The cyanate utilization capacity of marine unicellular Cyanobacteria

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2485-2494

  Kamennaya, Nina A ^a   Chernihovsky, Mark ^b   Post, Anton F ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 55749098824     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.6.2485     Document Type: Article

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