The selective advantage of buoyancy provided by gas vesicles for planktonic cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea

New Phytologist

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 407-417

  Walsby, Anthony E ^a   Hayes, Paul K ^a   Boje, Rolf ^b   Stal, Lucas J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aphanizomenon sp.; Baltic Sea; Cyanobacteria; Gas vesicles; Phytoplankton buoyancy

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CYANOBACTERIA; GAS VESICLE; GAS VESICLES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BALTIC SEA;

APHANIZOMENON FLOS-AQUAE;

EID: 0031285314     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1997.00754.x     Document Type: Article

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