Microbial eukaryote diversity in the marine oxygen minimum zone off northern Chile

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Parris, Darren J ^a   Ganesh, Sangita ^a   Edgcomb, Virginia P ^b   DeLong, Edward F ^c,d   Stewart, Frank J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^d Research and Education   (United States)

Author keywords

18S; Diversity; ETSP OMZ; Low oxygen; Microeukaryote

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPTOPHYTA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 84987786746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00543     Document Type: Article

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