The profiles of nitrate reductase and carbonic anhydrase activity in batch cultivation of the marine microalgae Tetraselmis gracilis growing under different aeration conditions

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-25

  Rigobello Masini, Marilda ^a   Masini, Jorge Cesar ^a   Aidar, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide effects on growth; Microalgae cultivation; Nitrogen metabolism

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHATE;

AERATION; CARBON; ESTUARY; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROALGA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRATE; NITRITE;

AERATION; AIR; ALGA; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; GROWTH RATE; IONIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METABOLITE; NITRATE UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORESPIRATION; PKA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SPECIES CULTIVATION; TETRASELMIS GRACILIS;

ALGAE, GREEN; BIOREACTORS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ANHYDRASES; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; NITRATE REDUCTASE;

ALGAE; PRASINOPHYCEAE; TETRASELMIS GRACILIS;

EID: 33745031311     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00106.x     Document Type: Article

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