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Stockholm University: Stockholm, SE

2014-01-01 to present | Associate Professor (Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences)
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Rachel Foster

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Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY, US

2000-09-01 to 2004-06-01 | PhD Oceanography (Marine Science Research Center)
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Rachel Foster

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The path to dependence: stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses

2025-03-25 | Preprint
Contributors: Vesna Grujcic; Maliheh Mehrshad; Carl Theoden Vigil Stenman; Daniel Lundin; Rachel A Foster
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Using gene complementation to identify a SulP-family bicarbonate transporter in an N2-fixing cyanobacterial endosymbiont of an open ocean diatom

2024-01-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Mercedes Nieves-Morión; Rubén Romero-García; Sepehr Bardi; Luis López-Maury; Martin Hagemann; Enrique Flores; Rachel A. Foster
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Heterologous expression of genes from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont highlights substrate exchanges with its diatom host

PNAS Nexus
2023-05-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Mercedes Nieves-Morión; Sergio Camargo; Sepehr Bardi; María Teresa Ruiz; Enrique Flores; Rachel A Foster; Edward Bayer
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Heterologous expression of genes from a heterocystous cyanobacterial endosymbiont highlights organic carbon exchange with its diatom host

2023-01-23 | Preprint
Contributors: Mercedes Nieves-Morión; Sergio Camargo; Sepehr Bardi; María Teresa Ruiz; Enrique Flores; Rachel A. Foster
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Correction to: Heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs are more abundant than their cyanobacterial counterparts in metagenomes covering most of the sunlit ocean

The ISME Journal
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Tom O Delmont; Juan José Pierella Karlusich; Iva Veseli; Jessika Fuessel; A Murat Eren; Rachel A Foster; Chris Bowler; Patrick Wincker; Eric Pelletier
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Heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs are more abundant than their cyanobacterial counterparts in metagenomes covering most of the sunlit ocean

The ISME Journal
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Tom O Delmont; Juan José Pierella Karlusich; Iva Veseli; Jessika Fuessel; A Murat Eren; Rachel A Foster; Chris Bowler; Patrick Wincker; Eric Pelletier
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Correction: The rate and fate of N2 and C fixation by marine diatom-diazotroph symbioses

The ISME Journal
2022-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Rachel A Foster; Daniela Tienken; Sten Littmann; Martin J Whitehouse; Marcel M M Kuypers; Angelicque E White
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The rate and fate of N2 and C fixation by marine diatom-diazotroph symbioses

The ISME Journal
2022-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Rachel A Foster; Daniela Tienken; Sten Littmann; Martin J Whitehouse; Marcel M M Kuypers; Angelicque E White
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Abundant than their cyanobacterial counterparts in metagenomes covering most of the sunlit ocean

bioRxiv
2021 | Other
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2-s2.0-85105151507

Part of ISSN: 26928205
Contributors: Delmont, T.O.; Karlusich, J.J.P.; Veseli, I.; Fuessel, J.; Eren, A.M.; Foster, R.A.; Bowler, C.; Wincker, P.; Pelletier, E.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Combining SIMS and mechanistic modelling to reveal nutrient kinetics in an algal-bacterial mutualism

PLoS ONE
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85106005879

Part of ISSN: 19326203
Contributors: Schlogelhofer, H.L.; Peaudecerf, F.J.; Bunbury, F.; Whitehouse, M.J.; Foster, R.A.; Smith, A.G.; Croze, O.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Global distribution patterns of marine nitrogen-fixers by imaging and molecular methods

Nature Communications
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85109310443

Part of ISSN: 20411723
Contributors: Pierella Karlusich, J.J.; Pelletier, E.; Lombard, F.; Carsique, M.; Dvorak, E.; Colin, S.; Picheral, M.; Cornejo-Castillo, F.M.; Acinas, S.G.; Pepperkok, R. et al.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Single-cell measurements of fixation and intercellular exchange of c and n in the filaments of the heterocyst- forming cyanobacterium anabaena sp. Strain pcc 7120

mBio
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85114290633

Part of ISSN: 21507511 21612129
Contributors: Nieves-Morión, M.; Flores, E.; Whitehouse, M.J.; Thomen, A.; Foster, R.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Global distribution patterns of marine nitrogen-fixers by imaging and molecular methods

bioRxiv
2020 | Other
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2-s2.0-85098814360

