Marine Biology (Castro), 9th Edition

Chapter 5: The Microbial World

For Further Reading

Cohen, P., 2004. Natural glass. New Scientist, vol. 181, no. 2430, 17 January, pp. 26–29. Diatoms could have useful applications in nanotechnology by serving as inexpensive, easy-to-get microscopic devices and material.

Kasting, J. F., 2004. When methane made climate. Scientific American, vol. 291, no. 1, July, pp. 78–85. Methanogens, a large group of archaea, were responsible for the methane-rich, oxygen-poor atmosphere of the early earth. It all changed with the appearance of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, which gradually replaced methane with oxygen.

Lee, R. F. and M. E. Frischer, 2004. The decline of the blue crab. American Scientist, vol. 92, no. 6, November–December, pp. 548–553. A parasitic dinoflagellate that develops in the tissues of the blue crab has brought about a decline in the number of blue crabs on the east coast of the United States.

Mlot, C., 2004. Microbial diversity unbound. BioScience, vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 1064–1068. Molecular techniques demonstrate the amazing diversity of prokaryotes.

Niklas, K. J., 2004. The cell walls that bind the Tree of Life. BioScience, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 831–841. Symbiosis appears to have played an important role in the evolution of cell walls in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

D Hondt, S., B. B. Jørgensen, D. Jay Miller, A. Batzke, R. Blake, B. A. Cragg, H. Cypionka, G. R. Dickens, T. Ferdelman, K. Hinrichs, N. G. Holm, R. Mitterer, A. Spivack, G. Wang, B. Bekins, B. Engelen, K. Ford, G. Gettemy, S. D. Rutherford, H. Sass, C. G. Skilbeck, I. W. Aiello, G. Guèrin, C. H. House, F. Inagaki, P. Meister, T. Naehr, S. Niitsuma, R. J. Parkes, A. Schippers, D. C. Smith, A. Teske, J. Wiegel, C. Naranjo Padilla and J. L. Solis Acosta, 2004. Distribution of microbial activities in deep subseafloor sediments. Science, vol. 306, no. 5705, 24 December, pp. 2216–2221.

Fernández, L. A., 2005. Exploring prokaryotic diversity: There are other molecular worlds. Molecular Microbiology, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 5–15.

Finlay, B. J., 2004. Protist taxonomy: an ecological perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, vol. 359, no. 1444, pp. 599–610.

Shao, P, Y. Chen, Z. Hui, Q. Lianghu, M. Ying, L. Heyng and J. Nianzhi, 2004. Phylogenetic diversity of Archaea in prawn farm sediment. Marine Biology, vol. 146, no. 1, pp. 133–142.

Taylor, M. W., P. J. Schupp, I. Dallhöf, S. Kjelleberg and P. D. Steinberg, 2004. Host specific city in marine sponge–associated bacteria, and potential implications for marine microbial diversity. Environmental Microbiology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 121–130.

Whitehead, J. C., T. C. Haab and G. R. Parsons, 2003. Economic effects of Pfiesteria. Ocean and Coastal Management, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 104–111.

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