Fraction of light-stimulated leucine incorporation in the North Atlantic Ocean that Prochlorococcus is responsible for

Range >75 %
Organism Prochlorococcus
Reference D. L. Kirchman, Microbial Ecology of the Oceans (Wiley & Sons, New York, 2008). Introduction and overview, p.6 bottom paragraph
Primary Source Michelou, V. K., M. T. Cottrell, and D. L. Kirchman. 2007. Light-stimulated bacterial production and amino acid assimilation by cyanobacteria and other microbes in the North Atlantic Ocean. Appl. Environ. Microbiol . 73: 5539 – 5546.PubMed ID17630296
Method Flow cytometric studies
Comments "...flow cytometric studies confirmed that Prochlorococcus was responsible over 75 percent of light-stimulated leucine incorporation in the North Atlantic Ocean, but Synechococcus and probably other bacterial groups also accounted for substantial light-dependent leucine incorporation (primary source)."
Entered by Uri M
ID 110356