First record of picophytoplankton diversity in Central European hypersaline lakes

Extremophiles

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 759-769

  Keresztes, Zsolt Gyula ^a   Felföldi, Tamás ^b   Somogyi, Boglárka ^c   Székely, Gyöngyi ^a   Dragoş, Nicolae ^a,d   Márialigeti, Károly ^b   Bartha, Csaba ^a   Vörös, Lajos ^c  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Romania)

Author keywords

16S 18S rRNA gene; Hypersaline lakes; Marine Synechococcus; Molecular biodiversity; Photoautotrophic picoplankton; Picochlorum; Transylvania

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; GREEN ALGA; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; ROMANIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYTA; LAKES; PHYTOPLANKTON; ROMANIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALGAE; ANATIDAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PICOCHLORUM; PICOCHLORUM OKLAHOMENSE; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84865826214     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-012-0472-x     Document Type: Article

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