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High incorporation of carbon into proteins by the phytoplankton of the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea

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Title
High incorporation of carbon into proteins by the phytoplankton of the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea
Other Titles
베링해협과 척치해에서의 식물플랑크톤의 높은 단백질 생성
Authors
Lee, Sang Heon
Terry E. Whitledge
Kim, Hak Jun
Subject
Oceanography
Keywords
Chukchi SeaLipidsPhotosynthetic allocationsPhytoplanktonProteins
Issue Date
2009
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
Lee, Sang Heon, Terry E. Whitledge, Kim, Hak Jun. 2009. "High incorporation of carbon into proteins by the phytoplankton of the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea". CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH, 29(14): 1689-1696.
Abstract
High incorporation of carbon into proteins and low incorporation into lipids were a characteristic pattern of the photosynthetic allocations of phytoplankton throughout the euphotic zone in the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea in 2004. According to earlier studies, this indicates that phytoplankton had no nitrogen limitation and a physiologically healthy condition, at least during the cruise period from mid-August to early September in 2004. This is an interesting result, especially for the phytoplankton in the Alaskan Coastal Water mass dominated region in the Chukchi Sea which has been thought to be potentially nitrogen limited. The relatively high ammonium concentration is believed to have supported the nitrogen demand of the phytoplankton in the region where small cells (< 5 ?m) composed of about 50% of the community since they prefer to use regenerated nitrogen such as ammonium. In fact, a small cell-size community of phytoplankton incorporated much more carbon into proteins in nitrate-depleted water suggesting that small phytoplankton had less nitrogen stress than large phytoplankton. If the high carbon incorporation into proteins by the phytoplankton in 2004 is a general pattern of the photosynthetic allocations in the Chukchi Sea, they could provide nitrogen-sufficient food for the highest benthic faunal biomass in the Arctic Ocean, sustaining large populations of benthic-feeding marine mammals and seabirds.
URI
https://repository.kopri.re.kr/handle/201206/6046
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2009.05.012
Type
Article
Indexed
SCI
Appears in Collections  
2008-2010, Development of Longer preservation of Blood Using Antifreeze Molecules Derived from Polar Organisms (08-10) / Kim, Hak Jun (PG08040, PE09070, PE10070)
2004-2011, Oceanographic Research on the Arctic Sea (04-11) / Chung, Kyung Ho; Lee, Sang Heon (PM27800, PM05010, PM07020, PM10040, PM06020, PM08030, PM09020, PM11050)
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