Capturing diversity of marine heterotrophic protists: One cell at a time

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 674-684

  Heywood, Jane L ^a,b   Sieracki, Michael E ^a   Bellows, Wendy ^a   Poulton, Nicole J ^a   Stepanauskas, Ramunas ^a  

^a BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

diversity; marine protists; picobiliphytes; single cell genomics

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC MARKER; GENOMICS; HETEROTROPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENETICS; PICOPLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE LIBRARY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE;

CERCOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 79953024059     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.155     Document Type: Article

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