Bacterioplankton groups involved in the uptake of phosphate and dissolved organic phosphorus in a mesocosm experiment with P-starved Mediterranean waters

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2334-2347

  Sebastián, Marta ^a   Pitta, Paraskevi ^b   González, José M ^c   Thingstad, T Frede ^d   Gasol, Josep M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; ROSEOBACTER;

EID: 84865788196     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02772.x     Document Type: Article

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