Sapelo Island Bacterioplankton Metagenome

Coastal bacterioplankton actively metabolizing a single model component of the dissolved organic carbon (DOC, dimethylsulphoniopropionate or vanillate) were labeled with bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU). Metagenomic DNA of active cells were captured and pyrosequenced to examine whether individual taxa specialize on particular components of the marine DOC pool. WMagnetic purification of metagenomic DNA that was labeled with BrdU.