Competition among marine phytoplankton for different chelated iron species

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6747, 1999, Pages 858-861

  Hutchins, David A ^a   Witter, Amy E ^a   Butler, Alison ^b   Luther III, George W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON CHELATE; PORPHYRIN; SEA WATER; SIDEROPHORE;

COMPETITION; IRON; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; CHELATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BINDING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEGRADATION; EUKARYOTE; IRON TRANSPORT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEA; ZOOPLANKTON;

CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033607001     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23680     Document Type: Article

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