Transcriptional responses of three model diatoms to nitrate limitation of growth

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 1, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Bender, Sara J ^a,b   Durkin, Colleen A ^a,b   Berthiaume, Chris T ^a   Morales, Rhonda L ^a   Armbrust, E Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal physiology; Fragilariopsis cylindrus; Nitrate metabolism; Orthologous genes; Pseudo nitzschia multiseries; Thalassiosira pseudonana; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008938038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2014.00003     Document Type: Article

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