Morphological and compositional changes in a planktonic bacterial community in response to enhanced protozoan grazing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1241-1250

  Jürgens, Klaus ^a   Pernthaler, Jakob ^b   Schalla, Sven ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; GRAZING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGY; PROTOZOA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; DAPHNIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; IMAGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POND; PREDATION; PROTOZOON; ZOOPLANKTON;

CYTOPHAGA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0040320209     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.3.1241-1250.1999     Document Type: Article

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