Abundance and biogeography of picoprasinophyte ecotypes and other phytoplankton in the eastern North Pacific Ocean

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1693-1705

  Simmons, Melinda P ^a,b   Sudek, Sebastian ^a   Monier, Adam ^a,c   Limardo, Alexander J ^a,b   Jimenez, Valeria ^a,b   Perle, Christopher R ^d   Elrod, Virginia A ^a   Pennington, J Timothy ^a   Worden, Alexandra Z ^a,b  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d Florida Community College at Jacksonville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GENES; MANGANESE; OXYGEN; PLANKTON; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

DATA INTERPRETATION; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; ECOLOGICAL GRADIENTS; ECOLOGICAL REGIMES; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; OLIGOTROPHIC OCEANS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ALGAE; BATHYCOCCUS; BATHYCOCCUS PRASINOS; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; OSTREOCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

PLANT DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOTYPE; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

CHLOROPHYTA; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOTYPE; METAGENOMICS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84961247738     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02730-15     Document Type: Article

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