Unicellular cyanobacterial distributions broaden the oceanic N2 fixation domain

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5972, 2010, Pages 1512-1514

  Moisander, Pia H ^a   Beinart, Roxanne A ^a,f   Hewson, Ian ^a,g   White, Angelicque E ^b   Johnson, Kenneth S ^c   Carlson, Craig A ^d   Montoya, Joseph P ^e   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

CYANOBACTERIUM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; LAND BIOME; LATITUDE; MICROORGANISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TEMPERATURE; TRICHODESMIUM;

BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOGRAPHY; LIGHT; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

CYANOBACTERIA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 77949864712     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1185468     Document Type: Article

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