Presence and regulation of alkaline phosphatase activity in eukaryotic phytoplankton from the coastal ocean: Implications for dissolved organic phosphorus remineralization

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1381-1390

  Dyhrman, Sonya T ^a,b   Ruttenberg, Kathleen C ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; OCEAN; PHOSPHATASE; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMINERALIZATION;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33744898783     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.3.1381     Document Type: Article

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