Carboxyl-rich Alicyclic Molecules (CRAM) Proxy Compounds Select Bacteria for Oxidation of Recalcitrant DOM in the Mesopelagic Sargasso Sea

Shuting Liu1, Craig A Carlson2, Rachel Jane Parsons3, Keri Opalk4, Nicholas Huynh1, Stephen J Giovannoni5, Luis Manuel Bolanos5, Elizabeth B Kujawinski6, Yuehan Lu7,8, Krista Longnecker9, Zachary Landry5 and Chance English10, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute/Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute/Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)Arizona State University (ASU)-Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), St.George's, Bermuda, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, United States, (5)Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, (7)The University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (8)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (9)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (10)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute/Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States