Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical north Pacific Ocean

Nature

Volumn 412, Issue 6847, 2001, Pages 635-638

  Zehr, Jonathan P ^a   Waterbury, John B ^b   Turner, Patricia J ^a   Montoya, Joseph P ^c   Omoregie, Enoma ^a   Steward, Grieg F ^a   Hansen, Andrew ^d   Karl, David M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOCATALYSTS; MARINE BIOLOGY;

BIOMES;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; NITROGENASE; SEA WATER;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYANOBACTERIUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; SEAWATER; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ATMOSPHERE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 0035833470     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35088063     Document Type: Article

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