Frustule-related gene transcription and the influence of diatom community composition on silica precipitation in an iron-limited environment

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1619-1633

  Durkin, Colleen A ^a   Marchetti, Adrian ^a,b   Bender, Sara J ^a   Truong, Tiffany ^a   Morales, Rhonda ^a   Mock, Thomas ^c   Virginia Armbrust, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIATOM; IRON; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROCOSM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SILICA;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBARCTIC);

BACILLARIOPHYTA; PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA; PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA MULTISERIES;

EID: 84867240923     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.6.1619     Document Type: Article

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