Microbial glucose uptake and growth along a horizontal nutrient gradient in the North Pacific

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1676-1683

  Skoog, Annelie ^a   Whitehead, Kenia ^b   Sperling, Frank ^b   Junge, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; GLUCOSE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0036867008     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2002.47.6.1676     Document Type: Article

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