Cell-specific β-N-acetylglucosaminidase activity in cultures and field populations of eukaryotic marine phytoplankton

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-361

  Štrojsová, Alena ^a,b   Dyhrman, Sonya T ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chitin cycle; Diatoms; Dinoflagellates; DOM; ELF method; N acetylglucosamine

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE;

BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; CHITIN; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MONOSACCHARIDE; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHEMICAL LABELING; DINOPHYCEAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRITION; PELAGOPHYCEAE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PRYMNESIOPHYCEAE; RAPHIDOPHYCEAE;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; CHITIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 43149117070     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00479.x     Document Type: Article

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