Size-specific mortality of lake bacterioplankton by natural virus communities

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-113

  Weinbauer, Markus G ^a   Höfle, Manfred G ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton size structure; Lake plu see; Size specific viral lysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000456563     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame015103     Document Type: Article

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