Genetic diversity in Prochlorococcus populations flow cytometrically sorted from the Sargasso Sea and Gulf Stream

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1615-1630

  Urbach, Ena ^a,b   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CLONE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE POOL; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAREFACTION ANALYSIS;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM; SARGASSO SEA;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0031772930     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.7.1615     Document Type: Article

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