Highly heterogeneous diazotroph communities in the Kuroshio Current and the Tokara Strait, Japan.

In this study, we used 454-pyrosequencing to report the highly diverse diazotroph communities in the Kuroshio and its adjacent waters along a transect across the Tokara Strait, Japan. Terrestrial input from the islands resulted in a highly heterogeneous diazotroph community within a relatively small...

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Main Authors: Shunyan Cheung, Koji Suzuki, Hiroaki Saito, Yu Umezawa, Xiaomin Xia, Hongbin Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5653367?pdf=render