Abundance and diversity of prymnesiophytes in the picoplankton community from the equatorial Pacific Ocean inferred from 18S rDNA sequences

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 98-109

  Moon Van Der Staay, Seung Yeo ^a,d   Van Der Staay, Georg W M ^a,d   Guillou, Laure ^a   Vaulot, Daniel ^a   Claustre, Hervé ^b   Médlin, Linda K ^c  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

19' HEXANOYLOXYFUCOXANTHIN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA PROBE; DNA SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PICOPLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOMAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL RNA;

EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0033958038     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.1.0098     Document Type: Article

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