Sporadic high abundances of naked amoebae in Black Sea plankton

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-169

  Murzov, Sergey A ^a   Caron, David A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Amoebae; Plankton; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOA; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0000055302     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame011161     Document Type: Article

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