Influence of nitrate availability on the distribution and abundance of heterotrophic bacterial nitrate assimilation genes in the Barents Sea during summer

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 247-255

  Allen, Andrew E ^a,b,c   Booth, Melissa G ^b   Verity, Peter G ^b   Frischer, Marc E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilatory nitrate reductase; Marine bacteria; nasA; Nitrogen cycle; PCR; Real time PCR; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

MARINOBACTER SP.;

EID: 22044447078     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame039247     Document Type: Article

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