Did sulfate availability facilitate the evolutionary expansion of chlorophyll a+c phytoplankton in the oceans?

Geobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 301-312

  Ratti, S ^a   Knoll, A H ^b   Giordano, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL C; SEA WATER; SULFATE;

CHLOROPHYLL; COCCOLITH; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; GRAZING; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOZOIC; METAL; NITROGEN; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROTEROZOIC; SEAWATER; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENVIRONMENT; EUPLOTES; EVOLUTION; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYTA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENT; EUPLOTES; MICROALGAE; SEAWATER; SULFATES; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA; DINOPHYCEAE; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES SP.; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PROTOCERATIUM RETICULATUM; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 6301; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.; TETRASELMIS SUECICA; THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII;

EID: 79959369889     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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