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Rachel Parsons
Researcher at Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
Publications - 34
Citations - 7836
Rachel Parsons is an academic researcher from Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dissolved organic carbon & Bacterioplankton. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 28 publications receiving 6887 citations. Previous affiliations of Rachel Parsons include Bermuda Biological Station for Research.
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Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea
J. Craig Venter,Karin A. Remington,John F. Heidelberg,Aaron L. Halpern,Doug Rusch,Jonathan A. Eisen,Dongying Wu,Ian T. Paulsen,Karen E. Nelson,William C. Nelson,Derrick E. Fouts,Samuel Levy,Anthony H. Knap,Michael W. Lomas,Kenneth H. Nealson,Owen White,Jeremy Peterson,Jeff Hoffman,Rachel Parsons,Holly Baden-Tillson,Cynthia Pfannkoch,Yu-Hui Rogers,Hamilton O. Smith +22 more
TL;DR: Over 1.2 million previously unknown genes represented in these samples, including more than 782 new rhodopsin-like photoreceptors are identified, suggesting substantial oceanic microbial diversity.
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Minor revision to V4 region SSU rRNA 806R gene primer greatly increases detection of SAR11 bacterioplankton
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a minor adjustment to the 806R primer will greatly increase detec- tion of the globally abundant SAR11 clade in marine and lake environments, and enable inclusion of this important bacterial lineage in experimental and environmental-based studies.
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The marine viromes of four oceanic regions
Florent E. Angly,Ben Felts,Mya Breitbart,Peter Salamon,Robert Edwards,Craig H. Carlson,Amy M. Chan,Matthew Haynes,Scott D Kelley,Hong-Hong Liu,Joseph M. Mahaffy,Jennifer E Mueller,Jim Nulton,Robert Olson,Rachel Parsons,Steve Rayhawk,Curtis A. Suttle,Forest Rohwer +17 more
TL;DR: The results support the idea that viruses are widely dispersed and that local environmental conditions enrich for certain viral types through selective pressure.
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Seasonal dynamics of SAR11 populations in the euphotic and mesopelagic zones of the northwestern Sargasso Sea.
Craig A. Carlson,Robert M. Morris,Robert M. Morris,Rachel Parsons,Alexander H. Treusch,Stephen J. Giovannoni,Kevin L. Vergin +6 more
TL;DR: The correlation between evolutionary descent and temporal/spatial patterns are described, confirmed that a minimum of three SAR11 ecotypes occupy the Sargasso Sea surface layer, and revealed new details of their population dynamics.
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Effect of nutrient amendments on bacterioplankton production, community structure, and DOC utilization in the northwestern Sargasso Sea
Craig A. Carlson,Craig A. Carlson,Stephen J. Giovannoni,Dennis A. Hansell,Stuart J. Goldberg,Stuart J. Goldberg,Rachel Parsons,Mark P. Otero,Mark P. Otero,Kevin L. Vergin,Benjamin R. Wheeler +10 more
TL;DR: Labile DOC amendments stimulated bacterial production and DOC utilization, even in the absence of measurable inorganic nutrients, indicating that the bacterioplankton assemblage was initially energy limited, but did not stimulate utilization of seasonally accumulated DOC.