A nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry study of dinoflagellate functional diversity in reef-building corals

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3570-3580

  Pernice, Mathieu ^a,b   Dunn, Simon R ^c   Tonk, Linda ^c   Dove, Sophie ^c   Domart Coulon, Isabelle ^d   Hoppe, Peter ^e   Schintlmeister, Arno ^f   Wagner, Michael ^f   Meibom, Anders ^a,g  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CARBON; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CHEMISTRY; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARBON; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENETIC VARIATION; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, SECONDARY ION; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84973449260     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12518     Document Type: Article

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