14C-labeling of the compounds excreted by phytoplankton for employment as a realistic tracer in secondary productivity measurements
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Springer Nature in Microbial Ecology
- Vol. 4 (1) , 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02010425
Abstract
Preparations of the dissolved organic compounds released by photosynthesizing marine phytoplankton have been obtained with14carbon activities as high as 1.5 × 105 dpm/ml. The radioisotope content of the preparations resides wholly in dissolved organic compounds of low molecular weight (MW14C-labeled inorganic carbon. The labeled compunds arise through photosynthetic fixation and do not appear to be products of cell lysis during the incubation or to originate from cell damage during the filtration step employed.Keywords
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