Nitrogen Flow in a Chemostat Culture of the Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis

Fisheries Science

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 8-14

  Aoki, Shigeru ^a   Hino, Akinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial function; Chemostat culture; Nitrogen flow; Rotifer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003113520     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.62.8     Document Type: Article

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