Genetic diversity of the unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria UCYN-A and its prymnesiophyte host

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3238-3249

  Thompson, Anne ^a,c   Carter, Brandon J ^a   Turk Kubo, Kendra ^a   Malfatti, Francesca ^b,d   Azam, Farooq ^b   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BD Advanced Cytometry Group   (United States)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPTOPHYTA; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

CYANOBACTERIA; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPTOPHYTA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84903479886     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12490     Document Type: Article

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