Highly ordered vertical structure of Synechococcus populations within the one-millimeter-thick photic zone of a hot spring cyanobacterial mat

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1038-1049

  Ramsing, Niels Birger ^a   Ferris, Mike J ^b   Ward, David M ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

CYANOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL MAT; PHOTIC ZONE; THERMAL SPRING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CELL SHAPE; CHLOROBIUM; DENSITY GRADIENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; THERMAL SPRING; UNITED STATES;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; HEAT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; OXYGEN; PHOTOPERIOD; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBIUM; CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0034009094     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.3.1038-1049.2000     Document Type: Article

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