Nitrogenase (nifH) gene expression in diazotrophic cyanobacteria in the Tropical North Atlantic in response to nutrient amendments

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Turk Kubo, Kendra A ^a   Achilles, Katherine M ^a,b   Serros, Tracy R C ^a   Ochiai, Mari ^a,c   Montoya, Joseph P ^d   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diazotrophs; Fe limitation; Nitrogen fixation; Nitrogenase; P limitation; Trichodesmium; UCYN A; UCYN B

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875820880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00386     Document Type: Article

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