Aerobic hydrogen production and dinitrogen fixation in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2749-2753

  Punshon, Stephen ^a   Moore, Robert M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CYANOBACTERIUM; HYDROGEN; INORGANIC NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; SEAWATER;

TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

EID: 55749089593     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.6.2749     Document Type: Article

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