!!Farooq Azam - Selected Publications
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ISI Highly Cited Researcher; h-index: 85; citations: 35,695;  (Google Scholar)\\
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Azam, F. T. Fenchel, J. G. Field, J. S. Gray, L. A. Meyer-Reil, and F. Thingstad. 1983. The ecological role of water column microbes in the sea.  Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 10: 257-263.  \\
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Cho, B. C. and F. Azam. 1988. Major role of bacteria in biogeochemical fluxes in the ocean's interior.  Nature 332: 441-443\\
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Smith D. C., M. Simon, A. L. Alldredge and F. Azam, 1992. Intense hydrolytic enzyme activity on marine aggregates and implications for rapid particle dissolution. Nature 359, 139-142\\
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Azam, F (1998). Microbial control of oceanic carbon flux: The plot thickens. Science, 280: 694-696\\
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Bidle, K.D. and F. Azam (1999). Accelerated dissolution of diatom silica by marine bacterial assemblages. Nature 397: 508-512\\
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Bidle, K., M. Manganelli and F. Azam (2002). Regulation of oceanic silicon and carbon preservation by temperature control on bacteria. Science, 298:1980-1984\\
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Azam, F. and A. Z. Worden (2004). "Microbes, molecules, and marine ecosystems." Science 303: 1622-1624\\
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Azam F. and F. Malfatti (2007). Microbial structuring of marine ecosystems. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 10:782-791\\
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Jiao N, GJ Herndl, D Hansell, R Benner, G Kattner, SW Wilhelm, DL Kirchman, MG Weinbauer, T Luo, F Chen, and F Azam. 2010.  Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean. Nature Reviews Microbiology  8:593-599\\
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Pedler, B. E., L. I. Aluwihare, and F. Azam. 2014. Single bacterial strain capable of significant contribution to carbon cycling in the surface ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: 7202-7207\\
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Azam F. and F. Malfatti (2007). Microbial structuring of marine ecosystems. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 10:782-791