Production and release of bacterial capsular material and its subsequent utilization by marine bacterioplankton

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 877-884

  Stoderegger, Karen ^a   Herndl, Gerhard J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

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BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031711168     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.5.0877     Document Type: Article

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