Net production and consumption of fluorescent colored dissolved organic matter by natural bacterial assemblages growing on marine phytoplankton exudates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7490-7498

  Romera Castillo, Cristina ^a   Sarmento, Hugo ^a   Alvarez Salgado, Xosé Antón Á ^b   Gasol, Josep M ^a   Marrasé, Celia ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ASSEMBLAGES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; COLORED DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; EXCITATION EMISSION MATRICES; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH PHASE; FLUORESCENT EMISSION; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; HUMIC-LIKE SUBSTANCES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON; MICROBIAL SOURCES; PHYTOPLANKTON SPECIES; ROSEOBACTERS; SKELETONEMA COSTATUM;

ALGAE CONTROL; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHORES; MARINE BIOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BACTERIA;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; CARBON CYCLE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; EXUDATION; FLUORESCENCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTEIN; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER;

EID: 83155191056     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00200-11     Document Type: Article

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