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dc.contributor.authorHassett, Brandon Thomas
dc.contributor.authorGradinger, Rolf
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-10T08:48:13Z
dc.date.available2018-07-10T08:48:13Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-06
dc.description.abstractThe Bering Sea has some of the highest concentrations of inorganic nutrients of any marine system. In the Bering Sea, eukaryotic microbes interface inorganic nutrient sequestration and cycling processes that drive one of the most productive ecosystems globally. Historical surveys of eukaryotic microbial diversity in the Bering Sea have relied on microscopy and culturing-dependent analyses to assess microbial diversity patterns. In this study, we used high-throughput sequencing (Illumina MiSeq) of the 18S rRNA gene to explore general patterns of eukaryotic microbial diversity from six regions in the Bering Sea and surrounding Subarctic Pacific. The greatest richness was found in the Shelikof Strait and at the marginal ice zone. The lowest richness was found in the deep water basin south of the Aleutian Islands. Ordination analysis of our sequences revealed nearly identical community structures between our Shelikof Strait and the deep water basin sites. Operational taxonomic unit analysis revealed that water samples from the Bering Sea sites shared more OTUs with the Shelikof Strait site than with the sea ice sample, despite the existence of sea ice in the Bering Sea, reflecting known circulation patterns out of the Gulf of Alaska. Richness increased with increasing latitude and decreasing temperature, suggesting that the base of food webs is susceptible to temperature perturbations.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation Award DGE-0801720; The Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic (MESAS) IGERT #1303901;en_US
dc.descriptionThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Polar Biology. The final authenticated version is available online at: <a href=https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2131-2> https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2131-2 </a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHassett, B. T. & Gradinger, R. (2017). Eukaryotic microbial richness increases with latitude and decreasing temperature in the Pacific Subarctic domain in late winter. Polar Biology, 40(11), 2161-2169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2131-2en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1518890
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00300-017-2131-2
dc.identifier.issn0722-4060
dc.identifier.issn1432-2056
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/13202
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Verlagen_US
dc.relation.journalPolar Biology
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497en_US
dc.titleEukaryotic microbial richness increases with latitude and decreasing temperature in the Pacific Subarctic domain in late winteren_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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