Effects of UV-A (320 to 399 nanometers) on grazing pressure of a marine heterotrophic nanoflagellate on strains of the unicellular cyanobacteria Synechococcus spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 287-293

  Ochs, Clifford A ^a   Eddy, Laura P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLAGELLATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PREDATION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

CYANOBACTERIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NEGIBACTERIA; PARAPHYSOMONAS BANDAIENSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031976040     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.1.287-293.1998     Document Type: Article

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