A phosphate alternative
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Trichdesmium apparently mines the organic phosphonate compounds in the ocean's dissolved phosphorus pool. A phylogenetic analysis is performed using sequence data from the phosphonate genes that encode the enzymes essential to break C-P bonds and the analysis shows that the C-P lyase enzymatic pathway required for phosphonate transport and hydrolysis is present in the genomes of all four of the Trichodesmium species sequenced to date.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Deep convection in the Irminger sea forced by the Greenland tip jit
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The causes for the open-ocean deep convection is explained with reference to the Irminger Sea. Research indicates that occurrence of a low-level atmospheric jet, Greenland tip jet, results in elevated heat flux and strong wind stress curl. Data suggest that Irminger Sea convection flow is different from those operating in the Labrador and the Mediterranean.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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Observing the ocean from within
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The technique of Argo (Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography), which is utilized to obtain data from the interiors of oceans, is mentioned.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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