Identification in situ and dynamics of bacteria on limnetic organic aggregates (lake snow)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1998-2005

  Weiss, Petra ^a   Schweitzer, Bernd ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^b   Simon, Meinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; GERMANY; LAKE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0029974413     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.6.1998-2005.1996     Document Type: Article

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