Seasonal Succession and Spatial Patterns of Synechococcus Microdiversity in a Salt Marsh Estuary Revealed through 16S rRNA Gene Oligotyping

Katherine R Mackey1, Kristen Rachell Hunter-Cevera2, Gregory Britten3, Leslie Murphy4, Mitchell L Sogin2 and Julie A Huber2, (1)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, United States, (4)Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States