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Yan Xu
Ph.D - EEB

Department of Geosciences/Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
158 Guyot Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: (609) 258-1052
Fax: (609) 258-5242
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Advisor: Francois Morel

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Publications

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Xu Y., Feng L., Jeffrey P.D., Shi Y. G. and Morel F. M. M. Structure, Mechanism and Metal Exchange in the Cadmium Carbonic Anhydrase of Marine Diatoms.  Nature (In press).

Xu, Y., D. Tang, Y.Shaked and F.M.M. Morel, Zinc, cadmium and cobalt inter-replacement and relative use efficiencies in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi.,Limnology and Oceanography 52(5) 2294-2305 (2007).

Xu, Y, T.M. Wahlund, L. Feng, Y. Shaked, and F.M.M.Morel, A novel alkaline phosphatase in the coccolithophore emiliania huxleyi (prymnesiophyceae) and its regulation by phosphorus. Journal of Phycology, 42(4); 835-844 (2006).

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Xu, Y. and W.-X. Wang. 2003. Uptake of Ag by a marine diatom and its transfer to coastal copepod Acartia spinicauda. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23(3) 682-690. (2004).

Xu, Y. and W.-X. Wang. Fates of diatom carbon and trace elements by the grazing of a marine copepod. Marine Ecology Progress Series 254: 225-238 (2003).

Xu, Y. and W.-X. Wang. Exposure and potential food chain transfer factor of Cd, Se and Zn in marine fish Lutjanus argentimaculatus. Marine Ecology Progress Series 238: 173-186 (2002).

Xu, Y. and W.-X. Wang. The assimilation of detritus-bound metals by marine copepod Acartia spinicauda. Limnology and Oceanography 47: 604-610 (2002).

Wang, W.-X., Q.L. Yan, W.H. Fan, Y. Xu. Bioavailability of sedimentary metals from a contaminated bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series 240: 27-38 (2002).

Xu, Y. and W.-X. Wang. Individual responses of trace-element assimilation and physiological turnover by the marine copepod Calanus sinicus to changes in food quantity. Marine Ecology Progress Series 218: 227-238 (2001).

Xu, Y., W.-X. Wang and D.P.H Hsieh. Influences of metal concentration in phytoplankton and seawater on metal assimilation and elimination in marine copepods. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 20: 1067-1077 (2001).

Wang, W.-X., R.C.H. Dei, Y. Xu. Responses of Zn assimilation by coastal plankton to macronutrients. Limnology and Oceanography 46: 1524-1534 (2001).

Wang, W.-X., R.C.H. Dei, Y. Xu. Cadmium uptake and trophic transfer in coastal plankton under contrasting nitrogen regimes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 211: 293-298 (2001).