SAR11 dominance among metabolically active low nucleic acid bacterioplankton in surface waters along an Atlantic meridional transect

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-113

  Mary, I ^a   Heywood, J L ^a   Fuchs, B M ^b   Amann, R ^b   Tarran, G A ^c   Burkill, P H ^a   Zubkov, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; CARD FISH; Cell metabolic activity; Flow cytometry sorting; Radioactive tracer labelling; SAR11 clade

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845887504     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame045107     Document Type: Article

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