Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Microbes

The Potential of Molecular Ecology.- Towards Understanding the Molecular Ecology of Phytoplankton Photosynthesis.- Bacteria in Oceanic Carbon Cycling as a Molecular Problem.- The Role and Regulation of Microbes in Sediment Nitrogen Cycle.- Functional and Taxonomic Probes for Bacteria in the Nitrogen Cycle.- The Role of Mixotrophy in Pelagic Environments.- Successional Change in the Planktonic Vegetation: Species, Structures, Scales.- Can Molecular Techniques Change Our Ideas About the Species Concept?.- How Do Cyanobacteria Perceive and Adjust to Their Environment?.- How Do Cells Express Nutrient Limitation at the Molecular Level?.- The Problem of Excess and/or Limitation of the Habitat Conditions: Do Natural Assemblages Exist?.- Signal Transduction in Microorganisms.- Microbial Diversity in Oceanic Systems: rRNA Approaches to the Study of Unculturable Microbes.- Viruses - the New Players in the Game; Their Ecological Role and Could They Mediate Genetic Exchange by Transduction?.- Molecular Analysis of Plastid Evolution.- Can We Estimate Bacterial Growth Rates from Ribosomal RNA Content?.- The Cell Cycle of Phytoplankton: Coupling Cell Growth to Population Growth.- Response of Photosynthetic Microorganisms to Changing Ambient Concentration of CO2.- Nitrogen Fixation in the Sea: Why Only Trichodesmium?.- Molecular Ecology of Marine Methanotrophs.- Microbial Cultures and Natural Populations.- List of Participants.