Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: Factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes

Science

Volumn 347, Issue 6223, 2015, Pages

  Worden, Alexandra Z ^a,b,c   Follows, Michael J ^d   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^e   Wilken, Susanne ^a   Zimmerman, Amy E ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^c,f  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SEA WATER;

CARBON CYCLE; FOOD CHAIN; GENOME; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANKTON; PROTEIN; PROTIST; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; HUMAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MIXOTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; VIRUS; ANIMAL; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; ZOOPLANKTON;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON CYCLE; EUKARYOTA; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84923084079     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1257594     Document Type: Review

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