Oceanographic basis of the global surface distribution of Prochlorococcus ecotypes

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5775, 2006, Pages 918-921

  Bouman, Heather A ^a   Ulloa, Osvaldo ^a   Scanlan, David J ^b   Zwirglmaier, Katrin ^b   Li, William K W ^c   Platt, Trevor ^c   Stuart, Venatia ^d   Barlow, Ray ^e   Leth, Ole ^a   Clementson, Lesley ^f   Lutz, Vivian ^g   Fukasawa, Masao ^h   Watanabe, Shuichi ^h   Sathyendranath, Shubha ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO PESQUERO INIDEP   (Argentina)

^h JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; EARTH (PLANET); MARINE BIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISM; PROCHLOROCOCCUS ECOTYPES; SOUTHERN SUBTROPICAL GYRES; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLOROPHYLL A;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOTYPE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; OCEANOGRAPHIC PHENOMENA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ECOTYPE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INDIAN OCEAN; LIGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 33646551799     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122692     Document Type: Article

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