Microbial life such as bacteria, fungi, and algae are integral to a naturally functioning aquatic ecosystem. By applying comprehensive molecular approaches, this laboratory is focused on characterizing the composition and distribution of microbial communities, and determining the functional roles as well as their interactions with environments.
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News
Temporal variation and detection limit of an estuarine bacterioplankton community analyzed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)
Kan, J., K. Wang, and F. Chen. 2006. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 42:7–18.
Diverse and unique picocyanobacteria found in the Chesapeake Bay
Chen, F., K. Wang, J. Kan, M. Suzuki, E. Wommack, and W. Coats. 2006. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72(3): 2239–2243.
Isolation and characterization of a small nuclear inclusion virus infecting the diatom Chaetoceros c.f. gracilis
Bettarel, Y., J. Kan, K. Wang, S. Cooney, K. Williamson, F. Chen, E. Wommack, and W. Coats. 2005. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 40:103–114.
Metaproteomic analysis of Chesapeake Bay microbial communities
Kan, J., T.E. Hanson, J.M. Ginter, K. Wang, and F. Chen. 2005. Saline Systems 1:7.
Assessment of microbial dynamics in the Pearl River Estuary by 16S rRNA terminal restriction fragment analysis
Wu, M., L. Song, J. Ren, J. Kan, and P. Qian. 2004. Continental Shelf Research 24:1925–1934.
Riparian deforestation, stream narrowing, and loss of stream ecosystem services
Sweeney, B.W., T.L. Bott, J.K. Jackson, L.A. Kaplan, J.D. Newbold, L.J. Standley, W.C. Hession, and R.J. Horwitz. 2004. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(30):14132–14137.
Publications
Grazing of protozoa, bacteria, and diatoms by meiofauna in lotic epibenthic communities
Bott, T.L., and M.A. Borchardt. 1999. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 18(4):499–513.
National Climbing Plan B: Study on better quality and disease resistance of marine aquaculture (III)
Kan, J., et al., 1999. In B. Wu (editor). Reproduction, attachment, and metamorphosis of mollusks. Shandong Science and Technology Press, Jinan, P. R. China.
Bott, T.L., and L.J. Standley. 1999. Water Research 33:1538–1544.
A study on induced metamorphosis of larvae of the Bay Scallop Argopecten irradians
Hong, X., Y. Yang, and J. Kan. 1998. Journal of Oceanography of Huanghai and Bohai Seas. 16(3):47–51.
Bott, T.L., and L.J. Standley. 1998. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 60(3):472–479.
