The bigger the fewer: Size, taxonomic diversity and the range of chlorophyll(ide) pigments in oxygen-evolving marine photolithotrophs

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 211-217

  Raven, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; LEUCISCUS IDUS; RHODOPHYTA; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0008557558     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315400029143     Document Type: Article

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