Biogeography of photosynthetic light-harvesting genes in marine phytoplankton

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Bibby, Thomas S ^a,b   Zhang, Yinan ^b   Chen, Min ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84887212381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004601     Document Type: Article

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