Investigations on cyanobacterial diversity in a shallow estuary (Southern Baltic Sea) including genes relevant to salinity resistance and iron starvation acclimation

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 377-387

  Geiß, Ulrike ^a   Selig, Uwe ^a   Schumann, Rhena ^a   Steinbruch, Robert ^a   Bastrop, Ralf ^a   Hagemann, Martin ^a   Schoor, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; IRON; SEA WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 1842614301     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00569.x     Document Type: Article

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