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SUBMITTER: Rees AP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892227 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rees Andrew P AP Tait Karen K Widdicombe Claire E CE Quartly Graham D GD McEvoy Andrea J AJ Al-Moosawi Lisa L
Journal of plankton research 20160530 3
<i>Trichodesmium</i>, a colonial cyanobacterium typically associated with tropical waters, was observed between January and April 2014 in the western English Channel. Sequencing of the heterocyst differentiation (<i>hetR</i>) and 16S rRNA genes placed this community within the Clade IV <i>Trichodesmium</i>, an understudied clade previously found only in low numbers in warmer waters<i>.</i> Nitrogen fixation was not detected although measurable rates of nitrate uptake and carbon fixation were obs ...[more]