supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2009CB421207);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40930846 and 40676063);MEL Young Scientist Visiting Fellowship of State Key Laboratory of Marine Environment Science,Xiamen University and Ph.D.Foundation of Wenzhou Medical College(Grant Nos.MELRS0935 and 89209008)
The calcifying phytoplankton species,coccolithophores,have their calcified coccoliths around the cells,however,their physio-logical roles are still unknown.Here,we hypothesized that the coccoliths may play a certain r...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 90411018, and 40676063);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2009CB 421207);Ministry of Education of China for Key Profect (Grant No. 308015)
Marine photosynthesis drives the oceanic biological CO2 pump to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, which sinks more than one third of the industry-originated CO2 into the ocean. The increasing atmos-pheric CO2 and subseq...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.40676063 and 30670396);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(06105649)Shantou University to MTB is grate-fully acknowledged.