Closely related phytoplankton species produce similar suites of dissolved organic matter

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Becker, Jamie W ^a,b   Berube, Paul M ^b   Follett, Christopher L ^a   Waterbury, John B ^a   Chisholm, Sallie W ^b,c   DeLong, Edward F ^b   Repeta, Daniel J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic matter; Exometabolome; Marine phytoplankton; Phaeodactylum; Prochlorococcus; Synechococcus; Thalassiosira; Untargeted metabolomics

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; AXENIC CULTURE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA; THALASSIOSIRA ROTULA;

EID: 84897945710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00111     Document Type: Article

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