Iron limits the cell division rate of Prochlorococcus in the eastern equatorial Pacific

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1067-1076

  Mann, Elizabeth L ^a   Chisholm, Sallie W ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; IRON; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON;

(EQUATORIAL EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 0033895186     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.5.1067     Document Type: Article

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