Search Results - "Benjamin Van Mooy"
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Tracking Hydrocarbon Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-10-2010)“…The Deepwater Horizon blowout is the largest offshore oil spill in history. We present results from a subsurface hydrocarbon survey using an autonomous…”
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Phytoplankton in the ocean use non-phosphorus lipids in response to phosphorus scarcity
Published in Nature (05-03-2009)“…Phosphorus is an obligate requirement for the growth of all organisms; major biochemical reservoirs of phosphorus in marine plankton include nucleic acids and…”
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Cryptic carbon and sulfur cycling between surface ocean plankton
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-01-2015)“…Significance In the surface ocean, organic matter released by phytoplankton and degraded by heterotrophic bacteria is a key step in the carbon cycle. Compounds…”
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Composition and fate of gas and oil released to the water column during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-12-2012)“…Quantitative information regarding the endmember composition of the gas and oil that flowed from the Macondo well during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is…”
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Viral Glycosphingolipids Induce Lytic Infection and Cell Death in Marine Phytoplankton
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (06-11-2009)“…Marine viruses that infect phytoplankton are recognized as a major ecological and evolutionary driving force, shaping community structure and nutrient cycling…”
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Host–virus dynamics and subcellular controls of cell fate in a natural coccolithophore population
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-11-2012)“…Marine viruses are major evolutionary and biogeochemical drivers in marine microbial foodwebs. However, an in-depth understanding of the cellular mechanisms…”
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Fluorometric Quantification of Polyphosphate in Environmental Plankton Samples: Extraction Protocols, Matrix Effects, and Nucleic Acid Interference
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-01-2013)“…Classifications Services AEM Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Remodeling of intermediate metabolism in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum under nitrogen stress
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-01-2015)“…Diatoms are unicellular algae that accumulate significant amounts of triacylglycerols as storage lipids when their growth is limited by nutrients. Using…”
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Decoupling Physical from Biological Processes to Assess the Impact of Viruses on a Mesoscale Algal Bloom
Published in Current biology (08-09-2014)“…Phytoplankton blooms are ephemeral events of exceptionally high primary productivity that regulate the flux of carbon across marine food webs [1–3]…”
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LOBSTAHS: An Adduct-Based Lipidomics Strategy for Discovery and Identification of Oxidative Stress Biomarkers
Published in Analytical chemistry (Washington) (19-07-2016)“…Discovery and identification of molecular biomarkers in large LC/MS data sets requires significant automation without loss of accuracy in the compound…”
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Diverse diazotrophs are present on sinking particles in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Published in The ISME Journal (01-01-2019)“…Sinking particles transport carbon and nutrients from the surface ocean into the deep sea and are considered hot spots for bacterial diversity and activity. In…”
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Bacterial vs. Zooplankton Control of Sinking Particle Flux in the Ocean's Twilight Zone
Published in Limnology and oceanography (01-07-2008)“…The downward flux of particulate organic carbon (POC) decreases significantly in the ocean's mesopelagic or 'twilight' zone due both to abiotic processes and…”
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Arsenobetaine in Seawater: Depth Profiles from Selected Sites in the North Atlantic
Published in Environmental science & technology (16-01-2018)“…Arsenic occurs in marine waters, typically at concentrations of 1–2 μg As kg–1, primarily as the inorganic species arsenate. Marine animals, however, contain…”
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Accumulation and enhanced cycling of polyphosphate by Sargasso Sea plankton in response to low phosphorus
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-06-2014)“…Phytoplankton alter their biochemical composition according to nutrient availability, such that their bulk elemental composition varies across oceanic…”
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Phosphorus starvation induces membrane remodeling and recycling in Emiliania huxleyi
Published in The New phytologist (01-08-2016)“…Nutrient availability is an important factor controlling phytoplankton productivity. Phytoplankton contribute c. 50% of the global photosynthesis and possess…”
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SAR11 lipid renovation in response to phosphate starvation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-06-2015)“…Significance Nonphosphorus lipids produced by heterotrophic bacteria have been measured in marine ecosystems without an understanding of their origins or role…”
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Daily changes in phytoplankton lipidomes reveal mechanisms of energy storage in the open ocean
Published in Nature communications (05-12-2018)“…Sunlight is the dominant control on phytoplankton biosynthetic activity, and darkness deprives them of their primary external energy source. Changes in the…”
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Prochlorococcus extracellular vesicles: molecular composition and adsorption to diverse microbes
Published in Environmental microbiology (01-01-2022)“…Summary Extracellular vesicles are small (~50–200 nm diameter) membrane‐bound structures released by cells from all domains of life. While vesicles are…”
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Combined pigment and metatranscriptomic analysis reveals highly synchronized diel patterns of phenotypic light response across domains in the open oligotrophic ocean
Published in The ISME Journal (01-02-2021)“…Sunlight is the most important environmental control on diel fluctuations in phytoplankton activity, and understanding diel microbial processes is essential to…”
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Global ocean lipidomes show a universal relationship between temperature and lipid unsaturation
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (24-06-2022)“…Global-scale surveys of plankton communities using “omics” techniques have revolutionized our understanding of the ocean. Lipidomics has demonstrated the…”
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