Contrasting bacterial strategies to coexist with a flagellate predator in an experimental microbial assemblage

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 596-601

  Pernthaler, Jakob ^a   Posch, Thomas ^a   Šimek, Karel ^b   Vrba, Jaroslav ^b   Amann, Rudolf ^c   Psenner, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM; FLAGELLATE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION;

ALGAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BODO SALTANS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTISTA;

BACTERIA; COEXISTENCE; FLAGELLATE; MICROBIAL ASSEMBLAGE;

EID: 0030613659     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.596-601.1997     Document Type: Article

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