Light-stimulated bacterial production and amino acid assimilation by cyanobacteria and other microbes in the North Atlantic Ocean

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 5539-5546

  Michelou, Vanessa K ^a   Cottrell, Matthew T ^a   Kirchman, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOMASS; CELLS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WATERS;

CYANOBACTERIA; DISSOLVED-ORGANIC- MATTER ASSIMILATION; LIGHT-STIMULATED BACTERIAL PRODUCTION]; PHOTOHETEROTROPHIC MICROBES; PROKARYOTES;

BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; LEUCINE; SURFACE WATER;

ABUNDANCE; AMINO ACID; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LIGHT EFFECT; PHOTODEGRADATION;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HETEROTROPHY; ICELAND; LIGHT; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACIDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYANOBACTERIA; DARKNESS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LEUCINE; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEAWATER; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; ICELAND; MACARONESIA; NORTH AMERICA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 34548512226     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00212-07     Document Type: Article

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