Basin-scale distribution patterns of picocyanobacterial lineages in the Atlantic Ocean

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1278-1290

  Zwirglmaier, Katrin ^a   Heywood, Jane L ^b   Chamberlain, Katie ^c   Woodward, E Malcolm S ^c   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^b   Scanlan, Dave J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 34247877746     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01246.x     Document Type: Article

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