Literature

LabMicrobe
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Literature

LabMicrobe

Scientific articles:

Blackburn, N., Hagström Å., Wikner J., Hansson R.C., Bjørnsen P.K. (1998) Rapid determination of bacterial abundance, biovolume, morphology, and growth by neural network-based image analysis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64(9): 3246-3255  download publication in PDF format, 1.0 MB

Johansen J.E., Pinhassi J.,*, Blackburn N., Hagström Å. (2002) Variability in motility characteristics bacteria. Aquat Microb Ecol 28: 229–237, 2002

Kaartokallio H. (2004) Food web components, and physical and chemical properties of Baltic Sea ice. MEPS 273: 49-63

Kaartokallio H. (2005) Sea-ice ecology in the Baltic Sea with special emphasis on bacteria. Walter And Andrée De Nottbeck Foundation Scientific Reports No. 27

Kaartokallio H.. Kuosa H, Thomas D., Granskog M, Kivi K. (2007) Biomass, composition and activity of organism assemblages along a salinity gradient in sea ice subjected to river discharge in the Baltic Sea
Polar Biology 30(2): 183-197

Kaartokallio H., Laamanen M., and Sivonen K. (2005) Responses of Baltic Sea Ice and Open-Water Natural Bacterial Communities to Salinity Change. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71: 4364-4371

Zweifel U.L. (1999) Factors Controlling Accumulation of Labile Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Gulf of Riga. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 48(3): 357-370

Others:

ICES SGQAB REPORT 2005, ACME:06 Ref. C, E, H. ICES/HELCOM Steering Group on Quality Assurance of Biological Measurements in the Baltic Sea, ICES Headquarters, 22 – 25 February 2005

LabTrack

Scientific articles: 

Bagøien, E. and T. Kiørboe (2005). Blind dating – mate finding in planktonic copepods. I. Tracking the pheromone trail of Centropages typicus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 300: 105-115

Bagøien, E. and T. Kiørboe (2005). Blind dating – mate finding in planktonic copepods. III. Hydromechanica communication in Acartia tonsa. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 300:129-133

Blackburn N. (2003) “Measuring chemotaxis” in Madigan M.T., Martinko J.M., Parker J. (2003) Brock, Biology of Microorganisms.

Blackburn N., Fenchel T. (1999) Influence of bacteria, diffusion and shear on micro-scale nutrient patches, and implications for bacterial chemotaxis. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 189: 1-7 download publication in PDF format, 462 KB

Blackburn N., Fenchel T., Mitchell J. (1998) Microscale nutrient patches in planktonic habitats shown by chemotactic bacteria. Science 282: 2254-2256 download publication in PDF format, 519 KB

Christensen-Dalsgaard K.K.; Fenchel T. (2004) Complex Flagellar Motions and Swimming Patterns of the Flagellates Paraphysomonas vestita and Pteridomonas danica. Protist, Volume 155, Number 1, 1 March 2004, pp. 79-87(9)

Dur G, Souissi S, Schmitt F, Cheng S-H, Hwang J-S (2010) The different aspects in motion of the three reproductive stages of /Pseudodiaptomus annandalei/ (Copepoda, Calanoida). J. Plankton Res. 32: 423-440

Fenchel T. (2004) Orientation in two dimensions: chemosensory motile behaviour of Euplotes vannus. European Journal of Protistology 40: 49–55

Fenchel T., Blackburn N. (1999) Motile chemosensory behaviour of phagotrophic protists: Mechanisms for efficiency in congregating at food particles. Protist 150: 325-336 download publication in PDF format, 865 KB

Fenchel, T. (2001) Eppur si muove: many water column bacteria are motile. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 24 197 - 201

Fenchel, T. (2001) How dinoflagellates swim. Protist 152 329 – 338

Green, S., A.W. Visser, J. Titelman & T. Kiørboe, 2003. Escape responses of copepod nauplii in the flow field of the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis. Mar. Biol., 142: 727-733.

