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Chemotactic Response of Marine Micro-Organisms to Micro-Scale Nutrient Layers
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Chemotactic Response of Marine Micro-Organisms to Micro-Scale Nutrient Layers

Published on: May 28, 2007

Direct coupling of marine invertebrate spawning with phytoplankton blooms

M Starr, J H Himmelman, J C Therriault

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |March 2, 1990
    PubMed

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