Niche-partitioning of Prochlorococcus populations in a stratified water column in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean?

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2585-2591

  West, Nyree J ^a   Scanlan, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; LIGHT EFFECT; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

NEGIBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 0033012306     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.6.2585-2591.1999     Document Type: Article

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