Changes in Bacterial Community Composition and Dynamics and Viral Mortality Rates Associated with Enhanced Flagellate Grazing in a Mesoeutrophic Reservoir

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2723-2733

  Šimek, Karel ^a,e   Pernthaler, Jakob ^b   Weinbauer, Markus G ^c   Hornák, Karel ^a   Dolan, John R ^d   Nedoma, Jirí ^a   Mašín, Michal ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FLAGELLATE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; PREDATION; VIROLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; MASTIGOPHORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0035374573     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.6.2723-2733.2001     Document Type: Article

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