Non-cyanobacterial nifH phylotypes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre detected by flow-cytometry cell sorting

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 705-715

  Bombar, Deniz ^a   Turk Kubo, Kendra A ^a   Robidart, Julie ^a   Carter, Brandon J ^a   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

EID: 84884923619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12070     Document Type: Article

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