Analysis of natural populations of Prochlorococcus spp. in the northern Red Sea using phycoerythrin gene sequences

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 681-690

  Steglich, Claudia ^a   Post, Anton F ^b   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c Ocean Genome Legacy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0041696940     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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