Prokaryotic and viral diversity patterns in marine plankton

Ecological Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 183-194

  Fuhrman, Jed A ^a   Griffith, John F ^a   Schwalbach, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bacteria; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PLANKTON; PROKARYOTE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIRUS;

ANTHOZOA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0012844141     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2002.00478.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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