Form IA rbcL transcripts associated with a low salinity/high chlorophyll plume ('Green River') in the eastern Gulf of Mexico

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 198, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-8

  Paul, John H ^a   Alfreider, Albin ^b   Kang, Jordan B ^a   Stokes, Roger A ^a   Griffin, Dale ^a   Campbell, Lisa ^c   Ornolfsdottir, Erla ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Gulf of Mexico; Phytoplankton; RuBisCO

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COASTAL WATERS; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PICOPLANKTON; PLUME;

FLORIDA; TAMPA BAY; UNITED STATES;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0034608683     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps198001     Document Type: Article

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