High cyanobacterial nifH gene diversity in Arctic seawater and sea ice brine

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 360-366

  Díez, Beatriz ^a,b   Bergman, Birgitta ^a   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^c   Antó, Meritxell ^c   Snoeijs, Pauline ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROOCOCCALES; CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOTHECE; LEPTOLYNGBYA; OSCILLATORIALES; PHORMIDIUM; PLECTONEMA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 84860871783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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