ArticleLimnology and oceanography2017
Crustacean zooplankton release copious amounts of dissolved organic matter as taurine in the ocean.
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- Taurine-driven chemotaxis and metamorphosis in ascidian tadpole larvae.Science advances · 2026Article
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- The potential for coupled organic and inorganic sulfur cycles across the terrestrial deep subsurface biosphere.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Microbial functional guilds respond cohesively to rapidly fluctuating environments.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Identifying the active microbes driving organosulfur cycling from taurine and methionine in marine sediment.ISME communications · 2025Article
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- Genomic diversity and biosynthetic capabilities of sponge-associated chlamydiae.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- An unprecedented function for a tungsten-containing oxidoreductase.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2022Article
- Characterization of a Deep-Sea Actinobacterium Strain Uncovers Its Prominent Capability of Utilizing Taurine and Polyvinyl Alcohol.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Phylogeny resolved, metabolism revealed: functional radiation within a widespread and divergent clade of sponge symbionts.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Metaproteomics Reveals Similar Vertical Distribution of Microbial Transport Proteins in Particulate Organic Matter Throughout the Water Column in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Mesozooplankton taurine production and prokaryotic uptake in the northern Adriatic Sea.Limnology and oceanography · 2020Article
- Membrane Lipid Composition and Amino Acid Excretion Patterns ofLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Taurine Is a Major Carbon and Energy Source for Marine Prokaryotes in the North Atlantic Ocean off the Iberian Peninsula.Microbial ecology · 2019Article
- Methods for quantification of growth and productivity in anaerobic microbiology and biotechnology.Folia microbiologica · 2019Review
- Metagenomic insights into zooplankton-associated bacterial communities.Environmental microbiology · 2018Article
- Organic matter processing by microbial communities throughout the Atlantic water column as revealed by metaproteomics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Optofluidic Single-Cell Genome Amplification of Sub-micron Bacteria in the Ocean Subsurface.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Taurine (Tau), an amino acid-like compound, is present in almost all marine metazoans including crustacean zooplankton. It plays an important physiological role in these organisms and is released into the ambient water throughout their life cycle. However, limited information is available on the release rates by marine organisms, the concentrations and turnover of Tau in the ocean. We determined dissolved free Tau concentrations throughout the water column and its release by abundant crustacean mesozooplankton at two open ocean sites (Gulf of Alaska and North Atlantic). At both locations, the concentrations of dissolved free Tau were in the low nM range (up to 15.7 nM) in epipelagic waters, declining sharply in the mesopelagic to about 0.2 nM and remaining fairly stable throughout the bathypelagic waters. Pacific amphipod-copepod assemblages exhibited lower dissolved free Tau release rates per unit biomass (0.8 ± 0.4 μmol g
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