The evolutionary inheritance of elemental stoichiometry in marine phytoplankton

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6955, 2003, Pages 291-294

  Quigg, Antonietta ^a   Finkel, Zoe V ^a   Irwin, Andrew J ^a   Rosenthal, Yair ^a,b   Ho, Tung Yuan ^d   Reinfelder, John R ^c   Schofield, Oscar ^a,b   Morel, Francois M M ^d   Falkowski, Paul G ^a,b  

^a Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences   (United States)

^b Surgical Implantology and Periodontics   (United States)

^c Rutgers University   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYLL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STOICHIOMETRY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

FOSSILS;

ECOLOGY;

CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL B; CHLOROPHYLL C; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PIGMENT; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOST CELL; INHERITANCE; MACRONUTRIENT; METABOLISM; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PELAGIC ZONE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTONUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0141493450     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01953     Document Type: Letter

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