Molecular identification of picoplankton populations in contrasting waters of the Arabian Sea

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-157

  Fuchs, Bernhard M ^a   Woebken, Dagmar ^a   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^b   Burkill, Peter ^b   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabian Sea; Catalyzed reporter deposition (CARD) FISH; Flow cytometry; Fluorescence in situ hybridisation; Oligonucleotide probes; OMZ; Oxygen minimum zone; Phylogenetic composition

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); CALYPTOGENA; DESULFOFRIGUS; DESULFOSARCINA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; RIFTIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 21244464827     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame039145     Document Type: Article

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