Viral lysis and bacterivory as prokaryotic loss factors along a salinity gradient

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-227

  Guixa Boixareu, Núria ^a   Calderón Paz, Juan I ^a   Heldal, Mikal ^b   Bratbak, Gunnar ^b   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacterivory; Halophilic archaea; Phages; Prokaryotic loss factors; Solar salterns

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRUS LIMON; PROKARYOTA; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0001338458     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame011215     Document Type: Article

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