Code and context: Prochlorococcus as a model for cross-scale biology

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 398-407

  Coleman, Maureen L ^a   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; TRACE ELEMENT;

CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LIGHT; LIGHT ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; REVIEW; SEA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ECOLOGY; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; LIGHT; PHOSPHORUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 34548491646     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2007.07.001     Document Type: Review

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