Diversity of Synechococcus at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory: Insights from Culture Isolations, Clone Libraries, and Flow Cytometry.

ABSTRACT: The cyanobacterium Synechococcus is a ubiquitous, important phytoplankter across the world's oceans. A high degree of genetic diversity exists within the marine group, which likely contributes to its global success. Over 20 clades with different distribution patterns have been identified. However, we do not fully understand the environmental factors that control clade distributions. These factors are likely to change seasonally, especially in dynamic coastal systems. To investigate how coastal Synechococcus assemblages change temporally, we assessed the diversity of Synechococcus at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) over three annual cycles with culture-dependent and independent approaches. We further investigated the abundance of both phycoerythrin (PE)-containing and phyco

SUBMITTER: Hunter-Cevera KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4728178 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature