Microbial control of phosphate in the nutrient-depleted North Atlantic subtropical gyre

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2079-2089

  Zubkov, Mikhail V ^a   Mary, Isabelle ^a   Woodward, E Malcolm S ^b   Warwick, Phillip E ^a   Fuchs, Bernhard M ^c   Scanlan, David J ^d   Burkill, Peter H ^a,e,f  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANKTON;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; PHOSPHATES; PLANKTON; SEAWATER;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 34447298670     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01324.x     Document Type: Article

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