Molecular Biology in Studies of Ocean Processes

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the potential value of molecular biology to biological oceanography with emphasis on techniques that appropriate for use in marine environment. It focuses those can be modified at sea, are simple and low cost, relevant major problems oceanography. Molecular is study structure, functional organization, regulation nucleic acids proteins. Ocean processes include biogeochemical cycles, evolution organisms, population dynamics, systematics, physiological adaptation organisms a fluctuating ocean A key focus development operational protocols separate enumerate basis their or ecological functions. The plankton community mediates fluxes many biogeochemically important elements, including nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, sulfur, silica, phosphorus, oxygen. approaches divided into three categories: (1) isolation characterization proteins, (2) assay either pool size rate synthesis specific genes, RNA molecules, (3) direct indirect experimental manipulation test hypotheses.