Wide-ranging abundances of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in the world ocean revealed by epifluorescence microscopy and quantitative PCR

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 620-628

  Schwalbach, Michael S ^a   Fuhrman, Jed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BACTERIOPLANKTON; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 15944387774     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.2.0620     Document Type: Article

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