Niche partitioning among Prochlorococcus ecotypes along ocean-scale environmental gradients

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5768, 2006, Pages 1737-1740

  Johnson, Zackary I ^a,b   Zinser, Erik R ^a,c   Coe, Allison ^a   McNulty, Nathan P ^a   Woodward, E Malcolm S ^d   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DECOMPOSITION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; LASER PULSES; MUSCLE; OXIDATION; PROTEINS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TITRATION;

CYSTEINES; MICROMOLAR PULSES; MOLAR RATIO; MORPHOLINOSYDNONIMINE; PEROXYNITRITE; PEROXYNITRITE FLUXES; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ENZYME INHIBITION;

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; LIGHT; NITRATES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIBOTYPING; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 33645216333     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118052     Document Type: Article

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