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MBL Catalyst, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2012
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Spring 2012 Supplementary Materials
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Letter from the Director
McGlone M (2012) The hunters did it. Science 335: 1452-1453.
Rahbek C and Colwell RK (2012) Species loss revisited. Nature 473: 288-289.
Rule, S, et al (2012) The aftermath of megafaunal extinction: ecosystem transformation in Pleistocene Australia. Science 225: 1483-1486. |
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Pp. 2-3: Introduction
Ausubel JH, Crist DT, and Waggoner PE, eds. (2010) First Census of Marine Life 2010: Highlights of a Decade of Discovery. New York: Census of Marine Life International Secretariat. ISBN 978-1-4507-3102-7. [PDF]
www.coml.org
Jackson, N. A conversation with Quentin D. Wheeler, sustainability scientist. The Atlantic, Nov. 18, 2011.
Strain, D (2011). 8.7 million: a new estimate for all the complex species on earth. Science 333: 1083.
Wheeler QD, et al (including Borisy GG and Miller H) (2012). Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity. Systematics and Biodiversity 10: 1-20. [PDF] |
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Pp. 4-5: All Species, Great and Small
Encyclopedia of Life: www.eol.org
Goddard A, Wilson N, Cryer P, and Yamashita G (2011) Data hosting infrastructure for primary biodiversity data. BMC Bioinformatics: 12(Suppl 15): S5. [PDF] |
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Pp. 6-7: News & Notes
Census Yields World’s First Comparison of Microbial Diversity in Global Ocean Ecosystems
Zinger L, et al (including Amaral-Zettler LA, Huse SM, Mark Welch DB, Sogin M) (2011) Global patterns of bacterial beta-diversity in seafloor and seawater ecosystems. PLoS ONE 6: e24570. [PDF]
Comprehensive Mission to Document Earth’s Species is Planned
Wheeler QD, et al (including Borisy GG and Miller H) (2012) Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity. Systematics and Biodiversity 10: 1–20. [PDF]
Walk this Way: Scientists and MBL Physiology Course Students Describe How a Motor Protein “Steps Out”
Qiu W et al (including Villa E, Wu D, and Reck-Peterson SL) (2012) Dynein achieves processive motion using both stochastic and coordinated stepping. Nature Struct. & Mol. Biol. 19: 193-200. [PDF]
MBL and Partners to Study Climate Change in Falmouth Salt Marshes
www.mbl.edu/news/press_releases/2011/2011_pr_11_03.html
In a Brainless Marine Worm, MBL Researchers Find Parts of the Developmental “Scaffold” for the Vertebrate Brain
Pani AM and Lowe CJ, et al (2012) Ancient deuterostome origins of vertebrate brain signalling centres. Nature 483: 289-294. [PDF] |
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Pp. 8-9: Microbial Diversity, Leaf by Leaf
Laboratory of Sheri Simmons, Josephine Bay Paul Center: www.simmonslab.org/
Laboratory of Zoe Cardon, Ecosystems Center: ecosystems.mbl.edu/staff/cardon.html
Press release on salt marsh study: www.mbl.edu/news/press_releases/2011/2011_pr_10_13.html |
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Pp. 10-11: Life, Literature, and the Pursuit of Global Access
Biodiversity Heritage Library:
biodiversitylibrary.org/
uBio (Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer):
www.ubio.org
Garnett, Tom. “Weaving Indra’s Net.” Closing remarks of the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Life and Literature Conference, Dec. 19, 2011. [PDF] |
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Page 12-13: Discovering Nature’s Codes
Encyclopedia of Life:
eol.org
MBL Center for Library and Informatics:
mbl.edu/cli
Mushroom Observer:
mushroomobserver.org
Wilson, N et al (preliminary results) Application of Semantic Technology to Define Names for Fungi. [PDF] |
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P. 15: Cool Tool: The Rise of VAMPS
Zinger L, et al (including Amaral-Zettler LA, Huse SM, Mark Welch DB, Sogin M) (2011) Global patterns of bacterial beta-diversity in seafloor
and seawater ecosystems. PLoS ONE 6: e24570. [PDF]
Selected publications issuing from the International Census of Marine Microbes:
Sogin ML, Morrison HG, Huber JA, Mark Welch D, Huse SM, Neal PR, Arrieta JM, and Herndl GJ (2006) Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103:12115-12120. [PDF]
Huber JA, Mark Welch D, Morrison HG, Huse SM, Neal PR, Butterfield DA and Sogin ML (2007) Microbial population structures in the deep marine biosphere. Science 318:97-100.
Santelli CA et al (including Sogin ML) (2008) Abundance and diversity of microbial life in the ocean crust. Nature 453:653-656.
Huse SL, Dethlefsen JA, Huber J, Mark Welch D, Relman DA, and Sogin ML (2008) Exploring microbial diversity and taxonomy using SSU rRNA hypervariable tag sequencing. PLoS Genetics4(11): e1000255 doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000255.
Hasegawa Y, Mark Welch JL, Valm A, Rieken C, Sogin M, and Borisy G (2010) Imaging marine bacteria with unique 16S rRNA V6 sequences by fluorescence in situ hybridization and spectral analysis. Geomicrobiology Journal 27: 251-260.
Brazelton WJ et al (including Sogin ML and Andreishcheva EN) (2010) Archaea and bacteria with surprising microdiversity show shifts in dominance over 1,000-year time scales in hydrothermal chimneys. PNAS 107: 1612-1617.
Huse SM, Mark Welch D, Morrison HG, and Sogin ML (2010) Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere. Environ Microbiol. 12:1889-98.
Huber JA, Cantin HV, Huse SM, Mark Welch DB, Sogin ML & Butterfield DA (2010) Isolated communities of Epsilonproteobacteria in hydrothermal vent fluids of the Mariana Arc seamounts. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 73: 538-549.
Bodaker I, et al (including Andreishcheva E and Sogin ML) (2010) Comparative community genomics in the Dead Sea: an increasingly extreme environment. ISME J. 4: 399-407.
Amaral-Zettler L et al (including Thessen A and Sogin M (2010) A global census of marine microbes, In: Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution and Abundance, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, (eds),pp. 223-45.
Agogué H et al (including Sogin ML) (2011) Water mass-specificity of bacterial communities in the North Atlantic revealed by massively parallel sequencing. Mol Ecol. 20: 258-74.
Gobet A et al (including Huse SM and Sogin ML) (2012) Diversity and dynamics of rare and of resident bacterial populations in coastal sands. ISME Journal 6: 542–553. |
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P. 17: Memorabilia: A Diversity of Fishes
Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe: Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le Commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville (Paris: J. Tastu and Ministère de la Marine, 1830-1834), Plate 19. |
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