Buoyancy regulation and the potential for vertical migration in the oceanic cyanobacterium Trichodesmium

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Villareal, T A ^a   Carpenter, E J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CARBOHYDRATE; CYANOBACTERIUM; PROTEIN; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

TRICHODESMIUM; TRICHODESMIUM THIEBAUTII;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; LIGHT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESSURE;

CYANOBACTERIA; LIGHT; MOVEMENT; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESSURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0037263749     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-002-1012-5     Document Type: Article

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