Bacterial uptake of low molecular weight organics in the subtropical Atlantic: Are major phylogenetic groups functionally different?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 798-808

  Alonso Sáez, Laura ^a,b   Sánchez, Olga ^c   Gasol, Josep M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CARBON; CELL ORGANELLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLUCOSE; GYRE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYLOGENETICS; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTERACEAE;

EID: 84862005284     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.3.0798     Document Type: Article

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