Purple sulfur bacteria control the growth of aerobic heterotrophic bacterioplankton in a meromictic salt Lake

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3251-3258

  Overmann, Jörg ^a,b   Beatty, J Thomas ^a   Hall, Ken J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CARBON; LAKE WATER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMATIACEAE; LAMPROCYSTIS PURPUREA; PHOTOBACTERIA; THIOCAPSA; AMOEBOBACTER PURPUREUS;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; GROWTH RATE; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIA; PURPLE SULPHUR BACTERIA; SALT LAKE;

CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MAHONEY LAKE;

EID: 0029661072     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.9.3251-3258.1996     Document Type: Article

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