Genetic analysis of natural populations of the marine diazotrophic cyanobacterium Trichodesmium

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-65

  Janson, Sven ^a   Bergman, Birgitta ^b   Carpenter, Edward J ^c   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^d   Vergin, Kevin ^d  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Atlantic Ocean; Cyanobacterium; hetR; Natural population; Pacific Ocean; Taxonomy; Trichodesmium

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

TRICHODESMIUM; TRICHODESMIUM CONTORTUM; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM; TRICHODESMIUM HILDEBRANDTII; TRICHODESMIUM TENUE; TRICHODESMIUM THIEBAUTII;

EID: 0032801424     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(99)00041-0     Document Type: Article

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