Viral abundance, decay, and diversity in the meso- and bathypelagic waters of the North Atlantic

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4429-4438

  Parada, Verónica ^a   Sintes, Eva ^a   Van Aken, Hendrik M ^a   Weinbauer, Markus G ^b   Herndl, Gerhard J ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); ELECTROPHORESIS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); VIRUSES;

BATHYPELAGIC WATERS; PICOPLANKTONS; VIRAL DECAY; WATER MASSES;

BIODIVERSITY;

LEUCINE; SEA WATER;

ABUNDANCE; DEEP WATER; PICOPLANKTON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PICOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROKARYOTE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIRIOPLANKTON; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, VIRAL; ECOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FLOW CYTOMETRY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLANKTON; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34547152687     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00029-07     Document Type: Article

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