Environmental, biochemical and genetic drivers of DMSP degradation and DMS production in the Sargasso Sea

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1210-1223

  Levine, Naomi Marcil ^a,c   Varaljay, Vanessa A ^b   Toole, Dierdre A ^a   Dacey, John W H ^a   Doney, Scott C ^a   Moran, Mary Ann ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFIDE; DIMETHYLPROPIOTHETIN; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE LYASE; LYASE; SEA WATER; SULFIDE; SULFONIUM DERIVATIVE; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BERMUDA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; BERMUDA; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; SULFIDES; SULFONIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859967992     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02700.x     Document Type: Article

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