Photosynthetic picoeukaryote community structure in the South East Pacific Ocean encompassing the most oligotrophic waters on Earth

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3105-3117

  Lepère, Cécile ^a,b   Vaulot, Daniel ^b   Scanlan, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTE; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY;

BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

ALGAE; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PRASINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 70449596504     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02015.x     Document Type: Article

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