Survival of Prochlorococcus in extended darkness

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1375-1388

  Coe, Allison ^a   Ghizzoni, Julie ^a   LeGault, Kristen ^a   Biller, Steven ^a   Roggensack, Sara E ^a   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DARK; ECOTYPE; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GLUCOSE; HETEROTROPHY; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIGHT EFFECT; SURVIVAL;

ALTEROMONAS MACLEODII; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84971260806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10302     Document Type: Article

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