Dissolved hydrogen and nitrogen fixation in the oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 697-704

  Wilson, Samuel T ^a,b   del Valle, Daniela A ^a,b   Robidart, Julie C ^b,c   Zehr, Jonathan P ^b,c   Karl, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; NITROGEN; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CYANOBACTERIA; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEAWATER;

EID: 84884933520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12069     Document Type: Article

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