Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Communities

Molecular ecology of aquatic communities: Reflections and future directions.- Plasmid ecology of marine sediment microbial communities.- Use of the polymerase chain reaction and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis to study diversity in natural virus communities.- Flow cytometry in molecular aquatic ecology.- Distribution of microbial assemblages in the Central Arctic Ocean Basin studied by PCR/DGGE: analysis of a large data set.- Bacterial populations in replicate marine enrichment cultures: assessing variability in abundance using 16S rRNA-based probes.- Diversity of bacterial communities in Adirondack lakes: do species assemblages reflect lake water chemistry?.- New insights on old bacteria: diversity and function of morphologically conspicuous sulfur bacteria in aquatic systems.- The distribution and relative abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica.- Microscopic detection of the toluene dioxygenase gene and its expression inside bacterial cells in seawater using prokaryotic in situ PCR.- Variability in bacterial community structure during upwelling in the coastal ocean.- Application of molecular techniques to addressing the role of P as a key effector in marine ecosystems.- Immunological and molecular probes to detect phytoplankton responses to environmental stress in nature.- Spatial scale and the diversity of benthic cyanobacteria and diatoms in a salina.- A rapid method to score plastid haplotypes in red seaweeds and its use in determining parental inheritance of plastids in the red alga Bostrychia (Ceramiales).- Protistan community structure: molecular approaches for answering ecological questions.- Molecular and demographic measures of arsenic stress in Daphnia pulex.- Taxonomic and systematic assessment of planktonic copepods using mitochondrial COI sequence variation and competitive, species-specific PCR.- Ecological implications of molecular biomarkers: assaying sub-lethal stress in the midge Chironomus tentans using heat shock protein 70 (HSP-70) expression.- RNA—DNA ratio and other nucleic acid-based indicators for growth and condition of marine fishes.