Research report 2014 - Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Chance or determinism: molecular ecological studies of degradation processes of algal biomass by marine bacteria
Authors
Amann, Rudolf; Fuchs, Bernhard M..; Teeling, Hanno
Departments
Molekulare Ökologie
Summary
Every spring algal blooms color the temperate and polar seas greenish-brown. When the algae die millions of tons of proteins and sugars are released which are by large mineralized by bacteria. This raises two questions: what characterizes these bacteria and does their occurrence follow predictable patterns?