Part of ISSN: 26928205
Contributors: Karlusich, J.J.P.; Pelletier, E.; Carsique, M.; Dvorak, E.; Colin, S.; Picheral, M.; Pepperkok, R.; Karsenti, E.; de Vargas, C.; Lombard, F. et al.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Predicting substrate exchange in marine diatom‐heterocystous cyanobacteria symbioses

Environmental Microbiology
2020-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Mercedes Nieves‐Morión; Enrique Flores; Rachel A. Foster
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Combining SIMS and mechanistic modelling to reveal nutrient kinetics in an algal-bacterial mutualism

bioRxiv
2019 | Other
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2-s2.0-85095638558

Part of ISSN: 26928205
Contributors: Schlogelhofer, H.L.; Peaudecerf, F.J.; Bunbury, F.; Whitehouse, M.J.; Foster, R.A.; Smith, A.G.; Croze, O.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Diversity, genomics, and distribution of phytoplankton-cyanobacterium single-cell symbiotic associations

Annual Review of Microbiology
2019 | Book
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2-s2.0-85071977576

Part of ISSN: 15453251 00664227
Contributors: Foster, R.A.; Zehr, J.P.
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The genetic diversity and evolution of diatom-diazotroph associations highlights traits favoring symbiont integration

FEMS Microbiology Letters
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85060385606

Part of ISSN: 15746968 03781097
Contributors: Caputo, A.; Nylander, J.A.A.; Foster, R.A.
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A short comparison of two marine planktonic diazotrophic symbioses highlights an un-quantified disparity

Frontiers in Marine Science
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85042118487

Part of ISSN: 22967745
Contributors: Caputo, A.; Stenegren, M.; Pernice, M.C.; Foster, R.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Distribution and drivers of symbiotic and free-living diazotrophic cyanobacteria in the western tropical South Pacific

Biogeosciences
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85044101943

Part of ISSN: 17264189 17264170
Contributors: Stenegren, M.; Caputo, A.; Berg, C.; Bonnet, S.; Foster, R.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

In-depth characterization of diazotroph activity across the western tropical South Pacific hotspot of N<sub>2</sub> fixation (OUTPACE cruise)

Biogeosciences
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85049970031

Part of ISSN: 17264189 17264170
Contributors: Bonnet, S.; Caffin, M.; Berthelot, H.; Grosso, O.; Benavides, M.; Helias-Nunige, S.; Guieu, C.; Stenegren, M.; Foster, R.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

N2 fixation as a dominant new N source in the western tropical South Pacific Ocean (OUTPACE cruise)

Biogeosciences
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85046620217

Part of ISSN: 17264189 17264170
Contributors: Caffin, M.; Moutin, T.; Ann Foster, R.; Bouruet-Aubertot, P.; Michelangelo Doglioli, A.; Berthelot, H.; Guieu, C.; Grosso, O.; Helias-Nunige, S.; Leblond, N. et al.
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Programmed cell death in diazotrophs and the fate of organic matter in the western tropical South Pacific Ocean during the OUTPACE cruise

Biogeosciences
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85049130563

Part of ISSN: 17264189 17264170
Contributors: Spungin, D.; Belkin, N.; Foster, R.A.; Stenegren, M.; Caputo, A.; Pujo-Pay, M.; Leblond, N.; Dupouy, C.; Bonnet, S.; Berman-Frank, I.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Mesozooplankton graze on cyanobacteria in the Amazon River plume and western tropical North Atlantic

Frontiers in Microbiology
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85026805649

Part of ISSN: 1664302X
Contributors: Conroy, B.J.; Steinberg, D.K.; Song, B.; Kalmbach, A.; Carpenter, E.J.; Foster, R.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Microbial formation of labile organic carbon in Antarctic glacial environments

Nature Geoscience
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85018723589

Part of ISSN: 17520908 17520894
Contributors: Smith, H.J.; Foster, R.A.; McKnight, D.M.; Lisle, J.T.; Littmann, S.; Kuypers, M.M.M.; Foreman, C.M.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Piecewise Structural Equation Model (SEM) disentangles the environmental conditions favoring Diatom Diazotroph Associations (DDAs) in the Western Tropical North Atlantic (WTNA)

Frontiers in Microbiology
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85019734525

