Viral lysis and bacterivory during a phytoplankton bloom in a coastal water microcosm

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1949-1958

  Guixa Boixereu, Núria ^a   Lysnes, Kristine ^b   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROL SYSTEM; FLAGELLATE; LYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASHORE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 0032954423     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.5.1949-1958.1999     Document Type: Article

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