Erin Bertrand This is Me

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1. 1. www.eurekalert.org

   www.eurekalert.org/pub_release - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/18/2007   Last Visited: 6/1/2007

   Humans, animals, and many algae require B12 to manufacture essential proteins, but they cannot make it and must either acquire it from the environment or eat food that contains B12, said the study's lead authors, Erin Bertrand and Mak Saito.
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   Bertrand, Saito, and colleagues collected water samples from three locales in the highly fertile Ross Sea off Antarctica during an expedition in 2005 aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer.
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   Phaeocystis effectively monopolize the B12 supply by forming colonies cemented by sticky mucous that attracts B12 -making bacteria, Bertrand and Saito theorize.
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   Polar oceans do not have large bacterial populations to produce B12, making the vitamin a critical factor influencing the food web, the cycling of carbon in the ocean, and the climate, Bertrand and Saito said.
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   Erin Bertrand was a Carl and Pacha Peterson Summer Research Fellow at WHOI and is now a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program.

2. 2. newsstand.ascribe.org

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   Last Visited: 5/30/2007

   Humans, animals, and many algae require B12 to manufacture essential proteins, but they cannot make it and must either acquire it from the environment or eat food that contains B12, said the study's lead authors, Erin Bertrand and Mak Saito.
   ...
   Bertrand, Saito, and colleagues collected water samples from three locales in the highly fertile Ross Sea off Antarctica during an expedition in 2005 aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer.
   ...
   Phaeocystis effectively monopolize the B12 supply by forming colonies cemented by sticky mucous that attracts B12 -making bacteria, Bertrand and Saito theorize.
   ...
   Polar oceans do not have large bacterial populations to produce B12, making the vitamin a critical factor influencing the food web, the cycling of carbon in the ocean, and the climate, Bertrand and Saito said.
   ...
   Erin Bertrand was a Carl and Pacha Peterson Summer Research Fellow at WHOI and is now a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program.