Morphological and compositional shifts in an experimental bacterial community influenced by protists with contrasting feeding modes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 587-595

  Šimek, Karel ^a   Vrba, Jaroslav ^a   Pernthaler, Jakob ^b   Posch, Thomas ^b   Hartman, Petr ^a   Nedoma, Jiří ^a   Psenner, Roland ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CILIATE; FLAGELLATE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; TAXONOMY;

ALGAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BODO SALTANS; CILIOPHORA; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LUEHEIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; RHODOMONAS SP.; UROTRICHA; UROTRICHA FURCATA; CILIATA; RHODOMONAS;

BACTERIA; FEEDING MODE; FLAGELLATE; PROTIST;

EID: 0030613092     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.587-595.1997     Document Type: Article

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