The problematic nature of fluorescently labeled bacteria (flb) in Spumella feeding experiments - An explanation by using video microscopy

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 329-338

  Boenigk, J ^a   Arndt, H ^a   Cleven, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Food vacuoles; Ingestion rates; Methods; Microbial food web; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM;

SPUMELLA;

EID: 0034802713     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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