:37:24+02:00 The origin of cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice: Marine or freshwater? Koh, EY Cowie, ROM Simpson, AM O'Toole, RF Ryan, KG 2012 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00346.x http://ecite.utas.edu.au/95696 en eng Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00346.x Koh, EY and Cowie, ROM and Simpson, AM and O'Toole, RF and Ryan, KG, The origin of cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice: Marine or freshwater?, Environmental Microbiology Reports, 4, (5) pp. 479-483. ISSN 1758-2229 (2012) [Refereed Article] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/95696 Biological Sciences Microbiology Bacteriology Refereed Article PeerReviewed 2012 ftunivtasecite https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00346.x 2019-12-13T21:58:04Z Cyanobacteria play an important role in the primary productivity of many ecosystems and are dominant in non-marine polar environments. Apart from detecting low levels of cyanobacteria-like pigments in the Southern Ocean, little effort has been spent in trying to elucidate Cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice. Here, we report the first use of culture, microscope, microarray and molecular techniques to show that marine Cyanobacteria are rare or absent in sea ice. Our infrequent positive signals were most closely related to freshwater Cyanobacteria from neighbouring terrestrial sources, which illustrates our techniques were sensitive enough to find sea-ice cyanobacteria if they were present. It is still possible that minute quantity of marine cyanobacteria may exist in sea ice and do not contribute significantly to the polar marine ecosystems. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Sea ice Southern Ocean eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Antarctic Southern Ocean Environmental Microbiology Reports 4 5 479 483 |
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Cyanobacteria play an important role in the primary productivity of many ecosystems and are dominant in non-marine polar environments. Apart from detecting low levels of cyanobacteria-like pigments in the Southern Ocean, little effort has been spent in trying to elucidate Cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice. Here, we report the first use of culture, microscope, microarray and molecular techniques to show that marine Cyanobacteria are rare or absent in sea ice. Our infrequent positive signals were most closely related to freshwater Cyanobacteria from neighbouring terrestrial sources, which illustrates our techniques were sensitive enough to find sea-ice cyanobacteria if they were present. It is still possible that minute quantity of marine cyanobacteria may exist in sea ice and do not contribute significantly to the polar marine ecosystems. |
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The origin of cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice: Marine or freshwater? |
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The origin of cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice: Marine or freshwater? |
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The origin of cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice: Marine or freshwater? |
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The origin of cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice: Marine or freshwater? |
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The origin of cyanobacteria in Antarctic sea ice: Marine or freshwater? |
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origin of cyanobacteria in antarctic sea ice: marine or freshwater? |
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