Dissolved DNA produced through a prey-predator relationship in a species-defined aquatic microcosm

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 385, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-76

  Kawabata, Zen'ichiro ^a   Ishii, Nobuyoshi ^a   Nasu, Masao ^b   Min, Man Gi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dissolved DNA; Escherichia coli; Euglena gracilis; Prey predatory relationship; Species defined microcosm; Tetrahymena thermophila

Indexed keywords

DNA; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUGLENA GRACILIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0032436254     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003493617038     Document Type: Article

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