Evolutionary trajectories and biogeochemical impacts of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2004, Pages 523-556

  Katz, Miriam E ^a   Finkel, Zoe V ^a   Grzebyk, Daniel ^a   Knoll, Andrew H ^b   Falkowski, Paul G ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Coccolithophores; Diatoms; Dinoflagellates; Phylogenetic trees

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; EVOLUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 11244319807     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.35.112202.130137     Document Type: Review

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