Part of ISSN: 1664302X
Contributors: Stenegren, M.; Berg, C.; Padilla, C.C.; David, S.-S.; Montoya, J.P.; Yager, P.L.; Foster, R.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Biofilms on glacial surfaces: Hotspots for biological activity

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85008375878

Part of ISSN: 20555008
Contributors: Smith, H.J.; Schmit, A.; Foster, R.; Littman, S.; Kuypers, M.M.M.; Foreman, C.M.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Microbial dinitrogen fixation in coral holobionts exposed to thermal stress and bleaching

Environmental microbiology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84983246801

Part of ISSN: 14622920
Contributors: Cardini, U.; van Hoytema, N.; Bednarz, V.N.; Rix, L.; Foster, R.A.; Al-Rshaidat, M.M.; Wild, C.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Patterns of transcript abundance of eukaryotic biogeochemically-relevant genes in the Amazon river plume

PLoS ONE
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84991661948

Part of ISSN: 19326203
Contributors: Zielinski, B.L.; Allen, A.E.; Carpenter, E.J.; Coles, V.J.; Crump, B.C.; Doherty, M.; Foster, R.A.; Goes, J.I.; Gomes, H.R.; Hood, R.R. et al.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Functional significance of dinitrogen fixation in sustaining coral productivity under oligotrophic conditions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84945911965

Part of ISSN: 14712954 09628452
Contributors: Cardini, U.; Bednarz, V.N.; Naumann, M.S.; van Hoytema, N.; Rix, L.; Foster, R.A.; Al-Rshaidat, M.M.D.; Wild, C.
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Photosymbiosis in marine planktonic protists

Marine Protists: Diversity and Dynamics
2015 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-84956703026

Contributors: Decelle, J.; Colin, S.; Foster, R.A.
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Benthic N<sub>2</sub> fixation in coral reefs and the potential effects of human-induced environmental change

Ecology and Evolution
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84899759206

Part of ISSN: 20457758
Contributors: Cardini, U.; Bednarz, V.N.; Foster, R.A.; Wild, C.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Epifluorescence, SEM, TEM and nanoSIMS image analysis of the cold phenotype of Clostridium psychrophilum at subzero temperatures

FEMS Microbiology Ecology
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84914819722

Part of ISSN: 15746941 01686496
Contributors: Perfumo, A.; Elsaesser, A.; Littmann, S.; Foster, R.A.; Kuypers, M.M.M.; Cockell, C.S.; Kminek, G.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Influence of the Amazon River discharge on the biogeography of phytoplankton communities in the western tropical north Atlantic

Progress in Oceanography
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84890974404

Part of ISSN: 00796611
Contributors: Goes, J.I.; Gomes, H.D.R.; Chekalyuk, A.M.; Carpenter, E.J.; Montoya, J.P.; Coles, V.J.; Yager, P.L.; Berelson, W.M.; Capone, D.G.; Foster, R.A. et al.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Genomic deletions disrupt nitrogen metabolism pathways of a cyanobacterial diatom symbiont

Nature Communications
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84877773615

Part of ISSN: 20411723
Contributors: Hilton, J.A.; Foster, R.A.; James Tripp, H.; Carter, B.J.; Zehr, J.P.; Villareal, T.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

In situ identification and N<sub>2</sub> and C fixation rates of uncultivated cyanobacteria populations

Systematic and Applied Microbiology
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84877812321

Part of ISSN: 16180984 07232020
Contributors: Krupke, A.; Musat, N.; LaRoche, J.; Mohr, W.; Fuchs, B.M.; Amann, R.I.; Kuypers, M.M.M.; Foster, R.A.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Measuring carbon and N<sub>2</sub> fixation in field populations of colonial and free-living unicellular cyanobacteria using nanometer-scale secondary ion mass spectrometry<sup>1</sup>

Journal of Phycology
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84878703583

Part of ISSN: 00223646 15298817
Contributors: Foster, R.A.; Sztejrenszus, S.; Kuypers, M.M.M.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Nitrogen fixation in the Gulf of California and the Eastern Tropical North Pacific

Progress in Oceanography
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84872795058

Part of ISSN: 00796611
Contributors: White, A.E.; Foster, R.A.; Benitez-Nelson, C.R.; Masqué, P.; Verdeny, E.; Popp, B.N.; Arthur, K.E.; Prahl, F.G.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Viral infection of Phaeocystis globosa impedes release of chitinous star-like structures: Quantification using single cell approaches

