Protists have fascinated microbiologists since their discovery nearly 350 years ago. These
single-celled, eukaryotic species span an incredible range of sizes, forms, and functions …

Seawater desalination by reverse osmosis (RO) is a reliable method for augmenting
drinking water supplies. In recent years, the number and size of these water projects have …

Two real-time PCR assays targeting the small-subunit (SSU) ribosomal DNA (rDNA) were
designed to assess the proportional biomass of diatoms and dinoflagellates in marine …

ABSTRACT DNA sequence information has increasingly been used in ecological research
on microbial eukaryotes. Sequence-based approaches have included studies of the total …

In the last decade, various molecular methods (eg, fluorescent hybridization assay,
sandwich hybridization assay, automatized biosensor detection, real-time PCR assay) have …

Pretreatment of seawater for desalination can be accomplished with microfiltration (MF) or
ultrafiltration (UF) membranes. One problem with MF and UF pretreatment is fouling by …

Copepods play a central role in marine food webs as grazers of plankton and as key prey for
many predators. Therefore, quantifying their specific trophic interactions is critical for …

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are a global problem that affects both human and ecosystem
health. One of the most serious and widespread HAB poisoning syndromes is paralytic …

Ostreococcus is a genus of widely distributed marine phytoplankton which are
picoplanktonic in size (< 2 μm) and capable of rapid growth. Although Ostreococcus has …

The Delaware Inland Bays (DIB) have experienced harmful algal blooms of dinoflagellates
and raphidophytes in recent years. We used quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR) …