CONTENTS 



Page 



Contributors v 



Preface xi 



INTRODUCTION 



Chapter 



1. Domain of the Marine Microbiologist — Claude E. ZoBell ... 3 



2. Geological Activities of Marine Micro-organisms 



— Wilhelm Schwartz 25 



3. Ecology of Algae^ Protozoa^ Fungi and Viruses 



— E. J. Ferguson Wood 28 



4. Distribution and Function of Marine Bacteria 



— F. R. Hayes 40 



5. Marine Bacteriology and the Problem of Mineralization 



• — Sydney C. Rittenherg 48 



PART 1 



THE PRODUCERS AND THEIR RELATION TO THE 



CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT 



6. Cultivation and Properties of Thio-culum majus Hinze 



— /. W. M. La Riviere 61 



7. Autotrophic Nitrification in the Ocean 



— Stanley W . Watson 73 



8. Nitrogen Fixing Organisms in the Sea — Mary Belle Allen ... 85 



9. Organic Sources of Nitrogen for Marine Centric Diatoms 



— Robert R. L. Guillard 93 



10. Limited Heterotrophy of Some Photosyntiietic 



Dinoflagellates — L. Provasoli and J. J. A. McLaughlin ^. .105 



11. Nutritional Characteristics of Some Chrysomonads 



- — 7. /. Pininer and L. Provasoli 114 



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