title: Microbial Ecology of the Oceans
author: David L. Kirchman
description: "It is written for the reader with a solid background in biology and would be wonderful supplemental reading at the graduate level, with helpful definition boxes throughout and outlined summaries at the end of every chapter. The book is a well-rounded discourse of the advanced topics in marine microbial ecology. The second edition is highly recommended for professionals and graduate students in this field." (Environ Earth Sci, 2011)
zlib_text: ORIGINAL PAPER
  Protistan community patterns within the brine and halocline
  of deep hypersaline anoxic basins in the eastern
  Mediterranean Sea
  Virginia Edgcomb Æ William Orsi Æ Chesley Leslin Æ
  Slava S. Epstein Æ John Bunge Æ Sunok Jeon Æ
  Michail M. Yakimov Æ Anke Behnke Æ Thorsten Stoeck
  Received: 8 September 2008 / Accepted: 27 October 2008 / Published online: 5 December 2008
  � Springer 2008
  Abstract
  Environmental factors restrict the distribution
  of microbial eukaryotes but the exact boundaries for
  eukaryotic life are not known. Here, we examine protistan
  communities at the extremes of salinity and osmotic pres-
  sure, and report rich assemblages inhabiting Bannock and
  Discovery, two deep-sea superhaline anoxic basins in the
  Mediterranean. Using a rRNA-based approach, we detected
  1,538 protistan rRNA gene sequences from water samples
  with total salinity ranging from 39 to 280 g/Kg, and
  obtained evidence that this DNA was endogenous to the
  extreme habitat sampled. Statistical analyses 