Temporal patterns of nitrogenase gene (nifH) expression in the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5362-5370

  Church, Matthew J ^a,b   Short, Cindy M ^a   Jenkins, Bethany D ^a   Karl, David M ^b   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; ENZYME KINETICS; MICROORGANISMS;

NITROGENASE GENES (NIFH); OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; PHYLOTYPES; PLANKTON PRODUCTIVITY;

GENES;

MESSENGER RNA; NITROGENASE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROCOSPHAERA WATSONII; CYANOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; KATAGNYMENE SPIRALIS; NIFH GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRICHODESMIUM;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLANKTON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER;

CROCOSPHAERA WATSONII; CYANOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; KATAGNYMENE SPIRALIS; PROTEOBACTERIA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 25144513151     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.9.5362-5370.2005     Document Type: Article

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