Basin-scale distribution patterns of photosynthetic picoeukaryotes along an Atlantic Meridional Transect

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 975-990

  Kirkham, Amy R ^a   Jardillier, Ludwig E ^a,c   Tiganescu, Ana ^a   Pearman, John ^a   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^b   Scanlan, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHRYSOPHYTA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HAPTOPHYTA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; PLASTID;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHRYSOPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; HAPTOPHYTA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; PLASTIDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALGAE; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; CRYPTOPHYTA; EUSTIGMATOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PELAGOPHYCEAE;

EID: 79953286642     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02403.x     Document Type: Article

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