Isolation and gene quantification of heterotrophic N2-fixing bacterioplankton in the Baltic Sea

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 152-164

  Boström, Kjärstin H ^a   Riemann, Lasse ^a   Kühl, Michael ^b   Hagström, Åke ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROTROPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA;

BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; NITROGEN FIXATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 33846104990     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01124.x     Document Type: Article

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