Multifaceted impacts of the stony coral Porites astreoides on picoplankton abundance and community composition.
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Dark Production of Extracellular Superoxide by the Coral Porites astreoides and Representative Symbionts
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Minor revision to V4 region SSU rRNA 806R gene primer greatly increases detection of SAR11 bacterioplankton
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Deep sequencing of the viral phoH gene reveals temporal variation, depth-specific composition, and persistent dominance of the same viral phoH genes in the Sargasso Sea
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Marine bacterioplankton community turnover within seasonally hypoxic waters of a sub-tropical sound: Devil’s Hole, Bermuda
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Marine cyanophages exhibit local and regional biogeography
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Ocean time-series reveals recurring seasonal patterns of virioplankton dynamics in the northwestern Sargasso Sea
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Seasonal dynamics of SAR11 populations in the euphoric and mesopelagic zones of the northwestern Sargasso Sea
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The marine viruses of four oceanic regions
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Proteorhodopsin in the ubiquitous marine bacterium SAR11
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Genome streamlining in a cosmopolitan oceanic bacterium
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Oceans of bacteria
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Environmental genome shotgun sequencing of the Sargasso Sea
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SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities
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