Hansson L.J., Kiørboe T. (2006) Prey-specific encounter rates and handling ambush-feeding hydromedusae. Limnol. Oceanogr., 51(4): 1849–1858

Jakobsen H.H., Halvorsen E., Winding Hansen B., Visser A.W. (2005) Effects of prey motility and concentration on feeding in Acartia tonsa and Temora longicornis: the importance of feeding modes. Journal of Plankton Research 27: 775-785

Johansen J.E., Pinhassi, J., Blackburn, N., Zweifel, U.L., Hagström Å. (2002) Viability in motility characteristics among marine bacteria. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 28: 229-237 download publication in PDF format,

Kiørboe T. (2008) Optimal swimming strategies in mate-searching pelagic copepods. Oecologia 155: 179-192

Kiørboe, T,. E. Bagøien and U.H. Thygesen (2005). Blind dating – mate finding in planktonic copepods. II. The pheromone cloud of Pseudocalanus elongatus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 300: 117-128

Kiørboe T., Bagøien E. (2005) Motility patterns and mate encounter rates in planktonic copepods. Limnol. Oceanogr., 50(6): 1999-2007

Kiørboe, T, H.-P. Grossart, H. Ploug & K. Tang, 2002. Mechanisms and Rates of Bacterial Colonization of Sinking Aggregates. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 68: 3996-4006.

Kiørboe, T., K. Tang, H.-P. Grossart & H. Ploug, 2003. Dynamics of microbial communities on marine snow aggregates: colonization, growth, detachment and grazing mortality of attached bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69: 3036-3047

Kiørboe, T., Grossart H.-P., PlougH., TangK., &  Auer B. 2004. Particle associated flagellates: swimming patterns, colonization rates, and grazing on attached bacteria. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 35: 141-152

Koski, M, Kiørboe T. and Takahashi K. (2005). Benthic life in the pelagic: aggregate encounter and degradation rates by harpacticoid copepods. Limnol. Oceanogr.  50: 1254–1263

Larsen M. H., Blackburn N., Larsen J. L., Olsen J. E. (2004 ): Influences of temperature, salinity and starvation on the motility and chemotactic response of Vibrio anguillarum. Microbiology (2004); Vol. 150, s. 1283-1290 download publication in PDF format, 135 KB

Larsen M.H., Boesen H.T. (2001) Role of flagellum and chemotactic motility of Vibrio anguillarum for phagocytosis by and intracellular survival in fish macrophages. FEMS Microbiology Letters 203: 149

Michalec F-G, Souissi S., Dur G, Mahjoub M-S, Schmitt FG, Hwang J-S (2010) Differences in behavioral responses of /Eurytemora affinis/ (Copepoda, Calanoida) reproductive stages to salinity variations. Journal of Plankton Research . Accepted for publication Jan. 2010

Moison M., Schmitt F., Seuront L., Souissi S. (2007) Statistical analysis of copepod (Temora longicornis) swimming behaviour and trajectories and their environmental forcings. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 04467.

Skovgaard A. (2000) A phagotrophically derivable growth factor in the plastidic dinoflagellate Gyrodinium resplendens (Dinophyceae). Journal of Phycology, 36: 1069-1078

Strom S.L., Wolfe G.V., Bright K.B. (2007) Responses of marine planktonic protists to amino acids: feeding inhibition and swimming behavior in the ciliate Favella sp. Aquat Microb Ecol 47: 107–121, 2007

Thar R., Blackburn N., Kühl M. (2000) A new system for three-dimensional tracking of motile microorganisms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66: 2238-2242 download publication in PDF format, 506 KB or go to the AEM website

Thar, R. , and Fenchel, T. (2001) True chemotaxis in oxygen gradients of the sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thiovulum majus .Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 3299-3303.

Thar R., Kühl M. (2001) Motility of Marichromatium gracile in Response to Light, Oxygen, and Sulfide. Appl Environ Microbiol.; 67(12): 5410–5419.

Titelman J. (2001) Swimming and escape behavior of copepod nauplii: implications for predator-prey interactions among copepods. Marine Ecology Progress Series 213: 203–213.

Titelman J., Kiørboe T. (2003) Motility of copepod nauplii and implications for food encounter. Marine Ecology Progress Series 247: 123-135

Titelman J., Kiørboe T. (2003) Predator avoidance by nauplii. Marine Ecology Progress Series 247: 137-149

Visser A.W, & Kiørboe T. (2006) Plankton motility patterns and encounter rates. Oecologia 148 (3): 538-546

Simulation studies

Thelaus J, Haecky P, Forsman M, Andersson A. (2008) Predation-pressure on bacteria increases along aquatic productivity gradients. Aquat Microb Ecol 52: 45-55

Poulton S.W. , Krom M.D., van Rijn J., Neori A., Kokkinakis A. K. , Haecky P., BlackburnT.H., Blackburn N.D., and Ragias V. (2002) Development of recirculating mariculture production systems designed to minimize environmental impact. FAIR CT98-4160 report.

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