Culturing the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2007, Pages 353-362

  Moore, Lisa R ^a   Coe, Allison ^b   Zinser, Erik R ^b   Saito, Mak A ^c   Sullivan, Matthew B ^b   Lindell, Debbie ^b   Frois Moniz, Katya ^b   Waterbury, John ^c   Chisholm, Sallie W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 44649160016     PISSN: 15415856     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2007.5.353     Document Type: Article

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