Quantuck Bay Brown tide 2011 Transcriptome. aquatic metagenome

Brown tides have plagued numerous coastal ecosystems causing extensive harm to commercially important shellfish and important coastal habitats such as sea grass communities. In this study we use quantitative metatranscriptome analyses to examine the metabolif fingerprint of the organism responsible for brown tides, Aureococcus anophagefferens. The goals of this work were to gain insight into the competitive advantage of Aureococcus over co-occuring species, the factors leading to bloom termination, as well as determine nutritional controls on brown tide blooms.