Patterns of ecological specialization among microbial populations in the Red Sea and diverse oligotrophic marine environments

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1780-1797

  Thompson, Luke R ^a   Field, Chris ^b   Romanuk, Tamara ^b   Kamanda Ngugi, David ^a   Siam, Rania ^c   El Dorry, Hamza ^c   Stingl, Ulrich ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cyanophage; Metagenomics; Osmolyte; Pelagibacter; Population genomics; Prochlorococcus; SAR11

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886283926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.593     Document Type: Article

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