Environmental Microbiology
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84876459113

Part of ISSN: 14622912 14622920
Contributors: Sheik, A.R.; Brussaard, C.P.D.; Lavik, G.; Foster, R.A.; Musat, N.; Adam, B.; Kuypers, M.M.M.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: Abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

Earth System Science Data
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85057820426

Part of ISSN: 18663516 18663508
Contributors: Luo, Y.-W.; Doney, S.C.; Anderson, L.A.; Benavides, M.; Berman-Frank, I.; Bode, A.; Bonnet, S.; Boström, K.H.; Böttjer, D.; Capone, D.G. et al.
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Detecting metabolic activities in single cells, with emphasis on nanoSIMS

FEMS Microbiology Reviews
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84856716159

Part of ISSN: 01686445 15746976
Contributors: Musat, N.; Foster, R.; Vagner, T.; Adam, B.; Kuypers, M.M.M.
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Impact of diatom-diazotroph associations on carbon export in the Amazon River plume

Geophysical Research Letters
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84867010321

Part of ISSN: 00948276
Contributors: Yeung, L.Y.; Berelson, W.M.; Young, E.D.; Prokopenko, M.G.; Rollins, N.; Coles, V.J.; Montoya, J.P.; Carpenter, E.J.; Steinberg, D.K.; Foster, R.A. et al.
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Unicellular cyanobacterium symbiotic with a single-celled eukaryotic alga

Science
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84866464957

Part of ISSN: 10959203 00368075
Contributors: Thompson, A.W.; Foster, R.A.; Krupke, A.; Carter, B.J.; Musat, N.; Vaulot, D.; Kuypers, M.M.M.; Zehr, J.P.
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Distribution of diazotrophic microorganisms and nifH gene expression in the Mekong River plume during intermonsoon

Marine Ecology Progress Series
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79952146513

Part of ISSN: 01718630
Contributors: Bombar, D.; Moisander, P.H.; Dippner, J.W.; Foster, R.A.; Voss, M.; Karfeld, B.; Zehr, J.P.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Nitrogen fixation and transfer in open ocean diatom-cyanobacterial symbioses

ISME Journal
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80052066963

Part of ISSN: 17517362 17517370
Contributors: Foster, R.A.; Kuypers, M.M.M.; Vagner, T.; Paerl, R.W.; Musat, N.; Zehr, J.P.
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Hydrogen cycling by the unicellular marine diazotroph crocosphaera watsonii strain WH8501∇

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77958567876

Part of ISSN: 00992240 10985336
Contributors: Wilson, S.T.; Tozzi, S.; Foster, R.A.; Ilikchyan, I.; Kolber, Z.S.; Zehr, J.P.; Karl, D.M.
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Hydrogen production by Trichodesmium erythraeum Cyanothece sp. and Crocosphaera watsonii

Aquatic Microbial Ecology
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77954291936

Part of ISSN: 09483055
Contributors: Wilson, S.T.; Foster, R.A.; Zehr, J.P.; Karl, D.M.
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Isolation of Calothrix rhizosoleniae (cyanobacteria) strain SC01 from Chaetoceros (bacillariophyta) spp. diatoms of the subtropical North Pacific Ocean

Journal of Phycology
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77957293805

Part of ISSN: 00223646 15298817
Contributors: Foster, R.A.; Goebel, N.L.; Zehr, J.P.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Metabolic streamlining in an open-ocean nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium

Nature
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77950863797

Part of ISSN: 00280836 14764687
Contributors: Tripp, H.J.; Bench, S.R.; Turk, K.A.; Foster, R.A.; Desany, B.A.; Niazi, F.; Affourtit, J.P.; Zehr, J.P.
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Rachel Foster via Scopus - Elsevier

Distribution and activity of diazotrophs in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic

Environmental Microbiology
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-63849158566

Part of ISSN: 14622912 14622920
Contributors: Foster, R.A.; Subramaniam, A.; Zehr, J.P.
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Seasonality of N<sub>2</sub> fixation and nifH gene diversity in the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea)

Limnology and Oceanography
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-61649100484

Part of ISSN: 00243590
Contributors: Foster, R.A.; Paytan, A.; Zehr, J.P.
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