Bacterial and eukaryotic intact polar lipids in the eastern subtropical South Pacific: Water-column distribution, planktonic sources, and fatty acid composition

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 74, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 6499-6516

  Van Mooy, Benjamin A S ^a   Fredricks, Helen F ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; EUPHOTIC ZONE; FATTY ACID; HETEROTROPHY; LIPID; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHOLIPID; PLANKTON; POINT SOURCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROCHLORALES; VINDULA ARSINOE;

EID: 77957910992     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.08.026     Document Type: Article

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