Dynamics of community structure and phosphate status of picocyanobacterial populations in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 363-375

  Fuller, Nicholas J ^a   West, Nyree J ^a,e   Marie, Dominique ^b   Yallop, Marian ^c   Rivlin, Tanya ^d   Post, Anton F ^d   Scanlan, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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

^e LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC VARIATION; PHOSPHATE;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; WORLD;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 13444311048     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.1.0363     Document Type: Article

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