Microbial spheres: A novel cyanobacterial-diatom symbiosis

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 136-140

  Brehm, Ulrike ^a   Krumbein, Wolfgang E ^a   Palińska, Katarzyna A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CHEMOTAXIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEA; SYMBIOSIS;

NORTH SEA;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NAVICULA; PHORMIDIUM; PHORMIDIUM SP.;

EID: 0037357938     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0403-x     Document Type: Article

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