Use of stable isotope-labelled cells to identify active grazers of picocyanobacteria in ocean surface waters

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 512-525

  Frias Lopez, Jorge ^a   Thompson, Anne ^a,b   Waldbauer, Jacob ^a,b   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARASITOLOGY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTOZOON; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; ISOTOPE LABELING; ISOTOPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ALVEOLATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOLIDOMONAS; CYANOBACTERIA; DICTYOCHOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTISTA; STRAMENOPILES; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 58549097704     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01793.x     Document Type: Article

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