Community differentiation and population enrichment of Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton in the euphotic zone of a mesoscale mode-water eddy

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 871-887

  Nelson, Craig E ^a,b   Carlson, Craig A ^a   Ewart, Courtney S ^a   Halewood, Elisa R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; SEA; WATER FLOW;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84894729337     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12241     Document Type: Article

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