Pelagic-benthic coupling and diagenesis of nucleic acids in a deep-sea continental margin and an open-slope system of the Eastern Mediterranean

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6070-6076

  Dell'Anno, Antonio ^a   Corinaldesi, Cinzia ^a   Stavrakakis, Spyros ^b   Lykousis, Vasilis ^b   Danovaro, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; DNA; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYMES; FLUXES; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOSPHORUS; RNA; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

DIAGENESIS; GENETIC MATERIALS; PELAGIC-BENTHIC COUPLING; SEA FLOOR;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; DIAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; DIAGENESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PELAGIC ZONE; SEDIMENT;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; RNA; SEAWATER;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 26844452805     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.10.6070-6076.2005     Document Type: Article

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