Diversity of diazotrophic unicellular cyanobacteria in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 5760-5764

  Falcon, Luisa I ^a   Cipriano, Frank ^a   Chistoserdov, Andrei Y ^a   Carpenter, Edward J ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; ECOLOGY; GENES;

GENETIC DIVERSITY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

GENE PRODUCT;

CYANOBACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CLIMACODIUM FRAUENFELDIANUM; CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036842018     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.11.5760-5764.2002     Document Type: Article

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