The path to preservation: Using proteomics to decipher the fate of diatom proteins during microbial degradation

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1790-1804

  Nunn, Brook L ^a   Ting, Ying S ^a   Malmström, Lars ^a   Tsai, Yihsuan S ^a   Squier, Angela ^b   Goodlett, David R ^a   Harvey, H Rodger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DATABASE; DIATOM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PRESERVATION; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA;

EID: 77955611234     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.4.1790     Document Type: Article

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