Quality or quantity: Is nutrient transfer driven more by symbiont identity and productivity than by symbiont abundance?

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1116-1125

  Freeman, Christopher J ^a,d   Thacker, Robert W ^a   Baker, David M ^b,c   Fogel, Marilyn L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN MARINE STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Microbial symbionts; Nutrient exchange; Porifera; Stable isotopes; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SEA WATER;

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON FIXATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; IRRADIANCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRITION; RESPIRATION; SPONGE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CARBON; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; APLYSINA CAULIFORMIS; APLYSINA FULVA; CHONDRILLA (SPONGE); CYANOBACTERIA; NEOPETROSIA; NIPHATES ERECTA; PORIFERA; XESTOSPONGIA;

EID: 84878331217     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.7     Document Type: Article

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