Monthly to interannual variability of microbial eukaryote assemblages at four depths in the eastern North Pacific

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 515-530

  Kim, Diane Y ^a   Countway, Peter D ^b   Jones, Adriane C ^a   Schnetzer, Astrid ^c   Yamashita, Warren ^a   Tung, Christine ^a   Caron, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rRNA gene; microbial eukaryotes; protists; temporal variability; time series

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON;

CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEASONS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84894323131     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.173     Document Type: Article

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