Empirical leucine-to-carbon conversion factors for estimating heterotrophic bacterial production: Seasonality and predictability in a temperate coastal ecosystem

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3216-3221

  Calvo Díaz, Alejandra ^a   Morán, Xosé Anxelu G ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PRODUCTION; CARBON CONTENT; CARBON CONVERSIONS; CELL DIVISIONS; COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS; COASTAL WATERS; COVARIATION; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIA; IN-SITU; INCORPORATION INTO BIOMASS; LEUCINE INCORPORATION; LOW GROWTH RATE; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL SCALE;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOMASS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

AMINO ACIDS;

CARBON; LEUCINE; PHOSPHATE;

BACTERIUM; CARBON; CELL ORGANELLE; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE ECOSYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CELL DIVISION; CLIMATE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; HETEROTROPHY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CARBON; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LEUCINE; SEASONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 66249096696     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01570-08     Document Type: Article

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