Evidence for the involvement of mitochondrial respiration in calcification in a marine coccolithophorid, Emiliania huxleyi

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1030-1033

  Sekino, Keisuke ^a,b   Shiraiwa, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tsukuba Technology Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcification; CO2 fixation; Coccolithophorids; Emiliana huxleyi; Mitochondrial respiration; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITHOPHORACEAE; EMILIANA; EMILIANA HUXLEYI; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0030450148     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029034     Document Type: Article

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