Composition and temporal variability of picoeukaryote communities at a coastal site of the English Channel from 18S rDNA sequences

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 784-798

  Romari, Khadidja ^a,b   Vaulot, Daniel ^a  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DNA; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ENGLISH CHANNEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; ALVEOLATA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CERCOZOA; CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; CILIOPHORA; CRYPTOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; METAZOA; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROTOZOA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 2942562373     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.3.0784     Document Type: Article

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