Picobiliphyta: an Algal group new to Science

海洋和淡水浮游植物在维持生物圈的许多地球化学过程中发挥着关键作用，并提供对人类生存至关重要的各种商品和服务，包括粮食生产，废物同化和气候调节。水覆盖了地球表面的70%，几乎所有主要的海洋和海洋都由微观原生生物和光养原核生物控制。每次通过分子技术研究这些微观原生生物和原核生物的生物多样性时，都发现我们知道大约10%的最小尺寸部分的生物多样性。该项目将尝试通过使用最先进的分子探针与荧光激活细胞分选相结合来恢复通过环境测序发现的新藻类类别的形态。将尝试将细胞培养，并调查新类别的超微结构和系统发育史。环境克隆库丰富的序列，从分类特异性引物和微阵列将映射分布在时间和空间的这些生物从德国湾，他们是第一次发现。

Marine and freshwater phytoplankton play pivotal roles in many biogeochemical processes that sustain the biosphere, and provide a variety of goods and services that are essential to mankind¿s existence, including food production, assimilation of waste and regulation of the climate. Water covers 70% of the Earth¿s surface and virtually all major ocean and seas are dominated numerically by microscopic protists and phototrophic prokaryotes. Each time that the biodiversity of these microscopic protists and prokaryotes has been investigated by molecular techniques, it has been found that we know approximately 10% of the biodiversity in the smallest size fractions. This project will attempt to recover the morphology of a new algal class discovered by environmental sequencing by using state of the art molecular probes coupled to fluorescence-activated cell sorting. Attempts will be made to bring the cells into culture, and investigate the ultrastructure and phylogenetic history of the new class. Environmental clone libraries enriched in their sequences from taxon-specific primers and microarrays will map the distribution in time and space of these organisms from the German Bight where they were first discovered.