Distribution of a consortium between unicellular algae and the N2 fixing cyanobacterium UCYN-A in the North Atlantic Ocean

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3153-3167

  Krupke, Andreas ^a   Lavik, Gaute ^a   Halm, Hannah ^a,b   Fuchs, Bernhard M ^a   Amann, Rudolf I ^a   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; SEA WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HAPTOPHYTA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYANOBACTERIA; HAPTOPHYTA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; NITROGEN FIXATION; SEAWATER;

EID: 84907873701     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12431     Document Type: Article

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