Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Communities

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Molecular ecology of aquatic communities: reflections and future directions....Pages 1-8
Plasmid ecology of marine sediment microbial communities....Pages 9-18
Use of the polymerase chain reaction and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis to study diversity in natural virus communities....Pages 19-32
Flow cytometry in molecular aquatic ecology....Pages 33-53
Distribution of microbial assemblages in the Central Arctic Ocean Basin studied by PCR/DGGE: analysis of a large data set....Pages 55-68
Bacterial populations in replicate marine enrichment cultures: assessing variability in abundance using 16S rRNA-based probes....Pages 69-75
Diversity of bacterial communities in Adirondack lakes: do species assemblages reflect lake water chemistry?....Pages 77-96
New insights on old bacteria: diversity and function of morphologically conspicuous sulfur bacteria in aquatic systems....Pages 97-112
The distribution and relative abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica....Pages 113-130
Microscopic detection of the toluene dioxygenase gene and its expression inside bacterial cells in seawater using prokaryotic in situ PCR....Pages 131-138
Variability in bacterial community structure during upwelling in the coastal ocean....Pages 139-148
Application of molecular techniques to addressing the role of P as a key effector in marine ecosystems....Pages 149-175
Immunological and molecular probes to detect phytoplankton responses to environmental stress in nature....Pages 177-198
Spatial scale and the diversity of benthic cyanobacteria and diatoms in a salina....Pages 199-206
A rapid method to score plastid haplotypes in red seaweeds and its use in determining parental inheritance of plastids in the red alga Bostrychia (Ceramiales)....Pages 207-214
Protistan community structure: molecular approaches for answering ecological questions....Pages 215-227
Molecular and demographic measures of arsenic stress in Daphnia pulex ....Pages 229-238
Taxonomic and systematic assessment of planktonic copepods using mitochondrial COI sequence variation and competitive, species-specific PCR....Pages 239-254
Ecological implications of molecular biomarkers: assaying sub-lethal stress in the midge Chironomus tentans using heat shock protein 70 HSP-70) expression....Pages 255-264
RNA—DNA ratio and other nucleic acid-based indicators for growth and condition of marine fishes....Pages 265-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-280