Flow-cytometric mapping provides novel insights into the seasonal and vertical distributions of freshwater autotrophic picoplankton

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-66

  Crosbie, Nicholas D ^a,b   Teubner, Katrin ^a   Weisse, Thomas ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b Ocean Genome Legacy   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcite; Calcium carbonate; Eukaryotic picoplankton; Flow cytometry; Lakes; Microcolonies; Picocyanobacteria; Sorting

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0141856591     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame033053     Document Type: Article

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