Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Rebecca Gast Front Page  |  Curriculum Vitae (external file)  |  Projects  |  Publications  |  Photo Gallery Publications » Life in the Extreme Cold » Kleptoplasty in an Antarctic dinoflagellate; caught in evolutionary transition? » High abundance of a novel dinoflagellate phylotype in the Ross Sea, Antarctica » Characterization of protistan assemblages in the Ross Sea, Antarctica by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis » Distinct protistan assemblages charcterize the euphotic zone and deep sea (2500m) of the western North Atlantic (Sargasso Sea and Gulf Stream) » Impact of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the microbial landscape of the New Orleans area » Community structure of marine sedimentary protists in relation to flow and grain size » DGGE-based detection method for Quahog Parasite Unknown (QPX) » Molecular phylogeny of a dinoflagellate parasite from the solitary radiolarian, Thalassicolla nucleata » Lethal marine snow: pathogen of bivalve mollusk concealed in marine aggregates » Nuclear small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene-based characterization, molecular phylogeny and PCR detection of the neoparamoeba from Western Long Island Sound lobsters » Isolation and characterization of Mycoplasma sphenisci sp. nov., from the choana of an aquarium-reared jackass penguin (Spheniscus demersus) » Protistan diversity estimates based on 18S rDNA from seawater incubations in the western N. Atlantic » Isolation of symbiotically expressed genes from the dinoflagellate symbiont of the solitary radiolarian Thalassicolla nucleata » Photosymbiotic associations in planktonic forminifera and radiolaria » The development of a reverse dot-blot method for the detection and identification of Acanthamoeba ribotypes » srDNA-based taxonomic affinities of algal symbionts from a planktonic foraminifer and a solitary radiolarian » Protistan community structure: molecular approaches for answering ecological questions » Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the heterotrophic chrysophyte Paraphysomonas, and the design on rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for two species » The evolutionary history of the genus Acanthamoeba and the identification of eight new 18S rRNA gene sequence types » Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates from planktonic foraminifera and radiolaria » Subgenus Systematics of Acanthamoeba: Four Nuclear 18S rDNA Sequence Types » Genus- and subgenus-specific oligonucleotide probes for Acanthamoeba » Discovery of group I introns in the nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA genes of Acanthamoeba » Sequence variations in small-subunit ribosomal RNAs of Hartmannella vermiformis and their phylogenetic implications Gast, R.J., The development of a reverse dot-blot method for the detection and identification of Acanthamoeba ribotypes, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 48:609-615, 2001

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