Microbial group specific uptake kinetics of inorganic phosphate and adenosine-5′-triphosphate (ATP) in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Björkman, Karin ^a   Duhame, Solange ^b   Kar, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Atp; Flow cytometry; Kinetics; North pacific gyre; Oligotrophic; Phosphate; Uptake

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870961815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00189     Document Type: Article

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