Effects of light and prey availability on Arctic freshwater protist communities examined by high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 550-564

  Charvet, Sophie ^a,b,c   Vincent, Warwick F ^a,c   Lovejoy, Connie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Québec Océan and Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes   (Canada)

^c CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Chrysophytes; Climate change; Dinoflagellates; Polar lakes

Indexed keywords

COLD REGION; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA; FOOD WEB; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE COVER; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; IRRADIANCE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LATITUDE; LIGHT EFFECT; MACROALGA; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLAR REGION; PREY AVAILABILITY; PROTIST; RNA; TROPHIC STATUS;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; WARD HUNT ISLAND;

CERCOZOA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA;

RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHRYSOPHYTA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ICE COVER; LAKE; LIGHT; MICROBIOLOGY; POLAR LAKES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; CHRYSOPHYTES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DINOFLAGELLATES; POLAR LAKES;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; ICE COVER; LAKES; LIGHT; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84901689438     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12324     Document Type: Article

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