Flow cytometric identification of Mamiellales clade II in the Southern Atlantic Ocean

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 664-671

  Gómez Pereira, Paola R ^a,e   Kennaway, Gabrielle ^b   Fuchs, Bernhard M ^c   Tarran, Glen A ^d   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CARD FISH; Cell sorting; Electron microscopy; Planktonic picoeukaryotes; Plastidic protists

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; CLADISTICS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GYRE; HYBRIDIZATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTIC ZONE; PHYLOGENY; PICOPLANKTON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTIST; SURFACE WATER; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GREEN ALGA; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHLOROPHYTA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PLANKTON; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MAMIELLALES; PROTISTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84873193230     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12023     Document Type: Article

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