Expression of the nitrogen stress response gene ntcA reveals nitrogen-sufficient Synechococcus populations in the oligotrophic northern Red Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1932-1944

  Lindell, Debbie ^a,b,d   Penno, Sigrid ^a,b   Al Qutob, Mutaz ^c   David, Efrat ^a,b   Rivlin, Tanya ^a   Lazar, Boaz ^b   Post, Anton F ^a,b  

^a The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHYTOPLANKTON;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 28044433875     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.6.1932     Document Type: Article

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