Phylogenetic diversity of marine coastal picoplankton 16s rRNA genes cloned from the continental shelf off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 811-826

  Rappé, Michael S ^a   Kemp, Paul F ^a,b   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Discovery Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SPECIFIC PRIMER; CHLOROPHYTE; CHROMOPHYTE; CLONE; CLONING; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC DIVERSITY; HABITAT; INHERITANCE; NUCLEIC ACID; PICOPLANKTON; PLASTID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL RNA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031395502     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.5.0811     Document Type: Article

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