Strategies of thermal adaptation by high-latitude cyanobacteria

New Phytologist

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-323

  Tang, Evonne P Y ^a,b   Vincent, Warwick F ^a  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Arctic; Carbon partitioning; Cyanobacteria; Photosynthesis; Pigment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; TEMPERATURE;

PHORMIDIUM SUBFUSCUM; PHORMIDIUM TENUE;

EID: 0033018095     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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