Microflora associated with the digestive tract of the fairy shrimp Branchinella spinsoa (H. Milne Edwards, 1840) (Crustacea, branchiopoda)

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-205

  Ampe, Frédéric ^a   Thiéry, Alain ^b  

^a Lab Microbiologie de Biotech Trop   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

Brnachinella spinosa; Chitin; Crustacea; Digestive tract; Serratia; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUACULTURE; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERRATIA; SHRIMP; SYMBIOSIS; YEAST;

EID: 0344015747     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00523-5     Document Type: Article

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