[Advances and Prospect of Sampling Techniques and Analytical Methods for Trace Elements in the Ocean: Progress of Trace Element Platform Construction in Xiamen University].

Trace elements, which are important chemical components in the ocean, generally refer to those chemical elements with concentrations below 10 μmol·kgin seawater. Some trace elements, such as Fe and Zn, serve as essential micronutrients for marine organisms, which regulate marine primary productivity and are closely related to the biogeochemical cycle of carbon and nitrogen and therefore affect the global environment and climate change. In contrast, some elements, such as Pb, are anthropogenic pollutants largely released by human activities.

Metaproteomics of marine viral concentrates reveals key viral populations and abundant periplasmic proteins in the oligotrophic deep chlorophyll maximum of the South China Sea.

Viral concentrates (VCs), containing bioinformative DNA and proteins, have been used to study viral diversity, viral metagenomics and virus-host interactions in natural ecosystems. Besides viruses, VCs also contain many noncellular biological components including diverse functional proteins. Here, we used a shotgun proteomic approach to characterize the proteins of VCs collected from the oligotrophic deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM) of the South China Sea.

[Spatial distribution of seawater dimethylsulfide in winter of Jiulong Jiang Estuary].

Cruise investigation of dimethylsulfide (DMS) emission in estuarine areas, heavily disturbed by human activities, was carried out in the winter of 2001 in Jiulong Jiang Estuary. The concentrations of chlorophyll, salinity and nutrients showed evidently spatial distribution in Jiulong Jiang Estuary, so did DMS concentrations in surface water. The average of seawater DMS was 101.