Identification and enumeration of bacteria assimilating dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) in the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 597-606

  Malmstrom, Rex R ^a   Kiene, Ronald P ^b,c   Kirchman, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^c DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE; GULF OF MEXICO; SARGASSO SEA;

ALGAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; ROSEOBACTER;

EID: 2142674337     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.2.0597     Document Type: Article

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