A single species, Micromonas pusilla (Prasinophyceae), dominates the eukaryotic picoplankton in the Western English Channel

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 4064-4072

  Not, Fabrice ^a   Latasa, Mikel ^b   Marie, Dominique ^a   Cariou, Thierry ^a   Vaulot, Daniel ^a   Simon, Nathalie ^a  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FLUORESCENCE;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; HYBRIDIZATION; SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

RIBOSOME DNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BATHYCOCCUS PRASINOS; CLADISTICS; COASTAL WATERS; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FRANCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GREEN ALGA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROMONAS PUSILLA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUMMER; TYRAMIDE SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

CHLOROPHYLL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; SEASONS;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATHYCOCCUS PRASINOS; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MAMIELLALES; MICROMONAS PUSILLA; PHOTOBACTERIA; PRASINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 3242795220     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.7.4064-4072.2004     Document Type: Article

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