Molecular analysis of picocyanobacterial community structure along an Arabian Sea transect reveals distinct spatial separation of lineages

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2515-2526

  Fuller, Nicholas J ^a   Tarran, Glen A ^b   Yallop, Marian ^c   Orcutt, Karen M ^a,d   Scanlan, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; MIXED LAYER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURFACE WATER;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 33845455758     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.6.2515     Document Type: Article

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