Bacterial Versus Archaeal Origin of Extracellular Enzymatic Activity in the Northeast Atlantic Deep Waters

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 277-288

  Baltar, Federico ^a,b   Arístegui, Javier ^a   Gasol, Josep M ^c   Yokokawa, Taichi ^d   Herndl, Gerhard J ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84873522396     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0126-7     Document Type: Article

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