Role of Diatoms in the Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Intracellular Nitrate in Intertidal Sediment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Stief, Peter ^a,b   Kamp, Anja ^a,c   de Beer, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOXANTHIN; NITRATE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S; WATER;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; COASTAL MARINE SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; FORAMINIFER; GERMANY; GROMIID; INTERTIDAL SEDIMENT; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MICROORGANISM; MICROPHYTOBENTHOS; NITRATE STORING MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEA; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SPRING; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DIATOMS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NITRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 84883314424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073257     Document Type: Article

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